I'm getting very excited about the release of Leopard this coming Friday. This will mark the 6th major release of Mac OS X since 2000. I know we have been very Vista-like in our development of Leopard, but it will be well worth the wait. We really needed to get the iPhone out to you as quickly as possible. It was necessary to take developers off of Leopard to work on the iPhone. After all, it isn't like they weren't working on Leopard, the iPhone is Leopard.
I had a meeting the other day where we declaired build 9a581 as the Gold Master. It is a solid build, but we also started talking about the features of 10.6. Already Leopard has become obsolete. Still, I'm very excited. I've been using it for a while, I've seen all the seeds and watched my baby grow to be a healty and robust operating system.
I'll never forget the first time I saw what we now see as OS X. It was so small and fragile. We were astonised by the simple little things like moving a window without that gray square outline, and those cute little buttons, you just wanted to lick them. We'd put it to sleep at night and it always slept through the night. In the morning, it would wake up with that smiley face of a happy Mac. We'd feed it programs and drivers to make it strong. Plus, due to great memory management, it never cried. Just shrugged off all attacks as if they were nothing.
Now OS X is dressing in flashy clothes, reflective dock and transparent menu bar. Plus he's now a time traveler, but we now know he needs his Spaces, we don't want to Expose him to anything which will cause him to take his eyes off the Dashboard. His Core Image is that of being sleek and trendy. He can Dock his pride, and Repair the Permission of his heart.
Okay, this is getting a little hokey. I just want you to enjoy Leopard as much as I enjoyed developing for it.
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