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Daniel Eran Dilger
Apple’s limited comments on Snow Leopard, the next version of Mac OS X due in about a year, have opened the playing field for rampant speculation. Here’s a look at a series of myths that have developed around the upcoming release. The seventh myth of Snow Leopard:

Apple will have to give Snow Leopard away for free if it lacks many marketing features.

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In response to a report earlier this week pointing out that many of the applications in early builds of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard are dramatically smaller in size, a number of developers have weighed in to explain where all those missing megabytes went.

One reader noted that the extra heft in Leopard’s apps does indeed come from localization files, which are used to distill all of the text strings and other variables that differ between languages. Depending on the language preference set by the user, the operating system accesses the desired language files and uses them in conjunction with the common application code to simplify developers’ work to deploy their apps to worldwide markets.

Continues: Solving the mystery of Snow Leopard’s shrinking apps

Daniel Eran Diler
Apple’s limited comments on Snow Leopard, the next version of Mac OS X due in about a year, have opened the playing field for rampant speculation. Here’s a look at a series of myths that have developed around the upcoming release. The sixth myth of Snow Leopard:

Snow Leopard indicates Apple is out of ideas for new applications and features.

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Daniel Eran Dilger
Apple’s limited comments on Snow Leopard, the next version of Mac OS X due in about a year, have opened the playing field for rampant speculation. Here’s a look at a series of myths that have developed around the upcoming release. The fifth myth of Snow Leopard:

Apple is killing Carbon so all apps will be Cocoa only.

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Daniel Eran Dilger
Apple is marketing the idea of there being “no new features” for Snow Leopard and instead promising an overall improvement in how Mac OS X works under the hood, thanks to a diligent code optimization and refactoring cycle discussed in the previous article. At the same time, there are plenty of significant new features coming in Snow Leopard to look forward to. Here are ten big new features (plus a few minor ones) that you probably haven’t heard much about from anywhere else, including my previous articles on the subject that already described QuickTime X, Grand Central, and OpenCL.

WWDC 2008: New in Mac OS X Snow Leopard
Snow Leopard Server Takes on Exchange, SharePoint

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SproutCore, profiled earlier this week, isn’t the only big news spill out from the top secret WWDC conference due to Apple’s embrace of open source sharing. Another future technology featured by the Mac maker last week was LLVM, the Low Level Virtual Machine compiler infrastructure project.
Like SproutCore, LLVM is neither new nor secret, but both have been hiding from attention due to a thick layer of complexity that has obscured their future potential.

Continues: Apple’s other open secret: the LLVM Complier

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Daniel Eran Dilger
Apple’s limited comments on Snow Leopard, the next version of Mac OS X due in about a year, have opened the playing field for rampant speculation. Here’s a look at a series of myths that have developed around the upcoming release. The fourth myth of Snow Leopard:

Snow Leopard’s only significant new feature will be Exchange Server support.

This myth has been invented by Apple itself, apparently to simplify its marketing. The company seemed quite pleased with its concept of Snow Leopard being a tight code refactoring that focuses on engineering fundamentals rather than marketing-driven bullet points. However, Apple can’t help itself but add in a lot more than it is currently advertising.

That’s good news for anyone who has no need for Exchange support and is worried that Snow Leopard won’t offer anything else but a series of bug fixes. Prior to considering some of the new technologies in Snow Leopard, this article will consider why Apple is hyping the idea of “no new features” and promising an overall improvement in how Mac OS X works under the hood.

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Daniel Eran Dilger
Gene Steinberg of the Tech Night Owl podcast invited me talk about news from WWDC last week. Security guru Rich Mogull also talks about Apple’s new enterprise focus and John Lowry of Northern Softworks describes Leopard Cache Cleaner for Mac OS X maintenance.

You can hear for yourself and subscribe to the Tech Night Owl RSS feed at: The Tech Night Owl LIVE with Gene Steinberg

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Daniel Eran Dilger
Leo Laporte invited me to join online luminaries Andy Ihnatko, Chris Breen and Scott Bourne to talk about the SproutCore web application framework, MobileMe, iPhone 3G data plans, Steve Jobs’ health, and more on this week’s MacBreak Weekly podcast.

MacBreak Weekly 94: SproutCore

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Daniel Eran Dilger
Apple’s limited comments on Snow Leopard, the next version of Mac OS X due in about a year, have opened the playing field for rampant speculation. Here’s a look at a series of myths that have developed around the upcoming release. The third myth of Snow Leopard:

Apple is de-emphasizing the Mac as it centers its attention on the iPhone.

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