After recent announcements by Apple we have reason to believe that Mac OSX 10.6 will be free for all Mac OSX 10.5 users, like they did with version 10.1 Puma.
Snow Leopard will be a Mac OSX version that fixes a lot of the instabilities in Mac OSX 10.5 which is suffering many application crashes. It will also prepare Mac OSX for the flow of games that will also become available for Mac OSX by providing new and more effective graphic card technologies. As you can see these changes aren’t that impressive and that is the first reason.
The second is that Apple did not announce Snow Leopard in the Macworld Keynote. A new Mac version is much more exciting than the a new macbook pro or a DRM free iTunes. But they just didn’t say a word about Mac OSX 10.6. Isn’t that a bit odd, no, because Mac OSX 10.6 is probably going to be a free update without much extra features and therefore not worth mentioning.
The third also envolves the keynote at Macworld, Apple is going to release a Box set with Leopard, iLife and iWork for just $169. Isn’t that also a bit odd. Leopard costs $129, iLife and iWork 2009 $79 = $287. This could have something to do with Snow Leopard being free, which would make $158+ some booklets and box = $169.
