I was browsing the web recently and I came across some intresting facts and rumors about Snow Leopard which can easily be linked to the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference. In this way I can predict a date for the release of Snow Leopard and can I also conclude something else about the WWDC keynotes.
First of all, Apple already announced the many performance improvements of Mac OSX 10.6, but a performance improvement wasn’t enough to justify the price of $129 for a new Mac OSX. So Apple took iTunes as an example and started developing a new GUI. The GUI will be darker than the current one and will be smoother. So now we can conclude that Mac OSX 10.6 will cost money but will certainly not be a small update. Snow Leopard will be the fastest and most stable operating system in the world and will have a completely new interface.
What about the date?
Snow Leopard will be released 2 months after the WWDC ’09 on the 8th of June, so that makes somewhere mid August, probably the 10th.
There is yet another conclusion : Steve Jobs will be back to perform a keynote on WWDC ’09!
He would be away for about a half year and the WWDC is about half a year after his departure. So he will probably announce the new OS himself.
