I’ve been thinking about this one awhile and I’m sure it’s been written about here and there.

Where are the secrets that Steve Jobs promised would be in Leopard? So far, there’s been nothing leaked about anything special in Leopard, other than what was announced last year.

Let’s see-- there’s Time Machine, there’s Spaces, there’s Core Animation, full 64-bit capability to take advantage of Intel’s chips.

What else? There’s a few tweaks to Mail, iChat, Spotlight, iCal and probably more. But these were all announced last year with Leopard’s announcement. Where’s the beef? Steve Jobs promised that some Leopard features would be kept secret, but there’s nothing substantial that’s been leaked by the developer community. Despite their non-disclosure agreements, if Leopard had anything else that was cool we’d hear about it by now, right?

Where’s Leopard’s so-called secrets? Or, are we the victims of another Steve Jobs reality distortion field presentation? Leopard is looking to be warmed over Tiger.

I think we’ve been had. Whatever “secrets” there are sure haven’t shown up in the developer builds of Leopard. We’re still stuck with brushed aluminum, some plastic platinum looks here and there, and those gawd awful and aging quickly Aqua buttons.

Where’s the innovation?

I’m disappointed that no one in the main stream media has brought this up in recent conversations and interviews with Apple executives.

How about this:

”Last year, when Steve Jobs introduced Mac OS X Leopard, he pointed out that certain ‘secret features’ wouldn’t be presented right away. What are those features and when will they be introduced?”

How hard is that?

Hmmmm,

well my guess is, that Cupertino is foolin’ us around.
The builds that are send out to ADC members is just a decoy.
The Real thing is still (and only) in Cupertino, underground, with developers sleeping underground, eating, developing, singing, dancing and making it darn good.

All the builds that we seen screenshots of, mostly show settings and preference panels.
Little development on the Gui, new features or so. Isn’t that suspicious.
In Cupertino R masters of disguise at work 2 cover everything up, and show us only peanuts.

When it is truly ready, it will pop out of the box like an Trojan Horse, but the real one, not an virus orso

It will make Vista look so bad, that U cry and wet UR pants if U bought it 4 lots of $.

It will slam the windows community left and right in their face, because it can and will compete with their systems.
Not only by nice features and sleek designed desktop GUI, but with the engine and raw power of the OS.

They might even trow in a free (or low cost) copy of iLife ‘07 with Pages, Keynote and excell, hell maybe an Database app.

TimeMachine, the iChat R nice eye-catchers, but aren’t the main ‘new’ features..
Maybe Rfid implementation 4 users. Go to the nearest Apple reseller (store) and get one implanted, 4 free
So users don’t have to type anymore......

Watch, when The Leopard is let out.....

it is gonna B so Funky
so Funky
it will make U cry.......

Just 2 cents from The Netherlands......

Marcel

Well I think Apple is certainly working on a few extra features to promote.  These features must not require
must Developer intervention or they’d have been forced to show their hand earlier.

I’m hoping for a new revised Finder.  Unify the look with the rest of OS X Leopard and add some new tweaks to it
that increase the power of navigating through OS X.

Quite honestly I do not know what Apple plans.  They have plugged their leaks so well it’s hard to glean any useful info.

Even if they didn’t offer any new Top Secret features I’d still be buying Leopard.  I notice that applications like Delicious Library and Textmate
are going Leopard only.  I’m sure more developers will join the fray.  This tells me that there are significant features in Leopard that won’t
be available in Tiger.  I’d rather see application design take a jump forward than dumb apps down for backwards compatibility.

Well it is just a little over a month away and no new “secrets” have come out.  Unless all the beta OS X users are under a strict NDA then there are really no new “secrets” left to tell. Right now I am just hoping for an updating of Apache and CUPS to something more current.

satcomer - 10 September 2007 04:09 AM

Well it is just a little over a month away and no new “secrets” have come out.  Unless all the beta OS X users are under a strict NDA then there are really no new “secrets” left to tell. Right now I am just hoping for an updating of Apache and CUPS to something more current.

Ron’s been grumbling and saying the same thing about Apache, PHP, MySQL. I point out that each is free and can be downloaded and installed on Mac OS X with ease. Guys like to do things the hard way.

Danny Boy - 13 March 2007 02:51 PM

Where are the secrets that Steve Jobs promised would be in Leopard? So far, there’s been nothing leaked about anything special in Leopard, other than what was announced last year.

I cannot be the only one who isn’t upset that Apple did NOT provide any secret features in Leopard, right?

No I like leopard...it just seemed like there was going to be more when Jobs said “we aren’t going to show you everything” is all.

Maybe that’s what the Killer Tips books are all about-- divulging secrets.

That is certainly a reson for them, but it seemed when Jobs first announced leopard he was keeping some things secret to fend off vista including them.  then when they finally announced everything it was nothing big…