What if Apple had switched to Intel processors at the very beginning of the Mac OS X era? This may seem a perfectly absurd question, but stay with me now. From a practical standpoint, it may have had disastrous results for developers. Imagine the pain they underwent moving their products from Classic to Mac OS [...]

It has to be difficult. Apple now has to keep three versions of Mac OS 10.4 in sync, yet at the same time delivering fixes and enhancements that are exclusive to each variation. With 10.4.5, the changes are dependant on which variation you’re using, and one of those fixes addresses a widely-publicized video display bug [...]

As I prepared myself for the possibilities of Apple’s new products, I rated the odds of seeing a demonstration of Apple’s next OS, Leopard, a 50/50 rating. Now maybe Jobs didn’t want to muddy the waters with too much material, or wasn’t far enough along to demonstrate anything. I suppose there’s more than enough time [...]