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And if you need to see a good example of a stark difference beneath the surface, just compare the source code of apple.com with microsoft.com. Now imagine what the source code of each OS looks like.

The 300+ features listed on the website do not, I suspect, encompass all the new things in 10.5, only those things that Apple considers to be a "feature" worth talking about to a nonspecialist audience. As I mentioned previously, we shall know one way or the other when those who are under NDA can speak freely about what they cannot discuss publicly right now.

Furthermore, people in Apple and AT&T who worked on the iPhone could NOT speak to immediate family about what they were working on until iPhone was announced almost a year ago now. Recall Steve Jobs' comment at the D conference: "a ship that leaks from the top" and now think different: why does Apple have to say ANYTHING to please YOU when doing so may not align with their long-term strategic goals? At WWDC2007 it was "no SDK for the iPhone" and now it's "Feb 2008" so we know that they're playing cagey with us all.

Chris — do you have the Leopard beta? I don't, but others do. And here's what they're saying as of Oct 17th: http://tinyurl.com/2zrt9s "I can’t answer your question — yet. (I take non-disclosure very seriously.)" There are informed opinions, and there are, um, uninformed ones. Can you tell the difference?

One top secret feature is that Leopard is running on the iPhone and iPod Touch. That's why the iPhone SDK could only be announced AFTER Leopard, because the SDK has to be hosted natively ON Leopard as well, since Tiger is missing key Leopard APIs. What this means is that a lot of 3rd-party app development for handheld multitouch can be repurposed quickly for a tablet Mac, future notebooks, touchscreen desktops, etc. Does the larger picture start to make sense? Now, try to imagine Vista running on a mobile phone.