I don't know why Apple can't get more specific at this point in time. They must know that it's way too late for MS, even if they did want to, to "steal" any features for Vista.

It would be nice to have some idea of what's to come. I'm sure that developers feel the same way.

April

1st Tuesday
- BootCamp

2nd Tuesday
- Aperture 1.1

3rd Tuesday
- WWDC announcements

4th Tuesday
- MacBook?

Your post shows the problem. While I think that you were trying to show the opposite, you illustrated my point.

Apple is telling nothing at all.

Oh, well then... Please let me be the first to welcome into the Apple discussion community. After a few years you'll get the hang of how things work at Apple.

Kinda reminds me of a movie title.

"Dr. Strangelove: Or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb"

"The Steve'd One: Or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Apple"

Dave

P.S. And thats how they ALWAYS will work so long as Steve's in charge.

I've been a member of the Mac community ever since I started buying them for my company in the late '80's.

Apple wasn't always like this. Since you are a newer member of the Mac community than I am, you don't remember.

It seems obvious that Apple's deliberate vagueness means that Leopard will have some very nice additions/changes than what we see in Tiger and that they want to keep these under a tight lid.

"Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb"

That movie was a Stanley Kubrick film - not Woody Allen...

There are so many things wrong with this post...

This is an pissing war you're not likely to win.

- I've been buying Macs for the institute I work since 'The Fat Mac' - 512K in all it's glory - Yum yum!

- Apple Not Secretive? We're talking about the same company right??

A quote from MacWorld's From Apple II to iPod--Apple turns 30


Now a little Apple management history for ya.

1976 - Woz and Jobs form Apple
1983 - Jobs ask Sculley to become CEO
1885 - Jobs and Scully fallout Jobs gone.
1993 - Scully fired by the board and Spindler takes his turn at the wheel.
1996 - Pretty short trip and Spindler exits stage left and the "fifth beetle" Amelio joins the band his short stint.
1997 - Jobs comes home to clean house.

So while Jobs has been 'in da house' The Apple motto has and will always be 'loose lips get drawn and quartered but not before being Anally Abused by our team of lawyers tough enough to even make an innocent eight year old girl run from the room crying her eyes out'(*) - As for Scully he wasn't as tight lipped as Steve (for sure) but he did come from Pepsi after all, and I'm sure knew the value of keeping something secret 'for completive reasons' better than most - Spindler, he was an Apple vet from the early 80's and while I don't remember for sure I think he too was mostly tight lipped. As for Gill I don't think he even knew exactly WHAT Apple was up to - Just a placeholder till the board had enough testicular fortitude (aka BALLS) to plead with Steve for him to 'come back home - we R-E-A-L-L-Y miss ya little buddy'.

(*) Oh, yea, and as company mottos go that one is kinda on the long side but if you got a problem with it YOU take it up with His Steveness! Cause I sure wont!

So I'll say it again... Welcome to the Apple Community. Oh and BTW, at first that was just me being my SARCASTIC self (imagine that!)... Since after all I though to myself you'd have to be either an an idiot or total noob to not to know how Apple 'present day' deals with doling out unannounced / prerelease information.

And finally before anyone jumps to the wrong conclusions... It was not and is not my intent to say YOU were being an Idiot - I was simply saying that in 'general terms' about 'people in general' who'd be 'shocked' that Steve / Apple was being greedy with the details about unannounced products and features.

Dave

Thanks for the correction... Duly noted and corrected for what it's worth.