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According to an unnamed source familiar with the matter, AppleCare EMEA is hiring a number of new employees who will serve as customer support for the new operating system that has yet to receive an official launch date.
The source went on to say that Mountain Lion may be just a few weeks from launch as internal training recently commenced regarding certain facets of the operating system. Apple usually restricts the operating window of support staff training to a minimum before large product release presumably to avoid leaks.
Though purely speculation, the training could point to a OS X 10.8 debut at WWDC 2012 which is scheduled to take place from June 11 to June 15.
Although AppleInsider cannot validate the claims, the source has proved accurate in previous reports.
OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion was announced on Feb. 16 with an expected release date of summer 2012. Beyond the basic information provided on Apple's website, developer previews have revealed that the new OS will offer a bevy of new features like Messages and more comprehensive integration with iCloud that will further blur the line between OS X and iOS.
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Apple. The only bastards who make you wish you had a time machine so that you could go FORWARDS in time.
The fact that they show pictures of the iMac and MacBook in the Mountain Lion advertisement is perhaps an indication that : One, there will not be any new iMac or MacBooks released in conjunction with the June release of ML or Two, the new computers will not have any redesigned form factors just spec bumps.
Otherwise they would have designed an ad that focused on the software without making the computers themselves so prominent. I for one really need both a new notebook and a new desktop so I'm looking forward to a hardware release announcement.
Apple.
The only bastards who make you wish you had a time machine so that you could go FORWARDS in time.
You're joking, right? That's the first thing I'd do if I had a time machine.
Go to the future, find out the price of a telomere treatment and the cost of a modern personal computing device, then go to the past, buy then-$1,000 worth of gold, THEN go BACK to the future, sell the gold at an absurdly-inflated price, and buy yourself a telomere treatment and a PCD.
THEN go back to the present and barter a job at Apple for exclusive access to the PCD.
You're joking, right? That's the first thing I'd do if I had a time machine.
Go to the future, find out the price of a telomere treatment and the cost of a modern personal computing device, then go to the past, buy then-$1,000 worth of gold, THEN go BACK to the future, sell the gold at an absurdly-inflated price, and buy yourself a telomere treatment and a PCD.
THEN go back to the present and barter a job at Apple for exclusive access to the PCD.
I'd go back to 1996 and buy £10,000 worth of Apple stock... And go to future to work out when I should sell.
They need to fix a LOT of instability and get a huge number of developers on board with Gatekeeper credentials and sandboxing. I think they're months away from achieving those goals and expect Mountain Lion to be a late summer release.