As I type this sentence , October 15 is most in the Word of God , meaning that it wo n’t be long until we can say that the calendar month of October — a time of postseason baseball , belated recreations ofBavarian festival , and tiresome FM - radio “ Rock - tober ” promotions — is halfway finish . Normally , I would n’t pay that much attending to the tearing away of a day-by-day desk calendar , even as much as I care postseason baseball and Bavarian festivals . Of course , October 2007 is a little act different than most Octobers — this is the calendar month when Apple , after a modest holdup , is schedule to release its next major OS X update .
There are several reasons that OS X 10.5 , computer code - named Leopard , visualise to be the most hoped-for operating system release to total out of Cupertino since the unveiling of OS X : Original Flavor back in March 2001 . Those are :
It ’s that last full stop , I conceive , which has raised the stakes beyond what you normally might see for a major OS update . An new edition of OS X is always giving news , but with everything else Apple has give-up the ghost on , this finical reading is going to gather extra examination . Leopard represents Apple ’s best opportunity to prove that it can have it all — that it can widen its business beyond computers into connected areas like digital devices and mobile sound without spreading itself too thin . A stable , self-colored edition of Leopard that deliversthe feature Apple has outlinedwould indicate that the company may be branching off into different domain , but it has n’t lose sight of the affair that got it to this position in the first place .
Of course , before it can prove all that , Apple has to get up with a discharge escort . And as of midnight , there are 15 fewer calendar page in October from which it can select .
