Apple is finally going to release OSX Leopard after the long waiting, this Friday. Meanwhile NY times has an exclusive interview with Apple CEO Steve Jobs, focusing on the new version of OSX, with some pretty interesting stuff there.
“The Macintosh has a lot of momentum now,” said Jobs , “It is outpacing the industry.”
Two research firms that track the computer market said last week that Apple would move into third place in the United States behind Hewlett-Packard and Dell on Monday, when it reports product shipments in the fiscal fourth quarter as part of its earnings announcement.
Jobs also said that Leopard would anchor a schedule of product upgrades that could continue for as long as a decade.
“I’m quite pleased with the pace of new operating systems every 12 to 18 months for the foreseeable future,” he said. “We’ve put out major releases on the average of one a year, and it’s given us the ability to polish and polish and improve and improve.”
Apple has outpaced its rivals in the United States, particularly in the shift to portable computers. While this is the first year that laptops have made up more than 50 percent of computer sales in this country, Mr. Jobs said that two-thirds of Apple machines sold in the United States are now laptops.
What's most interesting about the interview is Jobs insights of the development of the Multitouch user interface for the iPhone, “People don’t understand that we’ve invented a new class of interface,” he said.There are no “verbs” in the iPhone interface, he said, alluding to the way a standard mouse or stylus system works. In those systems, users select an object, like a photo, and then separately select an action, or “verb,” to do something to it.
The Apple development team worried constantly that the approach might fail during the years they were creating the iPhone, he said.
Apple is reporting its fourth-quarter earnings today after the closing bell, with high expectations of 85 cents a share on $6.05 billion in revenue for the quarter.
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