Gernot Poetsch has posted a photo taken through the glass of San Francisco’s Moscone Center, site of today’s Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), that, besides an inconvenient streetlight, shows a black Apple banner with an image of the top half of a Mac OS X Leopard DVD and the text:
Mac OS X Leopard. Introducing Vista 2.0
Another similar banner below in the same shot states, “You’ve come to the right platform.”
In addition, a third banner (here, obscured) captured by Poetsch states, “Hasta la Vista, Vista.” (MacNN has a clearer version here.)
See the large version here.
That ought to grab some attention (as if Apple needs attention today)!
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HASTA LA VISTA, VISTA.
hee.. cute banner
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(Cubert leaning out his window this morning)
“You there. Tell me what day today is?”
“Why, it’s Christmas morn, sir.”
I find that MacWorld in January is what usually receives the title Macmas
Does Steve start talking at 10am?
If he does, that means 6pm in the UK, so I’ll be at home and hitting the Refresh button at least once every 10 seconds!
Hasta pronto, Vista? No… por supuesto no…
Cubert….
Niiiiiiiiiiice!
MW: heart – as in Stop toying with me Steve, my heart can’t take it!
Anyone know what time the keynote is?
Awesome! 1:00pm EDT cannot get here soon enough. I’ll be rubbing Vista 2.0 in the faces of all my PC buddies today. No more being nice. Time to go for the jugular.
“it’s gonna be a good day tater!”
Ha ha ha. I love it
http://www.macrumorslive.com/ WILL PROVIDE LIVE COVERAGE WITH COUNTDOWN UNTIL KEYNOTE STARTS FOR THOSE WHO STILL DON’T KNOW WHEN IT IS
Beleaguered M$ should cut their losses and licence MacOS X.
Also, Dull could manufacture Apple hardware under licence to keep up its market share.
This will be interesting. Leopard will at least be universal, good for all us G4 and G5 owners (millions of us) But I suspect G3 will probably not be support MY 1999 Blueberry. Oh well.
For intel folks, Apple now offers a very compelling package. Cutting edge OS, and If Bootcamp is incorporated into the OS some how as either a seamless operation (through in a windows program, it loads and runs) or at minimum the ability to cut and paste data between the OS (have both Mac native and Window programs open simultaneously), AND be price with $200-300 of a similarly configured HP or Dell, Well, Why would a Windows user choose a Dell? Just because the don’t like Apple as a brand?
It would be only that.
oh man im hyped man oh man cant wait whew baby the bigone mano gee gee gee whooott whoot calm down yeah baby yeah wow wow wow goo gah yes yes its coming oooooooooooh yeah rockets yes leopard 10.5 yes fannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnntastic hyped can not waaaaaaaaaaaait!!!
With the way things are being tripped out of Vista (and that new iPod non-killer) it would apper we were being too optimistic. Should we have said Vista 3.0?
Ah, Windows users, get over yourselves. We’re just havin’ a little fun.
Fun? A LITTLE fun? What are you talking about. We’re the ones who slew the IBM giant! Not you! And you have the cajones to poke fun at us?
We’ll crush you! We’ll make your puny little OS X that nobody uses look like Dos 1.0! In fact, you’ll look like C|PM, no, assembly! Yeah, that’s it.
Now, watch me dance…
…if you dare…
Officially, Apple only supports computers up to 5 years old. But, their history of OS X upgrades shows that it can usually be installed in 7 year old computers (I’d like to see Microsoft do that!).
Unlike Microsoft, the newer OS X actually speeds up older computers, and makes newer computers scream.
3.5 hours to go!
These are the 3 sites I have found thus far that will have updates…
http://www.macdailynews.com/wwdc_2006_keynote.html
http://www.macrumorslive.com/web/
http://macmegasite.com/wwdc.html
…but the real fun won’t happen until later this afternoon when Apple posts the QuickTime streaming video. Steve gets this very subtle evil twinkle in his eye and a sassy grin when he compares OS X to Windows.
grognard, we have three G3s running in the house – all doing something minor, but useful. We got them all to Panther and that will just have to be Good Enough. Now, my wife’s G4 iMac, my dual G5 PowerMac and our G4 iBook … I’d be upset if they couldn’t run Leopard. We actually USE those systems … personally … daily.
Now, if you all don’t mind, there’s a Keynote going to happen in just a few (hundred) minutes and I need to warm up my “refresh” finger … wouldn’t want an RSI or cramp in the middle of the keynote, eh?
MW: interest … hmm, do they PLAN these words?
CMON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
APPLE:
STEVIE BABY IN ACTION, LIVE KEYNOTE, LEOPARD FINALLY DEMOING!!! LETS ROCK!!
MICROSOFT:
BALMER THROWING CHAIRS, GATES IN THE FEATAL POSITION ROCKING BACK AND FORTH.
Yes, it WILL be a “Banner Year”.
DLMeyer,
I guarantee Leopard will run on the same systems as Tiger (ie. some G3’s and all G4’s and newer). Apple won’t forsake your G4 until at least 10.7 (in other words, I think 10.6 – yes, we can bring it up now, or soon anyway – will run on all G4’s and better).
Shoudn’t it be “Vista 1.0” since it will be out before Windows Vista AND Vista is the copy?
Wasn’t Jaguar what Vista is shooting to be like? So Panther would be 2.0 and Tiger is 3.0 so Leopard would actually be 4.0.
I’m going to wait for the Keynote to be available on Quicktime so I can be surprised. Don’t want to read about it at all.