Apple Sets Date for Developer Confab

By the Betanews Staff | Published March 7, 2006, 5:54 PM

Apple has scheduled its yearly developer conference for early August, about two months later than previous years. The WWDC is often the event where Apple CEO Steve Jobs offers a peek at the next release of Mac OS X, but he used last year's show to announce a transition to Intel processors.

The focus of WWDC 2006 in San Francisco will be on building applications for Intel based Macs, along with optimizing code and learning about the latest APIs. Apple could offer the first glimpse of Mac OS X version 10.5, code-named Leopard. Registration for the event runs $1,595, although Apple is offering a $300 discount for early sign-ups.

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I wonder what they'll do when they run out of felines to code-name their OS releases ...

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Does anybody know, when will the Leopard build come to the internet? i think a month or 2 after the WWDC 2006.

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I wouldn't mind seeing this, along with a number of other tech conferences, but I would also like to have $1600 to spend to see someone advertise their stuff. Would also like to have seen a little more info in this artical about what all was going on at WWDC.

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"Apple could offer the first glimpse of Mac OS X version 10.5, code-named Leopard."

"Could?" Guys, they WILL. Jobs himself said that they'll preview Leopard at WWDC 2006--and the fact that it's been pushed back by 2 months is interesting, when framed in the context of a Leopard preview.

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ya, real...interesting...

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