Apple Related News

In an article today, The Guardian reports that at MacWorld 2009, Phil Schiller will be giving the world a first look at Apple's next OS, Snow Leopard. 

Apple and its partners have been privately dropping hints to developers that its upcoming release of its Mac OS X operating system, dubbed Snow Leopard, will ship earlier than expected - and it will debut two new technologies that promise to speed up software without demanding any changes to the hardware.

Despite the early preview, Snow Leopard is expected to ship later in the year. Apple first announced Snow Leopard at WWDC 2008 highlighting its superior performance and new technologies like Grand central and Open CL. Early this week Apple revealed that MacWorld 2009 will be their last and that Phil Schiller would be doing the opening keynote. 

Breaking news from the latest Apple press release:

CUPERTINO, California—December 16, 2008—Apple® today announced that this year is the last year the company will exhibit at Macworld Expo. Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing, will deliver the opening keynote for this year’s Macworld Conference & Expo, and it will be Apple’s last keynote at the show. The keynote address will be held at Moscone West on Tuesday, January 6, 2009 at 9:00 a.m. Macworld will be held at San Francisco’s Moscone Center January 5-9, 2009. 

Apple is reaching more people in more ways than ever before, so like many companies, trade shows have become a very minor part of how Apple reaches its customers. The increasing popularity of Apple’s Retail Stores, which more than 3.5 million people visit every week, and the Apple.com website enable Apple to directly reach more than a hundred million customers around the world in innovative new ways.

Apple has been steadily scaling back on trade shows in recent years, including NAB, Macworld New York, Macworld Tokyo and Apple Expo in Paris.

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Apple has launched a forum entirely dedicated to iPhone developers. This comes on the heels of releasing a more relaxed non-disclosure agreement yesterday. The developer program is still in Beta and is open to all registered iPhoen devs:

The Apple Developer Forums Beta provides an environment to discuss technical aspects of developing software for iPhone and iPod touch. The Apple Developer Forums are available to developers in the iPhone Developer Standard Program, Enterprise Program, and University Program. Log in using your program Apple ID and password.

 Apple has now posted the Quicktime Stream of Let's Rock. Click the image link to view it.

The Let's Rock Keynote is now over. Stay tuned for more details on all the latest news stories and releases.