OS X development to slow down?

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From MacWorld UK:

http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=8709

Apple has announced that it is going to slow the pace of Mac OS X developments.

Apple chief software technology officer Avie Tevanian said: "We're slowing that pace down a little bit because it's not a sustainable rate. But you'll still see us go really fast."

Since the launch of Mac OS X in 2001 Apple has released three major updates, and plans to show Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger at its worldwide developers conference (WWDC) in July. The company has not announced when Tiger will ship.

During his talk at the SIIA Enterprise Software Summit 2004 Tevanian also said: "Apple has made great progress in making its products a good fit for businesses but it will take time before they are seen that way.

"We've not been strong in that market in the recent past at all. We don't expect people to automatically just believe that this product is the best thing for them."
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Actually the development won't be slowing down; it's the release of new OSes that will be slowed down.
The person who wrote the original line doesn't write very well.
 
Randman said:
Actually the development won't be slowing down; it's the release of new OSes that will be slowed down.
The person who wrote the original line doesn't write very well.
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Who, me? :confused:
 
Randman said:
No, the person at macworld.co.uk.
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Ahhh, OK. Thanks for clearing that up. :)

The original MacWorld UK article is slightly hard to interpret. It could be the case that releases will become less frequent due to less development effort being put in, or it could be the case that development will stay at its usual pace (or even increase) and yet releases become less frequent, leading to bigger "jumps" in OS features. I'm hoping it will not be due to decreased work being put into the OS! Maybe I'm just a little paranoid, worrying that Apple might get carried away with the music business.
 
Maybe we'll just get 10.4.1 - 10.4.6 or 7 or something.
Makes sense - instead of barreling ahead with new versions every year why not just really develop the existing architecture, iron out the kinks, cover more of the business market bases, that kind of thing.
Also would give them more kudos in the sense that buying a new version for the latest functionality every year is a bit of a pain, a few more free updates for your current version is no bad thing - it would hardly be like the 40-odd critical updates from windows you see every week...
 
From what other stories have said, the rollout will be decreased (no major OS every year), not the development.
 
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