With Apple promising devs a new build every month...what do you all think is in store for the next few days?

Do you think the build will be crappy because it will be rushed?

My prediction is the following...

Apple is waiting on the next Developer Seed for the release of iTunes 7.1, which is to conencide with the release of AppleTV.

We will get both at the exact same moment, and the reason why AppleTV is being released here at the end of the month is to address the issues with Leopard's new audio stack, which has been having issues since the beginning with playing back the audio from purchased video files. (This has not been addressed in any previous release even though reported with the WWDC build.)

No point fixing the bug in legacy code if it will be replaced with something new by the time it ships.

Also, this is the longest time there has been between any 10.5 release, currently 38 days since the last seed.
No one can claim that it is rushed.

I predict a special edition black MacPro with dual quad core and 8800gtx SLI bundled with a matching black 30" cinema display.

hopefully the next release will start getting the wheels rolling.

I predict that the prophesied "Special Event" never happens.

Oh, and black iMacs.

EDIT: Hey, I got the fifth square thing under my name! Go me.

EDIT2: I just deleted my custom member title, and now I'm an "InsanelyMac Sage"! Cool.

I predict a new plugin for Safari that will disable animated GIFs.
Rather, hope... It is all I have ever wanted so I would never have to see those super annoying avatars again!
Please, Apple, don't disappoint me again.

Heh. Until then, there's good old SafariBlock.

There may soon be a totally new line of black (and white) macs, like a black macbook pro, black imac, black mac pro, and even black mac minis. because
1) there is already a black (and white) macbook
2) black looks sleeker than white
3) UI of front row, etc are black
4) iPhone is black
5) ipods come in black and white
6) Leopard may have a black UI
7) Apple hasn't updated its hardware exterior in a long time... the iMac look dates back to the G5.

And, due to people complaining about the Brushed Metal look, it may soon disappear.

Hmm...its getting too late for a new build today....that means they owe one to the devs tomorrow.

Also of note, Apple's stock dropped 4.72 today...that is 5.32% (but the entire market did drop...)

Im definitely predicting a build tomorrow. Definitely.

I dont even know what day it is anymore, when was 343 released?

Thursday, January 18, 2007 - 5:35 PM PST

Waaaayyy too specific.

I'm just waiting for a build with the new GUI and possibly ZFS to leak. I really don't have $500-ish to give to Apple for a dev license.

I just want some new stuff. Macs are my drugs!!!!

Before a new build can leak, Apple needs to make it available to someone, somewhere. Not just a testing lab and the build team.

When it goes on ADC, or when some high-up or well positioned Apple employee gets axed, then you can expect a leak.

Kind of hard to hand over something that doesn't exist.

One day left ...

Update...it is about 7:00 AM AST (Apple Standard Time...aka PST)

What the hell is doing Apple. I want the new mac pro and leopard NOW!

I still expect the built tomorrow, thursday, but who knows, I'll still be using 10.4.8 when it's released, and 10.4.8 when it's leaked; I just want to see some progress. These are not builds I'd want to run on the machine I use for school.

update: its 1:30 AST...

Also, it does look like Apple is seeding today...but they may be done. Does anyone know if all their seeds go up at once normally?

I have no idea, but I would like to think Apple can do whatever the hell it wants with it's own software releases.

Well, they can do whatever they want...but they have typical ways that they do things.

Oh yeah, but those have been pretty much broken recently so it's hard to expect them to jump back on the bandwagon.

Just let them do their thing. We'd be happier in the long run if Apple did it right rather than just hack-jobbed it to make a deadline.

30 minutes until it's 5PM PST (AST). Let's hope ADC gets some word on a new build... otherwise it's time to use XD

I think they post them as late as 6:30 AST

::anticipation::

Nothing.

noooooooo

looks like 10.4.9 is a bigger priority than 10.5

Either that or Apple is doing something REALLY big with Leo and is stalling us with 10.4.9 releases... perhaps they want 10.4.9 as bug free as possible... I don't remember this many betas for 10.4.8 or any other 10.4.x release...

Or maybe they are having problem with 10.5 that's why they are focusing in fixing the problems of 10.4.


just my

They want 10.4.9 to be as stable as possible, so they dont have to make any more major changes to tiger after this, maybe only small security updates

Or iTunes is truly Apple's CORE responsibility. No new iTunes, no new Leopard.

wow,i can fsck my name, look at my location XD

Wow, thats just stupid who has a location of 1000 characters anyway

I should leave it to piss some people off

hey february ended 19 hours and 50 minutes ago - so this thread is obsolete

depends on your time zone.