Apple confirms Snow Leopard as Jobs talks iPhone

Posted on 9 Jun 2008 at 18:51

Apple has confirmed that Snow Leopard will be the next version of OS X for the Mac.

Chief executive Steve Jobs gave no further information as made the announcement during his keynote to the company's annual Worldwide Developers Conference. Instead Bertrand Serlet, Apple's senior vice president of Software Engineering, will unveil the new features and tools to developers in a session later in the day.

Jobs is confining his address to the iPhone, and began by discussing the new enterprise features and developers tools.

The iPhone, he said, is now "extraordinarily well-integrated with Exchange", with push email, push contacts, push calendar, auto-discovery, global address lookup and remote wipe. It also supports Cisco VPN security.

Everything enterprise has told us they've wanted in the iPhone, Jobs said, we've built right in.

Scott Forstall, Apple's new senior vice president of iPhone Software, joined Jobs on stage to demonstrate the developers' kit, using Xcode to put an application together in just a few minutes and using the very tools that Apple itself uses.

"We're opening up the same developer tools we use internally," Forstall said. "Developers will create applications in exactly the same way we do."

Forstall and Jobs were then joined by a succession of developers who have built iPhone apps. Sega has Super Monkey Ball, eBay has Auctions, TypePad has blogging, Loopt has location aware social networking, and the Associated Press has the free Mobile News Network, providing news, video and photos of current events from local sources, while allowing the user to file their own reports and pictures.

Author: Simon Aughton

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