Notes Floating Around

I’m modelling three areas at the moment:

(A) Adobe CS3 Universal Binary will be out full shipping by end of April, in full swing May. This is to run on 10.4.8 or 10.4.9. It will run on 10.5.0 but most studios will *not* want to have two aspects to play with: a new early-adopted CS3 AND debugging Leopard for Apple.

(B) Leopard 10.5.0 announced at WWDC with all the special features. Full shipping by end of June.

(C) New Macs either at mid-April NAB announcement, or anytime between end of March and WWDC June [March, April, May, June] — following on from B above, there may be a 90-day window for free/minimum fee upgrade to Leopard so as to ease confusion and not dampen sales of new Macs because of people second- or third-guessing on Leopard release and trying to time that with their Mac purchases.

Of course, Apple has about 4 months (just under that, really) to clean up the Mac pro/prosumer/enthusiast/Leopard + consumer/Leopard space before they throw in everything in the 2nd half of 2007 for iPhone + iPod.

The next 3 weeks will be very busy at Apple (when is it not :-0) to plan, strategise and prep for the “Synergy Program” to go from end of March through WWDC June and into the iPhone major launches.