So I've been getting a lot of exposure to the upcoming updated version of Apple's Mac OS X operating system. This is 10.3, codenamed "Panther" for you folks out there who still haven't heard of it.

I seem to have discovered a couple of things that strike me as an indicator of where the OS is heading. I'll try and touch on a few of those things later.

Early on, I have been cracking wise to people saying that the design philosophy was to see how many shareware/freeware tools they could drive out of business. I still stand by this. There's a pretty substantial list of applications that simply will have no real reason to exist, when 10.3 is released.

Now I am changing this somewhat, while the above is still true, it really seems that Apple is trying to make the storngest, most capable, usable OS as is possible.

Now, this may seem like kind of a "Well, Duh" comment to make. But you have to remember, that so far, a huge number of the efforts on Mac OS X have been into basically making it usable .

In fact, if you listened carefully, most Mac professionals, really considered 10.2 the first "usable" version, in the sense that people who had used the Mac before would be happy with it.

10.3 is almost a new OS. And this is a good thing.

Apple Final Design Philosophy For Mac OS X: It Just Keeps Getting Better

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