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Apple tablet team in a "cone of silence", 10.7 to be previewed

by Michael Grothaus Jan 1st 2010 at 7:00PM

Electronista summarizes John Gruber's report that a "cone of silence" exists surrounding those developing the tablet and virtually no information comes from those directly involved. Many of the tablet team are reportedly the same as those that developed the Calendar, Mail, and Safari iPhone apps – and those people are used to this. They underwent a similar radio-lockdown in late 2006.

Gruber also maintains that Steve Jobs has given the tablet his "undivided attention" since returning to Apple in September. Apple's secrecy is legendary and Gruber's assertions seem to be more conjecture than insider knowledge. He does admit "I don't know anyone who works at Apple who doubts these things; nor do I know anyone at Apple who knows a whit more. I don't know anyone who's seen the hardware or the software, nor even anyone who knows someone else who has seen the hardware or software."

Gruber does seem more confident that his sources say Mac OS X 10.7 is on track for a developer release at WWDC in June. Unfortunately they haven't mentioned any public-release time frame or a possible name – although I'm hoping for "10.7 Lynx."

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sm4rt357ch1ld

I like the sound of 10.7 Cougar, just like I liked the Jaguar, Panther, and Tiger names. I think it's the 'r' in the end, it sounds powerful. Otherwise we wouldn't say 'murder,' we would say 'muckduck.'

January 05 2010 at 12:43 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
finetime303

10.7 is Lion

January 04 2010 at 1:28 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Velinion

Ahh, Lynx. My favorite text-mode web-browser. I use it regularly in web design to get an idea of how a site will "look" on a braille display, and ensure accessibility.

So, if they do call 10.7 Lynx, I guess there will be Lynx on Lynx action going on.

January 04 2010 at 3:03 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Dusty

LOL @ pic

January 03 2010 at 10:37 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
mike

that picture is really freaking me out...

PS.. Can't wait till Christma-- er... Jan 26th

January 03 2010 at 8:17 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Generaloreius4

Cone of silence... Lol Love that show
apple probably made one that works :)

as far as cat names I can't remember them all
but puma sounds kinda cool. I can't think of that
many other cat names

January 03 2010 at 1:18 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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xobmo

Puma? That's a cool name! Check this out...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X#Mac_OS_X_v10.1_.22Puma.22

January 04 2010 at 11:02 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Generaloreius4

oh man did not know it was already out

will have to give it more thought

back to my cone of silence hehe

January 04 2010 at 1:16 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Anthony

OS X 10.7 Tabby Cat.

January 03 2010 at 1:09 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Anthony

No, no, no. Do you not remember that Blu-Ray is a big bag of hurt? El Steve-o said it himself! It must be true!

January 03 2010 at 1:07 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Cam

Nah, not lynx. too close to Lucid Lynx, the next Ubuntu release.

And that will be beyond confusing if I am proven wrong.

January 02 2010 at 6:22 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
mhale0

Michael-

Why no link to DF?
You're basing your post on Gruber's conjecture, but only link to 3rd party sites?

January 02 2010 at 4:02 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Cowfodder

No, his post is based on Electronista's summary of Gruber's report.

"Electronista summarizes John Gruber's report that a "cone of silence" exists surrounding those developing the tablet and virtually no information comes from those directly involved"

L2Read.

January 02 2010 at 4:29 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
mhale0

@cowfodder

The original source of the material for the whole post is Gruber.
The right thing to do is to link to both.

Daring Fireball and/or Gruber are mentioned 3 times but the only links provided are to two other sites regurgitating his material.

It's not that John Gruber is starving for traffic.
I get that.
But why pump up the hits on people repeating what others are saying?

And you can hang on to your "L2Read" BS. See you next Tues.

January 02 2010 at 9:18 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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