Overall, Leopard seems more of a release building on Tiger for the average user. Although it incorporated X.Org over XFree86 and built in a lot of new developer technologies such as Core Animation, it provided only a couple of enhancements for the average user, with the main changes showcasing features such as Core Animation and other improvements. Time machine: Core Animation and Core Graphics, the new Finder: Core Animation, Spaces: Core Animation. Although these provided a lot of useful features (I use spaces a lot), there is no one "killer app". Some may say that Time Machine is the killer app, but I think that there is still a lot of room for a delicious generation app to take advantage of all of the new features in Leopard and become a smash hit.
Today I downloaded and built Scott Stevenson's Photo Gallery, a Core Animation demo app which I think is really a harbinger of the new Leopard apps. For some reason I am not able to post a picture right now, but believe me, if you have the developer tools installed and can compile it you should. The coolest effect is when a picture is clicked on a ripple emanates from your mouse and the area within the ripple turns to black and white. It is really cool, but you have to experience it for yourself. I do believe that this is a preview of what is to come as third party apps for Leopard, and perhaps iLife and iWork '09.
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