WWDC 2015 Kicks off Monday at 1pm

While Macworld (both the magazine and the expo) may be gone, Apple still has one event that repeats every year and it's date is well publicized, the Annual World Wide Developers Conference. WWDC (for short) is typically a show for developers, the people who create the software and peripherals we use with our Macs, iPhones, iPads, iPods, Apple Watches and Apple TVs. Many consumers don't really care about WWDC because it's not nearly as flashy as some of Apple's "Media Events" where they roll out precious new hardware however I say quite the opposite is true. I love new hardware more than anyone but the reason I use a Mac isn't primarily because of what it looks like or what processor is under the hood. It's because of how it works and how it works is primarily a function of it's Operating System Software. The same is true of the iPhone or iPad. Without iOS you have a very elegant item but it can't do anything without it's software. WWDC is primarily about software and how to improve our platform, how to add new features, and how to extend Apple's lead over it's challengers. 

There are a billion sites out there making predictions on what to expect Monday June 8th at 1pm so I'm not going to do that. Rather I'll just say what I'd like to see from Apple on Monday - refinement. I don't really think we need radical new stuff in either OS X or iOS. I'd like to see a release similar to what they did way back with Snow Leopard. Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) wasn't a very different OS from the one before it Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) but Apple got under the hood and really fixed it up and made it work way better. That's why if I had to choose, Snow Leopard is likely my favorite OS to date (compatibility aside of course...) Apple has significant advantages over any other computer OS or phone/tablet OS, right now they just need to tweak it a bit like they did with Snow Leopard way back in 2009 and really lock it down, raise performance, increase stability, and whatever they do, fix Mail. The same is true on iOS, major changes have come with each recent version of iOS, lets pause on the feature train and just firm up the stuff we have, optimize...