With all the talk and speculation and rumors about OS X Leopard being close to release quality, and with "spring 2007" coming closer and closer, I'm beginning to get a little worried that the new version of OS X won't have a new visual look.
Many months ago, when Jobs mentioned that there were super secret things in 10.5 that they didn't want to announce yet, I was really hoping one of them was a refined user interface. I kept holding onto that dream until some time last week when I realized that there just isn't time.
For Apple to have a new user interface they still haven't shown testers seems insane to me. It doesn't leave nearly enough lead time before release, even if "spring 2007" means June.
Obviously, I hope I'm wrong. But it's beginning to sink in that I might not be.