They have roughly 35,000 employees, so what exactly a “reduced team” means in that context is anyone’s guess.

Even if Apple has paired back focus on Mac OS development for the time being, keep in mind Apple is a large company with plenty of resources. John Gruber is often right with his predictions, but everything with Apple is always a mystery until the last minute. Combine that with all the excitement surrounding iPhone OS 4 and I think it makes sense that WWDC 2010 is going to be an iPhone OS centric event as Apple is heavily focused on their mobile platform.ĭoes that mean we definitely won’t see anything of Mac OS X 10.7 at WWDC? No, certainly not, at this point this is a prediction at best and a rumor at worst. The potential of dominating the mobile market share with iPhone OS powered devices and the iPad is probably a far greater opportunity for Apple than expanding the relatively small Mac desktop computing market share, especially when more and more computing is done on the go. While somewhat disappointing, I wouldn’t be terribly surprised by this. Anything that is not directly competitive with Android is on the back burner. Apple’s company-wide focus has since been focused intensely on one thing: iPhone OS 4.1 The number one priority at Apple is to grow mobile market share faster than Android.

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