Apple’s upcoming OS X software, codenamed Snow Leopard, will include support for multi-touch technology heavily used by Cupertino’s popular iPhone handset, according to a report Thursday.
Location technology is also part of Apple’s new operating system, Apple Insider reported, citing “people familiar” with a test version of Leopard. Developers just received the latest “build” of 10.6, according to MacRumors.
The new version of Apple’s operating system makes use of the iPhone software developers kit to integrate multi-touch features already available to new MacBook and MacBook Pro owners.
The iPhone connection will also permit the new OS X to mimic GPS technology, allowing Macs to triangulate their current geographic location, added Apple Insider. The new feature is similar to first-generation iPhones that did not include GPS now part of the Apple phone.
Ed Sutherland is a veteran technology journalist who first heard of Apple when they grew on trees, Yahoo was run out of a Stanford dorm and Google was an unknown upstart. Since then, Sutherland has covered the whole technology landscape, concentrating on tracking the trends and figuring out the finances of large (and small) technology companies.
