Yesterday (Monday) was the big day here at WWDC, the keynote overshadowed everything else offered here. Everything outside of the keynote here at WWDC is covered under the nondisclosure agreement all WWDC attendees had to sign/agree to, so I can not speak about specifics from the sessions. What I can speak about however, is Snow Leopard, the just announced version of Apple’s Mac OS X operating system.

Snow Leopard - Apple’s new OS X was announced yesterday by Steve Jobs at the WWDC08 keynote. While it wasn’t covered in great detail during the keynote, Apple has posted a Snow Leopard site. The Snow Leopard site says that Apple’s focus is changing gears, from adding features, to enhancing OS X’s underlying technologies. What the “average” Snow Leopard user will see will not be new features like Quick Look or Dashboard, but instead improved applications. Snow Leopard will speed up everyday programs (both Apple and third-party applications) on your system. Whether this speedup will be enough for the “average” mac user to upgrade is something I haven’t figured out yet, my personal guess is that third-party programmers will write programs strictly for Snow Leopard, just like many are for Leopard now. This may or may not be enough of a reason for mac users to upgrade. Check out Apple’s Snow Leopard mini site for more on Snow Leopard.

Today, Tuesday was not as grand as the “keynote day,” but it was none the less informative for WWDC attendees. I took my camera with me to the sessions today, but didn’t take any pictures (mainly because nothing was worth snapping a picture of). The crowds were almost as huge as the crowds waiting to get into the keynote, and even a large queue formed outside of Moscone Center before Apple allowed us to enter.