With Snow Leopard, the next iteration of Mac OS X due for early 2009, Apple has decided to pause on user features and focus on performance, stability and massive optimizations.

As Ken Aspeslagh said about WWDC:

It’s unprecedented for a company to have this luxury: To be able to pause the infinite loop and concentrate entirely on making the current feature set work better [...] The things I saw this week at WWDC made my eyes bug out. They’re determined to squeeze every last cycle out of the CPU (and the GPU for that matter), constantly asking the question “How can we make this faster?”.

Apple is truly determined to move far ahead of competition. Adding such things as OpenCL (an high-speed computing standard using the GPU) and multicore technologies is going to be a winner strategy for the future.