Tiger had more than Spotlight and Dashboard if you’re a developer, and Leopard will be similar - the really important stuff is what comes downstream of the release.

Operating systems enable applications, but it is applications that drive operating system sales. (Unless you are talking a DOS to Windows transformation, or OS X pre 10.3 where the system was - realistically - incomplete).

I don’t buy the ‘we’re keeping hush-hush about the new features in case Microsoft find out’ line. Microsoft are one of the biggest developers on the Mac (Office). I suspect it is much more along the lines of ‘don’t promise what you can’t deliver’, and that the Finder revamp, etc, are still in development.

Overall feeling : The keynote is a PR exercise aimed at the media and public as much as anything else - in a way, the developers conference is the wrong place for it, but Apple are very insistent that they don’t do public vapourware demos, so the WWDC is a better excuse than a consumer trade show.

The really interesting stuff are the bits barely covered - what’s changed in Obj-C 2.0 and XCode 3, what’s this X-Ray app, and how well does Core Animation stack up against rival technologies from Adobe and Microsoft?