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January 14, 2009

Apple’s Snow Leopard may arrive with unified ‘Marble’ interface



With the release of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, Apple may be planning to rid its flagship operating system of the various user interface inconsistencies that have materialized in recent years, according to a pair of reports.

As part of his Macworld 2009 predictions earlier this month, Daring Fireball’s John Gruber suggested that Apple was likely to demo a new build of the operating system at the conference that would “make old features look new, by updating the system-wide appearance theme.”

“I’ve made this prediction several times in the past and been wrong, but eventually I’ll be right: it’s time for the last vestiges of the original Mac OS X 10.0 ‘Aqua’ theme to go,” he wrote.

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