Apple's annual meeting today: option plans and hints of things to come

Apple shareholders meet today in Cupertino for the company's annual meeting.. Stock options, grant dates, and board of director elections will undoubtedly overshadow more traditional Apple topics such as iPhones, Leopard release dates, and Mac upgrades. But who knows, maybe Steve Jobs will drop some hints of what we are going to see next month. After all, Apple just released a set of Coding Headstart videos for Apple developers in an email last night. Here's a list of the videos they are offering:

• Coding Headstart - Calendar Store Framework
• Coding Headstart - Coding Smarter with Objective-C 2.0
• Coding Headstart - Getting Started with Cocoa Bindings
• Coding Headstart - Polishing a Quick Look Plugin
• Coding Headstart - QTKit MyRecorder Sample
• Coding Headstart - Carbon and Cocoa Integration Introduction
• Coding Headstart - Creating a PDF Viewer with PDF Kit Introduction
• Coding Headstart - Enhancing a Widget with Dashcode Introduction
• Coding Headstart - Introduction to Scripting Bridge
• Coding Headstart - Resolution Independence Introduction

But even more intriguing in the email message was the fact that Coding Headstart Lesson guides and Sample code is now available IF you buy a WWDC ticket today. Clearly, Apple is looking to get coders coding for Leopard pronto. Our suspicion: Developers are going to have their hands full after WWDC getting their code modified to properly support the Leopard look and feel before October. We'll have more details on this theory in a subsequent posting.

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