A pple has released the "Tiger Early Start Kit," a get started now solution for developers interested in kick starting their Tiger development efforts. Tiger is the name of Appleis next major Mac OS X upgrade, 10.4, which is expected to be released in the first half of 2005. The company has been promoting what it calls 150 new features, including many new technologies for developers to tap into.
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