Apple: Revolutionary and Amazing Mac OS X 10.7 Features

There has been a lot of talk lately about Apple neglecting its core business – Macs and Mac OS X – supposedly because the company is too busy selling mobile devices powered by iOS, namely iPhone 4 and iPad. But rest assured, the Mac isn’t going anywhere. It’s still the #1 revenue generator and now Apple tells us that Mac OS X 10.7 will “truly amaze everyone.”

But don’t take my word for it, the quoted phrase was spotted in a job post at Apple’s site and immediately put the rumor-mill in overdrive. What’s Apple exactly looking for? According to the posting, they need a software engineer that will help create a brand new Mac OS X core in a way that has “never been done before.” Here’s the complete job description:

Are you looking to help create something totally new? Something that has never been done before and will truly amaze everyone? Are you excited by the prospect that what you helped create would be used every day by millions of Apple customers? Then come and work on with the Mac OS X software engineering team to help build a new and revolutionary feature for Mac OS X.

We are looking for a senior software engineer to help us create a revolutionary new feature in the very foundations of Mac OS X. We have something truly revolutionary and really exciting in progress and it is going to require your most creative and focused efforts ever.

An ideal candidate will have a degree in Computer Science (or equivalent), five years of professional experience developing C / C++ / Objective-C libraries or frameworks for use on end user systems, experience with developing for Internet technologies and services, and a passion for doing “really hard” things that have never been done before.

An exceptional candidate will also have up close and personal experience with the HTTP protocol as well as other protocols layered atop it, have participated in or lead the architecture of large web scale systems, have shipped multiple “platforms” for use by millions of users.

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