How would you know, you have some inside info? Didn’t think so. And the Intel transition was not an investment for the future?

“But, for Apple it is typical to inform media “informally” about the new products, which are in the preparation”

Huh, when did Apple inform the press? They will only give a *few* vague hints about *some* of the things that are coming or not coming in the near future. Like the comments Apple made about the rumored PowerBook G5, it was deemed “the mother of all thermal challenges.” Translation: don’t hold your breath on this one. Or the “We’re not sitting around doing nothing” about cell phones. Translation: we’re working on it. These statements were made during conference calls with financial analysts.

This year Apple will launch AppleTV, the iPhone, a new version of Mac OS X, after last year’s transition the hardware will be revised as usual. New iPods should be ready for the holiday season, the most important quarter for consumer electronics. The iPod may be the main source of growth for Apple but the PC business is not in disarray, it’s growing all right. Do you seriously think they will somehow ‘forget’ about the upcoming upgrades? Jobs woke up last Monday and felt a disturbance in the Force: “OH NOES!!!1! We completely forgot to update our stuff!”
“I believe, Apple is carefully analyzing Microsoft Vista and its new approach of user interface to take the best of the system and to add some “killer feature” to the Mac OS X Leopard.”

This is not how development works. Apple is currently implementing features, but the feature set was decided last year. It’s far too late to analyze a competing product to add more new features haphazardly and for no good reason.