MacOSX 10.6 to be seeded at WWDC?

TUAW has an interesting piece, where they report about the rumor, that Apple is planning to release an early 10.6 seed at WWDC. The seed is said to contain mostly security and stability features and is slated for release in December. 

Personally, I think that this behaviour could upset quite some people, as it would be just one year after Leopard, and therefore people'd need to shell out the usual $150 once again. Especially if there're only security and stability features, one could wonder why those wouldn't be delivered by the standard 10.5.x service pack mechanism.

That's why I'd guess that, if there's really 10.6 coming, it will contain some exciting new features. On the one hand I could think about a better iPhone integration - maybe even multitouch-compatibility for Cocoa. On the other hand, and this is where I'm really confident, I guess that resolution independence will make it in. We've had resolution independence in Mac OS X since 10.4 now, by means of a hidden preference which could activate it for specific applications, so one could debug applications against it. This feature wasn't made for the casual user though, as it was buggy and lacked features. With Leopard, however, resolution independence already looked quite good - so I guess an enhanced version, as well as new hardware (think MacBook Pro 150dpi) could very well be in the domain of possibilities.

I'll be attending WWDC this year, so I'm all in all pretty excited about this.