Apple has recently put up a job description on the Apple website looking for a software engineer with plenty of experience to help them work on something new for the future of Mac OS X and to "build a new and revolutionary feature for Mac OS X".

The job posting does not describe in any way what that new feature will be but you can bet it's going to innovate beyond anyone else:

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.

As well as a slight nod toward the competition:

Google Chrome is not going to be the only HTTP/Internet-compliant platform.

It's clear that Apple is taking Google very seriously as some major competition. Surprisingly though, Google doesn't really have anything to compete with Mac OS X except their smaller netbook OS coming soon -- and we all know how I feel about that -- but it's usually Android vs. iPhone we see everywhere. Apple could see that differently. (Think different?) Jonny Evans seems to smell a shift in focus for WWDC 2011.