04/12/2007, 4:40pm, EDT
Thursday, April 12th
Apple's iPhone delays Leopard until October
"We can't wait until customers get their hands (and fingers) on it and experience what a revolutionary and magical product it is," the company said. "However, iPhone contains the most sophisticated software ever shipped on a mobile device, and finishing it on time has not come without a price -- we had to borrow some key software engineering and QA resources from our Mac OS X team, and as a result we will not be able to release Leopard at our Worldwide Developers Conference in early June as planned."
The company said that while it plans to have all Leopard features completed by early June, quality control would add a few more months to the development cycle.
"We cannot deliver the quality release that we and our customers expect from us. We now plan to show our developers a near final version of Leopard at the conference, give them a beta copy to take home so they can do their final testing, and ship Leopard in October," the company said on Thursday in an unusual terse statement.
"We think it will be well worth the wait. Life often presents tradeoffs, and in this case we're sure we've made the right ones."
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Not a huge deal though. Tiger works pretty darn well. Now the question is weather to upgrade hardware now or wait until October...
I hope they'll show off all the goodies (the new Finder and the other "secrets")
Sorry, but to me this is more evidence to my contention that apple is all about pods and phones and Macs are very much third class citizens. Now maybe the fact they made a big deal of eliminating "computer" from their name may resonate more with the fall of the "computer" fortunes at apple.
BTW, this is also HUGE bad news from a marketing perspective to those thinking of buying Macs.
Smell you later Apple FanBoi's