John on Tech...
A look at technology from MY point of view
Thursday 12 April 2007, 9:42 PM
Leopard has slipped...
Well it's not good news on the Apple front today.
It's official. Leopard has slipped.
Apple's statement reads:
"iPhone has already passed several of its required certification tests and is on schedule to ship in late June as planned. We can't wait until customers get their hands (and fingers) on it and experience what a revolutionary and magical product it is. 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 OSŪ X team, and as a result we will not be able to release Leopard at our Worldwide Developers Conference in early June as planned. While Leopard's features will be complete by then, 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. 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."
Ok so there's the positive spin - but this is not a great day for Apple fans. October is a LONG way off...
It's official. Leopard has slipped.
Apple's statement reads:
"iPhone has already passed several of its required certification tests and is on schedule to ship in late June as planned. We can't wait until customers get their hands (and fingers) on it and experience what a revolutionary and magical product it is. 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 OSŪ X team, and as a result we will not be able to release Leopard at our Worldwide Developers Conference in early June as planned. While Leopard's features will be complete by then, 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. 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."
Ok so there's the positive spin - but this is not a great day for Apple fans. October is a LONG way off...
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The joke goes, When is the best time to buy a computer, answer, "tomorrow". I think that should be revised to "the day after tomorrow"
Hardy Har.
I do actually think that a lot of people are waiting to upgrade... I am hoping that Apple aren't going to delay new hardware now until Leopard is released. It's gonna make for a very slow Mac year if they do.
Quite.
As a reluctant PC user, I've been waiting for an excuse to buy my first Mac. I had been planning to wait until Leopard is released. Now looks like I will have longer to save up my pennies.
