Apple Delays Leopard Release [Updated]
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.
Apple goes on to state that while Leopard will be feature-complete by WWDC, they could not "deliver the quality release that we and our customers expect from us." As if to demonstrate that point, Apple recently released a new build of Leopard which continued to contain a long-list of known issues.Developers will be given a "near-final" beta copy of Leopard at the Worldwide Developers Conference in early June.
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PR Newswire 4:30 pm April 12, 2007
Apple today released the following statement:
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 OS(R) 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 f inal 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.
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SOURCE Apple Inc.
Lynn Fox, +1-408-974-4300, or lfox@apple.com, or Steve Dowling, +1-408-974-1896, or dowling@apple.com, both of Apple http://www.apple.com/
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Brilliant
That is a bummer. October seems to be a long time after June. It's like 3 -4 months. Which was about the time it took apple to go from 10.4.0 to 10.4.2.
Pulling people off of OS 10.5 development to help with a phone...
Brilliant
No doubt :rolleyes:
And, let's make sure there are no hypocrites here. Everyone that have MS crap about Vista being delayed should now do the same for Apple.
Or, let's here the complaining about how the Mac is being abandoned.
I wish this were spam.
Makes sense though. A delayed iPhone would be a huge blow to Apple given all the hype. A delayed Leopard much less so.
EDIT: Here's a PDF of the email
EDIT: isn't it amusing that Apple's PR releases always show up on their site after every other news site has reported it?
I like how they start off the release with...Hey, the iPhone is great, and oh, by the way, OS X is delayed.
And, let's make sure there are no hypocrites here. Everyone that have MS crap about Vista being delayed should now do the same for Apple.
Or, let's here the complaining about how the Mac is being abandoned.
iphone will make them tons of money, leopard won't
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