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Posted on 04/12/2007 2:38:12 PM PDT by JohnSheppard
Apple on Thursday released a statement noting that Mac OS X v10.5 “Leopard” won’t be released until October. The cause of the delay? The iPhone.
“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,” reads a statement published by the company.
Getting the iPhone ready for its June launch has had an unintended consequence, however: QA and “some key software engineering” resources allocated to Mac OS X needed to be diverted from their work to finish the iPhone. As a result, Apple won’t release Leopard at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in June, as it had first 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,” reads the statement.
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This sucks... I was counting on Leopard’s new iCal and CalDav features for the office. SOHO Organizer really sucks.
Feh.
Fortunately, the current 10.4 release is still an excellent operating system - and certainly better than Windows Vista.
Was I right two weeks ago or is this FUD...
Yes, the rumours were right about the delay, but I still doubt that the reason is because of Vista.
It’s more likely that the figured out they weren’t losing any sales to Vista, so why hurry.
Yeah, really. Rats. Speaking as someone who’s a happy Mac OS customer and who will probably never be an iPhone customer.
Does not compute. Where does Vista fit in on the delay?
You were right... but the reason is different.
Two weeks ago, the purported reason for the delay was to make OS X.5 Leopard's version of Boot Camp Vista compliant.
I’m bummed out by this - I was supposed to get complimentary Leopard client & server as part of my Apple Developer Program - and that was a big part of my justification of the fee.
But I’m also not surprised. I’m running Leopard right now as I type this, and while I can’t say much (NDA), I’ll say that my impressions are the same as the WWDC keynote: there’s a lot of good & important stuff under the covers (full 64 bit, fully UNIX compliant, opportunities with Core Animation and system-wide to-do lists, etc.), but the “day-to-day” operations with the Finder and basic apps are exactly the same.
Apple really needs those “Top Secret” features that Steve withheld from the keynote in Leopard, and then needs time to debug the whole thing before shipping. Disclosure of features at mid-June WWDC = 4.5 months to debug before end of October. That’s cutting it close. I hope they disclose the new features before that, so they have 6 months to wrap up.
Many times better...
Heck, Vista’s so bad, I’d take OS 9 over it...8^)
SOHO Organizer sucks? Is it worse than Entourage?
iCal and Mail never integrated and you could not trade/link messages, appointments, etc. with Outlook and other Windoze email clients and PIMs. Maybe Leopard versions will be better but will they be good enough?
Does anyone know of a really good Mac PIM that can work with Windoze and now Vista products?
Looks like this story was spot on.
[rimshot!]
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