Apple Statement from http://www.apple.com/hotnews/
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 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.
3 comments:
Is this the first time that they have ever delayed the release of an OS?
I dunno, but I can't remember this ever happening. Lots of folks were waiting to get new computers when the new OS came out. Stock might go down...
Leopard is a promising, exciting, compelling O.S. I say, if they need a little bit more time to give the product the QUALITY & RELIABILTY that people have come to expect from a MAC OS, then let them have it.
Skimping on details and quality control will cause stock to drop alot worse than a delay of a new OS.
And I believe that with the plethora of other devices and software under the Apple moniker doing so well, that at this time they won't suffer much for this delay.
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