Boards across the Internet are burning up for a few hours now!
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. [Apr 12, 2007] (from apple.com)
I'll wait until you can catch your breath.
Got it back? Okay.
With Apple's announcement, frankly the Faithful everywhere can feel this gut wrenching pain--- but it makes perfect sense. iPhone represents billions of dollars of revenue for the Cupertino-based computer maker. Whereas a new release of OSX can potentially give a few million dollars of revenue, it can wait. Apple needs to ship the iPhone as soon as possible and if it takes developers away from all other resources then so be it.
Leopard represents the next phase of Apple's flagship Operating System. A few months delay in making sure it is fit to run Macs everywhere is good enough to know. Our disappointment is huge, but the payback is even greater later on. It is nice to know that the boys and girls running things at Apple have their priorities set right. A few more months waiting for perhaps the best operating system since Tiger is well worth the wait.
Got it back? Okay.
With Apple's announcement, frankly the Faithful everywhere can feel this gut wrenching pain--- but it makes perfect sense. iPhone represents billions of dollars of revenue for the Cupertino-based computer maker. Whereas a new release of OSX can potentially give a few million dollars of revenue, it can wait. Apple needs to ship the iPhone as soon as possible and if it takes developers away from all other resources then so be it.
Leopard represents the next phase of Apple's flagship Operating System. A few months delay in making sure it is fit to run Macs everywhere is good enough to know. Our disappointment is huge, but the payback is even greater later on. It is nice to know that the boys and girls running things at Apple have their priorities set right. A few more months waiting for perhaps the best operating system since Tiger is well worth the wait.
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