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The Rumors Are True: Leopard delayed.

By Kevin Michael Reed. April 12, 2007

Apple announced today on their site that they have delayed the latest Mac OS X release, Leopard, until October. Leopard was initially scheduled to be released in Late Spring (June) at their annual WorldWide Developer Conference (WWDC). The reason for the delay? The iPhone.

Excerpt from the April 12, 2007 Apple 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 X team, and as a result we will not be able to release Leopard at our Worldwide Developers Conference in early June as planned.

Now don’t get me wrong, I am VERY excited and can’t wait to get my “hands (and fingers)” on the iPhone. In fact, I will be one of the first in line at my local Cingular Wireless/AT&T store to leave my current provider and get my hands on one, but I think Apple, Inc may have taken their name change (they recently dropped the word computer from their name) a little too seriously. I understand that most of their recent success has come from these little gadgets (like the iPod), and they are estimating year 1 sales at 10,000,000 phones, but again what about your roots? The computer.


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