Apple delays Leopard to keep iPhone on track
Apple has announced (see below) that Leopard will not be released until October after developers had to be used on polishing up the iPhone, which is one track for late June. Tradeoff is fine with me, bring on the iPhone!
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. 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]
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Sebastian
I think its a fair trade off; that said I’m not a crazed Apple addict (although I am typing this on a MacBook), although I can’t see why Apple enthusiasts wouldn’t be happy with a scheduled release of such an impressive piece of hardware. The big question is ‘will the iPhone share the same success as the now immortalised iPod.’ Clearly competition from well established companies such as Sony Ericsson and Nokia is going to be a big issue for the iPhone. In the words of Steve Ballmer “In the case of music, Apple got out early. They were the first to really recognize that you couldn’t just think about the device and all the pieces separately.”
The test is going to be whether apple release a bloody good phone, or if they revolutionise the handheld mobile device. And I for one, am sure what to expect.
Jun 11th, 2007
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