Apple says no OS X Leopard until October because of the iPhone. A spring release was always in doubt but the Apple faithful were always hanging on even though the seeds of OS X keep coming and as we noted earlier, Vista compatibility remains a serious issue for OS X.
An OS X delay until October could reverberate through the Apple lineup and create delays in other products everybody is dying for like the new MacBook. Just plain bad news for the mass of would be Windows converts.
The silver lining to the announcement is that this really opens up a ton of dates in our Leopard Release Date Prediction Tracker which is starting to make quite a few of the big boy Apple blogs look like idiots.
After the close of the stock market today, Apple said
While Leopard’s features will be complete by then (June) , 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,”
Michael Stokes wrote,
Apple has changed their own release date via their website. It now says
“Get ready, get set, get Leopard
All these features and more are delivered to you in one universal, fully accessible, 64-bit operating system. Coming October 2007.”
Quote | Link | April 12th, 2007 at 3:37 pm