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Apr
13
iPhone on Schedule but OS X 10.5 Leopard Delayed
Filed Under Computers & Tech on April 13, 2007 at 12:28 pm
Well, I had predicted that Apple would try get Leopard out by WWDC. In a statement today Apple did say that was their plan, but it hasn’t worked out. Apple blame the iPhone saying they have had to borrow developers from the OS X team to get the iPhone ready for June. I guess the good news is that the iPhone is on target for its June release date, but the cost of this is that Leopard will not be out till October. The only silver lining I can see is that Apple say OS X 10.5 will be ‘feature complete’ by WWDC and that developers will be getting a beta version at WWDC. This means that although we won’t get our hands on Leopard in June, we should at least get to see the final feature set. Putting my prediction hat on I expect we’ll see an extended Leopard demo during Jobs’ keynote at WWDC in June.
[tags]iPhone, OS X Leopard, OS X 10.5, Apple[/tags]
Bah, further waiting…
I want leopard!
You’re so not alone there Stephen! Also, rather makes a mockery of Apple taking the piss out of MS for not getting Vista shipped on time! Granted, this is Apple’s first delay where as MS had many but still, it doesn’t look at all good.
I’m hoping they’ll do one of those “All new macs will get a free upgrade” from WWDC 07 onwards.
I was intending to buy after WWDC, but I’ll have to re check now.
I think they’ll have to Des. Once they show us all the cool stuff that’s on the way not giving out free upgrades would just destroy sales figures for pretty much an entire quarter. I think Apple are smart enough to do the right thing. Like you said, they’ve done it in the past.