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OS X Leopard Delayed for the iPhone

Jimmy 2004

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Apple's latest version of OS X, known as 'Leopard', has now officially been delayed until October - with Apple's reason being that they've had to borrow some OS X software engineers to work on the iPhone. Although Apple previously denied rumours relating to a Leopard delay, it appears they've now been forced to admit they're behind schedule, albeit for different reasons than first suspected.

Apple Statement

Phone 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.
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Where does apple come up with these names.



My first theory is a bad acid trip mixed with a kaleidescope.

Next we have the x theory. A visit to the local rave with hippies children and while tripping on x watching a girl named Leopard dance the idea hit.



Anyone else?



Oh well, at least they release a complete product, more than can be said for other vendors.
 
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Iphone is waaaay too expensive anyways. Only the rich will be getting it early. Plus, its inundated with out of date (or old school) software.
 
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WarEagleAU said:
Iphone is waaaay too expensive anyways. Only the rich will be getting it early. Plus, its inundated with out of date (or old school) software.
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And it's tied to Cingular, big mistake. They should have made it available to as many wireless phone companies as possible.
 
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