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Apple Delays Leopard to October
SuperMog2002 writes "Apple Insider has the sad news that Mac OS X Leopard has been delayed until October. Apparantly software engineers and QA had to be reassigned to the iPhone in order to get it out on time, costing Leopard its release at WWDC. For now the original press release from Apple can be found on the 'Hot News' part of their site, though Apple did not provide a permanent link to the story. 'While Leopard's features will be complete by June, the Cupertino-based company said it cannot deliver the quality release expected by its customers within that time. Apple now plans to show its 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 the software in October.'"
Apple making effort and does show that they are frank that they cannot deliver half baked product, on release day. So they push it back, they don't release some half baked product even though it isn't really the flagship of the company. There many people who like os x but windows is still everywhere. Still I think people don't mind wating for quality product.
Apple OSX - 1999 and still on point releases
MS Windows - 2001 for XP, now on Vista
Debian - 2002 for 3.0, now on 4.0
Better late than buggy.
Unlike Vista which was late AND buggy.
Reading code is like reading the dictionary - you have to read half of it before you can go back and understand it.
A shiny new OS...or is it patch #5 on a seven year old program?
In the MS world we call them service packs and they don't cost $100.
Oh right, you mean the same world in which:
* each OS release by MS is truly just another patch with no real innovation
* MS systems crash with ridiculous frequency
* MS systems get owned if they're connected to the net without a firewall
* MS can't even release 1 service pack per year
* MS pushes all their patches on one tuesday per month to make it APPEAR that they don't have as many vulnerabilities
* MS can't even release a new OS that people actually desire, they have to End-of-Life XP to force people to buy Vista
* and so forth...
Are those headaches really worth saving $100/yr? Hell yes. You get what you pay for.
Vista stole Tiger features, a 2 year old system. There is no competition with MS on "innovation". Leopard could be shipped in 1 months of time but that way, it will be unstable just like Vista.
Apple doesn't need to prove anything and thanks to them for not listening to those fanatics on digg.com/fanboy blogs etc..