Except that's exactly the strategy that Apple has been holding on to for MacOS X. For most of 1999 they refused to even mention a release date. Whenever I saw an Apple representative demo the OS, they would slyly explain that the OS would be released when it was ready. I think they finally gave in and announced the March 24 ship date when investors started to get antsy and they knew they were close.
The article brings up incomplete features--not bugs. The way I see it, Apple chose not to include such niceties as a DVD player and the ability to burn DVDs in favor of taking care of the bugs they discovered through users of the Public Beta.
The only issue I was able to find in the article that came across as an actual bug was a problem with iBooks/PowerBooks waking from sleep. To the best of my knowledge, this is no longer an issue. There was a single demo months ago in which a PowerBook was unable to wake from sleep. Given the exposure that bug received, I'm sure it was at the top of the list of bugs to fix. I believe that demo was even back in the days of DP4 (the release before Public Beta).
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Except that's exactly the strategy that Apple has been holding on to for MacOS X. For most of 1999 they refused to even mention a release date. Whenever I saw an Apple representative demo the OS, they would slyly explain that the OS would be released when it was ready. I think they finally gave in and announced the March 24 ship date when investors started to get antsy and they knew they were close.
The article brings up incomplete features--not bugs. The way I see it, Apple chose not to include such niceties as a DVD player and the ability to burn DVDs in favor of taking care of the bugs they discovered through users of the Public Beta. The only issue I was able to find in the article that came across as an actual bug was a problem with iBooks/PowerBooks waking from sleep. To the best of my knowledge, this is no longer an issue. There was a single demo months ago in which a PowerBook was unable to wake from sleep. Given the exposure that bug received, I'm sure it was at the top of the list of bugs to fix. I believe that demo was even back in the days of DP4 (the release before Public Beta).