Apr 12, 2007
iPhone 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.
Well as someone who isn’t in the market for an iPhone, this really sucks. I have $150 burning a hole in my pocket that’s set aside for Leopard. Better to get something stable but it’s pretty disappointing. Mind you, there’s nothing wrong with Tiger but who isn’t itching for the latest and greatest?
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So when to .com? no wonder I wasn’t reading - I didn’t know - hey! Anyway, you have so much going on you could easily post at least once daily.
A new domain? A new layout? A new POST!!! I’m speachless.