Mountain Lion early release date?

Nostromo said:

There are a few stories on the web about a June release date of Mountain Lion (Apple Insider, namely).

What are the chances of this happening?

Will a new Mac Pro and Mountain Lion appear at the same time?

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Cook reiterated the late summer release at the earnings call. So, no.

There are some API's in IOS 6.0 that will be compatible with Mountain Lion so it won't be out until IOS 6.0 is released and that won't happen at WWDC because developers will be getting their first hands on it there.

Usually it's about 2 months after WWDC that IOS is released so I'm going to say August.

I agree - given what I have heard of the DP’s we are still a bit off from a release - we might get something much closer by WWDC (with more frequent updates) but we are only on update 3.5 or whatever. It is way too early yet.

When Apple says late summer we should look at that as optimistic.

Nowhere close. I'm using it daily but at times I am like ARG! Without breaking NDA Ill say its close but nowhere near close to release. I'd say Fall seems more likely. If Apple released ML in the next 2-3 months. Ill wait to run it full time in production. Apple though is on the right track with ML. Its everything Lion was suppose to be.

ML is not even close to polished. They better not release it early.

Nostromo said:

So, basically, Appleinsider is starting to look like an Appleoutsider on this matter.

Bracing for a late August or September release then...

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September 21st is the end of Summer. I doubt it'll be released later than September... certainly not the end of August. But anything can happen.

Mattie Num Nums said:

Nowhere close. I'm using it daily but at times I am like ARG! Without breaking NDA Ill say its close but nowhere near close to release. I'd say Fall seems more likely. If Apple released ML in the next 2-3 months. Ill wait to run it full time in production. Apple though is on the right track with ML. Its everything Lion was suppose to be.

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Thanks for the sage advice. Reading between the lines, I'm encouraged.

As one with a tremendous amount of patience, I'd much rather see it released later than sooner. There's a lot to be said for a well sorted OS.

I certainly expect some bugs, it's a lot of code. Yet that said, if Apple truly focuses on delivering a good public release they'll come away looking very good.

ixodes said:

Thanks for the sage advice. Reading between the lines, I'm encouraged.

As one with a tremendous amount of patience, I'd much rather see it released later than sooner. There's a lot to be said for a well sorted OS.

I certainly expect some bugs, it's a lot of code. Yet that said, if Apple truly focuses on delivering a good public release they'll come away looking very good.

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I like ML a lot so far. Apple is doing good things with OSX again and that makes me happy.

Mattie Num Nums said:

I like ML a lot so far. Apple is doing good things with OSX again and that makes me happy.

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I follow your posts and value your opinions. This is extremely good to hear.

I'm very Pro-OS X and frankly I've been very discouraged lately.
(perhaps it's all the rumors, questionable reports, et al).

Having been a serious Apple enthusiast since 1991, someone who's relied on their computers daily, I was dreading the thought of Apple dumbing down the OS.

Now at this juncture, I have a renewed level of confidence.

Thanks!

Patience, little grasshopper

ixodes said:

I follow your posts and value your opinions. This is extremely good to hear.

I'm very Pro-OS X and frankly I've been very discouraged lately.
(perhaps it's all the rumors, questionable reports, et al).

Having been a serious Apple enthusiast since 1991, someone who's relied on their computers daily, I was dreading the thought of Apple dumbing down the OS.

Now at this juncture, I have a renewed level of confidence.

Thanks!

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I agree, I feel a little bit better about Mountain Lion... I was thinking I would be on Snow Leopard until it wasn't really feasible anymore and then switch back to Ubuntu. Mountain Lion makes me think that might not be necessary. It is sad though that the most exciting features of Mountain Lion so far (at least for me) are things that give us back what we already had in Snow Leopard.

Nermal said:

The Apple NZ site states that it'll be out by the end of August, but I don't know when it was last updated.

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Actually, the NZ site says it's coming in the winter:



To see it: http://www.apple.com/nz/mac/

ADMProducer said:

Actually, the NZ site says it's coming in the winter:

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To see it: http://www.apple.com/nz/mac/

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Winter in New Zealand is approximately June to August.

Mattie Num Nums said:

Nowhere close. I'm using it daily but at times I am like ARG! Without breaking NDA Ill say its close but nowhere near close to release. I'd say Fall seems more likely. If Apple released ML in the next 2-3 months. Ill wait to run it full time in production. Apple though is on the right track with ML. Its everything Lion was suppose to be.

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What NDA? Can't remember I had to sign any NDA on my Apple Developer account in order to test OS X Mountain Lion Developer Preview, perhaps I overlooked something..

Mountain Lion in June seems early, but not entirely impossible if Apple crank up the development, but at the current state I've had more major bugs with the Mountain Lion Developer Preview than I had with Mac OS X Lion so let's hope they won't rush the release and aim towards a mid to end summer release instead of a June one.

RamGuy said:

What NDA? Can't remember I had to sign any NDA on my Apple Developer account in order to test OS X Mountain Lion Developer Preview, perhaps I overlooked something..

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Check again. Last time I tested stuff for Apple I had to agree to a NDA - the one I did was actually signed. Yours might not have been, but trust me, it is under NDA. It’s not a public information at all. Whatever comes out when it’s released is due to people breaking NDA.

RamGuy said:

What NDA? Can't remember I had to sign any NDA on my Apple Developer account in order to test OS X Mountain Lion Developer Preview, perhaps I overlooked something..

Mountain Lion in June seems early, but not entirely impossible if Apple crank up the development, but at the current state I've had more major bugs with the Mountain Lion Developer Preview than I had with Mac OS X Lion so let's hope they won't rush the release and aim towards a mid to end summer release instead of a June one.

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