Sigh... No I am not.
You can doubt all you want, but fine ok, you believe that Apple is just incompetent then.
There is no 3. choise. Either they are doing the old scarcity strategy or they are just plain incompetent. They could easily buy LG or just build everything themselves. Or announce the product when everything is ready to go. That would competence.
Oh my god are you still going?
It's been said time and time again, the reason for the iMac delay is supply chain constraints from LG. Nobody. Predicted. This.
If Apple thought they would have had issues, they would have sourced LCDs from two manufacturers - like they do for other models. And, for the record, your idea of buying LG or making the displays themselves is stupid - do you honestly think that buying another company, building a factory, buying new tools will get you a display quicker than simply waiting for LG to catch up? If anything, it will slow the process down.
And as for making them themselves - you think they have the ability off the bat to start making LCD panels, just like that. Again, quicker than LG could catch up? Do you know how technologically hard it is to make an LCD panel? Rule #1. If an established player cannot keep up - you're unlikely to be able to do so yourself with no experience.
But you obviously have no idea how business/the supply chain works. Plus -
nobody is forcing you to buy one. Don't like it? Go buy a Dell. I hear they're good these days. Or you could just carry on beating on Apple for the sake of it.
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Personally I love most of apples products and love their vision, but I also see the bad unlike many here that take every negative and try to convince us that it's a positive. (since when is REMOVING functionality/options EVER a positive?) They love to say "who needs X feature?" when its a great feature that should have and certainly could have been included.
If current technology was always "good enough", we'd never had anything new. People cling on to legacy technology for as long as they can. Sometime's it's a design decision - the retina MBP, for example - there simply isn't room for an ODD or ethernet port in the current enclosure. Moving these externally (and lets face it, people who use ODDs and ethernet ports are vastly in the minority these days - as much as I hate wireless) allows them to move onto the next generation of design. The retina case wouldn't be possible in it's current form with an ethernet port in the side of it.
Would you still like to be using your serial mouse, PS/2 keyboard, parallel printer, floppy/zip drive, 56k modem. Maybe you'd like to connect your monitor by VGA. Or connect a USB 1 scanner.
At some point, ALL of those were removed.
