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OS X Lion Not Going to Launch This Week?

WardC

WardC

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The Lion must be caged.

The latest news from Apple: Apple has delayed release of Lion until further notice. In the early morning hours of July 14th, Lion became severely agitated and attacked a group of developers, decapitating the heads of the development team and leaving a blood trail from Cupertino to Redmond. Steve Jobs was notified at approximately 12:25 am PST and returned Lion to its cage, where it sits with it's current tags, still reading "Lion, Golden Master". Further updates forthcoming, stay tuned to https://www.macrumors.com for up-to-date information on the state of this pandemic tragedy of epic proportion.
 
mateus

mateus

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WardC said:
Pages is more of a Page Layout Application like Adobe PageMaker. It is not a general Word Processing app like ClarisWorks or AppleWorks was for documents. That is why he might not like to use iWork, it is a totally different thing.
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Pages has two modes (word processing and page layout). He should be fine with it in word processing mode - it's simple yet powerful. I've written many long reports in Pages and prefer it to MS Word.

It seems odd that he would upgrade his OS but not software.
 
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spoccka

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I'm really disappointed to be honest.
 
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babboxy

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How is it a fail? It posted a RUMOR so its a WIN. Whether the rumor comes true or not is a different story but Macrumors upheld its end of the bargain by posting it.
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also they say now "OS X Lion Not Going to Launch This Week?" so they seem to be 100% right lol
 
antonis

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Microsoft failed to deliver Vista for years after the original plans.
Apple said Lion will be in July. It's still July and it will be July for some days more.
Even if they miss the "July promiss", it will be in order to iron out some bugs. I'm ok with that. This is an operating system we are talking about, not a music concert. It's ok to delay, it's for good purpose.

As far as I'm concerned, the only delay so far is only inside rumor-makers' head.
 
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bp1000

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I will pass judgment in a few hours time when it is early morning pst.

If it doesn't get released today then why did apple let the rumours happen. This leak has made it to every major tech site in the world, all over the forums and all over twitter. Why didn't apple leak a story to dismiss the date, especially when it started to appear on major sites.

I have lost interest now.
 
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admanimal

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bp1000 said:
If it doesn't get released today then why did apple let the rumours happen. This leak has made it to every major tech site in the world, all over the forums and all over twitter. Why didn't apple leak a story to dismiss the date, especially when it started to appear on major sites.
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How is this any different than any other rumor in the history of Apple rumors?
 
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Uelogy

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Hopefully it is coming tomorrow, and these rumors of delays are just so we all get an early night = less cranky forums in the morning. Hehe.

In all seriousness I really hope it's out tomorrow.
 
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drewisanapple

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Uelogy said:
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In all seriousness I really hope it's out tomorrow.
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As in Thursday or Friday?

To me, Thursday bring news from Apple. Friday, maybe the actual deal at midnight per region to cut down on straining the servers (Wednesday's modifications) and all. However if it doesn't come this week, I bet it'll be next week because of the August / September iOS events and such, Apple likes to space showcases out.
 
MacHiavelli

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"I hope you guys don't lose too much sleep waiting for the new Macs and Lion tomorrow :)"

You can read that tweet to mean that the Macs and Lion are coming today (just don't lose too much sleep in all the excitement).

Lots of software updates this week. A sure sign of things happening *soon*.
 
handheldgames

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If Apple just invited developers to submit apps for Lion on 7/11, it's very doubtful they would launch on 7/15. There is no lead time for app approvals in that short of time. Add a week.. Maybe.

Then again.. Who knows!
 
ppc_michael

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Mr. Gates said:
Wouldn't it be cool if there was some way to scale OSX down to run on an iPad 3 ...

Like Windows 8 does with smaller devices.

It kinda seems like it might be heading that way with lion.

But a lot of people are against it.
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Sounds like they're doing the opposite, scaling iOS up to be a desktop OS. Which worries me, personally.
 
WardC

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I have a friend that is telling me that OS X 10.7 will be the last release of Mac OS X, from then on it will be the iOS ported to the computers to take over from Mac OS, it will like Mac iOS v11.0

I don't necessarily agree with him on this, I think there will be a 10.8 and 10.9, but who knows.
 
ovrlrd

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handheldgames said:
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If Apple just invited developers to submit apps for Lion on 7/11, it's very doubtful they would launch on 7/15. There is no lead time for app approvals in that short of time. Add a week.. Maybe.

Then again.. Who knows!
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I think people are relying a bit too much on the developer notice. It never promised any devs that they would get their apps up in time for release, just that by submitting them they will have a *chance* of getting them up in time for release. Considering people will be downloading Lion all month and most apps work just fine out of the box (and a lot of devs have already got updates out) it's not that big of a deal if not every app developer gets their stuff up in time.

If this was iOS, it would be a little different, because there would be a lot of new APIs that would only function with the new version of iOS. So in those cases it's a bit more critical for app devs to get their apps in on time, and Apple actually stated in those notices "submit by X date to get them approved for release day."

Also the app store isn't even used by a lot of devs still, and I think Apple knows this very well, hence the reason they are promoting it to developers, trying to get them to submit their apps.
 
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