Object-X
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Hypocrites? Apple has delayed Leopard 4 months, Microsoft delayed Vista over 3 years. No hypocrites here.
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Apple Delays Leopard Release
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Hypocrites? Apple has delayed Leopard 4 months, Microsoft delayed Vista over 3 years. No hypocrites here.
I agree... they should hire more people if they plan on diverging from their core abilities to develop the other stuff and reduce the risk. But a company should not divert resources from their core development.
Grrrr this move has annoyed me so much. iPhone won't even become availible to international customers for ages let alone next year in Australia!
This sounds all about me, but I never cared for a dumb phone that does everything in 2.5g. I hope it fails.
*annoyed*
This sounds all about me, but I never cared for a dumb phone that does everything in 2.5g. I hope it fails.
*annoyed*
JZ Wire
macrumors regular
Yup. I knew they were working hard on the iPhone and wanted to make it amazing but I didnt think they'd go as far as taking resources away from the development of Leopard to get the iPhone out and then delaying OS 10.5 in the process. Grrrr!
Bah, I'm a student and wanted to buy macbook with Leopard. No money to buy Leopard when it is going to be released later... 😡
Nah, i think they'll honor the discount or free upgrade only after the official street date has been announced.
"Leopard being released October 32nd"
They are hiring lots of folks. Apple's engineering group has grown a lot over the last few years... however no matter how hard you try sometimes you can't grow fast enough and you can't clone key individuals.
I know I work at a company who is growing VERY rapidly and we are having a hard time finding qualified software engineers, etc. The US is starved of engineers.
statikcat said:
You obvious don't follow Apple very closely...
steve_hill4
macrumors 68000
I guarantee you if it was announced now that Steve Jobs were dead, after the initial posts sounding sympathy and shock, someone would ask "What does this mean to the Leopard release? Are we going to see it before Christmas?"
I'm disappointed, but it means the money for my iMac stays in my account longer and earns me more interest. The £1200 I put aside from last months annual bonus payment should earn me about will earn me a decent amount. My MBP will still be in warranty by Leopard's release, so I should still be using this machine then.
I might have even changed jobs by then and might be earning more, so could afford more. If anyone in the UK has a journalism position available, preferably technical based, I'd certainly be interested and that'll help my iMac funds greatly too.
It might be a nitpick, but no, that's not entirely true. Tiger doesn't handle threading properly for new 8x3Ghz Mac Pros.
ibjoshua
macrumors 6502a
integrity intact
First of all let me say I'm afraid I haven't found the time to read 440 comments before posting. I apologise if others have already said what I'm about to say -- I'd be surprised if they hadn't.
It strikes me that it is a good thng that Apple is not happy releasing substandard products. I'm sure we can all think of multiple cases of companies rushing premature products and services to market, driven by motives other than quality.
Despite the overwhelming 'negative' votes for this post I voted positive. I know it is disappointing but I don't think it's overwhelmingly negative.
On a side note: where are the new Mac minis?
ibjoshua
First of all let me say I'm afraid I haven't found the time to read 440 comments before posting. I apologise if others have already said what I'm about to say -- I'd be surprised if they hadn't.
It strikes me that it is a good thng that Apple is not happy releasing substandard products. I'm sure we can all think of multiple cases of companies rushing premature products and services to market, driven by motives other than quality.
Despite the overwhelming 'negative' votes for this post I voted positive. I know it is disappointing but I don't think it's overwhelmingly negative.
On a side note: where are the new Mac minis?
ibjoshua
But hey it will be Spring in Australia right, see the Steve did not lie. Now when does spring start down there? (that's a rhetorical question BTW)
My thoughts too. I really, really doubt Leopards delay has anything to do with the iPhone. They basically used a Leopard delay cos of issues in development of Leopard to keep the iPhone media fire burning with a big ad for the iPhone; on top of an OS delay announcement. This might be good overall but it's sure to p*** a lot of people off who: have no intention of getting the iPhone, think Apple is slowly turning into a gadgets company etc, and they like Apple mainly for the Mac / OS.
Bastards! 😡 Sorry its the only word for it and how I feel.
There goes my birthday present as well (Birthday in July) 🙁
There goes my birthday present as well (Birthday in July) 🙁
Actually it likely would have been cleaner PR wise to just say Leopard was being delayed to give more time for developer testing, etc. then involve the iPhone in the statement... In other words it is more likely that Apple is being honest then not.
So aren't you happy that they trying to iron out all the wrinkles instead of releasing a substandard product?
fblack
macrumors 6502a
Yea, where they holding back hardware releases because they thought leopard would be ready? Maybe we will see a bunch of hardware released in the next month or two. mac minis, imacs and MBPs are all about due.
True, the US has sadly not been creating software engineers nearly as much as they should be. I didn't know they were growing so rapidly. I was talking with an Apple engineer in Malta (for a Bluetooth interop conference) and it was good to see the advances to the core OS he showed me.
Hopefully the Bush admin will be gone soon and we can all smarten up.
This person is wise and tells the truth!
Personally this is the worst news I've heard so far.
I don't give a rats ass about the iPhone, and pulling developers from an operating system that A LOT of people are eagerly waiting for and holding on to for their upcomming hardware purchase, to work on a phone.
Give me a break. </3