I bought stocks based on their denial of posponment.
That was such a big fat lie that I think a law suit is on the way.
Well, apart from being an odd reason to buy a stock in the first place, I don't recall ever seeing any press release from Apple denying the recent rumor. Also, forward-looking statements and projections are all speculation. There's no guarantee of anything until an official shipping
date is announced, and even then, only limited liability for meeting it.
I see apple no differently than i see a person, because apple really is run by one person, steve jobs, and as such, he needs to be questioned when he acts hypocritically.
Hypocrisy is a fact of life; everyone does it. Everyone who made fun of Vista (or Duke Nukem Forever) for its perpetual delay was not doing so from a perspective of never having been late. It was a spectacular failing on Microsoft's part because they didn't just plan a new version--they made announcements and roadmaps and held press conferences. Then they missed all their deadlines AND nearly all their announced features for four years.
Hate to be a cynic, but I know a little something about PR and the concept of news cycles.
Apparently not, since you're the one ranting about the "lies" denying rumors. You don't control the message as a spokesman. The schedule remains posted in black and white, and the company remains officially comitted to it until it changes. When the order comes from the top to let it leak that a product is delayed, that is the first time the message changes. Even if you denied the exact same thing yesterday, you can issue a press release today confirming it. That's just the way it works.
Way back when, it was originally slated for Fall '06 before being pushed back to Spring '07, so you could say it's a year late.
You could say it's two years late if you wanted. It wouldn't be true, though. There has never been an announced time frame except Spring 2007. An article and an army of bloggers referencing that article doesn't constitute an announcement.
Shawnce, you're plain wrong. I guess you just haven't been around long enough to remember. Originally, it was slated to come out at the exact same time as Vista (Fall '06), even BEFORE Vista was delayed.
Pot, kettle, black. Leopard can't have been delayed before Vista, because "Vista" was first delayed in 2003, before
Panther had even shipped. It was also never officially coming out in Fall 2006--a bunch of bloggers and journalists ran with the idea of a "response to Vista" shipping at the same time. None of us with developer access ever got any word other than "Spring 2007" until today.
That these new products run OSX is irrelevant. Do I ever see OSX? Can I develop software to run on Apple TV or the iPhone? Apple so far says no. They could run Windows for all I care. The user never sees it, developers never see it.
Oh, so OS X was developed by magical fairies and didn't require any help from Apple's engineers, developers, and core platform staff? Fantastic. I guess that means we can all go home, and that since it's "never seen" by the users, it's not really OS X. What exactly
is seen of OS X by the users if userland applications and GUI interfaces don't count as OS X?
Gosh. They sure are abandoning the software they've spent hundreds of millions of dollars on and all that fairy dust they wasted on expanding the OS X architecture to new products and platforms. I bet there's an update tomorrow replacing all the software with Windows 98 on all Macs, AppleTVs, and iPhones. Riddle me this: if they didn't care about OS X anymore, why would they bother making a press release about the change of plans? After all, it's as good as dead to them, if we believe you (we don't).
I guess Intel stopped caring about CPUs when it shipped the Pentium 4 late, and Creative Labs stopped making sound cards since it couldn't get its Audigy 2 out the door on time. Let's not even
think about what ATI and nVidia decided to do when half of its GPUs don't ship as planned; I wonder what ever happened to those companies? Maybe we can ask Adobe or Sun or even Microsoft. Hmm, no. All of those companies abandoned their products, too. AMD must be enjoying the women's shoes business after it got out of semiconductors (we all saw it coming when AM2 was late).
TV. I'm not saying that these decisions and decision makers are infallible (witness American Motors). But I think that the history of this company in the last several years has shown some great management. Let em' work!
