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Apple Delays Leopard Release

RichP said:
EVERYONE QUIT WHINING!

Personally, I havent been all that excited about Leopard, it hasnt had that "Killer Feature" like expose or dashboard. Heres to hoping the wait is worth it, and brings us a REALLY cool top-secret featureset that blows our minds away.
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Your post kind of contradicts itself... you are saying you are not excited because it isn't as great as you think it can be, but then you say you hope it will have an amazing top secret feature.

The reason to be excited is because it will have (a) super amazing top secret feature(s)!
 
hyperpasta said:
Of course, looking on the bright side, we now know for sure that we'll see the top secret features shown at WWDC. Unless that gets delayed too.
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LOL!!!
At least, THAT'S funny!!! :D
I could almost see that:
"We had to pull RD peoples out of the OS division so they could come up with some secret features to show at WWDC"...
 
RichP said:
EVERYONE QUIT WHINING!

Personally, I havent been all that excited about Leopard, it hasnt had that "Killer Feature" like expose or dashboard. Heres to hoping the wait is worth it, and brings us a REALLY cool top-secret featureset that blows our minds away.
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Are u serious! you don't think that Time machine isnt a killer app. I think thats better than expose. But dashboard is perdy cool
 
Compile 'em all said:
You guys actually believe that bull that Apple is pulling off. "we borrowed developers from OS X to work on the iPhone", give me a break. The fact is, the developer seeds have been bug ridden and that is the real reason for the delay. Technical difficulties are the reason for the delay, given all those "secret" features which I assume are technically challenging ,and well, apparently needs more work.

Definitely this delay is no good news, but I would better wait for a finished product than a semi-finished one.
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considering that the iPhone is running a stripped down and portable version of OS X? yes.
 
It's nice to see Steve Jobs still has it. The fact that there is outrage is somewhat surprising and entirely amusing. Tiger is sufficient and will continue to be. What's with this rush and willingness/eagerness to upgrade in such haste?!

Well, except for this:

Multimedia said:
Seems like the 8 core is going to need a Tiger 8 Core update just to get it working half right in the mean time.
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:D
 
This can't be a joke. Because Apple woun't risk their stock dropping like it is now, all for a joke.

But, on the the Hot News page, all of the news clips have links to press releases, except for this one.
 
So Digitimes was actually correct about the delay, but it's not due to Vista support as they claimed last month.

Partial credit for them.
 
A simply delay would be better than them justifying it by admitting that they put mac-people on a damn phone.
As I said in another post, I felt better when Apple was a computer-company that basically onyl cared about the mac..
 
It just means we will get a better and more polished Leopard. No complaints here.

It is not like 10.4.9 is horrible ;)
 
oh wow, this really really really sucks and i am sure there are a lot of pissed off people. Me, I am just glad i decided not to wait and got my macbook a couple weeks ago..
 
Lixivial said:
It's nice to see Steve Jobs still has it. The fact that there is outrage is somewhat surprising and entirely amusing. Tiger is sufficient and will continue to be. What's with this rush and willingness/eagerness to upgrade in such haste?!
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There isn't really any reason to call Tiger "insufficient" but when you preview something as cool as Leopard to the public, and then say that you will have to wait until October, it makes a lot of sense that people are annoyed :)
 
At least we know where we stand, as long as I know I'm not that bothered, I can wait, I'm happy with 10.4 and to be honest one day I will learn this - If it does what you need and its not broke, don't try to change
 
Wasn't it thinksecret or appleinsider that said a month ago that apple was going to delay Leopard because they were integrating Windows in virtualization??

Makes me wonder if this is the real reason for the delay.
 
I honestly don't see what the big deal is. Nothing in Leopard has been revealed which makes this a must-buy, not even Time Machine.

Gives those "Wait for Santa Rosa" folk something more to wait for, at least.

WWDC 2007 will be interesting, to say the least...and a lot more useful to developers since they'll get a good lead time before the next OS launch.

I'm disappointed, but hey, Tiger still rocks.
 
We had to know this was coming.

The latest developer seed had a huge list of outstanding bugs -- even a June release would have been pushing it. We'll get more teasers at WWDC, maybe a hint at a secret feature to keep us hungry, and all the while we can save our pennies (because it'll be more expensive than usual if it has iLife and iWork bundled in).

As for Microsoft laughing -- their delay was just the last in a series of HUGE delays. So there. :D
 
  1. I guess I will not be buying that new MBP any time soon
  2. Proves that Apple is becoming more of CE company than computer company
  3. Time to short Apple stock :D
  4. I don't believe iPhone will be a major success in the first few incarnations
  5. Proves Apple is not really that much better than Microsoft in terms of project/resource scheduling (OK it's not 2 yr delay but it's a delay)
  6. Makes me look at those Apple Mac/PC ads even more unfavourably

:D
 
This is going to further raise expectations for Leopard

This is definitely a blow for APPL. Not only will they have to eat crow, after having heaped derision on MS for the Vista delays, and implied that the only thing holding Leopard back was concern that MS would copy their ideas, this will also slow adoption of the iPhone and the high-end Octo-Macs, neither of which will really shine when paired with Tiger.

I think this also means that there will be no iWork'07. The next iteration of iWork will require Leopard (because it will require CoreAnimation and other features of 10.5), so it won't be released until Leopard is available, and calling it iWork'07 when it's nearly 2008 will invite unfavorable comparisons with MS. So they'll have to come up with some new naming scheme.

I wish they'd be less ambitious, and give us more evolutionary updates.

All and all, a significant setback.
 
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