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Leopard Still on Schedule for "Spring 2007"
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They didn't say June, they said Spring ( I'm assuming your talking about OSX 10.5 - iPhone I believe they said June ).
I'm glad my gut feelings have not eluded me, June they said, and June it is.
Am I the only one ticked off at Apple for not shipping a single new Mac in 2007? It's practically April, where are the freakin' new Macs?
Agreed, something is going to down at Apple.
I really hope they don't wait until JUNE to release iLife 07, that is halfway through 2007, I think April is the month it will be released as it probably won't be released at the end of this month.
Not to change the subject, but it MIGHT make sense to release new Macs and iLife 07 at the same time as Leopard, with the new stuff pre-installed.
Not to mention, some new hardware technologies hit this year, like LED backlights, flash caching, improved integrated graphics from Intel, etc.--and those are timetables out of Apple's control but which might also be worth waiting for.
And if there ARE new machines coming then there could also be new advertising--especially if the new lines have whole new designs. In that case, it's especially important to tie them to Leopard.
A few things you can be sure of:
* Apple's hardware timetables DO have reasons behind them.
* Some of those factors are in Apple's control, some are not.
* Apple hasn't fired their Mac hardware team or slowed down their Mac R&D.
* Apple's non-Mac projects don't take staff away from the Mac side. Apple can afford employees to work on multiple products at the same time.
* Current case designs for Mac Pro, MacBook Pro, and iMac have been around a while, and won't stay the same forever. Nor will the overall look that Apple's been using.
* The iPhone is minamilist in design, yet in some ways significantly different from the round-and-squared white-and-aluminum look of everything else Apple makes.
* Some important new technologies are only now becoming available to computer makers.
* Apple's new OS isn't ready today but will be ready sometime in Spring (just confirmed by Apple).
* There WILL be new Macs coming
I'll further guess that some of them may have styling more like the iPhone than like past Macs. Maybe more black and chrome? Looking at the new AirPort and AppleTV we can see that the current scheme isn't gone yet--but imagine an iMac or Mac Pro tower with deep gloss black and a chrome border. I'd want one and I just bought an iMac
(I know, Apple sometimes has one-off oddball designs. Like the two-tone TiBook which never matched any other Apple product. Or the bizarro 15" bluish-and-gray studio display.)
However June is month 6, halfway through the year. And Apple's own built in Oxford Dictionary states that Spring is from March to May, and Summer is June through August. So if it's going to happen at a major event, then it has to be April.
Thats four words!
What I do is just think that Leopard, iLife and iWork 07 are never going to come out, so that when they do come out, the surprise will be even better!
Maybe so... but I couldn't really give a flyin' pig's fart about that stupid iphone. I could have been more excited if it wasn't a phone...and it was more like $299.... but still... i'd rather have seen macs at "macworld"...
iphone should have had it's own event...IMO.
Ang
Maybe that's going to be one of the Leopard surprises: new definition of Spring in the dictionary
iPhone did have it's own event. It was called MacWorld 2007
MadDoc,
And it will probably have a bigger, better event. Well, I'm not sure you can get bigger and better. But okay - it will probably have another event closer to its launch. Apple will most likely announce some feature on it we haven't seen (such as 3G - I give it 50-50 chance - but who knows what they might come up with!).
Future 3G iPhone has already been announced, at the iPhone intro event. But the phone is coming first to the 3G-less US, so there's no point in adding cost (or reducing battery life?) with 3G at first. People SHOULD be willing to pay more to be future-proof, but they wouldn't be.
Not to change the subject, but it MIGHT make sense to release new Macs and iLife 07 at the same time as Leopard, with the new stuff pre-installed.
Not to mention, some new hardware technologies hit this year, like LED backlights, flash caching, improved integrated graphics from Intel, etc.--and those are timetables out of Apple's control but which might also be worth waiting for.
And if there ARE new machines coming then there could also be new advertising--especially if the new lines have whole new designs. In that case, it's especially important to tie them to Leopard.
A few things you can be sure of:
* Apple's hardware timetables DO have reasons behind them.
* Some of those factors are in Apple's control, some are not.
* Apple hasn't fired their Mac hardware team or slowed down their Mac R&D.
* Apple's non-Mac projects don't take staff away from the Mac side. Apple can afford employees to work on multiple products at the same time.
* Current case designs for Mac Pro, MacBook Pro, and iMac have been around a while, and won't stay the same forever. Nor will the overall look that Apple's been using.
* The iPhone is minamilist in design, yet in some ways significantly different from the round-and-squared white-and-aluminum look of everything else Apple makes.
* Some important new technologies are only now becoming available to computer makers.
* Apple's new OS isn't ready today but will be ready sometime in Spring (just confirmed by Apple).
* There WILL be new Macs coming
I'll further guess that some of them may have styling more like the iPhone than like past Macs. Maybe more black and chrome? Looking at the new AirPort and AppleTV we can see that the current scheme isn't gone yet--but imagine an iMac or Mac Pro tower with deep gloss black and a chrome border. I'd want one and I just bought an iMac
Gloss black and chrome! Yowza! How cheap-looking can you get?!
Cloak & Dagger
A predection:
Apple releases Tiger and new Santa Rosa based laptops before June.
"But Intel announced that Santa Rosa is slated for May! No way we'll see it before June!" you say.
Well, when Apple teamed with Intel, there were hints that Apple would get new Intel technology before other manufactures. In essence, Apple could get the latest and greatest a month or so before PCs. Or maybe just a few weeks. Apple would sort of be the flag ship of Intel technology.
But that's just a guess. We'll see. . . In the meantime, I've gotta save up for a new laptop.
A predection:
Apple releases Tiger and new Santa Rosa based laptops before June.
"But Intel announced that Santa Rosa is slated for May! No way we'll see it before June!" you say.
Well, when Apple teamed with Intel, there were hints that Apple would get new Intel technology before other manufactures. In essence, Apple could get the latest and greatest a month or so before PCs. Or maybe just a few weeks. Apple would sort of be the flag ship of Intel technology.
But that's just a guess. We'll see. . . In the meantime, I've gotta save up for a new laptop.
You do know that your 8-core Mac will be slower than the 4 core model for many tasks. If you are doing media transcoding, it will be faster but for normal office type work my guess is the quad will beat it. When they double the number of cores they will not be doubling the RAM or disk bandwidth
It seems like if they release everything so close together.....I dont know I just think SOMTHING is going to have to come out before June
yeah, something has to come out before June....hopefully some software and hardware....
What we don't know is that Apple is going to drop the bomb this Tuesday. My uber secret inside source told me so.
if thats not the case, i hope for a june release.
if thats not the case, i hope for a june release.
An "inside source" once told me that Apple was testing programs like Final Cut Pro on Windows... actually, that was the father of someone doing beta testing. And it was three years ago. Either it was false, or it was true and Apple decided against it... (or are just keeping it under wings in case they need it in future.)
One massive June release just seems like a dumb idea to me-- dumb enough that I can't imagine Apple doing it. Apple has always spaced out their product launches for two reasons:
The other factor is that their customer's pockets are only so deep and they're most likely to buy when the hype is at its strongest (which is why they have these big announcements in the first place). If they spread out the launches customers are more likely to buy more of the items released. If they release them all together, customers are forced to pick and choose and are likely to be less interested in picking up the rest when the next paycheck comes through.
I'm half expecting iLife to get bundled with Leopard as part of the "everything's built in" move.
- it spaces out their sales and evens out their revenue flow
- they book the extra revenue from early adopters
The other factor is that their customer's pockets are only so deep and they're most likely to buy when the hype is at its strongest (which is why they have these big announcements in the first place). If they spread out the launches customers are more likely to buy more of the items released. If they release them all together, customers are forced to pick and choose and are likely to be less interested in picking up the rest when the next paycheck comes through.
I'm half expecting iLife to get bundled with Leopard as part of the "everything's built in" move.
This makes sense to me. When Intel releases Santa Rosa, they mean volume shipment to customers. Apple certainly has engineering samples in their labs by now that they're designing around.
