Updated products released..???

[mtfield]

Has any apple product update ever been announced and not made available the same day?

 

[WildCowboy]

Yes. This happens rather frequently.

Take the iPhone for instance...six months from announcement to release. Happens with Macs, too...waits of up to ~two months after announcement before they start shipping.

Edit: Here are some examples...

• Orginal MacBook Pro - started shipping about a month after announcement
• iMac G5 - started shipping about six weeks after announcement
• Second generation iPod shuffle - started shipping about seven weeks after announcement

 

[mtfield]

interesting... just from the past couple years it always seemed the announce then ship a few weeks later always happened with new products.. and it seemed updates got released pretty much as soon as they were announced... hope that happens with the iphone... i have a couple trips planned for mid june.. so it would be quite nice to have the new iphone as my travel companion... just crossing my fingers waiting for june 9th!

 

[neven]

AppleTV was also pre-announced, as was the MacBook Air (available two weeks after announcement).

I sincerely hope the new iPhone ISN'T available on June 9th; I'll be at WWDC, and if I have to run out and check it out, I'll miss a bunch of sessions and events. The top members of the Mac community will all be crammed into a convention center - do you think they'd spend the days reviewing and taking apart the new iPhone, or attending WWDC? Apple has already had problems releasing products immediately before a crowd of that sort, and this year's attendance numbers look insane.

 

[bacaramac]

AppleTV was also pre-announced, as was the MacBook Air (available two weeks after announcement).

I sincerely hope the new iPhone ISN'T available on June 9th; I'll be at WWDC, and if I have to run out and check it out, I'll miss a bunch of sessions and events. The top members of the Mac community will all be crammed into a convention center - do you think they'd spend the days reviewing and taking apart the new iPhone, or attending WWDC? Apple has already had problems releasing products immediately before a crowd of that sort, and this year's attendance numbers look insane.

ATV was not a hardware update and MBA was a new product. Although, Since Apple has already stopped selling iPhone for the most part online, they may do a delayed release as it is basically a new product now (no impact to existing sales).

 

[neven]

Sorry, I didn't read carefully and I assumed you meant any products, not just updates to existing ones.

Even so, I doubt that lack of precedent would stop Apple from pre-announcing it. Shipping it on June 9 makes little sense in many ways.

 

[Hawkeye411]

Almost always.