Leopard Release in June

Now this is so “microsoft”. Apple has issued a statement saying that while iPhone will be released in June as planned, Mac OS X 10.5 “Leopard” is not expected to ship until October. The company says the following: “iPhone has already passed several of its required certification tests and is on schedule to ship in late June as planned. We can’t wait until customers get their hands (and fingers) on it and experience what a revolutionary and magical product it is. However, iPhone contains the most sophisticated software ever shipped on a mobile device, and finishing it on time has not come without a price — we had to borrow some key software engineering and QA resources from our Mac OS X team, and as a result we will not be able to release Leopard at our Worldwide Developers Conference in early June as planned. While Leopard’s features will be complete by then, we cannot deliver the quality release that we and our customers expect from us. We now plan to show our developers a near final version of Leopard at the conference, give them a beta copy to take home so they can do their final testing, and ship Leopard in October. We think it will be well worth the wait. Life often presents tradeoffs, and in this case we’re sure we’ve made the right ones.”

Edit: F**K! This is very depressing...

#450269

wasnt that the original plan, to release it in June? we've been hearing this for quite some time now....there were rumors of a release in april, but only fellow apple beta members get a slice...

#450273

yea, like you :slant:

#450274

whats that supposed to mean, lol?

#450275

You said fellow, I doubt you are a beta tester, or a developer who needs one.

#450315

Bummer. Looks like I'll be waiting for my MBP for a while yet. Anybody know if there will be a discount of Leopard for people who bought a Tiger system within a month of the expected Leopard release?

Can't wait to see the features beyond what was shown at WWDC last year. The only features that I'll be using are Core Animation and Time Machine. I've never liked or seen the point of virtual desktops, so Spaces gets a shrug from me. Hopefully there will be a new UI beyond Aqua. I think that, to keep everyone happy, they should include an updated Aqua (with its Graphite sister style), but also add the rumoured Illuminous UI.

#450318

this is a big dissapointment for me. i was hoping to get my own macbook .

nicholas, i read somewhere (either that or someone told me) that you can get a free update to Leopard if you buy a comp from apple within 2 weeks of the release date of Leopard.

#450336

It's only two months guys

#450337

Well... releasing it in April would lead to bad publicity, for it being an 'April Fool'...

but then again isnt Apple's birthday on April the 1st?...

hmm.... well I think it'll be worth waiting for...

#450414

i am neither a beta tester nor a developer, i am only 16....someonei know (hint: tangy) who is 37 and still live with his mother that is a beta member for apple. so thats how i get everything. he hasnt shared much lately :slant:

(once again, believe what you want.....:slant:)

#450465

hahaha yeah right.

my uncle is Steve Jobs.