iPhone Delays MacOS 10.5 (Leopard) Release
Thursday, April 12, 2007 by Zoomba | Discussion: WinCustomize News
In the push to get the iPhone out the door mid this year, Apple Inc. shuffled a good portion of its development resources over to the project, resulting in a several month delay to MacOS 10.5, Leopard, according to a news story on Apple enthusiast site, tuaw.com. To hit targets of showing off the iPhone in January at MacWorld, and have it ready for the summer release, Mac users won't be seeing the next OS update until October of this year.
A quote from the article:
"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."
This recent bit of news fuels the rumor mill as people have been speculating heavily over the recent dropping of "Computer" from the company's name. Does the iPhone taking development resources away from MacOS represent the first in many steps towards taking the company away from its computer roots towards the arguably more profitable consumer electronics space, which it historically has done much better in?
Reply #2 Friday, April 13, 2007 2:57 PM
According to WWW Link, a number of their products are well past, or approaching the end of their "product cycles," so hopefully the iPhone won't put them too far behind on their other products.
Reply #3 Friday, April 13, 2007 7:19 PM
Reply #4 Friday, April 13, 2007 11:13 PM
Reply #5 Sunday, April 15, 2007 7:46 PM
I doubt Apple would be investing so much money in designing Leopard only to drop computers from their sales line,they still set design standards that even VAIOs can't match.
As for computer revenues bear in mind that Apple makes 40% profit on all notebooks (4th largest supplier to the USA last year) and desktops,a much bigger margin than HP,Acer or Dell make
Having used Vista since last summer and Tiger for the last 4 months I'll be trading in my HP notebook for a Macbook first chance i get,no reason to be hamstrung by driver problems (Nvidia/Vista GRRRR)when i can have two great operating systems on one great little machine.
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Reply #1 Friday, April 13, 2007 1:54 PM
Besides, without the Mac, MS would become more of a monopoly and not such a good thing for consumers in the absence of organised competition...which Linux is not at this stage or any time in the near future.
My tuppence worth.