A Leopard for Halloween
Is anyone really surprised that Apple has pushed back the release date of OS X Leopard to October? Rumor sites have been saying for a while that the releases they have received were still pretty buggy and that they expected Apple to miss the “end of Spring” release date that Steve Jobs announced. This doesn’t bother me a bit, as I would rather see a stable OS than a bug-ridden one that needs followed up with a couple quick patches. On the surface Leopard doesn’t really look to offer all that much different from Tiger, but I guess we’ll see what the “top secret features” are when it finally ships, but Time Machine isn’t enough to pull the $129 upgrade fee from me this time.
Don’t kid yourselves, writing operating systems is not an easy thing. Timelines slip, priorities happen, things change. I hope all the Vista bashers out there remember how they beat the hell out of Microsoft for Vista’s release date slipping. What comes around goes around and I wouldn’t be surprised to see a lot of web sites out there beating the hell out of Apple for letting Leopard’s release date slip.
I sure hope the iPhone is worth it.
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