Leopard to ship in October.
From Daring Fireball (just joined today by the way, after spending 3 days on a rather dry course, reading the site archives). Actual press release on Yahoo Business.
Well I wonder if any of the Windows advocates who love to take cheap shots at Apple will dare to sneer over this one. Not only was Vista delayed for a long time, SQL 2005 was originally going to be called SQL 2003 when I first heard about it. Or was it even SQL 2002?
One thing - Apple planned to release in June. It says so right in the announcement. I think this is the first time us customers were actually officially told that June was the intended target date. This is going to hurt some software developers who are tying the next release of their software to Leopard, A tough choice at this point. Do they miss out on a few months possible revenue (ok, I'm assuming the software was planned to be ready in June alongside Leopard) or do they change from "are tying their software to Leopard" to "were tying" and ship now, in which case you have to ask what's missing from the software they release now that they were relying on Leopard to provide).
Delay happens. It isn't like Tiger or even Panther are going to suddenly turn into pumpkins on June 30th.I'd much rather something I want to rely on done is properly than done fast.