iPhone Delays MacOS 10.5 (Leopard) Release

Published on April 12, 2007 By Zoomba In WinCustomize News

Apple 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?

Comments

starkers

on Apr 13, 2007

It wouldn't surprise me to see Apple drop computers from its inventory of products, given widespread speculation circulating in the industry (and elsewhere), but I think it would be a sad day for computing if it does. Love it or hate it, the Mac has set some high standards and helps keep quality & innovation within the computer industry alive/going.

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.

Adamness

on Apr 13, 2007

They better not drop computers. I know a lot of designers, illustrators, etc. who would be really ticked off if they had to go to PC. I'm planning on switching to Mac within the next year, and I hope Apple doesn't overextend itself any further. Apple can do what it want, but I don't think it's fair to Mac fans, or people who just need Macs, for this delay to occur, especially if it causes them to delay any hardware upgrades to their computers.

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.

messiah1

on Apr 13, 2007

They won't be dropping their computers. They dropped the computer moniker because they are making much more than just computers these day's. It makes sense.

Aquamonkey

on Apr 13, 2007

I guess they have to put priorities to where the revenue comes from, and that sure as **** ain't the computers!!!

Fourth Letter

on Apr 15, 2007

Is everyone forgetting that the reason they were called "Apple Computers Inc" was because of the Beatles record/publishing company called "Apple" now that they have agreed terms with them they no longer need to add the "computers" monkier.
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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