Last month I wrote about rumors that Apple was going to delay the release of Leopard until October so that Boot Camp was fully compatible with Vista. More rumors followed that and nothing was confirmed until today. Yes, Leopard will be delayed, but not because of Vista… but because of the iPhone.
“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.”
That is part of a statement from Apple confirming the delay until sometime in October of this year. The fact that Leopard will be delayed is no real surprise for me, but I was somewhat surprised that the development of the iPhone was the cause. Some would say that’s a big gamble to delay a major update to an operating system for a phone, but time will tell if it was a wise move.
[tags]os x, leopard, apple, iphone[/tags]