DeathChill Posted April 12, 2007 Share Posted April 12, 2007 Wow, that sucks: http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/070412/sfth056.html?.v=87 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/48267-leopard-officially-delayed-until-october/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
INFNITE Posted April 12, 2007 Share Posted April 12, 2007 at least Apple will announce all the top secret features of Leopard at WWDC. I'd rather have a near bugless version of the software over a buggy software that requres numerous patches to fix. Tiger is a pretty damn great OS right now, and I'm willing to wait a few more months for them to get Leopard just right Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/48267-leopard-officially-delayed-until-october/#findComment-345681 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian Fogge Posted April 12, 2007 Share Posted April 12, 2007 Nice of them to soften the blow this way... Give us a new build and say "we are delaying you." Well, technically it is still Spring 2007 in the Southern Hemisphere in October. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/48267-leopard-officially-delayed-until-october/#findComment-345690 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ssbands04 Posted April 12, 2007 Share Posted April 12, 2007 wow........what a disappointment......I'd never expect this from Apple....thanks a lot guys Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/48267-leopard-officially-delayed-until-october/#findComment-345711 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mifki Posted April 12, 2007 Share Posted April 12, 2007 I dont see why all people are whining about this, if anything, this is good news imho. Im in no rush for leopard, like infinite already said, id rather have a bugless copy, and im glad they are showing us the top secret features before. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/48267-leopard-officially-delayed-until-october/#findComment-345728 Share on other sites More sharing options...
twoodcc Posted April 12, 2007 Share Posted April 12, 2007 i'm pretty disappointed. but good things come to those who wait.....i guess. hopefully iLife and iWork will be released before leopard is though Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/48267-leopard-officially-delayed-until-october/#findComment-345751 Share on other sites More sharing options...
INFNITE Posted April 12, 2007 Share Posted April 12, 2007 If you really are that anxious, then grab Leopard from the bay of pirates after WWDC. I'm sure it will be a feature complete Beta for testing out bugs. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/48267-leopard-officially-delayed-until-october/#findComment-345786 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soündless Posted April 13, 2007 Share Posted April 13, 2007 i wouldnt mind the delay if they where spending all the time on leopard. the iphone just gets in the way... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/48267-leopard-officially-delayed-until-october/#findComment-345818 Share on other sites More sharing options...
twoodcc Posted April 13, 2007 Share Posted April 13, 2007 i wouldnt mind the delay if they where spending all the time on leopard. the iphone just gets in the way... yeah it does. i'll probably get the iphone if i can, but i'd rather have leopard.... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/48267-leopard-officially-delayed-until-october/#findComment-345820 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian Fogge Posted April 13, 2007 Share Posted April 13, 2007 It is all an elaborate ploy to get Developers to re-subscribe to ADC for another year! At a bare minimum, that would mean that Developers would have to buy 2 subscriptions to get them from WWDC06 when Leopard was announced and first seeded to the masses and October 2007 when it is finalized. I mean think about it... The Last few builds are THE most important ones for ADC members, because they are the ones that their Apps will NEED to work with. Gets another $500 from the cheap skates and $3500 from everyone else for another 2 months of builds. I mean, lets take Apple's figure from WWDC06 of there being 750,000 registered developers and multiply that by 500 to be a little conservative with our numbers... This delay just earned Apple $375,000,000. Lets say that half of Apple's registered developers number comes from Students and the rest all Select (no preferred)... $191,250,000 Even if we throw away that number and go with only the 4500 people at WWDC06 paying $3500 a pop and assume that NO ONE ELSE ever pays for ADC... $15,750,000 ADC Subscriptions DO NOT COST APPLE ANYTHING! It is all profit. And businesses will NEED to buy ADC because they NEED their applications to run, and generally it is a good idea to make sure that they do yourself rather than waiting until you start getting angry calls from your customers. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/48267-leopard-officially-delayed-until-october/#findComment-345835 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hackintom Posted April 13, 2007 Share Posted April 13, 2007 It is all an elaborate ploy to get Developers to re-subscribe to ADC for another year! At a bare minimum, that would mean that Developers would have to buy 2 subscriptions to get them from WWDC06 when Leopard was announced and first seeded to the masses and October 2007 when it is finalized. I mean think about it... The Last few builds are THE most important ones for ADC members, because they are the ones that their Apps will NEED to work with. Gets another $500 from the cheap skates and $3500 from everyone else for another 2 months of builds. I mean, lets take Apple's figure from WWDC06 of there being 750,000 registered developers and multiply that by 500 to be a little conservative with our numbers... This delay just earned Apple $375,000,000. Lets say that half of Apple's registered developers number comes from Students and the rest all Select (no preferred)... $191,250,000 Even if we throw away that number and go with only the 4500 people at WWDC06 paying $3500 a pop and assume that NO ONE ELSE ever pays for ADC... $15,750,000 ADC Subscriptions DO NOT COST APPLE ANYTHING! It is all profit. And businesses will NEED to buy ADC because they NEED their applications to run, and generally it is a good idea to make sure that they do yourself rather than waiting until you start getting angry calls from your customers. Very interesting point of view. But I bet most of the ADC members have suscribed years ago, not only for a 12 months shot ! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/48267-leopard-officially-delayed-until-october/#findComment-345840 Share on other sites More sharing options...
twoodcc Posted April 13, 2007 Share Posted April 13, 2007 yeah, very interesting point......just makes me even more mad at this whole thing Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/48267-leopard-officially-delayed-until-october/#findComment-345944 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cfhuk Posted April 13, 2007 Share Posted April 13, 2007 It is slightly annoying *understates*. but when you think about it the iPhone is going to be the next global phenomenon, at least as far as they're concerned, and its going to make more money than Leopard getting it out early, early enough for it to take hold of the christmas market. Very few people will be getting Leopard for christmas. the people who buy leopard will just buy it regardless of when it comes out. The iPhone is a very big gift item, like the iPod. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/48267-leopard-officially-delayed-until-october/#findComment-346118 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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