We don’t know the final release date of the final version of Mac OS X Tiger, but “the likelihood is quite high [that it was March 13, 2007] given Apple’s Mac OS X release history as charted here and no prior Mac OS X update has had a version number higher than 10.x.9. It’s easy to observe that the last update to a current Mac OS X version has been released prior to the release of a new version. Also [we] observe that the gap between the last revision of a current and new operating system has shrunk for the past three Mac OS X releases. If Leopard were to follow the same number of days between Panther and Tiger then Leopard would be released on March 27, 14 days after Tiger 10.4.9. I don’t have any confidence in such an early release date,” Switch To A Mac writes.
STAM analyzes much history and evidence and concludes the best guess release date for The OS That Will Replace Mac OS X Tiger as the World’s Most Advanced Operating System” will be on Friday, May 11, 2007.
Evidence, rationale and much more here.
Twaddle.
My Birthday and just before Mothers Day…Sweet…
Facts:
1) To be released Spring 2007
2) iPhone release in June
3) WWDC
Many of the top secret features are around the iPhone, iWork, and iLife. Therefore, it all has to come down together with the iPhone launch. If iPhone tracks for an early release, you can bet your behind that Leopard will as well.
iPhone will have Pages/Keynote integration and allow for TV Out hookup for presentations. iPhone will have iChat VOIP. iPhone will be able to generate iWeb pages and push to .Mac. Oh yeah, it will have full .Mac syncing of contacts, mail, calendar, etc..
The secret feature is a fully functioning Time Machine which means Leopard was released three weeks and you just haven’t realized it yet.
And I’m going to shoot that expanding Dodge ad next to the comments box.
Flash rule #1:
Just because you can DOES NOT mean you should.
The question i ask is : Does ANY other company EVER have this much news on when it is expected to release a product???
the answer is : Not a chance.
go apple
Maybe Steve just forgot about it…
like, he might wake up in the middle of the night going “oh, shit!”
“hasn’t Apple been prone to releasing new hardware (with current OS installed) just BEFORE a new OS launch? It would fit well with their pattern of getting early adopters to pay as often as possible.”
Somewhat true, but I believe they give the people who bought the hardware a voucher for the new OS, so they don’t make the extra off of them.
My guess is that the next OS will be released somewhere around their NAB event. Wouldn’t it be a huge announcement for them to put out new hardware, new OS and new media software all at the same time? Perhaps NAB isn’t the best time to release an OS, but somewhere around the same time.
Each new OS was released the day after my wife agreed to having sex. Oh man….guess we are in for a wait.
I think Apple finds its employees laughing internally at how many people think they are going to rush Leopard out the door. Anyone who thinks it is going to be anytime soon is way off the mark. The OS is far from finished. There are memory leaks, incomplete features, and several stability issues. Of all companies to recognize the importance of making sure Leopard is a worthy competitor to Vista, it would have to be Apple. They have a lot riding on the line now, after the many taunts and jabs for how long it took Vista to get released. I think Apple would be wise to make sure Leopard is the best release of OSX ever released. Not only with regards to stability but also performance. I also think that if Apple is going to need to take extra time to do this, that they use their time wisely and prove to Microsoft what they should have been doing in that five year span that we constantly saw amateurs dropping the ball again and again. I’d say, have patience, have faith, and hopefully if Apple sticks with the qualities and passion that makes it Apple, we will with any luck see the best release of OSX ever. But if it boiled down to a rushed out the door half-baked OS, or a solid, stable, fast, smooth, sleek, and polished version of OSX, I would prefer waiting and reaping the benefits of them going the extra mile to make it that much better. A release date really doesn’t mean much if the product isn’t ready for release. Anyway, that is just my 2 cents.
Buster: I noticed you didn’t specify sex with whom.
Interesting.
; – )
@No Squirt For You
Hey you are right. I have an idea on how we cen get Leopard released next week…anyone have Mel Gibson’s phone number?
Buster-
‘anyone have Mel Gibson’s phone number?’
for you ot the missus?
or
@Mark, I’m waiting to go Mac-only (PowerBook G4 and homebrew XP desktop at home) once 10.5 is released, too. I’ll drop my order for a 24″ iMac as soon as they put Leopard on there.
@TT
Kate Walsh is more my style
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I have sex…
New hardware March 27th coinciding with CS3.
“Evidence, rationale and much more here.”
What more than a single bit of incontrovertible evidence is required to know the actual release date of 10.5?
What manner of analytical thought is needed to understand a simple fact?
What more meticulous cogitation and rigorous review is necessary to comprehend an obvious truth?
After all the evidence, rationale, and more that MDN can muster MDN offers its readers a “best guess” (i.e. finest finagling, supreme speculation, crafted conjecture, peerless postulating, reckless rumoring). It appears that someone’s been sipping from the same cup as Eran the Idiot. I suppose there’s a chance that 10.5 will be release 11 May, but if MDN is wrong they have demonstrated unequivocally what fools they really are.
Maybe MDN and Eran consulted the oracle? Yeah, the oracle. Can’t beat an oracle, you know.
Sex is fantastic. And with a partner it might even be better.
Now spank my Mac and call me Judy.
Mr. Potatohead says:
“Sheer stupidity. The LAST day Apple would make announcement would be a Friday. Anyone in PR knows that Fridays are when news releases go to die – you post news on Fridays when you don’t want the world to notice.
I predict that Apple will release 10.5 when it’s damn good and ready. I’d rather wait for it to be right that rushed like that abortion pushed out by another company I refuse to mention.”
Wel…there’s a big difference between an announcement date and a release date. Tiger was actually released and made available for take-away sale on April 29, 2005 — a FRIDAY. I remember it well. It was my birthday.
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Bug fixes are not subject to historical trends. And what is this adversion to thinking there can’t be a version 10.4.10 of Tiger. It’s just a version tracking system; that’s why those dots are there.
Good God don’t we have something better to do than to read these dumbass articles and the comments that follow?
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Yes, or at least I do. That is why I don’t read them OR respond to them.
TT: Funny! BTW, I think I can touch the tip of your nose from here.
‘I think I can touch the tip of your nose from here.’
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