“Apple’s iPhone is coming — but at a price,” Priya Ganapati reports for TheStreet.com.
“Its much-anticipated music player/handheld device will ship in late June as planned, but the company’s Leopard operating system, a rival to Microsoft’s Vista operating system upgrade, will be delayed, according to Apple,” Ganapati reports. “The Cupertino, Calif.,-based company has had to divert engineering resources to the iPhone and as a result will push the release of Leopard back by at least three months to October, it said in a statement.”
Ganapati reports, “Shares of Apple were recently off $2.45, or 2.7%, to $89.74 in extended trading. During the past week, several sell-side analysts had expected a June release of Leopard to reaccelerate growth.”
Full article here.
Some investors might consider this a nice opportunity.
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Apple delays Mac OS X Leopard until October 2007, blames iPhone – April 12, 2007
Well duh. Buy more.
I think it was the right choice,
Tiger already beats Vista hands down,
The iPhone is important, will expose even more people to Apple (other Than a mp3)
I bet, they announce the “Tiop Secret” features in June, w/beta until release in October
Nothing but white noise. Buy the dip tomorrow or Monday and be happy again in September.
YEEEEEEEEE-HAWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!
Apple is so . . . f-cking . . . BRAVE for doing this. Doing it the RIGHT way, that is.
Give me Leopard when it’s NEAR-PERFECT, not when it’s rushed out the door like crap from Microsoft or other software vendors.
The public doesn’t even know and won’t even care about Leopard vs. Tiger. All they know is that Apple makes Macs and Macs are better than PCs.
And man oh man oh man, I’ve been hoping and PRAYING that AAPL would drop below $90 again!!!!!!
It’s my buying opportunity!!! The one I dreamed of!!! I’m buying back in, baby!!!
YEEEEEEEEE-HAWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!
I remember that hype Apple had on their website around the beginning of this year. This big promise of all the great stuff they were going to do in 2007. They should have been more specific and said that it would all happen in the second half of the year, and that the first half was going to be NOTHING but waiting.
No Leopard, but it’s WAY overdue.
No Logic Pro 8, but it’s WAY overdue.
No iLife ’07, but it’s WAY overdue.
No iWork ’07, but it’s WAY overdue.
No true video iPod, but it’s WAY overdue.
Their major product lines have all taken this hit for the sole purpose of one product: iPhone.
I was already tired of waiting for all this 6 months ago. And so far this year it’s been really lame. But this is just ridiculous. There comes a time when anticipation turns into frustration, and then into apathy. Geez!
And aint it great that the folks over at MS are having a good belly laugh over all this.
Finally, another chance to get some more shares.
Just to play devil’s advocate here…
But what can’t you do now that you’ll be able to do when Leopard comes out? Is you workflow going to suffer without Spaces?
CS2 not running on Intel Macs… THAT was something to make a stink about (ask me how I know). But it’s not as if there is some huge missing functionality that we’ve all ground to a halt waiting for. Well, running Windows apps in OS X would be very cool (hint) but I have VMware for now.
I’m very disappointed, but it’s not the end of the world, and I’d be MUCH more upset if iPhone was delayed. That’s going to be far more important to the company and the platform than Leopard in the long run.
-c
The iPhone is not worth this.
Apple, you nappy headed ho’s.
iPhone is a scapegoat. Even so, I don’t mind waiting. Tiger still has plenty of life. Speaking of life, why is iLife WAY overdue. Sure it can be improved, but did Apple promise a new version at any time?
Apple has several hundred million in cash — why could not hey just hire some good peple? idiots.
I’ll adjust. Maybe I’ll have a computer-free Summer and then come back to it with a fresh perspective.
ChrissyOne;
You obviosly haven’t heard of the wonders of animated iChat backgrounds
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Not that I am not a fanboy of apple, but I dont understand why you freaks tend to cheer ANY mac news even the bad news like this!
Software development is not like building a car. It doesnt just flow down the production line. But a four month delay is a lot. You have to ask why Apple were so confident a few weeks ago when they scotched the rumour that Leopard was being delayed to support Vista – if they were on time a few weeks ago, how are they 4 months behind now?
Maybe they have had to make quite a few changes to Leopard to accommodate things they wanted to do in iPhone?
Come on MDN, are you asleep at the wheel?
Priya Ganapati suggested that Leopard is Apple’s answer to rival Vista – but this is backwards! Vista was MS’s answer to Panther and Tiger. MS is scrambling right now trying to figure out what to do to combat Leopard, and they’ve got a long way to go before anything Leopard-like comes out of Redmond (think years).
Apple is still ahead in the game, although today’s announcement has set us back a bit. Not to worry though.
snap…..run…..run……FUMBLE!
Cheers Bill! Buy some more AAPL!!
Hunting for the best stock for the decade is over!
AAPL rocks!
Leopard will rock you!!
For you switchers and wannabe switchers lapping up what the pump-and-dump® shorts are shoveling, you can go back to sleep: Apple is not doooooom. No, you don’t need to wait for Leopard to get a Mac. Tiger is already far ahead of that POS Vista. Don’t believe me? Go over to your neighbor’s house and beg, borrow or, well, beg or borrow their Mac. Spend some quality time on it. Then go spend some time on a peecee running Asta la vista.
BTW, yes, it does suck tremendously that we have to wait for the next great big cat. I hope The Steve fires that candy ass responsible for managing the resources on the iPhone/Leopard teams, today!
Rock on Steve!
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All you peeps are nappy headed ho’s!!!!
Hey, Bob, ever heard the word “school”? Try it. It will definitely help you.
Ditto, D. Imus
Oh no !!!
Thanks for the tip MDN but… just bought a bunch @ $92.95 a few hours ago !!!
Gotta think long term, gotta think long term… but if I’d waited just a couple days I could have paid so much less
What is extended trading and where to see it ?
Sorry if I’m not familiar with this. Please someone tell me about it !
I DON’T GIVE A DAMN I’ll just go install Leo beta in June!
Won’t wait until October ! No fscking way !
Who did they think they were dealing with here ?