“Apple Inc. has placed the blame for missing its self-imposed Leopard release date on its itty-bitty iPhone device, but analysts on Wall Street suspect other culprits — such as a widely touted but so far elusive set of “top secret” features destined for the next-generation Mac OS,” Katie Marsal reports for AppleInsider.
Marsal reports, “‘While Apple cited a shift in resources to iPhone and more time for developers to beta test as reasons for the delay, our analysis indicates that if not for the ‘secret’ features, the core Leopard operating system would likely have shipped on time,’ American Technology Research analyst Shaw Wu told clients on Friday. ‘We believe the extra time Apple is allocating is for developers to test secret features that will likely be revealed at its WWDC 2007 conference starting on June 11, 2007.'”
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“Are you being disingenuous or merely forgetful?
I remind you that it was your snide comment about indians and high technology that prompted my censure of you way back when… I was simply pointing out, as I did at the time, that India boasts a high degree of capacity in the IT field and your rascist comments were entirely unfounded.”
Sidney, your complete and total lack of humor is a bore. This statement about Indians in high tech is EXACTLY what I was joking about, there are so many of them in classrooms here TEACHING that chances are YOU ARE GOING TO GET ONE AS A TEACHER, and there is nothing racial about that, as it is more like a backward complement.
When you rush to judgement, you might want to stop and consider what other people mean before you condemn for something you don’t understand. And the fact that you so hastily brand something as ‘racist’ only shows your lack of understanding of what racism actually is, as it is NOT in a reference to a group of people’s success in a particular field.
The Turks make fine rugs. Oh, how racial of me. The Japs make beautiful origami. Oh, how insensitive. Indians have done well in the technologies. Lord, I’m going to Hell.
That same rush to judgement you make on small matters as these is why your views on more important matters are moot to me, as you base too much on assumption.
mac user 47
Wow. If you want to blame someone, blame your liberal buds who find truthfullness in both words and deeds meaningless.
So, the current occupants of the White House are liberals?
A Death Ray, the damn thing’s gonna have a Death Ray! Ahhh, I know what Soylent Green is!! That’s the Secret, that’s the secret!!!
@Towertone
“I don’t care either way.”
You don’t care that a major American corporation may be lying to its customers and its shareholders? You don’t care? You don’t care?
And you have grandchildren! What sort of ethical values do you teach them – that deceitfulness is something that can just be ignored.
Of course you shouild care. You should care very much indeed.
Perhaps too many Americans don’t care about dishonesty – perhaps that explains why the current administration behaves the way they do: content that no-one really cares whether they lie or not.
You are an exceedingly silly old man Towertone.
SS
The key words there are ‘may be’. I don’t have time or energy to pontificate on every rumour that comes down the road. I have more sense than that.
As usual, you take an ant hill and blow it up to a mountain before there is just cause. What a boring life you lead.
Same with politics. Just because so many peple want to sling shit, hoping some of it sticks, doesn’t mean half of it is true.
My kids and grandkids are taught the merits of seeing facts before passing judgement. They weren’t brought up watching soap operas and looking for every chance to sleaze someone.
And by the way, I have 50 shares of Apple, not counting what my kids have.
Also, when did being 45 start making someone old?
@Towertone
The “fact” that you cannot see is the automatic assumption by many Americans that their business leaders lie.
You say this doesn’t concern you. Now I can see clearly why you continue to defend the current incumbents of the White House.
And as for being 45, if you are, and if you are actually a grandfather – and who would know since, by your own admission you do not consider honesty to be important – well it just goes to show that some people can become old men without ever growing up.
SS
By your definition, everyone is a liar until proven innocent.
That doesn’t say much for you, and at the same time, it says it all.
“They weren’t brought up watching soap operas and looking for every chance to sleaze someone.”
What, no TV in the double wide?
@Towertone
Huh? Are you being deliberately disingenuous again or do you just need things spelled out in words of one syllable?
Just in case it is the latter…
1. Read the posts from those on here who think that App-le’s rea-son for i-phone be-ing late is not the one they have giv-en.
2. Un-der-stand that this means they think Ap-ple is lying.
(With me thus far?)
3. Un-der-stand that I DON’T THINK AP-PLE IS LY-ING
4. But I think its sad that oth-ers are so used to bus-iness and gov-ern-ment lea-ders tell-ing lies that they ass-ume ev-er-y-one tells lies all the time.
5. You said you didn’t care if they were ly-ing or that others assumed they were.
I apologise for using words of more than one syllable in several places, but I have marked them for you with little dashes so you can say it slowly out loud to help you understand.
If you dont care whether Apple is lying, then presumably you dont care whether Bush lied about his reasons for going into Iraq (American control of Iraq’s oil reserves); Gonzales’s reasons for removing non-republican-voting prosecutors; his aides reasons for refusing to testify and claiming the 5th amendment; etc etc etc etc.
Do you point to these illustrious gentlemen in the white house and tell your grandchildren that they should grow up to be just like them?
You haven’t thought this through Towertone have you? You misunderstood my post and siezed on what you thought was american-bashing by me, and dug yourself a big deep hole. There are lots of people just like you all over the world who believe in things, and vote for parties, without really knowing why… There are many good republicans, just as there are many good democrats. But the republicans running your country are not the good ones… And you damn well know it – so have the courage to admit it. Or have the courage to admit that you will vote for, and promote, republicans in whatever position, no matter how appallingly they behave…
Either way Towertone, you need to think before you type…