“The iPhone 4S as you see it was originally planned to be released at WWDC with iOS 5, like every iPhone before it,” 9to5Mac reports.
“But something happened around February of this year that threw everything off. Apple was still integrating the Siri team and code into iOS and it was going much slower than planned,” 9to5Mac reports. “In February, Apple knew they weren’t going to be able to get an iOS 5 Beta to developers in April and they sure weren’t going to have a stable version by WWDC. They would be lucky to get a final version of Siri into customers’ hands by the holiday shopping season (Siri is currently in Beta in three languages).”
9to5Mac reports, “At the same time, Apple’s iPhone 5 (teardrop) plans were moving along on or ahead of schedule and the first prototypes were testing well. CNET says that Steve Jobs was overseeing this project which sounds about right. With mid-October being the earliest possible date of a Siri-fied iOS being ready – with ‘Apple-levels’ of polish – Apple had to look at its options.”
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