Apple Inc said on Thursday it was delaying the release of its new computer operating system, sending its shares down 3 percent.
The company said its eagerly anticipated iPhone was on schedule to ship in late June as planned after passing several of its required certification tests.
But it said delivering the phone on time contributed to the delay of the next version of its OS X operating system, code-named Leopard, until October because the company said it had to divert resources to the iPhone.
“iPhone contains the most sophisticated software ever shipped on a mobile device, and finishing it on time has not come without a price — we had to borrow some key software engineering and … resources,” Apple said in a statement.
Tim Bajarin, an analyst with Creative Strategies in San Jose, California, said the delay in Leopard could slow the pop in sales that normally comes from die-hard Apple computer fans, who will now likely wait to buy new computers.
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all the more reason to pirate it.
however apple may have it’s reasons.
1. discovered some last minute bugs ( fixable by downloads so no need to delay the os)
2. delaying while waiting for the chinese government to work out a better way to detect pirated software disks.
3. delaying to time the release with some other event like back to schoolanniversary(maybe apple was founded in october of the 80’s))
4 want to get anticipation high enough to worthy mass production of the minimum required by stamping factories and to insure a quick all at once financial return (hey apple if you need the money all at once now why not get a loan or a bunch of credit cards)
5. last minute legal concerns over a rumored feature (bit torrent sharing of the software updates for credits good at apple store(s) (hey apple go ahead and release the software and if you get a legal threat then temporarly disable the bit torrent sharing of updates).