So Leopard’s Delayed
I’m incredibly unconcerned that Leopard (Apple’s upcoming point revision of its OS X operating system) has been delayed. As long as they fix the finder (!!!!), I’ll have nothing really important to criticize in OS X.
This great quote from a discussion at Slashdot sums it up (edited slightly for clarity):
Apple just can’t seem to match Microsoft’s superior delay history. Microsoft has already astounded the world by an amazing THREE YEAR delay between the original Vista release date and the actual release; this impressive delay is one of the longest delays for a product that actually eventually made it out of the front door instead of dying…
And here’s Apple, trying to out-do Microsoft, and the best then can do is delay Leopard for three lousy months - and technically speaking, it’s not much of a delay since the original release date was “Spring 07”.
I mean, come on, Apple. Surely you can break something in Leopard to force a longer delay. Microsoft wins, hands down. Apple still lags way behind MS on viruses, as well. With my Windows machine, unpatched, I have THOUSANDS of viruses that can infect my machine if I want to. Apple just doesn’t give me that ability. Maybe they just don’t care.
