It appears that Apple have been struggling to keep to their planned June release date for the iPhone and have had to steal some developers from other projects in order to get the software completed in time. Lets hope Apple’s rush job isn’t going to result in a buggy iPhone come June.
The official statement:
iPhone has already passed several of its required certification tests and is on schedule to ship in late June as planned. We can’t wait until customers get their hands (and fingers) on it and experience what a revolutionary and magical product it is.
However, 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 QA resources from our Mac OS X team, and as a result we will not be able to release Leopard at our Worldwide Developers Conference in early June as planned.
While Leopard’s features will be complete by then, we cannot deliver the quality release that we and our customers expect from us. We now plan to show our developers a near final version of Leopard at the conference, give them a beta copy to take home so they can do their final testing, and ship Leopard in October. We think it will be well worth the wait. Life often presents tradeoffs, and in this case we’re sure we’ve made the right ones. [Apr 12, 2007]
{ 2 comments… read them below or add one }
The article does not say that the iPhone is going to be delayed until late June. It says that Leopard is going to be delayed until October. “On schedule to ship in late June as planned”. It would be nice if Graeme Atkinson took the time to read what s/he posted before creating a title that inaccurately relays the article’s contents. The iPhone was supposed to be released in June. Late June is still in June.
It was widely reported that the release date was June 11th. This is now shown not to be the case which is why I wrote it had been delayed.