Apple fans the net over have had to eat some humble pie as the big fruit in Cupertino contradicted their earlier statements about shipping OS X.5 “Leopard” on time by now stating that it’ll arrive 3 months late, ie in October. They’re blaming being overstretched cos they had to get the iPhone out of the boxes by June.

Jeremy Horwitz over at iLounge had my same thoughts about Apple using coupons that will allow new Mac purchasers between now and the release to receive a free copy of Leopard on release.

Pro users are still waiting for the upgrades from Adobe to upgrade to Intel Macs, now they’ll wait for upgrades to leopard. It would make sense for them to do so cos it will save $1000s on multiple licenses in spite of the money extra speed will generate / save.

Personally, I’ve been waiting for the next release of macs and leopard but will push back my purchase. It’s funny how everything backfired for Apple - taking pot shots at MS for vista delays, then having to state leopard isn’t delayed then contradicting themselves a few days later… Screw the iphone i want a new Finder and new Macs, portables and a midrange pro (ie an iMac specced machine w/o monitor and with hdd and gfx card upgrade options that isn’t bottlenecked by using laptop components)!

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