SCREEECH HALT 3
Isn’t karma a bitch! How many of us are guilty of Microsoft bashing? How often did we poke fun at the long delays for the release of Vista? And now we eat humble pie? That’s the bast way to describe Apples latest official statement concerning the release of Leopard that is now slated for October.
What went wrong? For the first time since Jobs return to the throne, it looks as though the Apple has dropped the ball on it’s normally concrete marketing model; tease, rumor, fake-out, release on time (or release early)… This has been the way of things for so long, it almost hurts to see Apple fumble like this. More often then not, we are not even aware of a potentially earth moving product release until “Boom!”, it’s upon us like the Sunday chores.
Growing pains. Apple is becoming a big, big company with many devisions and many responsibilities; they are now a multi-media conglomerate with big ambitions. They have iTunes, they have hardware, they have software and they are pushing for the iPhone (blamed for this particular delay). They are certain to feel the same speed bumps that their counterparts in the industry have felt for so long. As the statement so eloquently remarks, “Life often presents tradeoffs…”, so we had better get used to seeing life-just-happen to Apple like it has been to the rest of the industry.
[tags]Apple Inc., Leopard, OS X 10.5, iPhone[/tags]