애플, 레퍼드 연기 공식 발표

Apple 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]

원래 6월 WWDC 에서 정식 쉬핑 발표를 할 참이었었군요.  Mac OS X의 퀄리티가 덜되었기에,
부득이 6월 WWDC 이후 4개월 뒤인 10월에 쉬핑하겠다는 것과, WWDC에서는 베타 카피로
위안을 삼을수 있도록 준비하겠다는 것, 그리고 아마 기다릴만한 가치가 있을 것이라고 합니다.

그럼, iLife 07은 당연 이름이 바뀌겠군요. 루머대로... 10월 발표에 iLife 07이라고 이름을 붙여서 내진 않겠네요.

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