Leopard pushed back to October because of iPhone

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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]

What do you think? I was going to wait until june to get a macbook so can get one whenever now but mactactic.com thinks a new one will be out in a few weeks...

I am slightly gutted because im going away to New Zealand this year till January so prob won't get leopard till I get back but tiger seems to be pretty cool for now and im just happy apple have now officially said I wont get it before I go away - I'm going on the 25th June so was risking waiting to the macbook just before I went to get Leopard on it.