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Apple: Leopard is Delayed Until October in Favor of iPhone

Apple today released a statement regarding iPhone and Mac OS X 10.5 codenamed Leopard.

The “Good” News
iPhone will be released in late June this year.

The BAD News
Leopard will be delayed until October.

According to Apple, the iPhone development has taken its toll on Leopard. Apple has been reallocating Mac OS X engineers to the iPhone project thus Leopard will not be released on WWDC 2007. Apple will reveal all the features of Leopard during WWDC and release the “near final version” of Leopard to the developers.

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]

Read more:
http://www.apple.com/hotnews/

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Editorial: RANTS! (updated)
It is a bad move for Apple to prioritize the iPhone over Leopard. My initial reaction was totally disappointed at Apple and tought that it was a bad move for Apple to prioritize the iPhone over Leopard. There are numbers of Mac users waiting for Leopard and holding off on the purchase of new Macs. I too am holding off from buying new Macs until Leopard is released. June is not too far away, but now Leopard won’t ship until October. Six months away from today, and I don’t think this will bode well for Apple, at least for the time being. (in response to the comment by Jon below)

Is Leopard the new Vista? I hope not, but its delay is somewhat comparable to Vista.

I know that I will get the iPhone, and I have been waiting since its official announcement at MacWorld. So far, I have gone through 3 old phones just waiting for the arrival of the iPhone. I am stoked that June is not too far away and the iPhone is coming. One thing that somewhat ruined my day is to know that Leopard has been delayed.

In a way I have grown impatience waiting for Leopard. OK, actually I need an excuse to buy a new MacBook Pro. I have the first generation Macbook Pro (15-inch with Core Duo) and it has been great. I do believe that it is better to have a solid product at launch rather than a buggy one. Probably Apple believe that the iPhone project can make or break Apple’s future.

I need to renew my Apple Developer subscription really soon so that I won’t miss the “near finish” Leopard to be distributed starting at WWDC 2007.

Once again, I am not happy with Leopard delay. Many others feel the same way I do. The iPhone cannot edit audio and video. One bad Apple move can ruin the whole damn bunch

Can you spot the spots on the Leopard? NOPE! Not until October.

OK, I should end the rant here. One thing for sure I’ll be getting an iPhone, and it will at least distract me from waiting for Leopard for a while. I’ll be writing a lot as soon as I got the iPhone.

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Skype 2.6 Beta for Mac and Skype 3.2 Beta for Windows are Available

Skype 2.6 Beta for Mac

Version 2.6.0.72 for Mac. April 11, 2007
Skype_2.6.0.72_BETA.dmg (Size: 30 MB)

What’s New:

  • See when others are writing a message with typing indicator
  • Join public chats
  • Call any Skype Prime premium services provider and seamlessly pay with your Skype credit
  • Use DTMF tones during Skype-to-Skype calls

http://share.skype.com/sites/mac/skype_for_mac/

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Skype 3.2 Beta for Windows

Beta release. Version: 3.2.0.82. Release date: April 11, 2007
File name: SkypeSetup-Beta.exe File size: 22 MB

What’s New:

  • Send Money with PayPal
    Send money to friends and family direct from Skype.
  • Video snapshot
    Update your profile picture with photos of yourself.
  • Who’s on Skype?
    Invite friends from Hotmail, Gmail and Yahoo! Mail for a call.
  • Simple account management
    Manage your account and pay for your favorite products.

http://www.skype.com/go/windows-beta

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Boot Camp 1.2 beta and Windows Vista on MacBook Pro – Part 2

Previously, I installed Boot Camp 1.2 beta beta on my 15-inch MacBook Pro Core Duo 2.0GHz. Unfortunately I didn’t have large enough partition to install Windows Vista Ultimate on it. I had an existing 8GB partition with Windows XP Pro installed, and it’s recommended to have a minimum of 12GB partition. I currently have another MacBook Pro to work on. It’s a 15-inch MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo 2.33GHz. I am going to reinstall Mac OS X Tiger on this computer, but in the meantime I’m gonna install Windows Vista Ultimate for testing.
I will update this post in the next few days.

The MacBook Pro specs:

To be continued!

Download Boot Camp 1.2 beta
http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday for April 10, 2007

It’s the second Tuesday of the month, it’s time for Microsoft software patches.

Get it from Windows Update/Microsoft Update
or
http://update.microsoft.com/microsoftupdate/
From Microsoft Security bulletin:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms07-apr.mspx

Critical Updates (5)

Important Update (1)

Known issue with the “Windows Cursor” patch:

CNET News reported that “Windows cursor patch” is causing troubles on some computers. Apparently the update is not compatible with Realtek device drivers. The Windows cursor patch causes Realtek ethernet and audio drivers stop working.

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Megadeth: “A Tout Le Monde (Set Me Free)” Digital Single on April 17th, 2007

Roadrunner Records New Release page says Megadeth: “A Tout Le Monde (Set Me Free)” digital single will be on sale on April 14th.

Megadeth - Set Me Free (A Tout Le Monde) Digital Single 04.17.2007

Megadeth’s first single off “United Abominations” CD will be released on April 17th as digital single. It is currently unclear if “A Tout Le Monde (Set Me Free)” digital single will be released worldwide. The single might appear on iTunes Store, Napster, Zune Store, etc.

Megadeth - Set Me Free (A Tout Le Monde)

Streaming audio of “A Tout Le Monde (Set Me Free)” can be found here.
http://roadrunnerrecords.com/artists/Megadeth/music.aspx

Previously Roadrunner Records UK reported that the digital single would be released on April 23rd.
http://www.roadrunnerrecords.co.uk/news/sendto.aspx?newsitemID=15562

Pre-order Megadeth‘s “United Abominations” @Amazon.com

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Apple: 100 Million iPods Sold

Apple announces today that the 100 millionth iPod® has been sold.

The first iPod was introduced back in November 2001 with a $399 retail price. As a matter of fact I still have a working first generation iPod that I pre-ordered the day it was announced (what was I thinking?).

From Apple PR:

CUPERTINO, California—April 9, 2007—Apple® today announced that the 100 millionth iPod® has been sold, making the iPod the fastest selling music player in history. The first iPod was sold five and a half years ago, in November 2001, and since then Apple has introduced more than 10 new iPod models, including five generations of iPod, two generations of iPod mini, two generations of iPod nano and two generations of iPod shuffle. Along with iTunes® and the iTunes online music store, the iPod has transformed how tens of millions of music lovers acquire, manage and listen to their music.

http://www.apple.com/
http://www.apple.com/ipod/
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2007/04/09ipod.html

As usual, I’ll update this post……. maybe…….. for sure…….