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iPhone on track, but Apple's latest version of OS X delayedApple's announcement
yesterday
By now you know I am an Apple fan and I use their
products.
So what do I think about the announcement that 10.5 of the Macintosh OS will be delayed? I still think it is better than the competition, and 10.4.9 works pretty well for now. But John Gruber at Daring Fireball sums it up. The problem isn’t that Apple hasn’t grown enough in the last five years. (There’s a reason they’re building a new campus in Cupertino.) The problem is where they’ve allocated the talent. According to an engineering source at Apple, the OS group headed by Bertrand Serlet has only grown “just under 10 percent” in the last five years. The apps group, on the other hand, has grown significantly during the same period, and now outnumbers the OS group. There’s a difference between throwing new hires at a late project (which almost never works, and almost always in fact makes things worse), and allocating the OS team the resources it needs. OS X is being asked to do far more – powering both iPhone and Apple TV while continuing its role as a desktop and server OS for the Mac – but with almost no additional engineering talent. Leopard is far too big a project for any simple explanation to fully explain why it has fallen behind schedule. But from what my sources at Apple tell me, this is a case where the PR spin is in fact essentially true. It’s not so much that talent was pulled from OS X to work on the iPhone, but that they were pulled from the Mac part of OS X to work on the iPhone part of OS X. Since the introduction of the original iMac in 1998, Apple has been hitting home run after home run with just a few flops. The computer evolution has been pushed again and again, Apple led most of that. Compare that with ANY software company for the same time frame, or ANY computer manufacturer. Then remember that Apple does both, and is poising itself to do more besides. I am willing to cut them some slack. 
Posted: Fri - April 13, 2007 at 02:57 PM
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