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Ummm…Where the fuck is Leopard?
By Oliver Rist | April 6, 2007, 5:24 pm
Those Clearasil-needing Orchard geeks said ’spring 2007′. It may be snowing up here in the great nerd north, but it’s still spring. But total silence from Apple’s much-to-desired PR department on Leopard’s arrival. In between I’m-God’s-gift sound bytes at Macworld Expo, we all expected to hear something about the new feline’s arrival from Mr. Stevie. But not so much as a nasal mist spritz worth of hint. Nada. Is this thing delayed? Or have they downplayed it because it’s really not going to have that much of an impact on us day-to-day?
Or maybe they’re trying to stuff it into that goofy iPhone.
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7 Responses to “Ummm…Where the fuck is Leopard?”
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April 7th, 2007 at 4:39 pm
They always do that. Apple alwys waits until the last minute and then has some big press shebang where they announce stuff out of the blue. i bet they just have a big one of those in SF in a week or two and leapord will be there. quit bitching.
April 7th, 2007 at 4:55 pm
Apple is full of shit.
April 7th, 2007 at 8:09 pm
adam1 for the win!
April 7th, 2007 at 9:15 pm
and then THEY bitch when nobody except of apple zealots make a big enough deal out of their OS. if they hyped the shit out of it like MS does, maybe they wouldn’t be sucking hind tit all the time.
April 8th, 2007 at 6:15 am
Honestly, this is part of the Apple “mystique”, and it certainly elevates the suspense and press coverage, but it also hurts their enterprise/server sales. Corporate buyers like public roadmaps and I can’t blame them.
April 9th, 2007 at 1:32 am
Apple doesn’t want to hype mac cause when the normal people start using it, Apple will be afraid of the cold hard truth. If 95% of people in the world used Mac, the MOAB would be the Every-single year of Apple bugs. Macs would be haxxed like crazy.
So they keep it quite and within the Mac-nerd communuity
April 9th, 2007 at 11:05 am
That’s drawing perilously close to one of those OS holy wars I don’t participate in anymore. OSes are tools, arguing about which is better is a waste of time.
That said, the whole MOAB thing is a PR stunt anyway–on both sides. Not nearly enough hacking done on the black hat side (at least when compared to all the unofficial pen testing that Windows goes through) and way too much made out of the results on the Apple side.
Bottom line: Apple’s unix-type core is more secure than Windows. Whether that’s because of superior code or simply less people trying to hack it doesn’t matter to me. I just like the fact that I don’t need to worry so much when I’m downloading email or surfing.