Leopard Delayed!

This morning has been rough for me. I got into work a little later than usual, was greeted surprisingly by a loudmouthed noob worker saying lots of stuff about me being late for work, shouting here and there about shit...making a big scene... all the time failing to understand that part timers are suppose to work... what? PART TIME! Thats right... part time! I am a part timer. A part timer that has served this company far more longer. Incredible isn't it that some people can just be so ignorant and idiotic.

To add to the great morning I'm having, I was greeted by this on the front page of Apple's Hot News page

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]

I am devastated. This announcement can only lead to more bad news. So why is this such a big deal for me?

1. My Powerbook is dying and I need to replace it

2. No point buying the current Macbook Pros because its already April and Santa Rosa is being released next month

3. The general consensus is that the next MBPs would come with Santa Rosa and newer tech across the board.

4. Guessing that the new MBP would come after Leopard is released. That would be shweet because I would get a new model plus the new OS

5. Thought all of this would happen by May - June

6. Leopard is delayed to October!!

So there you go, why this news is devastating to me. The only hope I have is that Apple announces the new MBP next week at NAB (April 15th) that would still ship with Tiger and iLife '06 so that I can just get it first and get Leopard when it comes out in October. I think some of my friends who didn't wait and got their Macbooks are going to be relieved when they hear this.