Apple announced today that the latest operating system, Leopard, will be delayed until October of 2007 so that the company will ensure the launch of the new Apple iPhone this June.

The delay of Leopard comes some what as a shock, but is not entirely unheard of. Microsoft has had to delay launches of its operating systems multiple times due to the work load overlaoding its staff.

However, Apple did release a press statement earlier today reassuring that the Apple iPhone will be ready for the much anticipated June launch. Apple's press statement revealed the following:

"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."

Apple iPhone will be one of the most advanced hand held devices ever released and it is comforting to know that they have their best software engineers working on the development of this amazing device.

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