10.5 delayed till October; Apple blames iPhone

Cost of a WWDC ticket: $1,295.00
Five nights at a San Fransicso hotel: $1000
Airfare to and from California: $500

The opportunity to hear Steve Jobs give a keynote where he explains how well the iPod and iPhone are doing while your own needs have been put on a back burner: priceless.

Posted on: April 12, 2007 – 6:37 pm

9 Comments

  1. Mark wrote:

    Amen. You are so right.

    btw: you have a typo: “airfare”

  2. Jonathan Wight wrote:

    Yeah how dare they release a product that required them to move resources off another product. The cheek of them!

  3. Mike Zornek wrote:

    @Mark: Thanks. Fixed.

  4. Jonathan Johnson wrote:

    Steve alluded to unannounced features in the 2006 WWDC show (something like they weren’t showing their entire hand yet). They haven’t been announced yet, so I’m curious if this gives them a chance to play catch-up on finishing up those yet-to-be-debuted features.

    Or perhaps I’m just wishing too much.

  5. JL! wrote:

    Sheesh, you can stay at my place for $50, and it comes with breakfast! ;-)

  6. Jeff Sierra wrote:

    Steve Jobs speaks great, but will his words come true nobody knows. I don’t wait for iPhone since Zune was announced. Why? Because I don’t need iPod with features of the phone

  7. Kevin LaCoste wrote:

    This could be a good thing. Maybe they’ll show us all the new goodies in Leopard that they’ve been keeping private and developers will have a reasonable chance of getting those things implemented and tested by the new release date.

  8. Michael James wrote:

    It pretty much answers the question of whether to attend WWDC this year. I was at last year’s conference, so seeing potentially the same sessions over again is not worth it for me.

    However, I somewhat have this belief that since the iPhone will be released during the same month that WWDC is held, I hoped that they would allow 3rd-party development on the iPhone and the bulk of the conference would cover that. You know how WWDC always has blocks that are TBA and are revealed after the keynote. But who knows, I can dream can’t I?

  9. Jim wrote:

    If they delay 10.5 because of iPhone they didn’t match their power. I don’t want to say anything about Steve Jobs, but Apple has bad management

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