Yesterday Apple published this pressrelease:

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]

It is a sad thing how they have moved away from what they were best at. iPods and iPhone have never interested me. What did interest me was the next version of MacOS X and how well they had integrated their iLife and iWork applications with it. Perhaps a new iApp as well? Me and the overpriced iPhone? Not likely to happen…

My go on this: Steve Jobs didn’t want to delay the presentation of iPhone any longer back in January, and presented a half finished product. Then the delays started coming. As he didn’t present MacOS X 10.5 on Mac World, he now has to give iPhone it’s priority. Sadly! It’s a shame, now that their computer sales were going so well.