Comments on: Why Apple shifted coders to iPhone http://gigaom.com/2007/04/12/why-apple-shifted-coders-to-iphone/ Sat, 25 May 2013 06:11:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: GigaOM » Will iPhone spark wireless wars? http://gigaom.com/2007/04/12/why-apple-shifted-coders-to-iphone/#comment-141472 Mon, 14 May 2007 23:33:59 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/04/12/why-apple-shifted-coders-to-iphone/#comment-141472 [...] pull ahead of its rivals by riding the iPhone express. AT&T and Apple are going to be launching a big media blitz to promote the iPhone, and according to UBS Research, it will be a major reason why AT&T will be able to add [...]

]]> By: A.T. http://gigaom.com/2007/04/12/why-apple-shifted-coders-to-iphone/#comment-141471 Sat, 14 Apr 2007 17:32:00 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/04/12/why-apple-shifted-coders-to-iphone/#comment-141471 desktop school is merely poor substrate for embedded programmers, and everybody in this industry knows that adding pregnant women doesn’t make labor closer in time, so I wonder why Apple so lame in excuses, and why you actually call it not-a-Vista-joke, huh?

]]> By: links for 2007-04-14 : Blogging The News http://gigaom.com/2007/04/12/why-apple-shifted-coders-to-iphone/#comment-141470 Sat, 14 Apr 2007 02:27:01 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/04/12/why-apple-shifted-coders-to-iphone/#comment-141470 [...] GigaOM » Why Apple shifted coders to iPhone Om Malik revient sur la nécessité pour Apple “d’assurer un max” sur l’iPhone … d’où le retard annoncé de Leopard [...]

]]> By: [MacStansbury] http://gigaom.com/2007/04/12/why-apple-shifted-coders-to-iphone/#comment-141469 Sat, 14 Apr 2007 01:55:02 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/04/12/why-apple-shifted-coders-to-iphone/#comment-141469 Dashes on Leopard…

A few random thoughts concerning the next version of Mac OS X…

]]> By: William Woody http://gigaom.com/2007/04/12/why-apple-shifted-coders-to-iphone/#comment-141465 Fri, 13 Apr 2007 21:40:26 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/04/12/why-apple-shifted-coders-to-iphone/#comment-141465 When OS X “Leopard” slips to January of 2010, then I’ll stop making Vista slip jokes.

(Granted Microsoft never technically “slipped” because, well, they never promised anything to anyone at all–even right up to the end–it was pretty clear that Microsoft was hinting that Longhorn would be ready for a 2004 release way back in 2003. Further, when Gartner publically said in 2004 that Microsoft’s Longhorn (later Vista) release wouldn’t happen until 2007, Microsoft bitch-slapped Gartner pretty hard. So while technically no release date was officially announced, it was pretty clear that Microsoft intended to get Vista out the door no later than 2005–then slipped somewhere between two and three years.)

]]> By: links for 2007-04-13 at 80 dash 89 dot com http://gigaom.com/2007/04/12/why-apple-shifted-coders-to-iphone/#comment-141467 Fri, 13 Apr 2007 21:26:36 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/04/12/why-apple-shifted-coders-to-iphone/#comment-141467 [...] Why Apple shifted coders to iPhone (tags: iPhone Leopard) [...]

]]> By: eas http://gigaom.com/2007/04/12/why-apple-shifted-coders-to-iphone/#comment-141463 Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:29:25 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/04/12/why-apple-shifted-coders-to-iphone/#comment-141463 I should apologize, I didn’t mean to say that OS X was being delayed by 6 months. I meant to say that it’s ship date was now almost 6 months out, rather than one month out. Even that was wrong though (I was thinking WWDC was in May). The ship date was almost 2 months out, now it’s almost 6 months out.

]]> By: eas http://gigaom.com/2007/04/12/why-apple-shifted-coders-to-iphone/#comment-141464 Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:25:50 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/04/12/why-apple-shifted-coders-to-iphone/#comment-141464 The rabid apple fans who are taking so much umbrage at Om’s last sentence should be reminded that first, Vista wasn’t postponed by 5 years, it came out 5 years after XP. More importantly, it didn’t slip all at once.

I do find this all very intriguing though. The next version of OSX was supposed to ship in about a month. Realocating engineers to iPhone for two months now appearantly means that it’s going to be delayed almost 6 months, which seems to be quite a disparity.

It seems to me that they are using the iPhone to cover for other delays in the project. I also wonder about the relative sizes of the engineering teams devoted to the two projects, and of course there are general software engineering productivity issues too.

The reallocated engineers will have to wrap up existing projects so they can come back to them in a few months, then they’ll have to ramp up on their new iPhone projects. Once those are done, they have to ramp back up on their OS X work. In between there are summer vacations to deal with. And of course you have mythical-man-month issues from throwing new bodies at a late stage project.

]]> By: links for 2007-04-13 at 80 dash 89 dot com http://gigaom.com/2007/04/12/why-apple-shifted-coders-to-iphone/#comment-141468 Fri, 13 Apr 2007 13:24:16 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/04/12/why-apple-shifted-coders-to-iphone/#comment-141468 [...] Why Apple shifted coders to iPhone (tags: iPhone Leopard) Search [...]

]]> By: Todd http://gigaom.com/2007/04/12/why-apple-shifted-coders-to-iphone/#comment-141466 Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:54:53 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/04/12/why-apple-shifted-coders-to-iphone/#comment-141466 “…PS: This delay should stop those Vista-delay jokes, because those who live in glass houses don’t throw stones.”

Vista was delayed for years ( plural ) and it’s still awful.

At least when Apple has a delay of a few months its for a publicly stated reason.

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