ElCapitan

HenryDJP said:

ElCapitan said:

crowley said:

Is this the first time Apple have cancelled a pre-announced product before it launched?  Only thing even remotely similar I can remember is the 3Ghz G5, which wasn't an announcement so much as a vague promise.

I wonder if they'll go back to the old favourite of only announcing things that are ready to ship the same day.

There was a period in the 90s where multiple announcements regarding then Mac OS just fizzled out and never was released in any useable from, if at all. This was also a period of customer frustration.  

SJ firmed it up when he returned to Apple and you will be hard pressed to find any announcements not shipping during his two periods of leadership. 

"SJ firmed it up when he returned to Apple and you will be hard pressed to find any announcements not shipping during his two periods of leadership."

The 3GHZ PowerMac G5. 
Mac OSX Leopard. While it was released, it was pushed back 5 months from announcement in favor of the release of the iPhone. 
Facetime Open Standard. Annouced at the 2010 WWDC.

As we all know there is a reason why Apple swapped to Intel processors and the cold, hard fact is that IBM was not interested in producing the processors Apple needed for their desktop and portable products. So what happened at the end of the PowerPC product line was in many ways outside of Apple's control. 

Mac OSX Leopard shipped, and while it was delayed somewhat, that was to coordinate the system software on Macs to work in tandem with the system software on an entirely new product line; the iPhone. This is not a trivial task. The complexity is infinitely higher than producing a charging device. 

Facetime Open Standard - meh. The minute you start publishing something to be an open standard, it takes on a life of its own. They would probably have been more successful by following the Swift route and open sourced it once it had reached a certain maturity level. But as you also see with Swift, they largely lose control of the process of driving it to meet their needs. 

The only thing that was missing was the mad cow. I turned it off. 

They might as well have launched an Apple Cart. It would be equally unavailable and useless for the majority of Apple users. 

Is this a local US event? 

SpamSandwich said:

There’s a laugh. Probably be a good idea to stop selling to Russia altogether if this nonsense is allowed.

The Russian speaking market is about 170 million people, or about the 8th largest in the world,  so that sounds like a good idea to give up. 
Apple recently complied with Russian law and moved servers into Russia to accommodate this market.

One of the legislations that will fly in the face of Apple is that in Russia LGBT material is not allowed to be presented/promoted to minors, so their criteria for filtering for children will be different. 

The moment you step out of the US, the truth looks very different on many issues from when inside. 

The US "democracy" that is imposed on the world often at gun-point, drone-point or all kinds of sanctions do look very different to those being "democratized".
So Apple need to tread very carefully about what is fake or true to not alienate customers outside the US.