Investors Left Wanting More From Apple
06.12.07 - 02:20pm
The iPhone will “go live” on June 29th and try as he might Steve Jobs couldn’t really get people interested in anything else during his keynote speech at the WWDC conference yesterday.
With just over 2 weeks to go for the much hyped release, nothing else will take the place of the iPhone. The only thing Jobs did say was that the phone will open up third party applications, something that was revealed just before the conference leaving attendees disappointed and wanting more. 
Mainly the keynote focused on Leopard, the new operating system that will be released in October, and the new web browser Safari which takes direct aim at Microsoft Internet Explorer and will work on PCs that run on Microsoft Windows.
Safari was created as a way to introduce Mac to PC owners and analysts are saying it has the potential to act as a Trojan horse - showcasing the way Mac works to current PC owners and quietly stealing them over to Apple’s way of doing things.
In a statement Apple said this, “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.”
