AT&T: iPhone will launch on time

I hate to be a downer, but I'm old enough to remember the pre-Newton hype in 1992-93.

Now where do those accents in "déjà vu" go...

The problem is not so much that the iPhone won't be an interesting, well-designed product, which I think it will be, it's the enormous hype that is causing unrealistic expectations.

No matter how clever Apple's designers and engineer are, or how forceful Steve Jobs is in insisting everything is perfect, they are all still bound by the laws of physics and the even stronger rules of customer satisfaction.

If people expect too much from this product (just as they expected flawless handwriting recognition from the much maligned Newton), then the momentum of hype could easily backfire to make it an object of widespread ridicule.

(Acute accent over the e and grave accent over the a.)

If the iPhone causes a halo effect and adoption is quick, I wonder if there will be a sizeable crowd of people who buy macs before October. They may not look at the mac sites and realize their new machines are about to be refreshed. Then again, if they buy iPhones within the first few months and then buy their first macs before October, it probably won't be the first time that sort of thing happens.

I'm looking forward to the Apple landscape this fall.

iPhone is expected to be the biggest hit since they introduced the iPod. It's worth delaying the Leopard's launch.

there's nothing supposed about the iphone causing leopard's delay.
the actual statement from apple read...
"...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."