Apple Fanboys Upset, Need to Wait 4 Months To Part With Cash

Recently Apple announced that it was delaying the release of Leopard the upcoming release of its popular OS X until October. Apple placed the blame on borrowing many talented members of its staff to work on the iPhone, which comes out in June. After Apple announced the delay the Apple fanatics lit up message boards across the internet, expressing their vehement hatred for this delay and proclaiming their exodus to Vista, all over a %#$#@! cell phone.

Here is where it gets good, these Apple addicts are pissed off but what will they do about it? If history proves to repeat itself they will bitch and moan and then part with their cash in October. The diehard amongst them do not seem to understand that idle threats of leaving for Vista are laughable. Seriously your going to ditch OS X for Vista rather than wait 4 months?! If so send me your old Apple. The only way to make Apple hear and understand is to stop purchasing their products.

I think bynkii from the Macworld forum’s sums it it up best, “Dear Lord, they delayed an OS, they didn’t stab your dog.” Lets all pretend Apple never gave a release date and get back to our regularly scheduled programs, because we all know this isn’t going to make anyone switch to Vista or not tune in to Job’s next keynote for “One more thing!”.

UPDATE:

Engadget clues us in on iPhone to Mac Connectivity via a patent filing.

Apple engineers explain how a mysterious “mobile phone” could be used to control your Mac (and specific applications like iTunes) via built-in Bluetooth, and the wording even mentions specific software that would be tailored to the Mac and handset in order to make it all happen. More specifically, consumers could “use the directional controls on the mobile phone to change listing volume, skip forward and backward, play / pause, etc.,”