B) Instead of just getting things up and running ASAP, Apple may be taking the longer, harder road by rebuilding a significant portion of their systems completely, in order to prevent this from happening again. Basically taking the long view:
Do we know exactly why the timeline is what it is? No. But we do know that Apple has stated that they are completely overhauling the systems, and that they do not have unquestionably unlimited resources. Additionally, if it is true that they are pulling engineers from OSX to ship the latest version of iOS on time, then not only do they not have unlimited resources, but even fewer than they would otherwise have without a major code revision about to ship.
Get a copy of "Mythical man month".
Btw, where did you get an idea, that Apple has limited resources? What I hear is that they have really small teams.
sigh Get a copy of the MMM and read it. TL;DR: adding more people to a project won't necessarily help make it go any faster and often will slow it down.
Immortality, I say half-seriously, since you can't spend time faster than anyone else.
You can't add more people to a project without slowing everything down. What else would you spend your money on, esp if you have enough that investing it may actually give you a higher ROI? You'd be well-advised to play the long game.
Throwing more resources at a late project makes it later.
Nine women can't make a baby in a month.
And just because you're Apple doesn't mean throwing a billion dollars at a major security breach will fix it completely and correctly in less than a week.
A) Apple may not have "unlimited" resources:
http://www.tuaw.com/2007/04/12/apple-announces-leopard-delay...
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2013/04/02/apple-scuttlebut...
B) Instead of just getting things up and running ASAP, Apple may be taking the longer, harder road by rebuilding a significant portion of their systems completely, in order to prevent this from happening again. Basically taking the long view:
http://www.cultofmac.com/236547/apple-confirms-that-dev-cent...
That is straight from the horse's mouth.
Do we know exactly why the timeline is what it is? No. But we do know that Apple has stated that they are completely overhauling the systems, and that they do not have unquestionably unlimited resources. Additionally, if it is true that they are pulling engineers from OSX to ship the latest version of iOS on time, then not only do they not have unlimited resources, but even fewer than they would otherwise have without a major code revision about to ship.