| Serious answer: 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. |