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Apple Says OS X is NOT Delayed & It Will Ship On Time

Apple Says OS X is NOT Delayed & It Will Ship On Time

by , 12:30 PM EST, March 7th, 2001

There have been a ton of rumors circulating to the effect that Mac OS X will be delayed. The source of those rumors has been a flurry of e-mails from the Apple Store telling customers that their order for X has been delayed. We contacted Apple who told us that OS X is on track and is not being delayed. Apple also released a press release announcing that OS X has reached Golden Master status, and is being sent out for reproduction.

When asked why Apple Store customers had received these e-mails, Apple PR did not yet have an answer. We hope to hear more from them on that. Our speculation on that is included in the Spin below.

You can find more information on OS X at Apple's Web site.

Thanks to CogX for sending us the image we included in this article.

The Mac Observer Spin:

In our own forums, Observer David Olson pointed us to a thread at MacNN's forums that suggested that these e-mails from the Apple Store were most likely related to an automated response to any order delayed more than X amount of days. At this point, we think that a pretty astute observation, but hopefully Apple's PR will get us an official reason.

It is very understandable that the recipients of this e-mail got very upset, but as Apple's own press release confirmed, it seems everything is on track for a March 24th release of OS X. It may not have DVD movie playback support, but it will be released.

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