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I'm surprised. Has Apple delayed due to bugs before?

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iOS 4.2 was delayed to the point of never being released. Apple went straight to 4.2.1 instead.

http://www.iphonehacks.com/2010/11/developer-reports-major-v...

Source: I found/reported the bug mentioned in the article.

I don't think so. The only precedent I can think of is the delayed 10.5 (edited) release due to the release of the iPhone:

"A year later, this was amended to Spring 2007, however on April 12, 2007, Apple issued a statement that its release would be delayed until October 2007 because of the development of the iPhone."

That was, from what I can remember/find from a quick search, simply a resource issue. They had all their top engineers working on iOS so ran short on engineers for OS X and as iOS so important to them they decided to take the hit on delaying the launch of their desktop OS. A good decision considering how well iOS has taken off.

Similarly, OS X Yosemite came out quite a while after iOS 7.

Mavericks was released later than Yosemite. I wouldn’t say either of those were delayed. Both were released in the ‘fall’ as Apple announced at both WWDC ‘13 and ‘14.

I believe you are referring to 10.5 (Leopard), but you are correct. 10.4 (Tiger) was released in 2005.

I have seen this happen a few times, including at one point just skipping an entire expected X.Y.0 release of iOS and going back into beta for an X.Y.1. I don't remember them failing at an X.0.0, though.

HealthKit was one of the major features of iOS 8, but there was a last minute bug and they didn't allow the release of any apps that used HealthKit until a week later when iOS 8.0.1 was released.

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