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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."

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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.

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