a Macintosh girl in a Microsoft world
I'm going to choose to view this as great minds think alike, rather than someone just ripping off a post from me and re-working it: the five stages of Leopard delay grief.
I wrote that post on Saturday and submitted it to my editor at The Apple Blog on Sunday (who then published it Monday morning). Sometime inbetween the submission and publish times I found your post and my jaw dropped. It's possible that it subliminally led me to write what I did, but I can honestly say I did not read your post first and try to rip it off.
Then: great minds think alike. :)
I'd have to say that such a traumatic to the Macintosh community event as the delay of Leopard practically begged for a five stages of grief article.
I think David Pogue played with the concept back when the MacBook Pro was late to market.
If it makes you feel any better, similar articles were written about the demise of both Cyberdog and the Newton and I'm pretty sure I remember at least one about the Apple II. ;-)
So I guess I'm just saying that it's practically a trope in the computer industry.
reinharden
PS: Hmm...I think it was right about 10 years ago last month that Cyberdog went to the great maintenance mode in the sky. ;-)
