Apple signals Oct. 21 as OS X Yosemite launch date

From InfoWorld: Apple signaled that it will ship OS X Yosemite on Oct. 21; it has scheduled its third-quarter earnings call for the day before.

Although Apple has not yet officially revealed the launch date for Yosemite -- which is also identified as OS X 10.10 -- the earnings call on Monday, Oct. 20, is a clue that the upgrade will appear in the Mac App Store the next day.

In both 2011 and 2012, Apple used an earnings call to announce the availability of OS X Lion and Mountain Lion, respectively. In each of those years, the pertinent conference call with Wall Street analysts was for the second quarter, the one that ended in June, because Apple launched the upgrades the following month.

Both times, Peter Oppenheimer, then Apple's CFO, announced the release date during the early minutes of the call. "We are very excited to be launching Mac OS X Lion tomorrow," Oppenheimer said in the July 2011, for instance.

Apple did not repeat that practice last year with OS X Mavericks, as it held its third-quarter call six days after version 10.9 launched.

View: Article @ Source Site