Apple yesterday urged developers to submit their Lion apps for review before the OS X upgrade launches, making some wonder whether the operating system will launch this week as many had expected.
Apple has been silent about a release date for Lion, also known as Mac OS X 10.7, only said it would ship this month. In the email to the developers, Apple said the update will be available "soon."
It is unclear how long it will take Apple to review the new applications that support León for inclusion on the Mac App Store.
The company normally reserved do not usually talk about the process for approval of its application store, but at the Worldwide Developers Conference in June 2010, Steve Jobs said: "Ninety-five percent of all applications submitted have been approved within seven days. "
Apple has not revealed a similar statistic for the Mac App Store, launched in January 2011.
The announcement late developers to submit applications for review Lion may mean that Apple will not release the update on Thursday, as several blogs have reported on Apple. In any case, Apple has historically preferred to implement its operating systems on Friday.
For example, Snow Leopard went on sale Friday, August 28, 2009, while Leopard went on sale Friday, October 26, 2007. In fact, since 2005, Tiger, Apple has released updates to the operating system only on a Friday.
A wild card in this edition of the game release is that Apple would only be Leon as a digital download through the Mac App Store, giving the company greater flexibility when sending the product, it is not necessary to duplicate the physical , product packaging and deliver it to brick and mortar stores.
On July 1, Apple provided a "golden master" construction of a lion, the label of some developers use the software that has been completed and, presumably, ready to ship, and has not planted with another version already.
