[G4] Software Updates after Tiger

[Robert A. Rosenberg]

At 13:44 -0700 on 05/10/2005, perry at cynic.org wrote about Re: [G4] 
Software Updates after Tiger:

>Hey, it's only been two weeks; and it takes them weeks to test a
>system software update. Be patient, grasshopper.

Two weeks from RELEASE is the wrong measure. The correct one is time 
since Golden Master [GM] (ie: When the software was frozen so the DVD 
Images could be created for Pressing and the boxes packaged and sent 
to the stores for sale on the Release Date). If the Golden Master 
Date was (for example) 6 weeks before the official Release Date, then 
it is 8 weeks not your stated 2 for them to create a 10.4.1 Golden 
Master. A "10.4.x" GM has minimal lead time (since it is distributed 
via Download and Software Update). Thus Apple can theoretically 
declare GM status at 5PM PT and start distributing it at 12Noon ET 
(ie: 9AM PT) the next morning.