Apple today announced they would be delaying the release of Leopard, the next version of Mac OS X, to October. According to Apple, the company has had to divert resources to the iPhone in order to make the June release.

The greatly anticipated update to the Mac OS X operating system was originally scheduled to be released in the June timeframe, but will now slip to October. "iPhone contains the most sophisticated software ever shipped on a mobile device, and finishing it on time has not come without a price -- we had to borrow some key software engineering and ... resources," Apple said in a statement.

Apple said Leopard's features would be complete in early June ahead of its worldwide developers conference but that the product would not be ready for release. Instead, the company said it plans to give developers a test copy and ship Leopard in October.