Tiger accidentally delivered early
File into the "doh!" category: in many places around the world, Mac fans and Apple distributors received a shipment they weren't quite expecting: OS X 10.4 Tiger arrived at the door a full eight days ahead of schedule for some lucky folks who pre-ordered. Vendors PCMall/MacMall and ClubMac gave pre-order customers a treat by unleashing the OS ahead of schedule, quickly followed up by a "recall" of the copies from PCMall. They're telling customers the Tiger copies that shipped out early will not be supported by Apple, and that users will have to return the boxes and get new copies shipped next week — though how they would differentiate "supported" from "unsupported" versions out of all that mess sounds like a bit of a bluff to us. It's all moot, anyway, as we're sure that absolutely everyone is complying with this request and refraining from installing Tiger, dutifully shipping those boxes back without any copies made… schyeah. Let us know how it looks, you lucky pre-order stiffs.
UPDATE: Video of the Tiger opening animation is available here. [Thanks, Tim]
