Thank you for voicing my real intentions iBM, I’m sure this is even more helpful as my Karma remark.
I just want to point out that there is no secret strategy, conspericy, economic ripp-off or “let’s annoy our customers” behind the postponing of the release. There are many things that need to be synchronized when putting out a new version, even if it’s only a .x version. So the reason why the release date is shifted is not because of a trival thing.
The only thing you accomplish with the “tik-tok”, “… so many days left”, “are they gonna wait until the last day …?”, “Missed the release data again …” comments is that the Powers That Be will be more and more reluctant to actually announce a timeframe. Even though it is always announced as “to be expected”.
expect
/ɪkˈspɛkt,ɛk-/
regard (something) as likely to happen.
predict, forecast, foresee, prophesy, envisage, envision
Fredo