Making the first mass produced home computer, making the first commercial computer with a GUI, buying and developing Pixar, revolutionizing the music industry, revolutionizing the cell phone industry...nope no Genius here...just a boss with a couple of cool products...

The release estimate was for Oct 2013, they can't change the date so it wasn't "moved up" and they are committed to releasing the beta in October so technically they are right on time.