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7 months ago
Leopard is a complete operating system. There isn't any glaring omission, so I don't think it is possible to claim that Leopard users got screwed. In fact, it is very hard to go back to a machine running Tiger, and try to live without things like Coverflow in the Finder and QuickLook.
Forcing new releases of the OS to be packed with frills and whirlly-gigs to pacify Joe Consumer, I argue, hurts the overall product. In fact, some may argue that is exactly what happened with Vista. Instead of releasing just a feature packed stable release, they added a lot of fluff to make it seem new and exciting. That seems to have backfired a little bit.
OS X is mature now. I am glad that they are focusing on optimizing and strengthening everything under the hood. Now that they don't have to worry about wowing SillyBilly sitting at Macworld, they can focus on making your computer better than it ever has been.
7 months ago
7 months ago
Now I will agree with you, as a consumer I don't want to pay for this either, except if there is major benefit in the short term and I don't think it is the case here.
7 months ago
7 months ago
I would add that in the future we will see less and less big major release like Tiger and Win95 was. I think software company now realize that the Agile way of releasing smaller but more often is a better way of creating more stable, efficient (cost wise and productivity wise) software. The problem is how and when do we charge for this?
7 months ago
I see where you're coming from, but I really do believe this is the right move for Apple at this stage of the game. The benefits aren't as apparent this time around, but I'll be happy as a clam if all of a sudden my encodes take 20% less time or all of my apps start launching in one or two bounces.
7 months ago
The Apple model of annual upgrades for £100 rather than 4-5 year upgrades for £3-400 has been discussed many times and personally I am comfortable with this.
From what I have understood so far of the Snow Leopard update there are potentially MAJOR architectural improvements that promise to deliver further REAL benefits to users. Compare this the the changes in Windows with each update which inevitably require a machine of higher spec to produce the same ( or in Vista case lesser ) performance than before the upgrade.
Of course consumers can always vote with their dollars ( or pounds in the UK ! ) by not upgrading but I think history has shown that Mac devotees are quite happy to pay for the sort of improvements that Steve and his teams deliver with each of their OS upgrades.
7 months ago
7 months ago
The Panther through Leopard releases all seem to have some pretty huge additions to functionality, but it seems like Snow Leopard is going to fall short of those releases. It's more of a cheetah to puma release.