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on from the moving-along-at-a-respectable-pace dept.
Warlock7 writes "CNET has an article that discusses the 'early' release of Mac OS X 10.2, codename Jaguar. The article says that Jaguar should be ready for release in August, more than a month earlier than the analysts expected."
Re:Jaguar Early Release
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Peter+Trepan
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You might be interested to know that Apple just bought Emagic, and is accelerating development of Logic Audio 5 for OS X - to be called Logic Audio Titanium, I think. Competitively speaking, would that qualify as a kick in the ass?
Re:Clueless Analysts
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realgone
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MacOS X 10.1 was a free update for anyone who had MacOS X 10.0
Not entirely. Unless you were fortunate enough to live near an Apple retail store, you needed to shell out $20 (plux tax!) to have the update CD mailed to you; 10.1 wasn't a downloadable patch. Seeing as this is substantially more than the cost of burning + shipping/handling, I'd say that Apple clearly intended to generate some revenue from the deal.
It's not hard to imagine the 10.2 update being handled in a similar manner...
Re:Clueless Analysts
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Alex+Thorpe
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Apple Retail Store? Heck, all the CompUSA's, if not others, got the free upgrade CD's. The one I used to work at still had some left over when they closed in February.
-- "Common Sense Ain't" -Unknown
Re:Analysis Paralysis
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JHromadka
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From the article...
"But IDC analyst Roger Kay was unenthusiastic about the Jaguar release, contending that Apple's OS updates come too frequently. The company launched Mac OS X 10.0 in March 2001, followed by version 10.1 in September.
"OS X 10.1 didn't get its full shot at maturity before the release of the new system," Kay said. "From a tactical point of view, they're truncating one revenue stream to bring on another one. They didn't even fully extract the revenue from the first product."
Even worse, 10.1 was free. Apple maybe made a few bucks off the $20 shipping cost, but anyone could go to CompUSA or Microcenter (like I did) and get the upgrade CD for free.
And anyone that thinks that people are going to stick with 10.1 instead of paying to upgrade to 10.2 is crazy. I know that I will be first in line.
-- "The objective of securing the safety of Americans from crime and terror has been achieved." -- John Ashcroft
Re:Wouldn't that be OS-XI
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softsign
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No, the first nine major releases were Mac OS. Think of all the carbonized apps that would have a cow if they checked the system version number and found "1.0"... This way, Carbon apps can run in both Mac OS and Mac OS X without any tomfoolery on the part of the developers. Makes sense if you think about it...
The "X" is a product name, not a version number. Remeber the official name of OS X is "Mac OS X, version 10.1.5". It was meant to indicate the break with the "classic" Mac OS.
Why do reporters no longer research?
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gbooker
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But the new rendering engine, called Quartz Extreme, could tax some systems running older graphics cards. For optimum performance, the new engine requires at minimum an Nvidia GeForce2MX or greater graphics card or any 32MB ATI Radeon graphics card. The hefty graphics requirements could present problems for some Apple notebooks or older desktops.
Jobs clearly stated in his keynote that the new Quartz Extreme will run the same on the older hardware as the current Quartz. Only those with the required graphics hardware will see any change and it will be an improvement. Also, the 32MB of VRAM is not required, just recomended.
Kay also questioned how many Mac OS X 10.1 users would move to Jaguar
Simple: Almost all of them. I know I will!
Already, Apple is the first computer maker to offer wireless networking on all its systems.
Nice to see that they have gotten over Dell's lies.
Adding Bluetooth to Mac OS X would put Apple ahead of Microsoft, which has yet to incorporate support for the technology into Windows XP.
A sign of things to come. With OS X, Apple has the easiest development platform out there. Once it start to get fully ramped up (still getting there), development on OS X should take off without any end in sight.
-- You see? It's like I've always said. You can get more with a kind word and a 2x4 than you can with just a kind word.
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You might be interested to know that Apple just bought Emagic, and is accelerating development of Logic Audio 5 for OS X - to be called Logic Audio Titanium, I think. Competitively speaking, would that qualify as a kick in the ass?
Step into a huge movement. Don't Tread In Me.
Not entirely. Unless you were fortunate enough to live near an Apple retail store, you needed to shell out $20 (plux tax!) to have the update CD mailed to you; 10.1 wasn't a downloadable patch. Seeing as this is substantially more than the cost of burning + shipping/handling, I'd say that Apple clearly intended to generate some revenue from the deal.
It's not hard to imagine the 10.2 update being handled in a similar manner...
Apple Retail Store? Heck, all the CompUSA's, if not others, got the free upgrade CD's. The one I used to work at still had some left over when they closed in February.
"Common Sense Ain't" -Unknown
"OS X 10.1 didn't get its full shot at maturity before the release of the new system," Kay said. "From a tactical point of view, they're truncating one revenue stream to bring on another one. They didn't even fully extract the revenue from the first product."
Even worse, 10.1 was free. Apple maybe made a few bucks off the $20 shipping cost, but anyone could go to CompUSA or Microcenter (like I did) and get the upgrade CD for free.
And anyone that thinks that people are going to stick with 10.1 instead of paying to upgrade to 10.2 is crazy. I know that I will be first in line.
"The objective of securing the safety of Americans from crime and terror has been achieved." -- John Ashcroft
No, the first nine major releases were Mac OS. Think of all the carbonized apps that would have a cow if they checked the system version number and found "1.0"... This way, Carbon apps can run in both Mac OS and Mac OS X without any tomfoolery on the part of the developers. Makes sense if you think about it...
The "X" is a product name, not a version number. Remeber the official name of OS X is "Mac OS X, version 10.1.5". It was meant to indicate the break with the "classic" Mac OS.
But the new rendering engine, called Quartz Extreme, could tax some systems running older graphics cards. For optimum performance, the new engine requires at minimum an Nvidia GeForce2MX or greater graphics card or any 32MB ATI Radeon graphics card. The hefty graphics requirements could present problems for some Apple notebooks or older desktops.
Jobs clearly stated in his keynote that the new Quartz Extreme will run the same on the older hardware as the current Quartz. Only those with the required graphics hardware will see any change and it will be an improvement. Also, the 32MB of VRAM is not required, just recomended.
Kay also questioned how many Mac OS X 10.1 users would move to Jaguar
Simple: Almost all of them. I know I will!
Already, Apple is the first computer maker to offer wireless networking on all its systems.
Nice to see that they have gotten over Dell's lies.
Adding Bluetooth to Mac OS X would put Apple ahead of Microsoft, which has yet to incorporate support for the technology into Windows XP.
A sign of things to come. With OS X, Apple has the easiest development platform out there. Once it start to get fully ramped up (still getting there), development on OS X should take off without any end in sight.
You see? It's like I've always said. You can get more with a kind word and a 2x4 than you can with just a kind word.