Working With Tiger Technologies

Juanvaldes writes "Apple has put online more developer-oriented information about Tiger. There are also detailed articles about Spotlight, Dashboard, 64-bit apps and Automator."

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I'd be more inclined to call you an Apple fan boy

[Anonymous Coward]

- that OSX gets faster with each version, *on the same hardware*. Think Longhorn will run faster than XP on my P3 machine?

Probably not - because MS won't be releasing a poorly-optimized beta product for $129, and charge $129 for several subsequent bug fixes and much needed code optimizations.

It would be more correct to say that later versions of OS-X run less slowly than the previous one, and you're finally seeing a polished OS - albeit after a bit more money than you should have, if you had jumped in with OS-X.0. Apple's playing catch-up with their OS optimizations, not finding new and magical ways to make the hardware do the impossible.

I would count this as a disadvantage - they release stuff before it's finished, and force you to upgrade by making most of the libraries marginally incompatible so that oops, this only runs on 10.2 and up - soon 10.3 will be the price of entry. They keep trying to scuttle security patches for "old" versions (AKA less than a year old) to force people to upgrade too.

Say it's more 'elegant,' or you enjoy using it more, but these speed ups are merely Apple un-fucking things they should have fixed in the first place.

Re:I'd be more inclined to call you an Apple fan b

[Anonymous Coward]

ROTFLMAO! Forget about OS-X.0 original purchase and OS-X.2 upgrade? Forget that XP has been continuously updated for free since 2001? Forget that even Win2K is still kept current for FREE as well?

Face it, Apple has a $129/year subscription fee for bug fixes and security patches. MS provides them for free, and they usually release well optimized builds in the first place. Less eye candy? Perhaps. Less anti-aliased fonts and fewer cheesy non-value-added animations? Probably.

Unless you'd like to agree that 10.2 just barely caught up to Windows 2000 (released ~2 years earlier, BTW), and 10.3 was equivalent to XP (same head start for MS)....then you might have a point. :) You bold, non-coward troll, you.

"+5, pro-Apple troll" moderation.

LISTEN YOU FUCKING CUNT

[Professor S. Brown]

FOR THE LAST FUCKING TIME WIDGETS ARE NOT A FUCKING RIP OFF OF KONFABULATOR YOU FUCKING FUCK FUCK TWAT CUNT. Konfabulator is a series of annoying, stupid, pointless little apps that clultter up your desktop and make you go 'ooh thats pretty' for about ten minutes before you realise how irritating they are and throw the whole lot in the trash. Widgets are a series of useful apps that *dont* clutter up my desktop, a sort of virtual desktop for your utilities, if you will. Widgets are way way better than Konfabulator, and Apple had the idea first anyway, back in the 80's with Desktop Accesories. SO FUCK OFF.