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Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger to Arrive in April
Silly Burrito writes "Think Secret is reporting that Tiger will be out in April with an event on April 1st and it should be out in stores by April 15th. If this is true, I can finally get both the Mini and a new Powerbook, as I've been waiting for Tiger to be released before I do so. Let's just hope that this isn't a bad April Fools Joke!"
Why is this being taken as fact? Do the editors believe Think Secret to be a reputable news source that knows the exact release date for a given product? Has this information been confirmed by the vendor itself?
No. It's a rumor. Don't state it as fact - it pisses me off. The headline is not just misleading, it could be entirely misinformation.
Remove head from ass, then post.
April 1st is the beginning of Apple's fiscal year, so that wouldn't be a surprising release date.
Why should free speech trump the rights of an individual or a company to use a contract to keep information private?
oh please. some dude with a blog spouting off what his cat did today does not a journalist make....
nick at think secret is a rumor monger. not a jounralist.
please don't lump this case in the same class as the Pentagon Papers. You perform a diservice to real journalists and all our rights when you do..
So do you think Apple should stop updating it's core APIs and making stuff better/easier to use for it's developers, or just start back-porting all new stuff to old OSes just so that mr I installed 10.1 and think it rocks can quit bitching about not being able to use Safari?
Apple is already slowing down their releases. Tiger is taking about 18 months where Panther was what? 12?
120chars for a sig is teh suck
>> OSX isn't a "free" (as in speech) operating system. It may
>> be based on a Unix-like foundation, but thats on excuse.
>> We should be promoting Free software, not closed.
Why? What makes you believe all this rubbish?
Perhaps you have Slashdot confused with some other web site.
My bet is that you used a commercial for-profit ISP to connect to Slashdot in the first place, utilizing hardware that was manufactured by companies who's products also aren't "free" (as in speech).
My guess is that the doctor who snatched you from your mother's womb was, likewise, not "free" (as in speech).
Quit being silly.
so many loyal slashdotters were welcoming Apple's victory against journalism?
If you had actually read any of the articles or bothered to spend 10 minutes informing yourself on the topic, you would realize that in fact Apple had not scored a "victory against journalism", but instead had won the right to subpeona records in order to determine how information was illegally obtained.
The judge stated, quite rationally, that it didn't matter if the bloggers at the center of the case were journalists or not, for even journalists lack the right to publish trade secrets that do not benefit the public interest. More to the point, the judge stated that interest by the public is not the same as public interest.
So if you want to go on being misinformed, then please be my guest and don't read the articles. But at least have the decency to do so quietly and not spread FUD around the internets.
People who say "sheeple" have about as much sophistication as an AOL user, and in fact are probably actually AOL users.
Thanks for reading. You can now turn off your computer.
It's not in Apple's interest to have old, buggy versions of Safari out there. They already have trouble getting people to support them for complex webapps (examples: Google Maps, gmail). Having multiple versions just compounds the testing and support costs for a small userbase.
And 18 months is still a very short cycle for corporate deployments (where they love Windows 2000 from 5 years ago), but that's probably not that important for Apple.
Whenever I hear the word 'Innovation', I reach for my pistol.
If you mean Safari 2.0 will be in Tiger, that sounds unlikely to me. If they want to release in less than a month, I'd be very surprised if they wouldn't have the gold CD images ready already.
Matthew Rothenberg
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Who is this "we"? Some of us don't have any issue at all with proprietary software, particularly when that software is superior to other alternatives. In my opinion, that's the case with OSX. Nothing else compares.
Why yes, I AM a rocket scientist!
One issue with the security updates is that Apple has not made it clear how long the official support window is. The updates to 10.1 just stopped one day.
With 10.4 coming out, it's not clear if Apple will want to EOL 10.2, even though there's apparently a substantial userbase still on it. My hope is that Apple makes a formal statement saying how long 10.2 users can expect to recieve security patches.
Whenever I hear the word 'Innovation', I reach for my pistol.
Win XP Pro Upgrade is currently $179.99 at Amazon.
All movements for social change begin as missions, evolve into businesses, and end up as rackets.
Well, you were making a good point up till here. In my country, doctors are free (as in beer) to the person requiring treatment through taxation. More importantly, medical knowledge *is* free (as in speech). Can you imagine a situation where it wasn't?? Where a doctor would hold on to his/her knowledge to give themselves a competitive advantage? Not only would patients suffer, through the concentration of this knowledge, but the doctor would suffer as his/her ideas would not advance through the contribution of their peers.
Scientific knowledge needs to be free.
Actually, no. The "rule of law" is based on guns. Lots of guns.
Will that Radeon 9200 32MB video be able to handle the GPU-intense graphics of OSX 10.4. I'm hoping some sites will take a look at that question when tiger is available.
The Doormat
If you're not outraged, then you're not paying attention.
It's better than writing an inefficient OS and then charging people for ever slower versions, like Microsoft.