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Apple's Missed Opportunity With Leopard Delay

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the timing-is-everything dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to an article on OSWeekly.com, Apple missed a big opportunity by not releasing Leopard soon. They could've taken advantage of Vista's losing streak and one upped Microsoft, the author suggests. 'It's not uncommon for Windows users and technology consumers in general to say that Microsoft missed out on making the most of Vista both before and after its launch. Longtime fans of Windows have changed their tone due to Vista's inadequacies, and regular users are in many cases stuck with trying to figure out why they still can't get certain things to work within the operating system. Granted, it's not a completely horrific OS, but is that even a compliment worth accepting?'"

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  1. Re:Hardly... by alfredo · · Score: 5, Informative

    Apple's market share is over 8% now. Those customers are coming from somewhere.

    With Parallels you can run Linux on the Mac, and if you don't want to do that but still want Nix software, you can do it. I'm using GIMP, Scribus, Inkscape, Xephem, and other titles I was used to in the Nix world. I've even ran Gnome on top of OSX.

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  2. Re:Macs are not replacing Windows PCs by c_forq · · Score: 4, Informative

    Google "Darwin ports".

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  3. Re:Macs are not replacing Windows PCs by Rob_Warwick · · Score: 4, Informative
    How long is it going to take for Windows or OSX to get multiple desktops?

    About a week. Apple is calling it 'Spaces' in Leopard.

  4. Re:Hardly... by Almahtar · · Score: 4, Informative
    I doubt my experience is that uncommon: I've met one "clueless consumer" type that liked Vista. Every other person I've talked to either said

    I heard Vista was crap, can I get my computer with XP instead? or

    Vista is junk - my new computer runs slower than my old one with XP on it or

    Vista is hard to use - I can't find any of the stuff I know how to do on XP Until Dell started offering machines with XP on them, friends and family members of mine that always bought from Gateway or Dell or whoever would ask me (as their "geek advisor") where they could buy a computer without Vista.

    I'm not looking for this kind of feedback nor soliciting it. They bring it up on their own.