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Leopard Early Adopters Suffer For The Rest of Us
News.com tallies up the minor annoyances early adopters have experienced dealing with the newest version of OS X. From a change in folder design to install issues, and beyond to lack of support for Java 6, Mac users have had more to grumble about than usual in the last week. Just the same, the article notes, there have been no major problems and (compared to other OS launches) Leopard kicked off fairly well. "Let's give thanks to the early adopters, however masochistic they may be. You can do all the QA in the world before releasing an operating system, and it's not going to compare to what happens when the unwashed masses get their hands on the product. Microsoft's Windows Vista had years of developer releases, and was released to manufacturing several weeks before it went on sale to the general public. Still, compatibility problems cropped up because it's extremely difficult to anticipate what people are running, and in what combination. It's easier for Apple because it tightly controls its hardware and software, and because there are fewer potential combinations in the wild, but it's still a Herculean task."
Clearly they're pandering to the Windows market.
Bravo to the Apple people for pulling things off with nothing more than minor annoyances. They are a reminder that non free software does not have to be as rapacious as others have made it.
At the same time, Apple is a reminder that non free will software always depend on the free software world and will always have problems. Upgrades of Debian are always smooth and lossless.
DMCA, Hollings, Palladium. What might have sounded like paranoia is now common sense.
Honestly, you can't expect any new commercial OS version to be flawless.
But let the flame wars commence.
- Anti-Mac zealots will point-and-laugh, though they usually fair just as poorly.
- Mac-Zealots will beat their chests and defend their platform to the point of pig-headed-ness.
- Linux-Zealots will talk down to everyone else, stating that using a non-open OS is a war crime or some nonsense.
Why can't people be more moderate?Steve is going to drop the price next month. It'll be $200 less than the original price, so... -$71
There, that's better
Well, firstly, aren't early adopters 'suffering for the rest of us' in pretty much all things that are new?
But you don't understand... since it's an Apple product the early adopters who are suffering are cool for it instead of just being jackass morons like those who are early adopters of other technology.
It's an Apple thing, you wouldn't understand.
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Hmm. How do you hit a company with a rolled-up newspaper? Bad Logitech! Bad!
you mean snappier (tm)
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I sure the hell would get a job with a company that can afford computers built in the current century. Who worries about a few GB of free space these days.
Or are you guys doing java development on Palm's or somebody's watch?
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
I'll wait for the first Leopard service pack. Oh wait... Leopard IS a service pack. Doh!
Steve: Eeearlyadopterssufferfortherest of uuussss...
Apple congregation (with organ): Aaaaa- meeeeennn...
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