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Oct 11, 2008, 09:09 PM
Today is October 11, 2008. I just updated from Leopard 10.5.3 to 10.5.4
[Although I have seen Mac experts refer to it as v**d** I, nonetheless, REPAIRED PERMISSIONS after backing up my machine with 2 different software packages --> restarted --> restarted into safe mode --> shutdown --> unplugged ALL peripherals --> restarted --> shutdown my firewall --> shutdown my antivirus --> installed the combo 10.5.4 update
--> restarted --> restarted --> repaired permissions --> restarted into safe mode --> restarted --> shutdown --> plugged ALL my peripherals back in --> restarted]
I am, however, generally dismayed at how, every time Leopard updates are released, significant numbers of users who apply the Leopard update end up with serious problems. ...although I tend to prefer it over using my XP machines, I am not aware of significant numbers of, say, XP users experiencing such serious issues SOLELY as a result of updating XP.
Just as I am doing now, with my Mac, I have, for years, searched forums, etcetera, for user experiences with operating system updates BEFORE applying updates to my Windows 95, 98, 2000, XP machine(s). I have never, in at least a couple decades, or so, of Microsoft operating system use, been able to virtually guarantee that I would find, in user forums, account after account of users whose machines have broken after an update the way I can with Leopard.
And, in my own opinion, what is, possibly, worse is the fact that Apple users, predominantly, seem to try to find some way to dismiss the issue; at least with Leopard they do. I have literally read posts where a Mac owner was complaining about a Leopard update thoroughly incapacitating his/her machine, yet, by the end of the post, the very same user, who still had a machine broken by the Leopard update, was writing how great some upcoming Apple OS release was going to be and how he/she could not wait. Now remember, this is the same person with a machine, presumptively, trashed SOLELY as a result of a Leopard update.
If I did not know better I would call Apple a *ul*.
Anyway, just take these wonderful macintouch.com reader reports and DO THE MATH.
http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/leopard/topic4791.html (for Leopard: Update 10.5.4)
http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/leopard/topic4805.html#d08oct2008 (for Leopard: Update 10.5.5)
Again, just DO THE MATH.
The percentage of users with significant usability problems after a Leopard update make up, I believe you will find, the greatest majority of these reader reports. And, even more disturbing to me, the majority of people who make macintouch.com reader reports about serious Leopard update related issues seem to be more experienced and knowledgeable users.
Also striking, to me, is the fact that, in the XP world, users with a similar level of knowledge and experience usually appear to resolve most issues themselves, or find a resolution on the forums or at micro****'s support pages. However, with Leopard the vast majority of users, by my account, end their posts with statements along the lines of "...hope this gets fixed in the next update."
Now maybe all the previous Apple operating systems were different just like I believe all the previous micro**** operating systems, before **sta, which I do not want to touch with the proverbial 10 foot pole, were different, but, after I DO THE MATH, I can not escape coming to a conclusion very similar to Robert Rydberg's.
"This is the 3rd update for Leopard, just a month after 10.5.3. That one broke a number of Macs, judging from the 'Net traffic on it. 10.5.4 seems to be headed in the same direction.
Leopard has been the worst OS release I have seen in 25 years. Did Apple hire whoever ran Vista at Microsoft? [...]"
Looks like Robert Rydberg has payed attention to the math by calculating the "Net traffic on it" and the math does not lie. Not usually at least. Nice going Robert.
Anyway, my own personal feeling is that no company that has gotten as far as Apple or Micro**** could possibly be full of dumb software engineers that, after years of building software that did not break on 6.8 out of 10 updates, suddenly can not manage such a track record. Personally, I believe they know exactly what they are doing and, further, that is how a company with a meager 5% of the market, or so, makes record profits, besides hiring "experts in the psychology of *ul* creation" maybe and a pricing structure that dwarfs Olympus Mons.
Almost everything used to be made better and made without an emphasis on "planned obsolescence"; cars, refrigerators, dryers, you name it. ...and computer operating systems.
I guess there is no money in quality and reliability anymore.
That is mostly why I wait, on average, 2.75 months before doing a Leopard OS update, or even an XP update. Watch early adopters break their systems and, then, hopefully, not make the same mistake(s).
Again, just DO THE MATH.
The percentage of users with significant usability problems after a Leopard update make up, I believe you will find, the greatest majority of these macintouch reader reports.
Well, I do not see any compelling reason why I "can't wait to do the 10.5.5 update" A MONTH OR TWO FROM NOW.
Do you?
I suppose Adam has updated by now, though. {I checked http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/leopard/topic4805.html#d08oct2008 . Looks like he did and, just as I would have predicted, is having more problems with the second consecutive update in a row.}
I also suppose that nobody, if any, is ever going to read this post because they have also updated to 10.5.5 by now.
Wait. I will go over to mac****** forums and post it. They will read it. They will read anything. I think.
[Although I have seen Mac experts refer to it as v**d** I, nonetheless, REPAIRED PERMISSIONS after backing up my machine with 2 different software packages --> restarted --> restarted into safe mode --> shutdown --> unplugged ALL peripherals --> restarted --> shutdown my firewall --> shutdown my antivirus --> installed the combo 10.5.4 update
--> restarted --> restarted --> repaired permissions --> restarted into safe mode --> restarted --> shutdown --> plugged ALL my peripherals back in --> restarted]
I am, however, generally dismayed at how, every time Leopard updates are released, significant numbers of users who apply the Leopard update end up with serious problems. ...although I tend to prefer it over using my XP machines, I am not aware of significant numbers of, say, XP users experiencing such serious issues SOLELY as a result of updating XP.
Just as I am doing now, with my Mac, I have, for years, searched forums, etcetera, for user experiences with operating system updates BEFORE applying updates to my Windows 95, 98, 2000, XP machine(s). I have never, in at least a couple decades, or so, of Microsoft operating system use, been able to virtually guarantee that I would find, in user forums, account after account of users whose machines have broken after an update the way I can with Leopard.
And, in my own opinion, what is, possibly, worse is the fact that Apple users, predominantly, seem to try to find some way to dismiss the issue; at least with Leopard they do. I have literally read posts where a Mac owner was complaining about a Leopard update thoroughly incapacitating his/her machine, yet, by the end of the post, the very same user, who still had a machine broken by the Leopard update, was writing how great some upcoming Apple OS release was going to be and how he/she could not wait. Now remember, this is the same person with a machine, presumptively, trashed SOLELY as a result of a Leopard update.
If I did not know better I would call Apple a *ul*.
Anyway, just take these wonderful macintouch.com reader reports and DO THE MATH.
http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/leopard/topic4791.html (for Leopard: Update 10.5.4)
http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/leopard/topic4805.html#d08oct2008 (for Leopard: Update 10.5.5)
Again, just DO THE MATH.
The percentage of users with significant usability problems after a Leopard update make up, I believe you will find, the greatest majority of these reader reports. And, even more disturbing to me, the majority of people who make macintouch.com reader reports about serious Leopard update related issues seem to be more experienced and knowledgeable users.
Also striking, to me, is the fact that, in the XP world, users with a similar level of knowledge and experience usually appear to resolve most issues themselves, or find a resolution on the forums or at micro****'s support pages. However, with Leopard the vast majority of users, by my account, end their posts with statements along the lines of "...hope this gets fixed in the next update."
Now maybe all the previous Apple operating systems were different just like I believe all the previous micro**** operating systems, before **sta, which I do not want to touch with the proverbial 10 foot pole, were different, but, after I DO THE MATH, I can not escape coming to a conclusion very similar to Robert Rydberg's.
"This is the 3rd update for Leopard, just a month after 10.5.3. That one broke a number of Macs, judging from the 'Net traffic on it. 10.5.4 seems to be headed in the same direction.
Leopard has been the worst OS release I have seen in 25 years. Did Apple hire whoever ran Vista at Microsoft? [...]"
Looks like Robert Rydberg has payed attention to the math by calculating the "Net traffic on it" and the math does not lie. Not usually at least. Nice going Robert.
Anyway, my own personal feeling is that no company that has gotten as far as Apple or Micro**** could possibly be full of dumb software engineers that, after years of building software that did not break on 6.8 out of 10 updates, suddenly can not manage such a track record. Personally, I believe they know exactly what they are doing and, further, that is how a company with a meager 5% of the market, or so, makes record profits, besides hiring "experts in the psychology of *ul* creation" maybe and a pricing structure that dwarfs Olympus Mons.
Almost everything used to be made better and made without an emphasis on "planned obsolescence"; cars, refrigerators, dryers, you name it. ...and computer operating systems.
I guess there is no money in quality and reliability anymore.
That is mostly why I wait, on average, 2.75 months before doing a Leopard OS update, or even an XP update. Watch early adopters break their systems and, then, hopefully, not make the same mistake(s).
Again, just DO THE MATH.
The percentage of users with significant usability problems after a Leopard update make up, I believe you will find, the greatest majority of these macintouch reader reports.
Well, I do not see any compelling reason why I "can't wait to do the 10.5.5 update" A MONTH OR TWO FROM NOW.
Do you?
I suppose Adam has updated by now, though. {I checked http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/leopard/topic4805.html#d08oct2008 . Looks like he did and, just as I would have predicted, is having more problems with the second consecutive update in a row.}
I also suppose that nobody, if any, is ever going to read this post because they have also updated to 10.5.5 by now.
Wait. I will go over to mac****** forums and post it. They will read it. They will read anything. I think.
