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OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Tops Lion as Most Popular Mac Operating System
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Right. Dammit Apple, stop all you out of control OS innovation. Stick with what we have for at least a few years!
Did you even use leopard?! It was a buggy mess. Thats the whole reason Snow Leopard even happened.
I was not aware I could do that. Thank you for the tip! very appreciated!
trying it now...
Well Lion users probably can't stand it anymore and had to upgrade to the next OS to get out of the mess they're in!
Ahem!.. I'm one of them...
I agree that the Only 'Upgrade' was Snow Leopard, more stable, faster speed, and an even smaller footprint!
Apple is losing their focus.. Stable and speedy OS is why people are moving to OSX.
making it more like iOS but clunky and slow is going to drive people away from Macs again.
My 2011 iMac shipped with Snow Leopard a few weeks after Lion came out, so I could get Lion with Apple's Up-To-Date program. I still need Rosetta for Adobe so I partitioned my HDD to dual boot. I like Mountain Lion better than Lion, but frankly, I spend a ton more time in my Snow Leopard partition. So I DID get updated Apple hardware, but it's the Adobe software $$ that's holding me back from 100% ML. And yes, I'd prefer Apple to release OS X on an 18 month+ schedule rather than 12 months, --take the time to craft it.
Hey, that reminds me... I read a hack to permanently replace Duplicate with Save As, or swap them I believe, so that it's not hidden behind an unintuitive press of the Option key. Time to fix that problem pronto!
Buggy in what aspect?
My OS is still Leopard - 10.5.8, on my 2008 Mac Pro.
What I have asked for previously is a list of reasons to change to Snow Leopard or more recent systems. AppleWorks functions fine for me with word processing, spreadsheet, database and painting / drawing. As I have read, this won't work with 10.6 or greater.
Constructive comments are welcome.
Two hardly shocking facts
"Mountain Lion, the latest OS is more popular than the last OS"
and
"Snow Leopard is still popular".
Fact 1 is clearly due to it being a dirt cheap upgrade, and those that were on Lion will have no real compatibility issues upgrading to ML.
Fact 2 is due to Apple dropping support for older machines, and for being generally the last true OS X release that didn't have iOS stuff poorly slapped into it and labeled as a feature.
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The thing is though. They really havent done any innovation on the OS. Look at the feature lists. It's all full over overhyped eye candy. Sure there have been improvements, but not anything major.
The top 'Features' Apple lists for Mountain Lion over Lion are:
- iCloud integration
- A reminders app
- A notes app
- iMessage (basically rebranding of iChat
- Facetime (as above)
- Notification Center (perhaps the most overhyped pile of junk)
- Facebook integration (big friggin' deal!)
- Game center (cant comment - never even opened it)
- Gatekeeper (which 99% of people disabled)
- Airplay (Useful, but could have been put into a minor update - airplay is a very, VERY small package)
- Twitter
- Dictation (cant comment)
- Powernap
If you pull out the real features, you've got 2, maybe 3 'real' features there. The rest is just 'padding'.
"Mountain Lion, the latest OS is more popular than the last OS"
and
"Snow Leopard is still popular".
Fact 1 is clearly due to it being a dirt cheap upgrade, and those that were on Lion will have no real compatibility issues upgrading to ML.
Fact 2 is due to Apple dropping support for older machines, and for being generally the last true OS X release that didn't have iOS stuff poorly slapped into it and labeled as a feature.
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The thing is though. They really havent done any innovation on the OS. Look at the feature lists. It's all full over overhyped eye candy. Sure there have been improvements, but not anything major.
The top 'Features' Apple lists for Mountain Lion over Lion are:
- iCloud integration
- A reminders app
- A notes app
- iMessage (basically rebranding of iChat
- Facetime (as above)
- Notification Center (perhaps the most overhyped pile of junk)
- Facebook integration (big friggin' deal!)
- Game center (cant comment - never even opened it)
- Gatekeeper (which 99% of people disabled)
- Airplay (Useful, but could have been put into a minor update - airplay is a very, VERY small package)
- Dictation (cant comment)
- Powernap
If you pull out the real features, you've got 2, maybe 3 'real' features there. The rest is just 'padding'.
Apple is not forcing anyone's hand any more than most companies. You can continue using your ancient hardware forever if you like.
I drive a 3 year old Toyota Venza with a Navigation system that doesn't show me weather forcasts or gas station prices like the new Venzas do. There are far more 2010 Venzas on the road than 2013 Venzas, but I'd look like an idiot if I went in and complained to my dealership. As things evolve, older things get older. Grow up and learn to live with it!
Originally Posted by briansolomon
Wonder how many Lion users would have stuck with Snow Leopard if it had iCloud support.
I for one. Good point. I actually forgot about that irritation. I was forced from 10.6 into 10.8 for no other reason than I wanted to continue to be able to sync my devices the way I had been used to with .Mac for all those years. .Mac worked just fine for me and I was quite happy paying for it. RIP .MAC I miss you. Your buddy iCloud was not an improvement.
Wonder how many Lion users would have stuck with Snow Leopard if it had iCloud support.
I for one. Good point. I actually forgot about that irritation. I was forced from 10.6 into 10.8 for no other reason than I wanted to continue to be able to sync my devices the way I had been used to with .Mac for all those years. .Mac worked just fine for me and I was quite happy paying for it. RIP .MAC I miss you. Your buddy iCloud was not an improvement.
Have to agree. If you're happy with Leopard, Snow Leopard is a worth while step - I wouldnt bother with Lion or ML however. Snow Leopard will give you additional speed. It was effectively a 'clean up' - they stripped back a lot of the unused code and legacy junk that wasnt being used and basically brought OS X up to date.
They then undid all this good work with subsequent releases (IMO - not fact)
Can someone let me know why apple users love snow leopard so much? Ive had, snow leopard - lion and now mountain lion, lion wasn't great, but mountain lion seems fine, runs all my audio apps fine, full screen apps is good and everythings synced via icloud.
Confused :/
Confused :/
That's your opinion though and the rest of us have our own opinions about what features are good for us.
I certainly enjoyed Snow Leopard but I'm in no hurry to go back to it and give up the features i'm used to by now.
People are still using Snow Leopard for a variety of reasons besides just the one stated. I know I still use it simply because of the fact more than half the MAC games I have do not work due to the need for PPC support.
Well said. I agree with you 100% that Apple works very hard to force our hands on there idea that new features is always better. Nothing like being forced to change what already works well just because somebody else (Apple) thinks it's a good idea.
Nice work on the covert-aggressive "grow up" insult. Unfortunately, you've got the wrong end of the stick. I've moved on from adolescence, and deal with it beautifully, along with the other third of OS X users. Maybe take a look at yourself, and leave that adolescence you project onto others behind. The sooner you do, the better for everyone.Apple is not forcing anyone's hand any more than most companies. You can continue using your ancient hardware forever if you like.
I drive a 3 year old Toyota Venza with a Navigation system that doesn't show me weather forcasts or gas station prices like the new Venzas do. There are far more 2010 Venzas on the road than 2013 Venzas, but I'd look like an idiot if I went in and complained to my dealership. As things evolve, older things get older. Grow up and learn to live with it!
Yup, it is my opinion (and obviously I respect that its one thats likely not shared by many). Based on my own usage, I've never touched Launchpad (as its really, really pointless due to the way its implemented), Facebook/Twitter, Notification Center (Growl still wins IMO), etc.