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OS X Lion Not Going to Launch This Week?
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someone once called him a 'tit' - which I felt was being a tad unfair - to tits that is
You download the Installer Application directly to your local drive and run it off your drive, it reboots and installs.
Say it ain't so! Maybe because they are waiting to get a large enough catalogue of lion-optimized apps?
mba
This is like cartman waiting for his WII, these macbook airs.
The holy great king spider has spoken
This is like cartman waiting for his WII, these macbook airs.
The holy great king spider has spoken
I imagine that they want to at least have "some" apps designed specifically for Lion before they launch it. Most apps will probably run fine on Lion with no modifications, but they wont be using Lion's features either.
It's 12am... Do you know where your Lion is?
This is reference, for those who don't get it. Don't worry, I know where my Lion is.
AppleWorks will not run on Lion.
When you run a law office and you have over 10,000 files in AppleWorks, you use it everyday for work, and then Lion comes out and DOES NOT support ANY PowerPC apps at ALL....then you are up a creek without a paddle. You just don't upgrade to Lion.
This is the situation my Dad is in right now with his old White Core 2 Duo iMac, running Snow Leopard and AppleWorks, which he has been running his law practice on since the old G3 iMac.
When you run a law office and you have over 10,000 files in AppleWorks, you use it everyday for work, and then Lion comes out and DOES NOT support ANY PowerPC apps at ALL....then you are up a creek without a paddle. You just don't upgrade to Lion.
This is the situation my Dad is in right now with his old White Core 2 Duo iMac, running Snow Leopard and AppleWorks, which he has been running his law practice on since the old G3 iMac.
I think 10 am PST is a little more keen to the time of releases.
That being said, I posted earlier that all my release emails from app are time dated at 4-5 am PST.
Remember when Apple released the iPhone on Verizon? It was at like 3am in the morning.
Pages is more of a Page Layout Application like Adobe PageMaker. It is not a general Word Processing app like ClarisWorks or AppleWorks was for documents. That is why he might not like to use iWork, it is a totally different thing. He uses AppleWorks to print envelopes and legal format documents as well.
Apple yanked Rosetta support from Lion altogether (for good)...and now people that reply on PowerPC applications, some good apps which were never ported to intel (like AppleWorks), are left sitting in the dust.
Dropping of Rosetta support is the single worst thing Apple did with Lion. It will make a great number of people not want to upgrade.
Apple yanked Rosetta support from Lion altogether (for good)...and now people that reply on PowerPC applications, some good apps which were never ported to intel (like AppleWorks), are left sitting in the dust.
Dropping of Rosetta support is the single worst thing Apple did with Lion. It will make a great number of people not want to upgrade.
You keep acting as if it is a bug. That "feature" has been implemented from snow leopard onwards. It has nothing to do with Lion. They are protected from being removed by simply dragging them now, for whatever reason.
This is true... Unfortunately though, Apple had to choose between going the Windows route and supporting apps from 6 years ago, or dropping support. Bloat is never a good thing, and Mac OS's lack of it is one of its charms. There may yet be a way to run PowerPC apps on Lion though. Just because Apple drops support, doesn't mean some hacker out there wont find a way. Porting Rosetta to Lion is a possibility.
Why the secret!!!
I was predicting myself that it would be week 3 or week 4 of July.
To be honest I think Apple are just childish in keeping the release date hidden. Who really cares? I would be surprised if it did actually come out tomorrow.
I was predicting myself that it would be week 3 or week 4 of July.
To be honest I think Apple are just childish in keeping the release date hidden. Who really cares? I would be surprised if it did actually come out tomorrow.
I thought Apple had an aversion to the number 8 of late.
Quicktime 7 --> Quicktime X
FCP 7--> FCP X
iPod Classic stuck on 6th Gen (but 4th gen was two) so no 8th iPod.
OS X x.8 releases have always had weird new bugs.
They called their Soc the A4 even thought it had an A8 arm core.
Maybe they are scared from the whole OS 8 thing.
So Lion is the last of the X cats and it'll be replaced by something new not iOS as it'll be to close to the dreaded "8" then too.
Sorry the Closed Apple key was cooler
Release sickness
For those who suffer from "release sickness" I suggest to carefully listen at the exact words used by Apple (read Jobs). OS X Lion will be released in July. July is a month that goes from July 1st to July 31st extremes included. So Apple could release its new OS even the 31st!
Be patient and in the mean while don't forget to make a complete backup. You never know...
For those who suffer from "release sickness" I suggest to carefully listen at the exact words used by Apple (read Jobs). OS X Lion will be released in July. July is a month that goes from July 1st to July 31st extremes included. So Apple could release its new OS even the 31st!
Be patient and in the mean while don't forget to make a complete backup. You never know...
To my memory, the last few OS updates have been Fridays, I remember having to go to the local FedEx or UPS to pick up mine when I missed the delivery guy.
Just tossing it out there; didn't iOS 4 download prior to the iPhone 4 (software before hardware for supported idevices). I could see the Macs be released with 'a' GM Lion tuesday, and then mass downloads on Friday. I think the report tuesday would be great for the announcement 'we have the best line-up with our newly announced macs, and our customers with older macs can upgrade Friday at the breakthrough price of 29.99'.
Can't come soon enough huh.