I have friends too. Some work for Apple and even THEY don't have a clue. They really don't.
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OS X Lion Not Going to Launch This Week?
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I have friends too. Some work for Apple and even THEY don't have a clue. They really don't.
They don't know that just working for Apple is not enough. You have to work in the right place and in the right team to know something.
Actually I honestly think that this approach is the best when it comes to large scale software releases as it gives a bit of flexibility in the launch window. I'm sure Apple will have targeted a launch date sometime in the middle of the month internally but having a "July" window for launch means they can pause the rollout if anything major crops up at the last minute (or they figure out a minor yet annoying bug and decicde there's minimal chance of a problem from including it in the release version).
Ultimately Apple have said July so it's safest to work on the 31st being the release date. Any earlier than that and it's a nice surprise.
That exactly.
And on a final analysis, it's not fair at all when people expecting from Apple to apologize for third-party rumors or to catch a rumored-release-date.
"Apple release date rumors" is a world-wide sport, but it is NOT made by Apple. We like it, we hate it, but we play anyway.
Leo!
If Apple is subtle about this release they will start at july 23th, start of fifth astrological sign of the Zodiac
If Apple is subtle about this release they will start at july 23th, start of fifth astrological sign of the Zodiac
My money is on when the Sun enters Leo.
I saw that film. It was very naughty
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However I want a new MacBook air now
what about third party applications
I was really looking forward to the release of Lion but yesterday I received an e-mail from Livescribe saying that my livescribe pen is not supported by Lion OSX. I use it often so I decide to wait till I get an update from livescribe. I am also worried for other applications I have...
don't want to lose many of them coz of the Lion have eat them all
I was really looking forward to the release of Lion but yesterday I received an e-mail from Livescribe saying that my livescribe pen is not supported by Lion OSX. I use it often so I decide to wait till I get an update from livescribe. I am also worried for other applications I have...
don't want to lose many of them coz of the Lion have eat them all
Connecting to a particular Windows server from Lion GM is actually killing the server's network connection for 10 minutes. There's something seriously wrong with the new SMB engine...
And connecting to Active Directory has gone back a step since Snow Leopard, you can only bind to the generic "Computers" group of AD; attempting to join any other OU will fail (I think that was previously fixed in Leopard).
(however, nice that it has some DFS capability, though it doesn't seem to be able to connect to hidden DFS shares).
In short, Lion is not really ready for the enterprise sector.
(not to mention that Lion is not really suitable for a teaching environment where you can't use wireless mouse/trackpad for fear of theft)
And connecting to Active Directory has gone back a step since Snow Leopard, you can only bind to the generic "Computers" group of AD; attempting to join any other OU will fail (I think that was previously fixed in Leopard).
(however, nice that it has some DFS capability, though it doesn't seem to be able to connect to hidden DFS shares).
In short, Lion is not really ready for the enterprise sector.
(not to mention that Lion is not really suitable for a teaching environment where you can't use wireless mouse/trackpad for fear of theft)
Yeah, it's need to know and people don't know until they need to know. I swear it's easier to get secrets out of MI5/CIA than it is out of Apple, sometimes
I'd expect the crowd who wants Lion the most are going to be wailing here soon about the throes of using a .0 version.
I'd expect the crowd who wants Lion the most are going to be wailing here soon about the throes of using a .0 version.
what are you talking about, I'm here all right, now Apple GIVE ME ZE LION
This time of year, too many people may be on vacation to handle the servers when every Mac Geek in the world starts downloading.
Also, the timing may be there so at least a third of the Mac Geeks are on vacation so they will wait for a download.
I see this totally pathetic scenario of some Mac Geeks downloading Lion on there MacBook Pro via a cruise ship's WiFi. Thus blowing a day in their cabin instead of socializing. But then, it is not much of a difference.
maybe it's coming today... on notify me link is no more place to add e-mail address .... http://www.apple.com/macosx/notify-me/