Originally posted by MacBandit
I highly doubt 10.3 will be a paid upgrade or at least not a full price one such as 10.2 was.
i agree... i think 10.3 will be a more along the lines of refinement not an overhaul like 10.2. It will be an actual UPGRADE like 10.1 was to 10.0.4. If you notice apple never refers to jaguar as an OS upgrade.
My reasoning is simply that 10.2 was a very major change to the whole OSX system and deserved very much a 10.5 or 11 designation.
I disagree here. 11 is way to drastic for what 10.2 was. Jaguar was to much of an overhaul to be a typical "upgrade" (hence the price. But shares to much with 10.1 to have been labeled OS 11.
They prob didn't use 10.5 designation because they know they need more room to grow. They were working on 10.3 before jaguar even hit the shelves.
Though at this point I still feel that 10.2 as good as it is, is not a complete system and we will not be getting a complete OSX system for at least a year.
Could you please explain this further, i know you answered this a couple posts up but you really didnt elaborate. I think this is a very complete OS, thats why it was packaged and sold as a complete OS for full price. I find this OS to be way more complete and feature rich than any windows systems i use. If you're talking about minor bugs, well that doesnt make it any less complete. Windows OS's are so buggy that they'd still be considered beta's by that logic(and maybe they should be, lol).
10.3 in my oppinion will be the equivalent of 10.1 and will carry a small upgrade fee....
I agree here.
I think they will charge full system prices every other .x number which will be on a time line of about every year to year and a half.
Interesting thought... i think the next full price update may be 10.5 which is probably well in the future.
What they are doing is stretching 10.x name out as long as they can to get people use to it and keep the campaign momentum going.
Yeah some of it has to do with marketing hype, and some has to do with the fact that OS X has been in development for many years now. They've had it as a plan for the future for quite a while and aren't going to jump to a new OS version till they feel the need to make a major innovation as apple is known for doing.
In a few years they will go to 11.x system but it will still be called OSX in my oppinion though it may be something like OSX reborn or OSX2 or something like that.
We'll just have to see. maybe it will be OS X 2.0 or maybe it will be OS11 or maybe it will have a name and not a version number...
who knows...