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Apple Nearing Completion of Snow Leopard?
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FINALLY some news that are Mac-related and not iPhone gossiping about type of plastic blah blah! Took long enough...
You would think a company having $29 billion in the bank could use at least a tiny fraction of that for something beneficial to the environment, especially with Gore in their board... but nooooo, more money to the stockholders all that matters!
Come on, Apple! Quit humping the consumer market like an old lady's rabid dog and do something 'neat' instead.
You would think a company having $29 billion in the bank could use at least a tiny fraction of that for something beneficial to the environment, especially with Gore in their board... but nooooo, more money to the stockholders all that matters!
Come on, Apple! Quit humping the consumer market like an old lady's rabid dog and do something 'neat' instead.
I'd hope not. After all if Apple had started following actual Microsoft release dates we would now be at, what, 10.2?
Interface Update
I personally will be shocked if there are no interface updates included in SL.
Think about it from a marketing standpoint. Most of us on these boards are at least relatively tech-savvy individuals. We are able to understand and appreciate the under-the-hood improvements things like Grand Central will bring.
But consider the average consumer. How do you convince them? Go into an Apple store and take a look around. Trying to convince someone like my mother that they should spend $100+ on an OS because it is "multicore aware and optimiz[ed] for allocating tasks across multiple cores and processors," probably won't get you anywhere. In fact, it might be counter-productive. Average people like the Mac OS because of its elegance and simplicity. Fancy-shmancy tech-jargon is not a big selling point for most people.
I'm not saying that the average person won't be able to notice performance increases. It's just that there NEEDS to be some other x-factor. Something that will grab people's eye and seduce them.
I personally will be shocked if there are no interface updates included in SL.
Think about it from a marketing standpoint. Most of us on these boards are at least relatively tech-savvy individuals. We are able to understand and appreciate the under-the-hood improvements things like Grand Central will bring.
But consider the average consumer. How do you convince them? Go into an Apple store and take a look around. Trying to convince someone like my mother that they should spend $100+ on an OS because it is "multicore aware and optimiz[ed] for allocating tasks across multiple cores and processors," probably won't get you anywhere. In fact, it might be counter-productive. Average people like the Mac OS because of its elegance and simplicity. Fancy-shmancy tech-jargon is not a big selling point for most people.
I'm not saying that the average person won't be able to notice performance increases. It's just that there NEEDS to be some other x-factor. Something that will grab people's eye and seduce them.
LOL, yeah, exactly....you can tell why he bought his iBranded mac, so he can LOOK REALLY COOL while sipping his latte at starbucks.
Epic fail.
Pretty much what I've been saying for a while too. Some sort of visual and consumer-centric feature(s) would be good for Snow Leopard.
I use an iMac at work, I then go home and use 2 iMacs, one with an extra monitor, to make music. In short I spend most of my time looking at the GUI. It matters to me too that it's easy on the eye, also I have never been in a Starbucks and I don't own a laptop.
Just chill and realise that not everyone uses their macs for the same purposes you do and different elements of the 'apple experience' have different appeals for different folks.
(PS - do 'cool' people go to Starbucks in the States? They wouldn't be seen dead in a Starbucks over here in Blighty...)
I can't wait (well I guess I can) for Snow Leopard. I am thinking of getting a new MacBook to replace my 3 year old MBP, but want to wait until SL is released. Maybe there will be a update to the MacBook as well announced at WWDC.
There once was a great company named Apple
who, despite customer's cries simply failed to grapple
that with the iPhone they neglected the Mac,
drove their quality business down and out of whack!
Now all that's left, is this rhyme inside a Snapple.
who, despite customer's cries simply failed to grapple
that with the iPhone they neglected the Mac,
drove their quality business down and out of whack!
Now all that's left, is this rhyme inside a Snapple.
Well, there are two ways they could go with this in PR speak.
If released before Windows 7:
On the positive, it implies Apple's operating system technology continues to advance at a quicker pace than Microsoft's. Apple has shipped two major operating system releases in the same time period Microsoft only managed to to ship Vista.
On the negative, Apple customers may realize they've spent $258 on operating system upgrades in the last two years.
If released after Windows 7:
On the positive, Snow Leopard will be the "newest" operating system on the market and will retain that title for years on out.
On the negative, the PC-centric press will label Snow Leopard Apple's "response" to Windows 7.
Vista's release: January 30, 2007
Leopard's release: October 26, 2007
Snow Leopard's release: August/September/November 2009
Windows 7's release: October 22, 2009
It'll be interesting to see what they pick. They might bump SL all the way to January for all we know.
There are a slew of books on Snow Leopard due in August from Oreilly and other publishers. Snow Leopard is coming this summer. I expect the WWDC Preview to be really stable when delivered next week.
I know Jobs said it wouldn't have new features. However, I can't seem to find the keynote that he discusses that.
I just watched the WWDC 08 keynote from Apple's Special Events page, which is where I thought he announced that.
Anyone know?
lol what an outrageously snooty and pretentious post, and the worst part is, you seem serious and not ashamed at all to be so image conscious. Can't you think for yourself? Don't you have a favourite TV show that you would use a still from as your desktop? Would you never use a picture of your own child as a desktop background because it would clash with the UI?
I sit next to a graphic designer in my class and he constantly gets the piss ripped out of him for saying things like "Everybody thinks they're a designer." He's clueless about the programming of course, but he won't go into a sandwich shop if their logo is bad.
okay first off, Apple's UI is not all that consistent. This isn't really a bad thing, because sometimes it needs to be a little different. I mean open up iTunes, and each of the three different views [List, Grid, Cover Flow] have a different type of scroll bar. Each look suites the style, but it is different.
Also it isn't that hard to change the theme in Leopard. It isn't native, but it can be done.
Anything you can change in Windows, you can change in OSX, it may not be as easy but it can be done. Except I don't think that there is a way to move the menu bar on top.
Oh and even though you can change stuff, I don't know very many people who do, because OSX is just so damn beautiful. Heck I even have the 'Aurora' background that came with it.
This will be a great upgrade. Win 7 should be great too. Lots of reasons to be excited if you're as geeky as me.
Ya win 7 looks to improve vista ALOT. Although I don't think I will get it, because I mostly use my iMac, not my old Sony VAIO that (barely) runs XP
.If Marble isn't included (or another change in the UI) It will hurt sales alot.
I mean it won't make much of a difference to us geeks, but my parents/sister (who I just recently converted to OSX) will not pay for an 'under the hood' improvement. If they don't see a change my paranoid family might think it's a huge rip-off and conspiracy thought up by those evil corporate folk at Apple.
For the sake of sales, I think they should include Marble.
I mean it won't make much of a difference to us geeks, but my parents/sister (who I just recently converted to OSX) will not pay for an 'under the hood' improvement. If they don't see a change my paranoid family might think it's a huge rip-off and conspiracy thought up by those evil corporate folk at Apple.
For the sake of sales, I think they should include Marble.
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I can't remember any 10.5 developer release not installable on a G5??
As for the 10.6 developer builds, all of them are Intel only.
I expect 10.6 final to be Intel only, both x86 as x64.
If Marble isn't included (or another change in the UI) It will hurt sales alot.
I mean it won't make much of a difference to us geeks, but my parents/sister (who I just recently converted to OSX) will not pay for an 'under the hood' improvement. If they don't see a change my paranoid family might think it's a huge rip-off and conspiracy thought up by those evil corporate folk at Apple.
For the sake of sales, I think they should include Marble.
But really how concerned is Apple with getting the average customer to upgrade to Snow Leopard? It seems to me that SL's purpose is to increase sales of the next generation of higher-powered Mac platforms. That's where Apple makes the bulk of its profits, not from OS upgrades.
Well i won't really, Mac OS X Panther & Tiger had the same U.I pretty much, Tiger had a bluer apple in the menu bar and dashboard etc, but it still had the brushed metal style. People didn't complain what Tiger was released no idea why people are complaining now. Snow Leopard is gonna rule