It's way better than Snow Leopard. I can do things in ML and Mavericks that SL users could only dream about doing (e.g. play games on the other side of the house using Airplay + bluetooth PS3 controller). I can wirelessly add extra monitors as displays. Multiple monitors are no longer completely useless as they were in Snow Leopard. OpenGL is no longer in the STONE AGES like Snow Leopard is today. I've had kernel panics with SL. I've NEVER had a single one with either ML or Mavericks. NONE. Unlike your ridiculous claims about "perfect" Snow Leopard, I'm not saying Mavericks is perfect. What I do maintain is that OSX has
NEVER been this "perfect" OS that you seem to think it once was (and is now total crap apparently). It's at 10.9.1 for god's sake. EVERY SINGLE VERSION OF OSX has had BUGS in its initial release(s). You keep acting like that's something new and it's not.
There is ONE big difference between 2004 and now and that's Apple's attention to the Mac and OSX in general. But that iOS ship sailed between Tiger and Leopard, not Snow Leopard and Lion/ML/Mavericks. It's just more of the same. And for all your bold claims about how flipping awesome Snow Leopard is/was, MOST of its apparently earth shattering features were made in in prior versions of OSX. It was, after all, mostly a maintenance upgrade. Spaces are from Leopard. Quick look is from Leopard. OSX is an EVOLUTION, not some amazing new whiz-bang product that just came into existence. Even 10.0 was based on UNIX, NeXT Step and the basic Mac GUI features from Classic. It wasn't developed overnight and it sure as hell wasn't all developed in version 10.6.0. You want to whine about Apple sucking? Fine. Leave it where it deserves it, ignoring power user markets and spending too much time on iOS instead of OSX. But crying that you had an issue in .0 release is ridiculous. No .0 release was perfect. NONE of them. Give it time.
Oh please. You didn't do a poll or research on how many people had how many problems relative to each version of the operating system. If you want a serious discussion, stop making crap up. You have had problems. Some others on here have had problems. A lot of people had problems with Snow Leopard too when it first came out. That proves nothing of what you say. You want to compare 10.6.8 with 10.9.0. It's ridiculous. Compare 10.6.8 to 10.8.5. Mountain Lion wins. It was as bug free a version of OSX as I've
ever used. No kernel panics. Not a single one. No crashes. No forced reboots. No complaints. Yeah, my GMail went wonky in Apple Mail (Thunderbird still worked fine) after GMail updated their mailing system this past fall, but that's fixed now in 10.9.1. I've seen NONE of these other problems mentioned on here and I have a 2008 machine running Mavericks as well so these are not epidemic bugs. They are related to specific machines.
Not as bad as current? Again, that's your opinion. I don't see these bugs. I did see major issues in early Snow Leopard, particularly with my 2008 Macbook Pro which had a completely wonky keyboard bug at first in Snow Leopard that was not there in Leopard. That made it nearly unusable. 10.6.3 was the first reasonably stable version (still got occasional kernel panics though until much later versions. Mavericks is at 10.9.1 and here is completely stable. I'd call that an improvement on my end. Sandboxing has made a lot of apps a lot more stable and is probably why I have not seen a kernel panic in ML or Mavericks yet, not a single one.
If
you want to conduct a poll, go ahead, but it's not MY job to do
your work for
you to prove
your assertions.
What mature talk. Whoop its hind end? Give me a break.
Well, browsers are a bit of a personal preference kind of thing. I don't know what you think is outdated about Firefox given how configurable it is, but I've never liked Safari's GUI or lack of configurability. I want a browser to behave the way I want it to, not the way Apple or Google tells it to.
