Have Apple dropped the ball with Leopard?

[thomasp]

What a way to start a post - with a limp wristed apology.

Jezz, you newbies

Is it just me, or does anyone else find this post quite ironic?

Or going back even further, to the very beginning:

Is that 10.0.0?

 

[jaw04005]

Is that 10.0.0?

This was 10.0.0 Public Beta. It was available to anyone who wanted to spend $29 on a pressed CD directly from the Apple Store online. Good times.

 

[thomasp]

This was 10.0.0 Public Beta. It was available to anyone who wanted to spend $29 on a pressed CD directly from the Apple Store online. Good times.

I think I remember all the complaints about the Apple menu disappearing and the Apple logo being "abandoned" in the centre of the menubar. How quickly was that fixed (I didn't switch to OSX till 10.2) to what it currently is?

 

[killmoms]

I think I remember all the complaints about the Apple menu disappearing and the Apple logo being "abandoned" in the centre of the menubar. How quickly was that fixed (I didn't switch to OSX till 10.2) to what it currently is?

That was changed by the time 10.0 came out.

 

[plarusa]

So, do you think Apple has dropped the ball with Leopard and tried to make something that was too good but actually made it worse by changing things that didn't really need changing?

I don't think Apple dropped the ball all. They took something which was perfect, and made it even more perfect. I am using OSX10.5 server, and among the features most useful,

Incredibly smooth and consistent UI theme
Spaces
File system can now be case sensitive
Cool server management tools
Unix 03 compliance
Not part of the OS, but I enjoy iLive 08

This OS on a MacBook Pro is running my home network, and frankly, puts everything else I have used recently to shame (Windows, Linux, FreeBSD... does not matter). IMO, It's the only OS worth paying for.

I am yet to try to new development tools, I heard there are some cool features there too.