Mac OS X 10.3 in 2003

[reyesmac]

I think Apple should sell themes on a separate disk. It should include desktops, Apple commercials, music, interface tweeks and other things to customise the OS. They should not include themes in the main OS unless you pay the $$ for the disk. This way, businesses will have an easier machine to administrate and Apple could just update the OS itself and they could let some other part of Apple worry about all the fluff. I would pay $50 for that. It would be nice to just get an OS upgrade that mostly updates the OS like 8.5 did. That added lots of improvements to the finder.

 

[MDiddy]

I think Apple wants to milk this Mac OS X name as much as possible. So they'll hold off on calling anything Mac OS 11 for as long as they can. Personally, I think Jaguar is the first major release of Mac OS X since 10.0. I think if they had chose to call it Mac OS 10.5, most people wouldn't have as much of a problem.

Jaguar is a bit mreo theen bug fixes, although some of the features are carry overs from OS 9, The core of Jaguar sets the step for some pretty awesome years of computing ahead.

However

I think Apple ougth to adopt an upgrade program where users who own Jaguar will get a discount on Panhter, assuming it ships before say, May of 2003.

 

[nuckinfutz]

Panther's not going to ship that soon.


I expect Panther to possibly be the first OS to run on the IBM based Powermacs late next year.

I think that 10.x should be paid updates and the next large updated should be listed as 10.2.5

saying "I won't pay for a 10.x update is silly because Apple isn't using the former OS update format.

 

[DavidRavenMoon]

Originally posted by Choppaface
i will NOT pay $12x.xx for panther :| :| :| :|

if apple keep charging full for point updates, then fine I'll just use my XP box... let's hope that it's a free or $20 upgrade.... it would also be nice if they made a "fluff-less" version that didn't include all the iApps and stuff and just the operating system....

Apple charges for major updates, which is once a year. The minor update, usually six months later is free, as are the point releases, i.e., 10.2.1.

So for example, I paid for 10.0, got 10.1 free, paid for 10.2, and so on.

10.3 is NOT a point release. Apple could have called Jaguar 10.5 and maybe 10.3 would be 11, but they want to keep using the "X" theme.

Maybe you are used to MS which only has major releases every three years, and which are really point releases. Windows 95 to 98 to ME? It was still Windows 4.0.

And they charge more for the updates. XP is just Windows NT 5.1, or Windows 2000.1 😉

Stop looking at the number, this is why MS did away with either version numbers, and the year names (Windows 95=Windows 4.0). Do you think you will get the next version of Windows free? The XP Home upgrade is $90, and OS X is more like XP Pro... more like $190. If you think XP has more value, go ahead and use it. We wont miss you.

 

[Telomar]

Originally posted by DavidRavenMoon
So for example, I paid for 10.0, got 10.1 free, paid for 10.2, and so on.

You'll most likely find that 10.1 was free because 10.0 was so incredibly bad.

On an unrelated note when Apple does hit OS X 11 it will be call Macintosh OS X version 11. The OS X part isn't disappearing.

 

[biscuit]

Originally posted by Telomar
On an unrelated note when Apple does hit OS X 11 it will be call Macintosh OS X version 11. The OS X part isn't disappearing.

Um...not too sure about that one. Apple are trying to indicate that there's only one Mac OS and it went from version 9 to 10. Big step but thats the way they want it. Ever notice all the Apple people say Mac OS 'ten' rather than Mac OS 'X', which is what I say personally.

So, when version 11 arrives thats what it will be. But I think they'll be hanging onto the X for a long time yet, the marketing is just too good. Hence Jaguar was 10.2 rather than, say, 10.5 which it might have been on the old system. Actually, when you think about it it's Mac OS X Jaguar (Version 10.2) in the US, so maybe they'll move away from numbers too...

biscuit

 

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i also think that 10.3 should be FREE considering that a lot of people dropped 125 for jaguar... including me

 

[BongHits]

Re: Re: Re: version numbering

Originally posted by clonenode


That's because 10.0 was the public beta, right? 10.1 was really the first true full version, totally optimized, ready for primetime.... (uh oh, can open - worms every where).

lots of people are saying 10.2 is really the version that should have been 10.1 (refined, and tweaked) but their are still some major problems inherent in 10.2, so maybe 10.3 will be OS X rdy for prime time? who knows...it just needs to happen soon (WTF DO I NOT HAVE A 5.1 AUDIO CARD!? THIS IS REDICULOUS!!!!)

 

[BB1985]

Mac OS X.whatever

Mac OS X rocks, as a brand name OS X is second to none, why change to 11, 12 or so on just to follow tradition.

Long live Mac OS X.whatever