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Mac OS X 10.6.8 to Remove MacDefender, Get Mac App Store Ready for Lion
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Maybe it just the Australian situation but this story is a reasonable look at the situation here. A quick google and all but one of the major ISP's in OZ have iTunes in their "freezone". Admittedly the Australian situation is a little different as all Overseas content has to come down very narrow pipes, so our internet caps have generally been about access to those pipes.
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True, global market share is low. Is it 4%; I think it is a little over 5% now. Just pointing out that trends tend to originate in certain markets then transition to being global. iDevices are selling well globally so that may help drive the trend as well.
I never thought about how piracy impacts Mac OS X market share. Obviously, building a Hackintosh is possible but not really a motive of most that resort to piracy.
The impact of piracy on Microsoft is pretty unreal. http://www.geek.com/articles/news/m...kes-a-beating-due-to-massive-piracy-20110527/
This must be a limiting factor in the growth of Mac market share given that Mac OS X piracy is less prevalent. Piracy is less relevant for Apple's profit margins as well given that more revenue comes from the sale of hardware.
I wonder how much piracy (less developed nations) and the growth of Mac market share (more developed nations) is affecting Microsoft; not that it is enough of a chunk to matter. Is piracy driving MS's move into the ad revenue game with Bing and teaming up with Baidu?
I think in markets, such as China, India and Brazil, that users looking for an alternative to Windows at the moment will switch to Linux rather than OS X for many obvious reasons. Does hardware coming preinstalled with Linux in these regions drive Windows piracy?
It is good to see Linux evolving as an alternative in many government settings given that it has greater compatibility with OS X in terms of porting software and open source. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_adoption#Government
As KnightWRX said:
That's what Akamai is for.
Akamai puts caching servers at the ISPs - your ISP probably has a box that Akamai maintains, and that reduces any upstream bandwidth at your ISP's site.
Most of the time the bandwidth problem isn't on the Internet, but on the "last mile" - the connection from your local ISP hub to your house.
Just Yahoo! for "akamai".
Once again, the developer builds are not current builds. They only release a new developer build when something changes that affects developers. The internal builds are far ahead of what we have now.
Agreed. $29 is definitely a sweet spot. I'm pretty sure Leopard cost $29 from my university's bookstore but having the retail price for Snow Leopard be $29 was a good move by Apple. I'd even pay more (say... $39) to get Lion on DVD, while a cheaper version was offered via the Mac App Store (at say, $29).
Heres what happens when you install Lion. It creates a partition on your mac for recovery. So when you click the installer in snow leopard, before you ever reboot that partition is there. So on the reboot you boot up to that recovery partition. It's just like having a cd in. You can then still choose disk utility and wipe the snow leopard partition if you want or just upgrade.
What is interesting is the Lion recovery 'partition' isn't a normal partition. I can't see it from SL's Disk Utility when booted into my 10.6.7 partition on the same drive yet I can from Lion's Disk Utility when booted into 10.7.
He did indeed, he said while I typing. Then I read what he wrote after posting and thought "that makes a lot of sense" indeed what you say makes more sense.
Yes the last mile is going to be the issue if the data isn't to far away.
Move the data across an ocean to say Hawaii or Australia and the trip in the middle starts to be the issue. So akamai have made a business out not relying so much on those long under water/ground runs. It's enough of an issue that I notice a difference in speed between popular media and more obscure or alternative media.
I share your thoughts exactly
The Apple of just a few years back would never release it early. However I have lost my confidence in them, based on their cavalier attitude and questionable actions since then.
For example, the Pro Apple Wall St Journal even admitted that Jobs was told six months before he released iPhone 4, that there was a serious problem with the antenna.
However the much bigger problem, was the fact that the style and location of said antenna was Jobs idea and he is never wrong. Just ask his worshipers. Ship it, he barked, and ship it they did.
Then to show off his power and supreme ego, he talked down to all that bought one saying the now famous "You're holding it wrong" comment.
At that moment while holding my iP4 in hand, the one that DID have problems, my respect for Apple & years of trust vanished.
I still enjoy my Apple computers and all, but now I approach my purchases differently and very carefully. I no longer tell people who ask for guidance, to buy from them. I'm not willing to take what has now become a huge risk.
^ how big will it be, Xcode is already 4GB, it takes awhile. I also would want a USB version so I can install on my MBA's.
I had my first run in from MacDefender last night, some how it was linked from a twitter feed. Anyhow, it got nuked, I ended up force quitting Safari so I would not click on anything, and delete what it downloaded from downloads. Glad
is addressing this malware. My Father in Law fell for the whole story in his email, and now is infected, Apple gave him a link to the support page for removal, he is on 10.4.11.
I had my first run in from MacDefender last night, some how it was linked from a twitter feed. Anyhow, it got nuked, I ended up force quitting Safari so I would not click on anything, and delete what it downloaded from downloads. Glad
is addressing this malware. My Father in Law fell for the whole story in his email, and now is infected, Apple gave him a link to the support page for removal, he is on 10.4.11.Unless your internet is really really terrible, it'll be faster than shipping. Just let it sit overnight if you have to.
~3.5 GB. You can restore it to a USB drive.
I'm sure it will be a dmg. You have to burn a DVD and have it at hand for an emergency. A Mac App from the store installs via a script. A system disk, or a disk restore, would run from a script and ask if you want a DVD of it.
What? I was aleviating munkees' fears that they wouldn't be able to get Lion onto a usb drive. What does this have to do with 3 TB drives from newegg?
Two possibilities:
1) You have to buy it AFTER the final Lion release is announced to have a chance to get a free upgrade to Lion upon its release. This meets Apple's requirements from an accounting perspective; they cannot offer you a "free" upgrade unless the final shipping version was already announced prior to your purchase of the Mac.
2) You buy it BEFORE they announce Lion and you MAY qualify for a deeply discounted upgrade like $29 vs full disc at $119 or something.
What? I was aleviating munkees' fears that they wouldn't be able to get Lion onto a usb drive. What does this have to do with 3 TB drives from newegg?
Munkee's question was "how big will it be?" - therefore the fact that 3 TB drives are cheap is relevant.
It will fit.
Ah. I think he was concerned with download time. Obviously it'll fit.
They've never done #2 before, and they only sell full disks, not upgrade disks. #1 is likely, though Apple charges $10 for shipping. Hopefully they'll give people a free redeem code for the App Store instead.