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OS X Mavericks Adoption Pushing Past 7% in Under 24 Hours
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Upgraded my 2011 iMac from Lion and so far, I really like Mavericks. Notifications is great and I can definitely say it's made me more productive. There's a lot that I really like.
One thing I really do not like though, is how The App Store was implemented. Software Update has now been replaced by the App Store. I get why Apple wanted to do it, but by default, the App Store is set to automatically update all installed apps, not just updates from Apple.
This means that despite the fact that there were some programs I did not want to update, everything I acquired through the App Store was updated in the background without my knowledge. I had to go into the System Preferences for the App Store in order to turn that off.
So now, I have 3-4 apps that I did not want upgraded because they either lost functionality or were more crash-prone. Basically, they're now useless to me. If Apple's going to roll Software Update and the App Store into one, they should at least set the defaults to "Off" so people don't have a nasty surprise. The two are a little too intertwined right now.
Buyer beware.
One thing I really do not like though, is how The App Store was implemented. Software Update has now been replaced by the App Store. I get why Apple wanted to do it, but by default, the App Store is set to automatically update all installed apps, not just updates from Apple.
This means that despite the fact that there were some programs I did not want to update, everything I acquired through the App Store was updated in the background without my knowledge. I had to go into the System Preferences for the App Store in order to turn that off.
So now, I have 3-4 apps that I did not want upgraded because they either lost functionality or were more crash-prone. Basically, they're now useless to me. If Apple's going to roll Software Update and the App Store into one, they should at least set the defaults to "Off" so people don't have a nasty surprise. The two are a little too intertwined right now.
Buyer beware.
I'm new to the Mac world. I bought my Mini in February this year after being a long time windows user. I searched anti virus and found a few different products, and chose Avast as it's what I used on my old Dell and had no issues with.
So far it has picked up a few nasties in email attachments, are you saying I don't need it all? Would be nice to not have it using system resources and still be safe.
Must.
Not.
Get.
It.
Now.
Will wait until someone try it out first...
Kind of risky to try something like this with a 09 iMac...
That is so morally wrong, but still funny as heck!
Not.
Get.
It.
Now.
Will wait until someone try it out first...
Kind of risky to try something like this with a 09 iMac...
That is so morally wrong, but still funny as heck!
I got Lion for free, and don't even know why. The charge simply never went through, and I didn't see any reason to complain.
Amazing that Mavericks would have so many people using it less than 24 hours from release when it took me 19 hours to download the thing.
This also seems like a strange point for people to be complaining about older hardware not being supported, since apparently *0* computers that could run 10.8 cannot run 10.9. They dropped *nothing at all.* That they also didn't resume support for anything older isn't exactly startling.
It's the nature of competition to say you are better than everyone else, but I think the difference is that Apple never mentioned its competitors by name. It's obvious who they were talking about, but they never actually mentioned them by name. Good comparative advertising, whether it's cars, computers, or home improvement stores works best when it is more subtle and focuses on concepts rather than saying "We are better than BRAND X."
Having said that, Apple's "I'm a Mac, I'm a PC" ads were pretty effective, but they added an element of humor. On top of that, the "PC" guy was somewhat lovable. Viewers "wanted" to like him, but could see that he was in over his head. Whichever marketing company came up with that campaign did a very good job.
I can almost guarantee that anything it found was windows malware. It can be nice to keep from accidentally forwarding something to a friend using windows, but it isn't something that you need to worry about using.
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It is a new OS just as much as Windows was going from XP to Vista or 7 or 8. There will not be an OS 11 for many years if ever. And if you think that all the versions of OS X are one operating system you clearly haven't used many of them,go back and try running one of the earlier ones, while there are many similarities, most everything has been changed between 10.2 when I started using OS X and 10.9. Some upgrades focus more on stability and under the hood improvements and others do more cosmetic changes, Mavericks seems like a decent balance of the two.
Just copy the installer that finished downloading to the other macs.
Haha, so true!
I thought the same thing! Definitely looked like he consumed some alcohol and those sleeves just added to the effect. Felt weird watching it. At least he appeared to be having fun.
Really don't be afraid, unless of course mission critical software runs on the machine! I'm running Mavericks on a crippled machine right now (dead internal drive) and I must say it is fantastic. It is very much improved for general usage.
By the way iOS 7 had some rough spots but most of them seem to have gone away. At least on iPad 3 they did.
Yes, what rational person wants more performance, and better battery life. Only those without their heads screwed on properly surely!
i just find it pedantic and below the so called market leader to not be able to go through keynote highlighting unnamed competitors shortcomings. thats just me.
this is a room full of smart people with interest in this business they know how this features stack up amongst rival products. for instance im painfully aware that google docs for instance dosent come cose to having these cool alignment guides that iwork users probably take for granted.
yes the mac and pc ads were of similar ilk but they had that harmless humor, charm and likeness added to it which cook, schiller, cue etc do not have imo to justify these kind of potshots
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So almost 25% of Macs still run SnowLeopard; though hardly surprising, that is higher than I thought.
Will update my MBA from ML to Mavericks, but I'm happily staying with SnowLeopard on the desktop as long as the updates keep coming.
installed mavericks on my mid 2007 first aluminium iMac with a 250gb SSD. It's a freaking bomb. Thanks apple, 6 years and running like on fire.
Those on snow leopard, you people make me laugh. you're like those who still run XP. Memory compression and that geeky thing with processor is worth alone updating.
Those on snow leopard, you people make me laugh. you're like those who still run XP. Memory compression and that geeky thing with processor is worth alone updating.
Wrong. Windows 8 took 14 month to be on 8.02% of their user-base.
Mac did 7.66% of their user-base in just 24-hours.
yes you can compare as not every desktop or laptop out there is on windows (e.g linux, bsd etc)
Try clicking on the 24hours option - probably best to have an average for the day rather than a 6 hour period - currently that's at 8.20% (though it changes a lot)
As usual, Ars has the best review...
What stood out for me, power improvements aside, the interface is still a schizo mess - obvious attempt to strip out all the cutesy (stitched leather) interface elements, yet icons not updated, some apps (game center) not changed at all etc.
And the finder is still a mess and apparently it's now cool to be completely abstract in what an interface element is supposed to do and tool tips is becoming a thing of the past.
Thanks, but I'll stick with Snow Leopard.
Wake me up when 'OS X Jeff Spicoli' comes out...
What stood out for me, power improvements aside, the interface is still a schizo mess - obvious attempt to strip out all the cutesy (stitched leather) interface elements, yet icons not updated, some apps (game center) not changed at all etc.
And the finder is still a mess and apparently it's now cool to be completely abstract in what an interface element is supposed to do and tool tips is becoming a thing of the past.
Thanks, but I'll stick with Snow Leopard.
Wake me up when 'OS X Jeff Spicoli' comes out...
Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 are all built upon the Vista platform. Actually, if you run a Ver command in the command line, you'll see that "Windows 7" is version 6.1, and "Windows 8" is version 6.2. So in that respect, they are not new OS at all, but just updates to Vista.
Arguably, Windows NT 3.1, Windows 95, Windows XP, and Windows Vista are the "New OS" in the Windows era. Everything else was just an update of one of those.