Well, let's look at a couple of other issues as well... IMMEDIATELY, after Mountain Lion installs, AND you TRY and start various, STANDARD, applications like mail, contacts or Safari, be REAL careful what happens.... Let's start with 'Contects' (address book) ... On my install TODAY, the initial setup thought my old pop mail account was in fact an iCloud account... UGLY. So, the way that Mountain Lion looks at 'contacts' as part of 'mail' and iCloud is a bit odd. Mountain Lion could not figure out who it was or what it was or where to go to find out when trying to 'update' my contacts database (217 entries) .... It just sits and churns in a loop FOREVER. Luckily, I was sitting at a Genius Bar, otherwise I would STILL be trying to figure this out. A 'genius' helped me by deleting some .plist files (he did it too fast for me to follow) but it was not fun.
THEN, because the initial setup process thought my old pop account was an iCloud account and allegedly messed up my 'contacts' database, when I started the Mountain Lion MAIL client, things got REAL strange... the new Mail just IGNORED almost all of the mail FOLDERS in my mail client from Snow Leopard... Just ignored them... I had to retrieve my latest Time Machine back-up and get my old email folders from that back-up. NOW, I have to IMPORT these into the new Mountain Lion mail client... This will take hours...
All in all... UGLY. AND, I was at an Apple Store !!!!!
Apple have banked the entire future of Mac OS X into Mountain Lion. If it flops expect Macs to take even more of a back seat to iOS for years to come.
Then explain why almost every thread about ML should be fair game for people to complain they have not received their code yet.
Looks like Lion was Apple's Vista. That's all changed now. Totally happy.
my big gripe with 10.8 Lion is the lack of support for my main mac pro 8 cores of 3ghz xeon 16gb ram..powerful graphics cards
but not powerful enough to save text edit documents to icloud...my arse
come and register a vote of protest if you have an orphaned mac pro, share your grief
https://www.facebook.com/AppleBringMountainLionSupportToEarlyMacPros
...which means 97% isn't coming from ML. Doesn't sound like a triumph to me.
From the age of the OS sure. Lets take Mac OS X 10.0 instead if you like. Microsoft's support cycles are simply ridiculous.
I bet the majority of that 97% doesn't even know ML exists yet. I actually think ~3% isn't bad for the first 48.
The entire business and corporate world disagrees with you. And hundreds of millions of users who have to work for the money that they spend on software also have a different point of view - they love Microsoft for making their investments last.
Looks like Lion was Apple's Vista. That's all changed now. Totally happy.
It didn't change. ML still has the same crappy scrollbars.
I'm still on Snow Leopard and will not update to Mountain Lion.
The entire business and corporate world disagrees with you. And hundreds of millions of users who have to work for the money that they spend on software also have a different point of view - they love Microsoft for making their investments last.
Show me one person who _loves_ Microsoft.
Dude, for me anyways, the scroll-bars are a totally minor issue. Didn't even know about that till some people mentioned it.
That wasn't at all what he said. He said that IT people love vendors with clear, defined support roadmaps and that offer LTS so that migrations are kept to a strict minimum.
These are corporate entities, you don't have to love them as such and in fact, you shouldn't _love_ companies at all. They don't love you.
it still amazes me how many people are willing to just jump on a version 0 of a major software update, without waiting to see if there are problems, or at least until version .1
The unusable scrollbars and the lack of Rosetta are the major FAILs of both Lions.
I think it's easier to get a three percent adoption rate when only 10 people use your stuff than it is when 1000 people use it. That's the ratio of Mac users compared to PCs. 3% just sounds more impressive than giving a real number. There are more people out there that are still using Vista than there ever were Mac users...
You can revert the scrollbars to the previous behaviour: "always visible" - if that's what you meant...