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OS X Mountain Lion Downloaded 3 Million Times in Four Days
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I'm still running XP on my Bootcamp partition as I still have a bunch of old games to play and it stand a better chance than running Win 7
Mountain Lion is running so well for me that I've already deleted from my personal memory the name of the version that came before.
There was Snow Leopard which was wonderful. Then there was a time of annoyances & now thankfully Mountain Lion has saved the day!
There was Snow Leopard which was wonderful. Then there was a time of annoyances & now thankfully Mountain Lion has saved the day!
Heh... yep... the later, I think
As soon as I heard the initial reports of the "little things" adjusted in Mountain Lion, I upgraded every Mac in our household capable of running it.
Honestly, it's not so much that Mountain Lion adds great new features or capabilities. It's that in many ways, it's Apple's corrections to the half-baked and rushed concepts thrown into Lion's release. I think of it like a major "service pack" in the Microsoft world for one of their products.
I know one of my best friends will upgrade to it simply because it puts back the expose functionality Apple's stupidly removed in Lion. That, alone, kept him on Snow Leopard up till now.
In my case, I'm liking some of the "hardly mentioned or noticed" improvements such as iCal finally having proper 2-way sync support for Google Calendars (even when you have multiple "sub calendars" created under a main Google calendar). That never worked right before, and was a huge pain if you used an Android phone, and therefore relied on Google as your "common storage space" for calendars/contacts/etc.
As soon as I heard the initial reports of the "little things" adjusted in Mountain Lion, I upgraded every Mac in our household capable of running it.
Honestly, it's not so much that Mountain Lion adds great new features or capabilities. It's that in many ways, it's Apple's corrections to the half-baked and rushed concepts thrown into Lion's release. I think of it like a major "service pack" in the Microsoft world for one of their products.
I know one of my best friends will upgrade to it simply because it puts back the expose functionality Apple's stupidly removed in Lion. That, alone, kept him on Snow Leopard up till now.
In my case, I'm liking some of the "hardly mentioned or noticed" improvements such as iCal finally having proper 2-way sync support for Google Calendars (even when you have multiple "sub calendars" created under a main Google calendar). That never worked right before, and was a huge pain if you used an Android phone, and therefore relied on Google as your "common storage space" for calendars/contacts/etc.
The fact that apple sells less computers isn't necessarily a bad thing. They could sell less computers because they last longer than the average PC and therefore don't have to be replaced. All the people in my family have had to replace their PC's every year due to the hardware failing after there out of warranty.
My 2 year old MacBook Pro runs ML fine without any hardware changes but when I went to upgrade my mothers PC to 7 I had to get a new graphics caed and 2 more GB of ram for it to work well.
My 2 year old MacBook Pro runs ML fine without any hardware changes but when I went to upgrade my mothers PC to 7 I had to get a new graphics caed and 2 more GB of ram for it to work well.
So far Mountain Lion is running great. Not really using any of the new features, but I'm sure I will over time.
You hit the nail on the head.
I predict adaption of Windows 8 will be slow, at best. Sure, it will come preloaded on new PCs, but there's no way businesses and schools who either just upgraded to or will be upgrading to Windows 7 will consider deploying Windows 8. I suspect Windows 7 will be the Windows XP of this decade in terms of longevity.
I used to get very excited about OS X updates and news... Until 10.7 Lion. I still have the beta's from Tiger, Leopard and Snow Leopard as some have some really great features that never made it to the GM.
I loved Leopard "Answering Machine" feature in "iChat". It allowed users to leave a recorded video away message, and for people to leave an audio or video message in response. It was a great feature that would have been perfect for the deaf and especially prefect for FaceTime with so many iDevices having video chat capabilities. ZFS was also tested, as well as some needed Finder tweaks.
Then came the iPhone and iOS focus. OS X lost its touch for me. While 10.8 ML is a much needed improvement over 10.7 Lion, I still hold 10.6 Snow Leopard as the gold standard for what OS X used to/should be.
It's funny, because I remember all the whining threads about Snow Leopard. I guess some things never change. There will always be someone to whine about the new OS release.
People like to post problems about Apple, here is my very good support post from ML
Well, I was one of users last week that was waiting a long time for the ML up-to-date problem, so I wrote a email to Tim Cook and the head of the Customers Relations emailed me back and understood the issues and they were looking into the problems. Nice to see Apple respond.
I also was trying the test to see if I had ML in the app store because was eligible to get the update because of the new macbook pro. I emailed the App Store and told them by mistake clicked on purchase that day and within 24 hours they responded very nicely back to me and said that they would be refunding the amount back to my account. And sure enough this morning it was there on the store.
I think that Apple one again has proven to be a upstanding company caring for customers and I will be a Apple user for life.
I think that Apple could do better on software rollouts like ML in the future, finding another mechanism for OS updates for existing users. They have most of our information, the store should know what systems we have and day one and hour one we should be able to download. Hoping OS X 10.9 goes smoother and Apple has learned a couple of lessons for the next release.
But Apple is still the best hardware and software developer on the planet.
Well, I was one of users last week that was waiting a long time for the ML up-to-date problem, so I wrote a email to Tim Cook and the head of the Customers Relations emailed me back and understood the issues and they were looking into the problems. Nice to see Apple respond.
I also was trying the test to see if I had ML in the app store because was eligible to get the update because of the new macbook pro. I emailed the App Store and told them by mistake clicked on purchase that day and within 24 hours they responded very nicely back to me and said that they would be refunding the amount back to my account. And sure enough this morning it was there on the store.
I think that Apple one again has proven to be a upstanding company caring for customers and I will be a Apple user for life.
I think that Apple could do better on software rollouts like ML in the future, finding another mechanism for OS updates for existing users. They have most of our information, the store should know what systems we have and day one and hour one we should be able to download. Hoping OS X 10.9 goes smoother and Apple has learned a couple of lessons for the next release.
But Apple is still the best hardware and software developer on the planet.
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No, no it was Tiger. When Spotlight WORKED.It's funny, because I remember all the whining threads about Snow Leopard. I guess some things never change. There will always be someone to whine about the new OS release.
I'll get an internal *booru or shimmie up one of these days. Better to go open source when it comes to metadata.
Spotlight and Finder do not bring Top Hits like they once did. Quick Look was another nail in that coffin. Oh an the Open/Save dialog sorting options do not match Finder's! Argh.
It's funny, because I remember all the whining threads about Snow Leopard. I guess some things never change. There will always be someone to whine about the new OS release.
True, but there certainly seem to be many more complaints on 10.7 and 10.8. Even the ADC forums were blowing up with issues, more than I'd seen since 10.1. I still have open cases, and Apple engineers have been requesting more information on them. These issues date back to 10.7 DP's.
From my friends in Cupertino, Apple is stretching their engineering departments thin, especially in OS X. They need to start hiring more engineers, and "think different" again. I'm tired of iOS, and I'm esp tired of seeing in on my Mac Pro. "Game Center"? No. How about better OpenGL Core support, or Finder improvements. I really miss FULL "Time Machine" support for iPhoto; it was once possible to open "iPhoto" then click on "Time Machine" to recover individual photographs/events/albums. Now, you need to restore your entire library if you accidentally delete a pic! This seems trifling, but it's definitely a point of contention, especially with "Aperture".
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It is interesting to note that this number might be a lot lower than the number of upgrades that was performed. I know that I downloaded it once, and then created a USB stick to perform the upgrade on two other Macs in my household. Granted, not everyone is going to have done that--anybody else here take that approach?
It is interesting to note that this number might be a lot lower than the number of upgrades that was performed. I know that I downloaded it once, and then created a USB stick to perform the upgrade on two other Macs in my household. Granted, not everyone is going to have done that--anybody else here take that approach?
If Apple sold 4 million computers last quarter, that would be 43,715 a day.
43,715 a day = June 11 to July 25 = 44 days = 1,923,460 download in upgrades and that would assume everybody already downloaded their upgrades immediately, which wasn't possible due to Apple's code issue snafu.
With codes only given after 72 hours the 3 million is maybe 2 or 2.5 million .
Don't see how any of it is something to sneeze at.
Installed ML on 2 MBPs. Overall ML is great, but we have had some issues. Ethernet with manual ip address is not working, and Mail is intermittently struggling with Exchange. The Ethernet issue is a big problem for us. The mail issue is so far mostly a nuisance.
I never knew iPhoto and Time Machine were really capable of that. I recall my first impression is that Time Machine was completely integrated into OS X and Apple's own applications. The Time Machine interface would spring to life inside an application and show previous backups. I was rather disappointed with what it really turned out to be.
I guess Versions handles some of that but I would not consider it a backup.