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CNET is reporting that an update that fixes the issue is being released by Apple this evening.
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Snow Leopard Security Update Kills PowerPC Apps Using Rosetta
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Some earlier posters say it is already here.
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That's a good point. What's interesting is that Lion came out a little more than 5 years after the first Intel-based Macs came out. Perhaps there was something in Apple's agreement with Transitive or even IBM's agreement with Apple that limited the length of time it was in effect. If Transitive were still an independent company, perhaps they would have still wanted the royalties, but IBM might rather not have emulation software "in the wild" that replicates a processor that they still sell (albeit mostly for embedded applications).
Nothing surprising really.
I know critics are not welcomes on this fanboy forum, but I've been using Mac since I'm 14 and clearly this is the beginning of the end. You can't tell that by the current numbers, because sure, Apple has now gone mainstream and make crazy money.
But that's exactly why smart, early adopters will soon ditch Apple: what Apple used to be good with, as the alternative outsider to Microsoft, was quality control, innovation, more easily accessible options etc...
Now Macs will have more and more bugs, and for those who know what Planned Obsolescence is, devices will less and less solid. Plus they don't innovate anymore, the iPhone 4S for is an iPhone 4 with a useless faster chip, a slightly better camera, and a voice gadget nobody uses after playing with it for the first month. As for OSX Lion, it's a failure, that's the less installed OSX upgrade of all time, lots of people stayed on Snow Leopard.
And finally, of course, Steve Jobs is gone, and official documents show that he has the iPhone 5 ready. I don't whose decision it was to finally just release a crappy iPhone 4 update one year after the first one, even if they were sure to sell crapload of them thanks to stupid sheep consumer who just discovered Apple (lots of stupid bvtches now have an Iphone or Macbook in my class, and they don't know what Cocoa or Spaces are...)...after the mainstream, there is always the demise.
I know critics are not welcomes on this fanboy forum, but I've been using Mac since I'm 14 and clearly this is the beginning of the end. You can't tell that by the current numbers, because sure, Apple has now gone mainstream and make crazy money.
But that's exactly why smart, early adopters will soon ditch Apple: what Apple used to be good with, as the alternative outsider to Microsoft, was quality control, innovation, more easily accessible options etc...
Now Macs will have more and more bugs, and for those who know what Planned Obsolescence is, devices will less and less solid. Plus they don't innovate anymore, the iPhone 4S for is an iPhone 4 with a useless faster chip, a slightly better camera, and a voice gadget nobody uses after playing with it for the first month. As for OSX Lion, it's a failure, that's the less installed OSX upgrade of all time, lots of people stayed on Snow Leopard.
And finally, of course, Steve Jobs is gone, and official documents show that he has the iPhone 5 ready. I don't whose decision it was to finally just release a crappy iPhone 4 update one year after the first one, even if they were sure to sell crapload of them thanks to stupid sheep consumer who just discovered Apple (lots of stupid bvtches now have an Iphone or Macbook in my class, and they don't know what Cocoa or Spaces are...)...after the mainstream, there is always the demise.
For me there is no alternative for 1. quicken 2007 2. Personal Organizer (Chronos) and not interested in hearing how I need to move on.
Lots of pontificating here, telling people when to let go and why; lots of paranoia about apple's motives, and here we are, the expected fix. Thanks for posting.
Umm....
Leopard intro'd in late 2007
Snow Leopard intro'd in 2010
Lion intro'd in 2011.
Not sure why your dates are wrong? These OS's were discussed a year before they came out, yes.
The first few rounds of Intel Macs shipped with 10.4 Tiger.
Having to upgrade to Word 2011 is a complete pain. Not doing it until I absolutely must.
I guess people weren't upgrading fast enough to their crappy Lion "upgrade" and so now they're trying to kill Snow Leopard's usefulness in order to get people to figure "why not". I think adding a Rosetta option (hey, I still like to play Diablo II sometimes) to Lion would be more effective than screwing the pooch in Snow Leopard, but then this is Apple we're talking about and they do stupid things...like that whole Final Cut Pro X thing, for example. 
In our home we upgraded to Lion months ago. It's running on all of our four MacBook Pros - and we have experienced zero problems. All macs were upgraded with a clean OS X Lion install.
I really don't think you have a lot to fear. And Lion is packed with cool new stuff.
Rosetta dead too early. Oh. . No fun.
So i need iCloud on Snow Leopard instead!
I do hope 10.6.9 includes this support, and that iCloud is stable when I get forced to use it.
Got the 1.1 security update this morning. It works.
I could tell Apples QC was going down the toilet when I got 2 of the first gen Unibody MacBook Pro's with THUMB PRINTS BEHIND the glass screen... then we had the yellow screen problem..
But the software, man they have got come serious issues now! I mean you launch a world wide big update and it breaks computers?? You have an excuse when your MS, NOT when your Apple and all the machines are made by you!! IMO the iPhone is just as bad.
My computer ran nice and fast and smooth after I installed 8GB of Ram last weekend, since the update it's now slow again
like Safari glitches when scrolling up and down a page, didn't do that after my 8GB ram went in!However at least they have updated the video drivers or something cause Starcraft 2 no longer has broken FPS.
Sorry for winging, it's just I expected better from Apple considering it controls every aspect of what it sells and updates...
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Same reason yours are and here's why : No one bothers to look things up anymore before posting.
Mac OS X v10.5 "Leopard" was released on October 26, 2007. First discussed in June 2005 by Steve Jobs, indicating a late 2006 release that was missed.
Mac OS X v10.6 "Snow Leopard" was released on August 28, 2009. Publicly unveiled June 2009 (though betas were around before that)
Mac OS X v10.7 "Lion" was released on July 20, 2011. First public appearance October 2010.
Basically it takes 2 years for an Apple OS to become rock solid. For those of you with short memories, both Leopard and Snow Leopard were really buggy on release. My Mac became a brick when I upgraded on day one of Leopard, so I sat it out for Snow Leopard until 10.6.6 and things were ok. Now I just sit back and enjoy the circus for Lion, knowing that it'll be rock solid in 2 years time. Having said that, I was lulled into installing the 2012-001 update for Snow Leopard. Will always remember now to wait for a while to see if new releases have bugs. I knew that, but got lulled into complacency.
If it wasn't for the iCloud issue and Mobile Me disappearing in the summer, this is by far the best stance if you have an older computer, but for those with new machines it is not so easy.
Unless there is the rumoured 10.6.9 with iCloud, Apple seem to be ditching quite a few customers with MobileMe which seems a strange strategy.
Given its so important no doubt he has an incremental clone back up using Carbon Copy Cloner taken regularly or Time Machine done hourly so you saved him having to do a restore.
No one doesn't have regular back ups these days, given how simple it is, do they?
Quite true. Leopard and Snow Leopard were the "worst OSes ever" upon initial release, and then upon the release of their respective successors became the "best, most stable operating systems" ever released by Apple.
In truth, given Apple's quick release cycles (8 major releases in 11 years), it's pretty good. Also consider that, apart from Windows 7 (which was really more like Vista SP3), Windows releases were often unstable at first, but became more stable with time.
I expect that attitude from someone who uses his computer for nothing more than Facebook and Twitter. Businesses on the other hand don't upgrade at the drop of a hat; they require interoperability across a wide age range of hardware and OSs. And FYI, large corporations are still using mainframe systems and the associated OSs from the 70s.
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You've obviously never run a business with a $50,000 piece of custom software.
Rosetta dead too early. Oh. . No fun.
So i need iCloud on Snow Leopard instead!
If iCloud were available on SL I'd wipe my Lion partition in a heartbeat.