With every iteration of Mac OS, one can wait for the bugs to be fixed. Also, the way it looks isn't so radically different. In other words, it has always appeared (and I may have a bad memory and there may be some instances where this is not entirely accurate) to morph visually over time.
This new version is so radically different my wife won't even go near it. We were in my car when my phone (5) kept push-notifying me that there was an update. I asked her to update it, not thinking.
Now I have this new OS. It is a completely different phone. I didn't buy into this. That is just how it affected me, as a consumer.
There are 200 million people using this and no one is unhappy, or just mildly inconvenienced. I rely heavily on digital stuff, esp my iPhone.
So, when it gets a radical overhaul, I would like to have the option to revert to the way it was before. But, for some reason, the iOS isn't like that (at least from what I can tell).
I ran Snow Leopard up until about a month ago. Then upgraded at my own leisure. I could probably go back, but the change isn't so radically different, so I'm fine.
This new 7 GUI is pretty different. I think it is very clean in a Windows sort of way. I have alluded to the fact that I think Apple is changing, culturally, from a creative almost rebellious company to a corporate citizen here to serve the masses.
I always thought that was Bill Gates' thing. I guess I am wrong. I have vented a few times in recent months and gotten blasted for it. Really personal stuff. Just seems like the individual voice is stifled here, more and more....