uhhh, wrong
SP2 was at least as major an upgrade to XP as Leopard will be to Tiger
Allchin, the man behind the OS, has admitted that SP2 should have been released as XP Second Edition (similar to a Mac OS point release) and cost money, but for various reasons he was opposed to that. SP2 introduced a lot of under-the-hood changes to the OS and was anything but a minor revision
SP2 was not an upgrade at all.. what are you thinking! SP2 is at most a patch, a security update.. as upgrade suppose to supply new functionality, and SP2 had none of that. as said already, SP2 should've been part of XP... but since nothing is perfect, they can fix the problem they oversaw in then beginning, they release secure updates. for free. just like the secure updates for OS X are free.
rich ppl are everywhere!
anyway, OSX's every 0.1 increment should charge less than $60, like I said before. In my opinion, it just worth that much. M$ release one update (Vista) in 5 years, and charge $200, Apple release a 0.1 every 1~2 years, and charge $130, its like in 5 years, Apple's OSX charges user $400, altho I like OSX, its just too expensive. I probably stick with Tiger, maybe waiting for next 10.6, pony?
you can't directly compare the 0.1 increment in OS X to the imaginery 0.1 increment in Windows, it doesn't make sense.
every 0.1 increment offers a number of new feature, functionality than it's previous version, just like every major release of windows. every 0.1 increment in OS X is a major release.
a full version of any version of windows at release cost, say, $400 (an average between the pro version and home version when there are more than one)... so from 95 to 98 to 2000 to XP to vista, that's like 12 years, for 5 versions... if you get all of them, that's $2000... given OS X release every 18 months, which means there are 8 releases, each cost 100 ((70+130)/2), that's 800... go figure.
even at your 5 yr for $400, 12 yr is maybe 1000.. still half of 2000
But com'on, expose? How many people use it ? automator? how many people use it? font book? how many people use it? space? isnt that close to virtual desktop? which was there for years. time machine? this kind of function is apple should put in in 10.1, not in 10.5
i use expose, automator daily, and i see myself using time machine when it comes out... my mom, who is not your typical geeks, uses expose and automator daily (heck, i use expose at least once every 5~10 minutes)
you made it sounds like those are pointless little features, does Windows offer something equivalent? no.
well, i always consider "adding small programs that benefit a fraction of users" is never major. While structural re-construction deserve more money. As far as I can see, 0.1 increments were all adding small pieces into system, while I still wait for people to tell me 10.2,.2,.3,.4,.5 have "major structural change".
what structural re-construction did vista have over XP that's so significant?
vista has a very nice GUI, that's about it (not to mention OS X has similar GUI features way before vista).. what else does it have that benefit majority of users? my company still uses Windows 2000, that says how little benefit there is with each "major" release of Windows.
lets face it, "how many codes the developer need to write" is the only standard for price. and I don't see apple developer doing as much as code in developing 0.1 increments than M$'s vista projects.
false.
how many codes? there are good codes, and there are bad codes... a line of good codes are short and efficient, and it does the samething 10 lines of the bad codes do... altho it probably takes the CPU the same time to process a line of code each time the code is run.
i dont professionally write software, but what i do does require a moderate level of computer programming... so don't judge me on my exaggeration, but on my logic.
