To all the haters of Lion: Suck it up. Do any of you realize how hard it is to design an OS that everyone likes? It seems that there are only a few features (and the lack of) that haters seem to hate, so Lion itself is NOT A DOWNGRADE. It's not revolutionary but it fixes many minor issues and adds a lot of useful features to the mix. Personally I rarely use Mission Control's new Exposé and would LOVE the old one back, but in the meantime, I say we all just sit down and use the wonderful OS that Apple has gave us. Also to the guy who's doing a petition, what are the odds that the world's most valuable company would look at a petition with a mere 50,000 signatures on a website loaded with useless petitions?
Funny how you say that for OS X Lion but you'd likely take every opportunity to trounce on a Windows product.
What is your vision of what a downgrade is? Do you merely look at the product versions and assume the one with the higher number is automatically the upgrade?
Whether an OS is an upgrade or downgrade is primarily measured in the level of productivity by using them. If your workers produce less work using Lion than SL, then Lion hurt productivity which constitutes a downgrade in performance. An OS is a tool, a medium in which a user and a computer can interact with each other. If it allows you to do more work in less time, that's a clear upgrade.
Think about the person who invented the washing machine and presented it to someone who washes clothes by hand. For the machine to be worthwhile, it would have to be easier to use, do more work in less time and/or allow the user to do something else (multitask) while the machine did its work.
- Does Lion provide any advantage over SL for multitasking? No.
- Is Lion faster than SL? No.
- Does Lion use less resources than SL? No.
- Is Lion "smarter" making certain (common) tasks easier than SL? No.
So let's look at other issues.
- Does Lion crash (kernelpanic) more than SL? Yes. Most users of SL have never seen a KP until they moved to Lion, even on clean installs.
- Does Lion slow your work down by using it? Yes. Most users almost immediately have to change a lot of settings starting with the inverted scrolling just to get up and running.
- Does Lion introduce problems, during a clean install, where basic features like video, sound, networking or otherwise won't work whereas moving back to SL instantly resolves all their issues? Yes. The fact that things work in SL and not on Lion, during a clean install shows a clear and major problem with Lion.
Now tell me, is Lion really an upgrade over Snow Leopard? No.
