Apple's Missed Opportunity With Leopard Delay

An anonymous reader writes "According to an article on OSWeekly.com, Apple missed a big opportunity by not releasing Leopard soon. They could've taken advantage of Vista's losing streak and one upped Microsoft, the author suggests. 'It's not uncommon for Windows users and technology consumers in general to say that Microsoft missed out on making the most of Vista both before and after its launch. Longtime fans of Windows have changed their tone due to Vista's inadequacies, and regular users are in many cases stuck with trying to figure out why they still can't get certain things to work within the operating system. Granted, it's not a completely horrific OS, but is that even a compliment worth accepting?'"

Re:That depends.

[wootest]

horrific adjective

see Windows Me

Re:Right, they should have followed Microsoft's le

[speaker of the truth]

Krazy Kitten (oops, that's the next Ubuntu release, sorry)

No, no. Its horny horses. Ubuntu still has to get through Indecent Iguana's and Jolly Jackrabbits before it gets to Krazy Kittens.

Same as it ever was

[maggard]

Apple missed a big opportunity by not releasing Leopard soon.

Yeah, they shoulda released it around 1989, before Windows 3.0 shipped...

Think of all the misery they'd have saved everyone!

I miss Steve Irwin

[Quiet_Desperation]

Longtime fans of Windows...

The amazing thing is that such a creature still exists in the wild.

Re:Hows' that?

[Anonymous Coward]

Quarts Extreme is what the rest of the world calls a litre.

Hope that helps.

Re:Right, they should have followed Microsoft's le

[B1ackDragon]

Apple customers ... will eat you alive.

When confronted with an Apple customer who you think may eat you alive, it's important to remember that to actually kill or disable them, you MUST remove the HEAD from the BODY.

Re:Macs are not replacing Windows PCs

[Anonymous Coward]

I thought Linux was the poor man's Linux...?

Re:At least half right, anyway

[Anonymous Coward]

And this is why you don't understand Mac's and the people who buy them.

You're so misunderstood! Mac users are unique snowflakes! How can these conformist squares not see that?!

Re:Hardly...

[jordandeamattson]

Actually, most Windows users are trained to get new hardware when they get a new US. For the average user, the difficulty of a Windows OS upgrade leads to them just junking the old and going to the new.

Apple is capitalizing on this by offering migration services at its Apple Stores. Just drop off the old Mac or PC when you buy a new one, and they will move everything over for you and get it configured right.

Yours,

Jordan

Re:I miss Steve Irwin

[Anonymous Coward]

Windows doesn't have fans. It has trolls who follow everything M$ says without question.

Thank goodness Apple doesn't have any of those!

Re:Soon?

[Womens Shoes]

I think he meant "more soonly".

Re:Macs are not replacing Windows PCs

[GPL Apostate]

Don't interfere with his 'Porsche' metaphor, dammit. He's depressed enough that he spent so much on a PC without much to differentiate it from his brother in law's Dell.

Re:OSWeekly is wrong

[HopeOS]

You basically bypassed the entire argument, and went on about nothing at all. I'm declaring victory and going out for a beer. I don't really care what you do.

On a final note before I go, everyone here knows what disk caching is. But if your build is disk-bound, then pre-caching does nothing for you. You still have to load the data.

As for the display issues, it seems like you know enough to be dangerous, not enough to use it constructively. Unlike you, I recognize everyone's accomplishments in the field. You're too busy being amazed by stuff that I find unremarkable and not unique. Just for kicks, check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeWS [wikipedia.org]. That idea is so old it farts dust.

You want real world examples? Let me go on and on about Vista and what EDS, IBM, NASA, Lockheed Martin, GM and even EDS Europe thinks of Vista...

I think they should speak for themselves. And IBM didn't seem to think that highly of it. Makes me wonder about the rest.

I'm sure your developers and IT people are far smarter than the average person at EDS or Lockheed...

It's possible that we might be... who knows. We have our share of chumps and yes-man, but our senior developers are all world-class. Some of us consider reverse-engineering the Windows kernels to be entertainment. Some of us turn out multi-million dollar products in a month that would have taken lesser teams years. I don't know if that makes us smart or just very capable.

I bet they understand computers better than my colleagues at NASA as well...

Well, better than you, anyway.

I get so tired of 'my experience' is the greatest and represents the world crap...

What other experience do you think possibly matters to me, my company, and my clients? It was your so-called experience that was so far out of line with virtually the entire world's experience that prompted me to reply in the first place. The only other possibility was that you're just a troll. Unfortunately, you know more about the underlying technology than a troll which makes you worse, an amateur with a big mouth.

Go out and get some air. You've worked hard for it.

-Hope

Re:Macs are not replacing Windows PCs

[Reaperducer]

You don't consider this a feature, do you? I'd rather be able to choose which media that I use rather than have Apple dictate that I only use certain discs.

I can see it both ways. Sometimes you want to slap in whatever disc you have lying around for a quick burn. For my purposes, I use very high quality media because it's what my clients expect, and it has to last a long time. If I was in the sort of job where that didn't matter, I might think differently. I don't think of it as Apple dictating what discs I can use. I think of it as Apple making sure I don't waste my time making unreliable discs that won't last. Garbage in - garbage out.

I also wouldn't necessarily consider macs wanting high quality RAM chips a good thing either... as somebody with an E.E. degree, that tells me that they have designed so poorly that the slightest value variation will break everything. IMO, it is a better design if you can deal with a wider variety of specs.

It's not about the hardware, it's about the software. It was explained to me once on another web site, but I didn't retain the information. It was too technical for me. But it's the same reason you used to be able to get away with the cheap RAM in Windows boxes, too. But now even Microsoft wants the good stuff.

To compare an Apple to a Porsche is confirmation to me that I don't need one. I'll stick with Linux.

I understand. I used to drive a pick-up truck when I was young, too.