So Leopard’s Delayed
I’m incredibly unconcerned that Leopard (Apple’s upcoming point revision of its OS X operating system) has been delayed. As long as they fix the finder (!!!!), I’ll have nothing really important to criticize in OS X.
This great quote from a discussion at Slashdot sums it up (edited slightly for clarity):
Apple just can’t seem to match Microsoft’s superior delay history. Microsoft has already astounded the world by an amazing THREE YEAR delay between the original Vista release date and the actual release; this impressive delay is one of the longest delays for a product that actually eventually made it out of the front door instead of dying…
And here’s Apple, trying to out-do Microsoft, and the best then can do is delay Leopard for three lousy months - and technically speaking, it’s not much of a delay since the original release date was “Spring 07”.
I mean, come on, Apple. Surely you can break something in Leopard to force a longer delay. Microsoft wins, hands down. Apple still lags way behind MS on viruses, as well. With my Windows machine, unpatched, I have THOUSANDS of viruses that can infect my machine if I want to. Apple just doesn’t give me that ability. Maybe they just don’t care.
Comments
Mykala
Haha. I like that. He’s got a nice style… and he surely speaks the truth.
Alexander Micek
You didn’t say “beep bop boop” on a computer post! Hurrah!
Mykala
I think it may be because I felt like I was only reading about computers in an obscure sense. That, and I’m pretty sure the guy who writes The Superficial and the guy who wrote this are friends. Or perhaps the same man.
Amber
So at first I did not read this, because it was computer talk and I usually skip those. But since Mykala read it, I thought I would too. I didn’t really understand what Alex said, but I like the Slashdot comment!
Mykala +2
We should form a club, Amber. The “Our Boyfriends May or May Not Be Robots” Club. We could have a secret handshake and send out a newsletter.
SO cool.
Amber
I completely agree! We could be a support group for so many other girlfriends out there!
Alexander Micek +1
If the two of you advertised this support group on Slashdot, I’m pretty sure you would find a massive audience of mildly to extremely disgruntled women who have seen their significant others gobbled up by technology.