Maybe the whining is a good sign?
PCmag isn’t so happy about Leopard. ZDnet comments.
Maybe it’s true then that Apple is gaining marketshare, and now they just need to work harder. Let’s see if that happens. Apple for sure knew about at least some of the bugs in advance and still went ahead and released Leopard. They must have calculated that it would cost more to delay the release than to fix it later. Put another way, they must have calculated that loss of shine on their fine brand would suffer more if Leopard was delayed than if it contained annoying bugs. Either way, they just didn’t have the time or the resources to get it right with version x.0.
Obviously that sucks. No one likes a system that doesn’t work. And we are all counting on Apple to not just have the good guy image, but to be the good guy. Is that unrealistic?
Still, I find that most of PCMags ranting is just a matter of taste. So who cares that the guy is annoyed with rounded menubar corners. He’s just piling personal taste on top of a bug report there, as far as I’m concerned. He is entitled to his opininon, but it’s hardly a flaw in Leopard. Apple is all about the details, and I personally happen to like the rounded corners. It’s a fun change, that’s all, and in Lion or whatever the next OS X 10.6 is called, they are going to change again. I just don’t see the point in whining about little details like that, just give the guys at Apple some creative freedom. Besides, these are things that keep developing with time. You just can’t invent too much of the future today. Apple makes it as nice as they can, and next year they can do it even better. Or go back to a previous version, only a bit different. It’s an iteration process, no doubt.
Take a look at Windows 95 or Mac OS 9, and you’ll be only glad they both kept developing.
But if you want to make a big fuss about such things, go ahead. The bugs though, they should be crushed ASAP. So keep blogging about that. And one more thing, let users comment on your writing, makes your more believable!
Recent Comments