Comments on: Mac OS X 10.6 to debut at WWDC 08? Not a chance.

By: richard

richard — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:53:38 +0000

Well, i love apple and mac os X, but to see an os comeing out that is roomered to have no new features?? i can’t believe that. it’s not like apple to call something like that a mager releace. if it was supposed to have no new features and just security fixes, they could have just have made a security update. as for this roomer that we are about to say bye to ppcs, i know one person with a powerbook G4 running mac os x 10.2 jaguar, and another who is running mac os x 10.3 panther on a ibook G3 witch cost him nothing at all. niether of these people like to keep very up to date with oporating systems but when you get that far behind, even they have to admit that it is time to move on. but now, they will have to get a new computer each because they can’t keep up to date with snowlepard if the roomers are true.
as for this being the first os for PC, firstly, mac make most of there money from hardware not software.
i looked on the apple website and they are now celling an imac with 3.06GHZ processer for Â£1739,. add onto that custumised hardware, you have a computer that is around Â£2000. about $4000. mac os x lepard costs 89 pounds for the upgrade. if they made snowlepard for pc as well as for macs, what do you think will happen, everyone will buy pcs and install mac os x on them to save there own money.
also, the thing that keeps mac so secure is the lac of super-mass production. mac os x lepard has 1% of viruses made for it but windows takes up the other 99%. this is because windows is in extreme mass production and everyone uses it.
mac computers have a system that makes it posible to take the thing out of the box, plug it in, and fire it up, set up accounts and your ready. this goes for after you have installed the newest os on your mac. when you install windows, your drivers might not be working propilly, you might not have them installed or there just might be a falt and then you can’t do anything until they are put right. that can cost about 78 pounds to fix at places like PCworld.
i am a voiceover user, the builtin screen reader in mac os x lepard is great. but if there is one thing i can really praze apple on, it is makeing the install of the os accessable. microsoft windows vista cheats in the way that you can abort booting from the cd and install within windows xp but it takes longer. if you didn’t know that you would have to boot from the cd and ask for sited assistence from someone else, you would be, to use the turm loosly, a bit scrooed. the windows installs don’t even let you run narator for gods sake. even something as bad as that would be a help.
back to the point.
Summary: mac is so big because it is small. In even more simple turms, the mac platform is secure because not many people use it.
thanks.
richard.

By: Eduardo Marques

Eduardo Marques — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:40:46 +0000

Where are the fly monkeys?

By: Philou

Philou — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 17:43:07 +0000

Perhaps Mac OSX Snow Leopard would become the first Mac OS for… PC ?

It’ll justify to release a major OS change, without PPC code inside and that there would be any new feature (for Mac user…)

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:52:21 +0000

The average time between releases of OSX is roughly 13.4 months (I did the math), which means that if it comes out in January it would be giving Apple about 15 months to code it. This doesn’t seem unreasonable to me in the least.

By: Alex cumbers

Alex cumbers — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 00:20:39 +0000

no way any new OS will be released in Jan 2009. there’s far too much going on with the iPhone right now!

Also no way Apple is going to annoy millions of PPC users either.

Jan 2010 for next release, here’s hoping for a tablet before then!

By: Jeffsters

Jeffsters — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 18:26:23 +0000

I hope your butt doesn’t hurt! Snow Leopard WILL be distributed at WWDC.

By: Eytan

Eytan — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 18:16:39 +0000

I disagree that 10.6 will not support PPC. When the Intel Macs shipped Apple was pretty clear that the next two OSs would be PPC OSs. They tend to support hardware going back at least 5 years with OS releases. They will NOT be abandoning 3 year old hardware with an OS release (if it comes out in 2009).
They MAY say goodbye to G4s, but I doubt that as well.

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:45:06 +0000

“Security and stability” sounds like an incremental change . . . maybe 10.5.4 will be announced Monday. I’ve only been a Mac user (and fanatic) for the last 4 years . . . but I have to agree with Michael that an major OS X change usually means new features, or increased performance, not “security & stability”. I gladly plunked down the money for a Family Pack for 10.5. I doubt I would plunk down more of my hard earned money (in a worsening economy) for no additional features, or performance.

By: krye

krye — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:33:10 +0000

I don’t disagree that 10.6 will mark then end of the PPC support, but there’s no way that Apple is going to release an OS just for that. No way. And since there has not been so much as a single rumble about any new “possible” feature additions, I highly doubt that anything they add to 10.6 couldn’t just as easliy be released in 10.5.4.

By: Mike Lane

Mike Lane — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:54:30 +0000

“And monkeys will fly out of my butt.” That would be pretty funny site! I think this is the first time I have ever heard that phrase I’ll have to remember this one.

According to the release date history that Lucky lists it is possible we could see a new release in January but who can really tell the future. Maybe those that can make monkeys fly from there butts. LOL

By: dirk vandekerkhove

dirk vandekerkhove — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:44:32 +0000

it’s not that impossible… think about it: Steve Jobs said not so long ago he liked to see a new OS every 12-18 months, if it comes out in january, it’s just what he wants. And on what other occasion could he give such an announcement? I think this is a real possibility… on the other hand, i don’t believe in the ‘no feature’ -rumor. i love the week before wwdc: excitement! lol

By: Lucky

Lucky — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:41:49 +0000

I agree that it can’t possibly have 0 new features, but I think it’s possible to introduce it in January. It wouldn’t be a big deal actually. There were other releases like that before. It’s normal.

Mac OS X
10.0 March 2001
10.1 September 2001 (a few months later)
10.2 August 2002 (less than 1 year later)
10.3 October 2003 (1 year and a little later)
10.4 April 2005 (1 year and a half later)
10.5 October 2007 (2 years and a half, originally planned for 2 years)

I guess it got slower with time.

So yeah, 15 months of development is not big deal for Apple. It’s normal.