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So, I’m installing Leopard on my PowerBook (Leopard is the new version of Mac’s OSX operating system) and found further evidence of a theory of mine.

I was a PC person up until 2003 when I bought my first Mac. I loved it and am currently on my third Mac (only one of them died–the other I still use). However, before I was a Mac person I knew Windows machines pretty thoroughly and even built myself one. I’ve also done the equivalent of building at least one more (by upgrading other people’s PCs). So, I could see the trend–and I saw the direction Windows was going in and decided 2003 was a good time to try out a Mac. I did and in the intervening years I’ve watched OSX become more and more Windows-like.

The longer it’s up the slower it runs, the random conflicts with devices (most recently my brand new Netgear wifi router) and now installing Leopard I see that it takes three times as long to install OSX compared to Tiger (the previous version) which took just 30-40 minutes.

What’s going on Steve? Each time your market share grows larger your product gets more and more like your competition. Seems like you’re missing that whole "diversity" thing–and in a real bad way, too. If you’re going to rip off you’re opponent, rip off the good stuff, not the bad!

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Reinforcing the classic pessimistic argument against upgrading, “if it isn’t broken don’t fix it,” early adopters of Apple’s OSX “Leopard” are discovering that the operating system won’t run Java. Java, in case you weren’t aware, is a kind of programming language. The reason people like it so much is because it is cross-platform. That is, it’s supposed to be cross-platform.

Now, it turns out that a lot of people actually use Java on Macs. I, myself, use it to manage music on a Sony thumb drive Walkman I picked up on sale. However, programmers who work in Java are now thoroughly screwed until Apple can put out a fix and since Apple isn’t used to putting out fixes as often as good old Microsoft is, who knows when a patch will become available?

As a RegDeveloper.co.uk article points out, “Apple marketing monkeys, trying to woo developers to OS X, like to refer to the OS as “the only major consumer operating system that comes complete with a fully configured and ready-to-use Java runtime and development environment.””

Whoopsie!

Kind of tough when one of the very things you put in bold face on the brochure you end up being unable to deliver.

Source: RegDeveloper.co.uk

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