Apple is Dying? Again?
May 19th, 2005I’ve been digging on the RSS screensaver in Mac OS 10.4. One of the feeds is for eWeek’s Mac coverage. The headlines all scream about how Apple is sucking ass and Tiger is horrible and Apple might be, maybe headed down a dark road and they don’t care about IT or the enterprise.
For the record, my 10.4 Tiger experience has been a PLEASURE compared to days of no network access in 10.3. Finally, the Windows SMB/CIF shares I want to mount at login mount EVERY TIME.
This style of reporting about Apple can pose valid questions. The problem is that when facing a page of dreary naysaying headlines, the perception of “balanced” or “objective” tilts and it only fuels the zealots.
Is Apple perfect? No. Do they need someone pointing out their mistakes in the media? Most certainly. But would it kill eWeek to post something like “Tiger growls at most people’s network problems” or “Tiger pounces all up in the grill of SMB shares”?
Because in my experience, Tiger IS up in the grill of SMB shares. It’s grrrrrrreat to finally have a Mac that lives on my corporate network with speed and grace instead of the painful rectal experiences of the past couple of years. o
May 19th, 2005 at 10:13 am
I think the people writing the articles like to have it stand out more by slagging Apple off, since most educated people have great reviews about their products.
Tiger kicks ass, and it will most certainly kick the ass of Longhorn. I expect the true GOOD reviews of Tiger will be coming out soon, when these people HAVE ACTUALLY USED IT. (end of rant!)
May 19th, 2005 at 11:17 am
Well, I have no idea what um…. SMB whatsits are, but I think that to somebody who hasn’t used tiger much, it seems like a pretty bare upgrade as opposed to something like Panther or Jaguar. I mean, when I first started using it, I was like, “wait- the only new feature is dashboard. This sucks.” As I kept on using it, though, I found a bunch of cool little tidbits and stuff that make using Tiger really awesome. So… I guess I agree with what minxlj said.
May 19th, 2005 at 11:19 am
Same goes with Quicktime 7 and the new H.264. Everybody is complaining and IT News idiots are writing about it and how terrible it is. It’s slow during encoding, right. But the truth is, that it’s really kicking ass in decoding, quality and bandwith!!!
Read this article if you don’t already have:
http://www.shapeofdays.com/2005/05/a_demonstration.html
May 19th, 2005 at 12:41 pm
Even if Tiger does suck (and I don’t really know, since I haven’t upgraded yet), the implication that its disappointment indicates Apple is “heading down a dark road” is a retarded and unfounded doom-and-gloom prophecy. How is this journalism exactly?
May 19th, 2005 at 2:44 pm
Apple and Macs are different right? Wrong? Hell if I know, but I came upon some intersting video of the Microsoft guy praising the Mac.
http://tinyurl.com/9e548
May 20th, 2005 at 5:31 am
Hell, VPN client on panther never worked. I hadn’t seen that rss screensaver yet. YEAH!!!! Oh tiger, LOVING YOU…is easy cause you’re beautiful…dootendootendootdoooo…
OF course my system prefs crashed out when I just went and tested rss screensaver, maybe because I have 8 million blogs on rss:)
May 20th, 2005 at 5:38 am
And fabu video. He was such a baby then! Apple is the name of the company and the model name of some of the earlier computers, Apple lle, etc.
Now the company, Apple, makes a model of computer called Macintosh Power Pcs. They have various processors - g4 and g5 - and etc.
Sorry if this is too simple. I teach 80 somthing old ladies computers for a living.:)
May 20th, 2005 at 11:24 am
“Mount”?
May 21st, 2005 at 10:47 am
still running OS X.3 I’m not sure why people feel it’s a step in the wrong direction.
Now there are some quirks I’ve noticed with OS X.3 but I’m not sure if it’s my network setup or the OS itself.
Basically whenever I mount a shared folder in WinXP it only stays mounted for a while. If I reboot the Mac or the PC it loses it and I have to remount it (and it never saves the login either).
Another oddity is the randomness that my WinXP machine even shows up in the Network window on the Mac.
And last, but hardly least is the intermitten Airport connectivity loss with greater than 90% signal. It’ll just stop routing. Then a couple minutes later it will start routing again just as suddenly.
Not sure if this is me or OS X.3 but that’s the only realy network-friendly issues I’ve had with it.
May 25th, 2005 at 2:35 pm
man, kate, you beat me to it. mount got me all hot-n-bothered.
May 27th, 2005 at 8:27 am
Thank you for confirming something about Tiger I was sure was better. My SO now no longer has to wave a dead cat over her iBook to mount a simple SMB share.
No more “oh, heck, SMB is failing with that stupid error, funny how a reboot fixes it.”
I keep hearing how this is the worst release ever. I’m just not seeing it. Sure, there will always be problems. I’m a coder and I know I ship product with bugs; some I know about and some I don’t. Everyone does. The trick is how to manage those bugs in the field.
A complete OS is hard to get right, and even harder to please for everyone.