Comments on: Apple is Dying? Again?

By: John

John — Fri, 27 May 2005 15:27:02 +0000

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.

By: RazDreams

RazDreams — Wed, 25 May 2005 21:35:31 +0000

man, kate, you beat me to it. mount got me all hot-n-bothered.

By: Josh

Josh — Sat, 21 May 2005 17:47:17 +0000

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.

By: kate

kate — Fri, 20 May 2005 18:24:14 +0000

“Mount”?

By: marsha

marsha — Fri, 20 May 2005 12:38:14 +0000

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.:)

By: marsha

marsha — Fri, 20 May 2005 12:31:52 +0000

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:)

By: Mrs.Strizz

Mrs.Strizz — Thu, 19 May 2005 21:44:49 +0000

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

By: Rob Weychert

Rob Weychert — Thu, 19 May 2005 19:41:44 +0000

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?

By: macsepp

macsepp — Thu, 19 May 2005 18:19:27 +0000

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

By: maxigumee

maxigumee — Thu, 19 May 2005 18:17:02 +0000

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.