Snow Leopard is Apple's XP

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9233244/OS_X_Snow_Leopard_shows_signs_of_becoming_Apple_s_XP

by kunai • 13 years ago

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I am a faithful upgrader but I can't think of one thing I do with Mountain Lion that I couldn't do with Snow Leopard.

Actually, now I think about it, its about the same between the iPhone 4 and the iPhone 5. No real value, just new shiny.

zampano• 13 years ago

I don't know about you, but my iPhone 4 was feeling pretty sluggish doing normal everyday stuff in iOS by the time I upgraded to the 5. That said, I have used a friend's 4s and it was also quite a bit more fluid than the 4. Between that and LTE, I think there was quite a bit of value though I could see why people probably wanted more than just a performance boost and a slight physical upgrade.

stray• 13 years ago

IMNSHO, Snow Leopard is the last release of OS/X that didn't suck.

Actually it may be Xcode 3 that really made the difference -- all I know is that when I had Snow Leopard on all my machines it was easy to write Mac apps in Lisp.

Now I have to write Objective-C stubs and use the command line to compile Xibs to Nibs which is a royal PITA.

Come to think of it -- I do still have the Snow Leopard DVD (remember those? they used to sell us these shiny round things from which we could reload the products we had bought... oh, nevermind).

warrenmar• 13 years ago

I don't think this will be a problem. Apple sells more laptops than desktops. People are more likely to replace their laptops and the Apple ecosystem forces you to upgrade since they drop support.

andrewpi• 13 years ago

Built-in Full Disk Encryption (FileVault 2) was really the only big OS X innovation since Snow Leopard in my opinion. It made making a notebook computer's data safe against theft with minimal frustration.

threedaymonk• 13 years ago

I suspect that the fact that it's the last release that runs on 32-bit processors might have something to do with it. There's not much wrong with a 2+ GHz Core Duo for most people's needs.

Snow Leopard is Apple's XP

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