29 November 2007
Going ape on Leopard
Filed under Technology
With all the glamor and glitz of Leopard and the constant PR push by Apple, it’s almost refreshing to see someone out there admit to the faults of Apple’s new OS. I just wasn’t expecting that someone to be so harsh:
“Hey, at least Microsoft reps have the decency to look a little abashed when you point out their product’s screwups. Apple reps just glare at you like they’re daring you to say something.”
“Is Britney Spears moonlighting as Apple’s UI designer?”
“Maybe Apple couldn’t spare the programmers working on the hugely important Star Wars core animation splash-screen project.”
“When I saw that, I actually looked around to see if Ashton Kutcher was going to pop out from behind my lab bench and tell me I’d been punked.”
Yikes. PC Magazine readers won’t know what hit them.
Technorati Tags: leopard, apple, pc magazine
:: Adam
30 November 2007 @ 9:18 pm
To be fair, he was a little under-informed a few of his points. The “two-click” QuickLook feature is actually the “one-spacebar-press” feature, for example.
And you can use the backup system to completely restore a drive (I did it a few times while juggling hard drives around, and even successfully restored one drive’s data onto another) The information for doing this is easy to find in the Help documentation and involves booting to the Leopard install CD.
He does make some good points. They seem to me to be a lot of trumpeting though. But then again there is a heck of a lot of trumpeting the other way, so it’s all good.