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Now it's time for Apple to get down to the real work of improving Mac OS X. As far as the core OS is concerned, most of the low-hanging fruit has been harvested.
#Burn for mac os rating mac os x#
Mac OS X is now getting to the point where significant improvements require a larger time investment. Tiger includes updates that are at least twice as significant as any single past update. Tiger's longer gestation doesn't mean that the rate of change has slowed, however. Windows users patiently waiting for Longhorn may not be sympathetic, but the longer wait for Tiger is something new to Mac OS X users. Well, here we are 18 months and 6 days later, finally getting a look at Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. "Let's do this again next year" were my exact words at the end of the Panther review. So convinced was I of the inevitability of the Mac OS X yearly release juggernaut that I never even considered the possibility that relief from the $129-per-year Mac OS X tax might come in the form of an extra six-month wait for version 10.4. With a yearly release schedule, that is nearly the same thing as a simple price reduction, but if so, so be it.
#Burn for mac os rating upgrade#
If Apple wants to help ease the burden of the larger Mac community, decent upgrade pricing would be a good start. I'm probably not a typical user, however. I think Panther is worth the cost, but I consider its price to be an investment in the future of Mac OS X-something I obviously have strong opinions about. If there's going to be any consumer backlash, it's not going to start with me. In the end, I concluded that I was okay with yearly releases, but that some sort of adjustment for "normal" customers would be nice. But do I really want to pay US$129 every year for the next version of Mac OS X? Worse, do I really want to deal with the inevitable upgrade hassles and 10.x.0 release bugs every single year? Is it worth it, or is a major OS upgrade every year simply too much, too often? It's strange to have gone from years of uncertainty and vaporware to a steady annual supply of major new operating system releases from Apple.
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Back in early November of 2003, I introduced my Mac OS X 10.3 Panther review with some concerns about Apple's OS release cycle.