“‘Where’s the beef?’ That’s the idiom that jumps to mind as I work my way through Galen Gruman’s ‘The 7 best features in Mac OS X Snow Leopard.’ I knew the features list would be lean — Apple has deliberately undersold Snow Leopard by pitching it as a relatively minor release — but please! Gruman’s article reads like a laundry list of borrowed features and derivative works. It’s as if someone at Apple grabbed a copy of the Windows 7 beta and simply Xeroxed the release notes,” Randall C. Kennedy writes for InfoWorld.
Kennedy writes, “For example: 64-bitness: Yippee! Apple finally goes 64-bit — BFD! As a Windows user, I’ve been livin’ la vida 64-bit for more than three years. Vista was the first mainstream desktop OS to deliver a viable 64-bit experience, and Windows 7 has taken this migration further by making it the preferred flavor for business users.”
MacDailyNews Take: Starting out with 64-bit was a good call; Kennedy’s already on a roll! LOL!
Kennedy continues, “QuickTime Pro: Can you believe the Apple folks used to charge for this thing? I guess they saw the writing on the wall, what with Microsoft releasing yet another excellent iteration of its free Movie Maker application. Way to play that reactionary card, Apple!”
MacDailyNews Take: Still, we can hardly wait to “catch up” to Microsoft’s Windows Movie Maker with, of all things, QuickTime X! 
“Mac OS X Snow Leopard is truly an underwhelming release, one that borrows most of its ‘new’ ideas from Windows Vista,” Kennedy writes. “Meanwhile, Microsoft continues to drive OS evolution forward, introducing a raft of truly innovative features with Windows 7.”
Kennedy offers many more examples in the full article – recommended – here.
MacDailyNews Take: A fun bit of satire. Thanks, Randall!
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