“Apple began supplying prerelease builds of OS X 10.8.5 Mountain Lion to select partners on Monday, signaling that a public release of the maintenance and software update is not far behind,” AppleInsider reports.
“The prerelease build supplied to partners on Monday is said to weigh in at 286 megabytes,” AppleInsider reports. “Those early releases are typically provided only hours before the software is launched to the public, suggesting that OS X 10.8.5 will arrive on Monday.”
AppleInsider reports, “A total of seven beta builds of OS X 10.8.5 have been supplied to developers for testing ahead of the final release.”
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Love Mountain Lion. Will love Mavericks even more.
Pft, mountain lion is so last release. I’m already running mavericks beta. It’s worth the extra $99/year to get it early, especially when all your files are safely stores on a remote Mountain Lion Mac Mini server with time machine backups.
Mavericks is great, and I’ve already gotten so use to it. Looking forward to the final release version.
I might have to install Mavericks on day one if I keep hearing things like this. It’s looking like an amazing upgrade.
Hopefully they fixed the annoying Active Directory bug where network accounts fail to sync after a reboot.
Hard to convince my boss we need more Macs in this Windoze centric environment when the response is “they don’t work with out network”
So you wrote up a bug, right?
bugreport.apple.com
Another of those “great new products” in Tim’s pipeline. Prelude to the next “great new products” not named after a cat so as to create the impression that some kind of breakthrough in innovation has occurred. You know, like the old days. Well, I hate to tell you MDN lemmings, the old days aren’t coming back as long as the beleaguered company in in the lull of the Tim Cook era. So, flame away with your “troll” name calling since you have nothing else to support your hopeless belief that everything is going to be okay. It’s okay if you like the fact that your once great company has become ordinary. But, for me, it’s not okay.
Mountain Lion 10.8.5 is not intended to be a “great new product.” It is simply a maintenance release of for the existing OS. You can tell that when the version is going from 10.8.4 to 10.8.5. I should not have to explain that to you.
You wrote: “So, flame away with your “troll” name calling since you have nothing else to support your hopeless belief that everything is going to be okay.”
No, because as you wrote on May 29, you “enjoy being called a ‘troll.'” So, no, I’m not going to help you get your rocks off.
But I find it ironic that you accuse others of having “nothing to support [their beliefs]” when you fail to identify anything to support the bile you spew. You didn’t identify a feature that you thought was poorly implemented. any architectural design flaws to the OS, or anything you considered to be an omission, an issue with pricing, distribution, GUI, or anything else. The entire thing is you whining about Tim Cook.
So let’s examine what your real issue with Mr. Cook might be by looking at things you’ve posted in the past:
“The sissy-fication of Apple is now complete. It all looks just like Tim Cook”
“A little less sissy-fied. But, still looks like Tim.
“that looks just like Tim Cook. Weak, timid, sissy,”
“The sissyfication of the once great company’s genius”
“…iOS7 estrogen version. Sir Jony just trying to please Tim so he made it look like him.”
This is all about you and your discomfort with the sexual attraction you feel towards other men. So you wildly overcompensate by lashing out against Tim Cook, attacking his masculinity because he is one of the most powerful gay men in the world.
We’ve all seen this before. The rabidly anti-gay right-wing conservative who makes numerous public anti-gay remarks and is then later found soliciting gay sex in an airport restroom or from a male “escort.”
But let’s not forget your brilliant AAPL stock prediction from April of this year: “Say goodbye to $400 AAPL – descending into the $300 range before he finishes speaking.”
LOL! It’s over $500 a share now. More than a 25% increase since your idiotic “prediction.”
Some of us are stuck on hardware that can’t even run 10.8. Mavericks will have to wait. Also not sure about the continued forced insertion of iOS into OS X. It will be an ugly conjoined twin.
I like being able to access my cloud files through the same apps.
Also Mavericks is actually 10.9.
Can apple develop Maverick’s Interactive Notification for Mountain Lion?