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Hundreds of bug fixes? That cannot be!

I know....my Tiger OS works just fine. Never a glitch; I wonder what could be wrong with it?

.MAC is an anemic offering in its current form. Anything they can add to make it worth a visit will be great. I wish it would evolve into a homepage with all sorts of cool features instead of a short list of boring technologies that probably make it one of Apple's least-visited sites. What I would love to see is online gaming integration. Anything fun. Anything!!!!

I know....my Tiger OS works just fine. Never a glitch; I wonder what could be wrong with it?

AD integration doesn't work. period.

Too late. Since I have several other e-mail accts, .Mac is no longer worth the cost.

Magic Word = "learned" as in, I learned the hard way that .Mac is not worth the cost (at least for what I need)

Bug fixes? Huh? I thought OSX was perfect.

Maybe Apple is actually putting in some bugs so that it can take over the industry like M$ did. After all people do like pain.

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

Hmm. a new .Mac? Built in blogging and podcasting capability? That would be sweet.

Maybe Apple doesn't adhere to the old adage - "If it ain't broke don't fix it". Of course, there being no such thing as "perfect" in this world I'm quite happy that Apple continuously improves on the seemingly perfect, which is one of the reasons for the company's spectacular success.

Anyone wondering if gap has something to do with the event, what with the jeans on the invite looking a lot like gap jeans?

I gave .Mac a try because I wanted to sync my home and work iCal. Every time I tried I received "Unable to sync with .Mac at this time. Please try again later." This only happened when I tried to sync iCal... Address Book and Safari sync'd fine. Until .Mac can get this little nasty bug fixed, I'm keeping my C-Note.

.Mac is great if you have more than one Mac and want to keep data synchronized between them without having to actually hook them together. I use the iDisk service to keep data synched up between my two iMacs and Powerbook. Makes life easy. I always hated it when I used Windows and had bookmarks on one system in my browser that were not available on another syste (or even on a system that isn't owned by me). With .Mac I always have access to my mail, addresses, bookmarks and other files and data.

thats it, im switching to Windows. i rather have one massive update that has all 1000000000 fixes and call it a service pack instead of a whole bunch of different versions of the OSjust to fix the whole 100 problems!!!!!

As I don't know what "AD integration" means, I must not be using it, because my Tiger purrs.

I have .Mac, it's ok, but it can sure use some help.

Just some simple WISIWYG onscreen editing like a page layout software, blog into a Widget that updates the page, pop a iPhoto into a photo Widget that will update the site.

I don't like Apple's corny material.

And your video pleasure, I bring you another Apple video.

http://pulsar.esm.psu.edu/Faculty/Gray/graphics/movies/iLife04_m480.mov

Yep... I think I'm letting my dot mac account lapse this January. I really only use it for e-mail, and my G-Mail account should have that covered.

Not sure what's wrong with billybob's AD integration, but it's working pretty well here.

SB

PS - AD = Active Directory, a M$haft enterprise email/networking solution.

why not wait and release an OS after it's 100% PERFECT? The way Microsoft does? Windows XP may be old for years, but at least they have fixed ALL the bugs by now.

/trollus insanus

>why not wait and release an OS after it's 100% PERFECT? The way Microsoft does? Windows XP may be old for years, but at least they have fixed ALL the bugs by now.>

Windows couldn't fix all their bugs in a hundred years, even with 100% pure malathion.

We don't need no stinkin' windows.

If Apple would make .Mac a full ISP for $99/yr or even $199/yr, they would REALLY shake things up for those MS Window lemmings.

I'm still using 10.4, I havn't bothered with any dot point upgrades yet. What exactly needs fixing ? I've had no trouble so far.

why not wait and release an OS after it's 100% PERFECT? The way Microsoft does?

This is exactly the problem with MS. They do not admit they release crap. Heck, XP was touted as THE reference for computing security. And any teenager is capable to bring US corporations to their knees by using virus kits for Windows. What a crap.

Microshit Windows is perfect and will never be truly fixed. That is why it sux.

Most that is covered in 10.4.3 is performance improvement and cure some issues that you read about on Apple Discussions and that affect a small percentage of OS X users in some peculiar configurations. Some bugs affected as little as few hundreds OS X users.

I would like them to bundle QT Pro for all .mac users.

there are hundreds of fixes and improvements. close to 100MB.
And yes, some that the vast majority of users would never come close to provoke them. Not a reason not to fix them.

It would be good for MS mindset as Tiger is way more than good enough as it now. For Apple 'good enough' is a nonsense.

I'm noting down these excuses for future reference.

The best one so far: 'I haven't used XYZ, so it is not a bug'. Excellent, keep 'em coming!!

Hmm, pretty much so. Apple knows it has room for improvements even though many already feel they have what they need. For myself I am very glad these updates come and fix and improve so many things. Even things that *today* I might not care about but *tomorrow* I will be glad they have been improved and fixed even if used by a minority of OS X users.

There is no sw that is bug free. You may only squash the ones you know (some do not even do that: "good enough"). Be glad Apple is not following some other's mantra and pro-actively pursues bugs and seeks for improvements on areas where most of its users base would simply say "Huhh? Why do I need this update at all?"

If you go through the list of 10.4.3 intervention most of users would be left cold, not even *knowing* anything about areas that are being fixed and/or improved. So thanks Apple, keep up with the good job and keep seeking perfection. It is a task that will never end but that will give users the best experience ever ever!

Notice the .Mac updates are timed with the new "music" announcement.

who knows, maybe they'll fix the ueber sucky app called FontBook. I know this might be a stretch but a coupla years ago there was a small [working] utility/app called ATM deluxe. Well, I can't say that anything has come close as of yet.

MacDude…great vid! I really enjoyed it. You always have something relevant to say in your posts.
Macs are used in a lot of different configs, with a lot of software so one could suppose that the bug fixes take care of issues many of us don't see often if at all.
.Mac…well I like it, but I don't think for me it's worth $99 a year. However, I can see why many people would really get good use out of it and would love it.

Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, which will pack an abnormal number of bug fixes.

Seems to me that if one has to pay for bug fixes, it pays to skip a few upgrades if the bugs aren't too bothersome.

For all the Mac fans out there bad mouthing Windows XP, you must realize the OS is only as secure as the user. Macs charge a premium price to get their loyal premium customers. "Computers for the rest of us"....hardly.

Windows XP runs on a long list of machines, abd includes drivers and utilities for a far wider spectrum of products. And it works.

This just proves that Apple isn't perfect.

When Vista is released, you will see the gap in perceived usability of and OS will be diminished.

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If Apple would make .Mac a full ISP for $99/yr or even $199/yr, they would REALLY shake things up for those MS Window lemmings.

lemmings... that's a good one. You realize that there are far more mac lemmings, right? After all, look at all those who actually used OS 9.

Or look at those who are affected by Steve's RDF... even mentioned "jokingly, ahem, of course" on this board.

"Windows XP runs on a long list of machines, abd [sic] includes drivers and utilities for a far wider spectrum of products. And it works."

But it obviously doesn't have spell-check in the browser, like OSX.