“Well, as announced [yesterday] morning, Apple’s OS X Tiger will ship on the 29th and that’s the reason I’m in SF this week. I spent some time with Phil Schiller [on Monday] and got an in depth look at Tiger. I purposely held off writing anything until the vendor glow wore off a bit but this morning I’m still convinced that Tiger is a big deal and it just might be the the best OS on a PC I have ever seen for productivity use… The reason? Spotlight. Integrated search just works so much better at the OS level and when it’s integrated into everything. For the first time users aren’t constrained to or forced to learn the intricacies of a hierarchal file system. It doesn’t matter where on my disk the information is or even if its sitting in my email. Spotlight finds it and then lets me manipulate it,” Michael Gartenberg writes for JupiterResearch.
“There’s a lot more in Tiger, iChat2 runs rings around msn messenger for video chat and Dashboard is just plain cool. The real hit for me though is Spotlight and the integrated OS and application functions. Tiger is a real leap in OS functionality and Microsoft is going to have hard time to upstage Tiger with Longhorn,” Gartenberg writes.
“The real challenge that Apple has is to make sure people understand what they’ve done here. They need to turn up the volume on this several notches so that they don’t get lost in the checklist wars, i.e., we have search, they have search… There’s a real experiential difference here in what Apple’s offering and if you spend far too much time organizing your stuff or just can’t find it again, you need to take a close look at Tiger. What’s missing? Not much for me. I’d like to see RSS persistent so I can read and search offline and I wouldn’t mind seeing MSFT add Spotlight for Entourage. Otherwise, for the moment, this OS is nirvana for productivity,” Gartenberg writes.
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: One teensy, weensy, little point: Longhorn is vapor. Of course Longhorn is going to have a hard time upstaging Mac OS X Tiger — Longhorn doesn’t exist! It’s a reality vs. fantasy kinda thing. Tiger ships on April 29, 2005 (in sixteen days), quite unlike Longhorn’s constantly slipping, literally year(s) away ship date. The obvious fact we’re about to unleash reads like the joke that it is: Microsoft’s competitor to Apple’s Mac OS X Tiger is Windows XP.
Related MacDailyNews articles:
Analyst: Apple in ‘position to exploit Microsoft missteps, claim leadership’ with Mac OS X Tiger – April 13, 2005
Apple’s Schiller: Mac OS X Tiger ‘has created even more distance between us and Microsoft’ – April 13, 2005
Will Mac OS X Tiger add fuel to Apple’s recent momentum in the computer business? – April 13, 2005
Why doesn’t Apple advertise Mac OS X on TV? – April 12, 2005
Analyst: Tiger proves ‘Apple is light years ahead of Microsoft in developing PC operating systems’ – April 12, 2005
Apple to ship Mac OS X ‘Tiger’ on Friday, April 29; pre-orders start today – April 12, 2005
Apple Announces Mac OS X Server ‘Tiger’ to ship Friday, April 29 with 64-bit application support – April 12, 2005
Analysts: Apple’s new Tiger operating system could really impact Mac sales – April 12, 2005
Piper Jaffray raises Apple estimates on Mac OS X ‘Tiger’ release news – April 12, 2005
Microsoft’s Longhorn fantasy vs. Apple’s Mac OS X reality – September 14, 2004
I’m waiting for the “Zealot Thurrott” column on this one….
Somebody send him a straightjacket and put him in a padded room… he might hurt himself this time.
Thurrot has already commit suicide…
Yeah right, Longhorn will sell twice the amount of copies in two weeks that tiger will sell in a year.
Oh and in 1992 I was working in the network operations center for PageNet. Novell was big there, well until about 95.
mrw0lf: I dont despise crApple, just its arrogant, pathetic brown nosing userbase. Apple products are great, but I dont Eat, Sleep and Shit crApple like you do.
Yes, Crip, I agree with you. These Apple bigots are only good… for me to POOP ON!!!
Yeh-heh-heh-heh-hessssss!!!!
Crip wrote:
“Knowone cares about Mac OS X, except for the crApple Bigots.”
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Well, Crip, if it weren’t for the fact that you display a decidedly keen intellect, one may get the impression that you’re awfully jealous of us Mac users. Perhaps you could someday convince your cheap father to buy you a real computer that runs a real OS.
Best of luck!