“A new build of Apple’s Leopard operating system released to developers this week introduces a handful of fresh features, but also carries with it a significant laundry list of impending issues that will need to be ironed out before any such public release is considered,” Katie Marsal and Kasper Jade report for AppleInsider.
Marsal and Jade report, “Reports that Leopard could be tracking for a release in just a matter of weeks seem far fetched, according to people familiar with the latest seed, who say the next-generation Mac system software remains very much a work-in-progress.”
“Those familiar with the software point to an extensive and somewhat swelling list of problems with the software, several of which are critical in nature,” Marsal and Jade report. “With a significant list of known issues and a ‘top secret’ bag of tricks still under wraps and broadly untested, it would seem incredibly unlikely the Cupertino-based company will be ready to push its latest cat out the door any time soon.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Shinobi” for the heads up.]
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Right on Mac-alufugus!
what’s this? not all is well in Stevie-land?
VISTA CRACKED!!
story here
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37941
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Sorryass windows losers, your activation keys are already taken.
Hey, Shitnobi and my own phony clonebone– once more for you Mac delusionists:
“Vista will sell more copies in 3 months than “Deaf Leopard” will sell in 5 years.
And the overpriced iPhone will sell tens of units and will likely be renamed the “iScratch” pretty quickly once people start damaging those glossy screens.
Choke on the truth.
“What’s this? not all is well in Stevie-land?”
Why do you think not all is well? Because they are doing a thorough job of beta testing prior to release (unlike MS)? Because they are sticking to their own timetable for a spring release (as late as June)? Because they are not trying to live up to the rumor sites’ ideas of when Leopard should be released? Mac-envy is alive and kicking kids. The boys got Vista and found out that it sucks, and so they are coming here trying to make us feel bad. Geez guys, you’ll have to do better than that…
Gee, that’s nice. So millions of sheep like yourself will be fooled into running a subpar OS. But you are comforting yourself by telling yourself that, although you could have purchased a Mac with a much better and much more secure OS, you decided to follow the crowd. That way, when tens of millions just like you get viruses (already found on Vista), you are not alone. Yeah, you could have made a choice for a better OS, but you’d much rather be part of the crowd. That’s fine by me. You’re only hurting yourself (and other Windows users that you might infect). It’s your choice. But if you are so secure in that choice, why do you come to a Mac forum with a stick up your ass the size of a redwood to proclaim that Vista will sell more? Inferiority complex? That internal doubt that perhaps you’ve yet again made a grave mistake and want someone to help you? Is this a cry for help?…
Mac-alufugus,
Have you visted your shrink yet? Still living in a delusional fantasy world huh?
I agree Vista will out sell Leopard…not because its better…but because there are no shortage of uninformed brainwashed people like you who will spend $400 dollars on yesterday’s technology.
Its your money…I don’t care…why do care that we choose to make a better, secure, choice than you.
I bet, you probably still believe the world is flat…..
Just shove your head back up your A$$ where it belongs, and play with your cracked Vista and viruses that’s comes along with it.
Shinobi.
…I’m willing to bet that ‘mac-envy’ isn’t the only envy that you’ve got going on…
” width=”19″ height=”19″ alt=”smile” style=”border:0;” /> You and your fearless leaders Psycho Bill and Bufoon Balmer! “Microsoft innovation” my eye! Sorry Balmer and Bill, but doggy style has been around a long time!
Summer starts in June, on the Solstice, just before the back to school laptop binge begins. I’m betting that 10.5 ships the 1st week of June., certainly no sooner.
“Vista will sell more copies in 3 months than “Deaf Leopard” will sell in 5 years.”
That maybe true but that is a sad indictment of the fools like you. Not those that use their right to choose another superior option. Why use a sorry assed piece of plagiarism than use the real thing.
When I look at what Vista _actually_ delivers I can’t help but to wonder how much development time was _actually_ used in the 5 years? Proof positive you can’t polish a turd.
I love the Wow starts now. What? Oh! Whatever….Yawn….
“Vista will sell more copies in 3 months than “Deaf Leopard” will sell in 5 years.”
And Hyundai will sell more cars in three months than Ferrari will sell in 5 years. What’s your point? Personally, I want the best OS there is. I could care less how many copies they sell.
In 5 years We will be on Mac OS 10.7 …. And, if history is any indicator, Vista will still be limping along along and most Windoze users will still be running XP.
@ newton
Get in line, honey.
-c
to: Mac-alufugus
The iPhone prototype that we saw in the MW seemed to be a lot better than anything MS has come with so far…
Apples prototype > Microsofts shipped products | funny indeed
Chrissy even tells guys to get lost with class. Ah my heart.
Also, only fools think that popular means better. And hey, Fungus? You did know that an IT guy at a big corporation buys tons of Vista licenses at a shot, and that these count as sales, right? However, they don’t count as *individual choices*. So what you’re really saying is this — “What IT purchasers want is right for everyone!” Think about that for a minute.
@Mac-alufugus
Your math is wrong. Even by the most conservative estimates, OS/X now has about 6% market share. Microsoft has the rest more or less. At the moment… This means you would expect 15 copies of Vista to sell for every copy of Mac OS/X. And it would take Apple 45 months to sell as many copies of OS/X as Microsoft would sell in 3 months. That is, if Vista is installed on every PC that goes out the door.
However, you have to discount the “claimed” Vista sales by a large margin – this is because the bulk of new desktop PC’s (around 75% depending on the market) are sold to corporate buyers. And for at least another year around 90% of these will be installed with XP and not Vista. This will decline slowly over the next 3 years (even now many corporates run Win2000 on their desktops rather than XP – my small company included).
Upgrade sales to Vista are almost non-existent – mainly because most of the hardware out there will not run Vista, but also because of the bad press and terrible “early adopter” stories that are coming to light now.
So real Vista sales (where Vista is not erased from the hard drive upon installation) will be considerably lower than you think. Lets be conservative:
1. 95% of the market for new PCs come with a MS o/s
2. 70% of these are sold to corporates
3. 80% of these will be installed with XP in lieu of Vista
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ie: 53% of new PC sales will NOT have Vista installed.
So that leaves Microsoft Vista sales at 47% of new PC sales. This is still way larger than OS/X but its only 8 times larger. That means it will take Apple only 24 months to sell as many copies of OS/X as Microsoft sells of Vista.
But Apple market share is growing phenomenally. OS/X sales are up more than 30% year on year – and notebook sales up a whopping 108% year on year…
Vista remains a disappointment, not just for Microsoft, but for the Windows community. And Apple’s OS/X is the rising star. In the home user market Apple’s market share is MUCH larger than in the corporate space. At a wild guess I would say that 80% of macs are sold to personal users. If you say that home users account for only 30% of the market and Apple has 6% overall, then this would translate to more like 15% (90% of 6% overall market share out of the 30% of home users). And this is the share that is growing fastest.
Apple will reach 55% of the home user market within 5 years, assuming current growth rates are sustained. Actually, I think it will happen much sooner than this – perhaps within 2 years.
At the same time Apple will begin making inroads into the commercial space – the low maintenance nature of OS/X makes it very attractive, particularly in the SME space. All it will take is for some key applications to arrive for native OS/X. Look for vertical market solutions in the professional space to start with…
It really is no wonder that Microsoft are very, very, very worried about Apple.
… sorry
should say “… at a wild guess I would say that 90% of macs are sold to personal users”
but, hey, you can insert your own numbers – whatever way you look at it, the numbers will scare any Microsoft executive…
… one more thing.
OS/X market share of NEW computer sales may reach 55% in 5 years or less. But way before that OS/X will have a much larger installed base than Vista in the home user market. Microsoft’s installed base will be Win98, Win2K, XP, Vista.
Developers writing new software will find a greater market for their software by writing for OS/X than they will for Vista. Someone else can do those numbers, but it doesn’t require much mental arithmetic to see that, at current rates, OS/X is going to be the predominant desktop in the home user market VERY SOON INDEED.
Magic word = game.
How soom before OS/X is the only game in town?
Mac-alufugus,
MS Plant that needs some water.
OK, your are right about one thing, Vista will out sell leopard.
Lets see 22 million Macs compared to 189 million windows boxes.
Gosh Mac-alufugus your a f@cking genius. I would be worried though
about the 167 million returns….
Admit it !! Sucks to anything like you…
Just a thought
Its really sad how Vista sales are doing….I have read there are over 1 billion windows PCs out there…I would imagine that if Vista is so exciting…the sales would be much higher even if only 10% adopted it initially..
I believe the sales are way below the expectations….
Window Users are jumping ship at current rate of 9000/day to Macs…that rate will grow exponentially as more and more windows users get a clue and make a choice for themselves instead of having their choice handed to them.
I am not a Microsoft basher…I am a recent Windows converter to the Mac Platform….I had to learn the hardway that cheaper computers are exactly that…cheap.
I am happy to pay more for the Mac because the hardware and software quality is just superior to Windows based PCs…. Our IT guy at school tried to convince me that I should buy a Dell Flat Screen monitor because they were cheaper than Apples…but just as good…
As soon as I heard the word Dell and Cheap…I was more convinced…to get a 23 inch Apple flat screen…I don’t care what Dell is selling anything for…I will never buy their cheap products again!
Vista is an improvement over XP, and XP was an improvement over Win98…but OS X is king of the hill! I can do everything I need to do on my New MacBook Pro that I could do on windows…plus My MacBook Pro just runs and runs without any viruses, crashes, or hardware problems.
@Shinobi
Way to go…
… never underestimate the power of the Mac evangelist. When we switch we ALWAYS wonder why we didn’t do it sooner. And then, of course, we want to tell everyone else.
I have converted countless people to Mac in the last 2 years. They, in turn, do their bit in spreading the good news.
The ONLY virus affecting Macs is the HAPPY SWITCHER virus. It infects everyone who comes into contact with a Mac.
Apple will release Leopard when the dull roar of Vista “upgraders” saying “Is that it?” finally dies down.
WTF? Apple took a sold, working, WORLD CLASS system and filled it full of bugs?
I’d compare this to Vista, but at least MS had the excuse of starting with a shitty OS…
Apple, either get it right or bring back Avie. Something has definitely gone awry.
@dnomder
Calm down. Software development means doing NEW stuff. And it always takes time to get the bugs out. As long as Apple have not been too ambitious, Leopard will arrive as a stable operating system which will WOW everyone… Of course it will have bugs in the prerelease versions… Releasing early software to the community gives Apple lots of extra resources to test and debuig the software. Thats why they do it…
Mac-alufugus
And the overpriced iPhone will sell tens of units and will likely be renamed the “iScratch” pretty quickly once people start damaging those glossy screens.
Choke on the truth.
Since it hasn’t happenned yet, you have no “truth” to choke us with.
And if it hasn’t become obvious yet, the iPhone, like every other damn smartphone out there, will be subsidised, as well as come down in price. If you are too dense to read anything relating to the phone industry, you shouldn’t be too quick to parade your ignorance.
And guess what, retard? Everything from PDAs to phones to MP3 players get scratches if you don’t take care of it. Choke on that.
Moron.