“Apple advocates are doing the unthinkable: They’re complaining publicly about a new Apple product release,” Mary Jo Foley writes for ZDNet’s “All About Microsoft” blog.
MacDailyNews Take: Oh, Mary Jo, that’s a good one! As we know all too well, Apple advocates complaining publicly about a new Apple product release is hardly unthinkable, it’s unavoidable. Funny stuff!
Foley continues, “Even typically staunch Mac backers are admitting that Apple’s new Leopard operating system is not perfect. It might even be as problem-prone (if not more so) as Windows Vista. Could Leopard go so far as to drive some switchers into Vista’s arms? Sounds crazy, but who knows….”
MacDailyNews Take: ROTFLOFAO! Pure comedy gold, Mary Jo! Keep it coming!
Foley continues, “If you’re Microsoft — especially a member of the Vista team — there’s no way you can help but gloat. Very few Softies or their loyal followers are gloating publicly. But there’s no way they aren’t enjoying this turning of the tables.”
MacDailyNews Take: The. Next. Roseanne.
For her grand finale, Mary Jo offers up a poll, “If Microsoft would and could create a new Vista vs. Leopard campaign, which route should it take?” Unfortunately, the comedy stylings of Mary Jo Foley fall flat with uninspired, groan-inducing multiple choice answers that, if you must, are in the full blog post here.
MacDailyNews Take: She almost had it until that poll. Thud. Oh, well, she did provide some good laughs earlier on. Thanks, Mary Jo! Boy, that vacant soccer-mom look, writing tech gibberish as if she knows even a whit about what she’s writing, that dopey smile – what an act! WE LOVE IT! ZDNet is to be commended for injecting a comedienne’s satire into the sometimes bland world of technology.
Mary who?
This woman is so out-of-touch with just about everything she writes about.
Also, she needs to change the horrible “smiley face” icon she has. It’s as if she is soooooo proud of Microsoft that she’s overjoyed.
What a douche bag.
Mac users ALWAYS complain about Apple products. We Mac users complain with the hope that Apple will make their stuff even BETTER. That’s just PART of the Mac experience!
So, what planet is SHE living on? Oh, I forgot she lives in Windows HELL.
well i’m not going to vista, but i wish I could go back to tiger.
the external with my tiger back-up just died today and i’m stuck in headache hell with leopard. i love os x, have been using it since the beginning, but gee golly this upgrade has been a nightmare for me. so many buggy things, and so little of it acknowledged elsewhere.
automator is falling apart, itunes and ipod stopped speaking, calendars don’t sync, window views keep changing, wireless connectivity bugs, spotlight starting up every other day to re-index my 500 gb external drive (again and agian), safari running at 80% CPU, oh and don’t even get me started on stacks …..
just my 2 cents, i should have waited a few months
I thought Merry Joe was coffee and whiskey…….
Mary,
Your check is in the mail.
FUD, FUD, FUD, FUD, and fscking FUD. Nothing more, nothing less. When the first incarnation of ANYTHING appears on the market, is it perfect? Only if you believe a cow shits on a toilet! Leopard was out at the end of October, and the first equivalent of a service pack, 10.5.1, came out mere weeks later. Where’s SP1 for Vista? Up Steve Ballmer’s fat ass, that’s where.
Mary Jo, you are an idiot, and if you think anyone would go back to Vista at this point, you’re high. You’re probably part of the same moronic group that thinks that since the Zune appeared (briefly) as a bigger seller than the iPod on Amazon.com that the iPod’s days are numbered (they dropped the price to get the thing out of inventory).
I just love shit like this. Mary Jo, maybe you should follow what Piper Jaffery is saying about Apple right now and you’ll get a clue. Sheesh.
@JoJo
sounds like you have a case of the “something is terribly wrong with my system, maybe I should do a clean install”. It sounds like there is something WAY more wrong going on than Leopard. I installed it on TWO machines (macbook and Mac Pro) and have yet to see one bug or issue. The only issue i had was with Parallels. But that was resolved with a reinstall of the app.
I don’t think Leopard is your problem, it sounds like there is something else going on that you have not mentioned. I have not had ONE bug in regards to the system functions you mention.
@Jojo
Have to agree with Doh to an extent. I did have some issues with slow boot-ups and shutdowns, but someone recommended to do an Archive and Install even over the upgrade I did to Leopard. That actually did the trick. Very few problems since.
Ferf
Take it easy guys.
Zune Tang and I explore our potential and our passion together on hot webcam love running on vista. And sometimes the aero is more titillating that Zune’s Tang, but I digress.
Have fun with Mary Jo, but remember this:
What she is talking about is what you get when you set your standards to be better than the worst.
Inevitably, the time comes when you can’t really tell the difference.
Yet another nobody who knows nothing writing pure crap. Although after reading the comments (yes, I sadly visited the blog), I can see the type of audience that she’s addressing. I’m willing to bet that she suffers from other Fraudian problems as well. I.E. _____ envy. You fill in the blank.
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wow, that is some stretch….
even the most vocal MS supporters i know think that vista is garbage and beyond repair. even the most tepid of Apple supporters i know, at worst, suggest Leopard needs a few fixes.
i wonder where she hears this stuff. or is she just pulling it out of her arse?
meanwhile, on the side bar it says “Vista woes lead IT pros to Macs, Linux.”
interesting….
I will be happy with Leopard…when they fix the FREAKING POPING SOUND IN MACBOOKS!!!
You know it is sad when Dvorak has a death watch on Vista, and this sort of “journalism” is going on.
For the record, there are TWO programs that keep me from running Leopard. The major one is Protools. Hopefully it will work soon.
Actually, she is the next Rosie O’Donnell. Probably some sort of Apple conspiracy in making Leopard buggy. There has to be. It makes no sense otherwise.
Wonder if she is lesbian as well………
I have to say that the Leopard bugs are getting REALLY annoying.
The Secure Empty trash still doesn’t work. Auto log on in Safari still doesn’t work. The hang time on Safari is just plain awful. It caches WAY too much memory, which leads to massive OS slow downs. And who in the heck designed the GUI? Safari looks more like Firefox (the ugliest browser on the market) than the sleeker hipper Camino.
And the Cover Flow is still very buggy.
But still, why would that make me go to Vista? Tiger, sure, XP maybe, but Vista?
That’s wishful thinking…like what would I buy if I won the Lottery.
Is this even a real person? It says she’s been covering technology for 20 years… Is that true? Couldn’t they just invent someone like that to get page hits?
For me to even be able to contemplate that shows how absurd that article is.
This Mac is too buggy…I’m gonna go get an HP with Vista and leave OS glitches behind once and for all!
@jo jo / Toby
Consider starting from scratch. Was having some problems in Tiger (e.g. trouble waking from sleep, etc). Installed Leopard which resulted in bigger problems (such as running apps without their main windows opening). So I did an Erase / Install, reimported my backed up files (email was tricky) – Leopard now works better than all prior releases.
Hey, Leopard’s only at 10.5.1 ferchrissake.
It took Tiger until 10.4.4 to be really good.
I’m waiting for a few things to get Leopard compatibility AND for another Apple update before making the move full time. I’m also waiting for a new 1TB 2 disk LaCie RAID hard drive for Time Machine.
I did install it on an external hard drive to get a feel for it. It’s not too bad, so far. It’s certainly faster than Tiger, but then, none of my haxies work, so time will tell. maybe I’ll learn to live without them. I’ve got a few complaints about the interface, but I want see what third party developers cook up and what Apple fixes,too!
Also, any time I do a big system upgrade, like THIS, I run Cocktail, then Disk Warrior, then CLONE my hard drive. Erase that cloned drive, THEN do a clean install and run the Migration Assistant after the system install. Sure it takes more time to do it, but my big system upgrades have usually been pretty smooth and trouble-free – (knock on wood).
I suspect more than a few people on these boards have a financial stake in moaning about Leopard. Perhaps only a few very busy people.
I feel obliged to say that I for one, my wife for another, my brother for another, and a friend for yet another, in short everyone I know using Leopard, have all been very pleased with Leopard and wish to relate our very positive experiences with the new OS.
We backed up Tiger and did an Erase & Install of Leopard.
– There have been no popping sounds on my wife’s MacBook, my brother’s MacBook, my friend’s MacBook or my MacBook Pro.
– Calendars and Contacts have been syncing through iTunes to my iPhone fine and through .Mac between our two computers without a single issue, just as in Tiger.
– Wireless connectivity has been just as reliable as ever.
– Not once has Spotlight attempted to re-index my entire 500gb external drive, which is nearly full of media.
– Above all, Safari and the other key included apps are all clearly opening much faster and performing well.
– I was floored by Automator’s new Record capability, which worked exactly as you would imagine the couple of times I’ve used it and makes Automator MUCH easier and faster to use.
And go on and get me started on Stacks…
– With Stacks, by simply Command-clicking on the Stack in the Dock, I have my hierarchical menus in the Finder like everyone else that misses it from Tiger. If information is buried in Hierarchical menus, it is actually faster, not slower, to access what I’m after from Stacks this way using the Finder than it was in Tiger from the Dock’s hierarchical menus because the Finder window provides contextual information like Date Modified, Kind, and Size that speed up the search.
For hierarchical menu navigation in the Finder, simply leave the second (or even the fourth) Finder view selected. Unlike Tiger, Leopard now applies the last Finder view universally to all Finder windows, which I believe is an improvement and easier to keep straight.
What’s more, everywhere I turn in Leopard, there are dozens and dozens of nice, little oft-unnoticed unmentioned enhancements and improvements to the simplest of things that improve on an already great OS.
All told, I have been very impressed with the maturity and stability of this release and have had no problems to write or moan about. Kudos to the Leopard team for your great work!
Leopard works flawlessly for me. So all this sounds like FUD to me.
Keep digging Mary Jo Fooley.
China is your quickest exit.
This is just another case of Vista evangelists trying to find something bad to write about Mac and Leopard. I know leopard is not perfect and has its issues as does every new OS. I personally have had no problems with it on both a new 2.8ghz iMac alum and an old 1 ghz ibook g4. This is nothing more than the press trying to get readership and web hits. I use Vista every day because I program windows as a contractor. No choice…everyone I contract with uses windows. All you have to do is use Vista for a day to dump msoft and move to Mac! My advice is to take a deep breath, and realize that these people have an agenda….its called keeping your job! Vista will require alot of support and technical personnel. These people are desperate to save thier jobs. The magic of msoft has been the amount of employment they have created with a faulty OS. Apple is a serious threat to that employment and they will got much more vocal and furious as time goes on. If you want to give up your 70k /year job fixing “issues”…please raise your hand…….