“Generally speaking, the idea behind Lion is simple: iOS is hugely popular, and it’s much simpler than Mac OS X, so why not pull some of the user experiences from iOS into OS X, giving that larger user base more of a reason to consider Apple’s high-priced, general purpose computers? This plan makes plenty of sense and while I can quibble with a few of the interfaces Apple has come up with in Lion, the broad strokes stuff is entirely correct. Put simply, Apple is moving this thing in exactly the right direction,” Paul Thurrott writes for Paul Thurrott’s Supersite for Windows.
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“It’s impossible to look at the iPad in particular and not immediately wish that your PC (or, in this case, Mac) exhibited some of its better bits of functionality: Faster performance, including boot time. Instant on with resume. Multi-touch gestures. Simple, full-screen user experiences. An integrated App Store, tied to an online account with liberal app install rights. Auto save, both in the OS (open windows and so on) and in each app (auto data save). And app auto-resume, so that when you close and reopen an app, it goes right back to where you were the last time,” Thurrott writes. “These are all great, high-level ideas. And Apple has made each available in Lion, along with hundreds of other changes, resulting in what is both the best version of Mac OS X yet and, for perhaps the first time ever, the first Mac OS X upgrade that is arguably more than just evolutionary.”
“I think Apple’s doing the right thing by bringing the two product lines together where it makes sense, at least from a user experience standpoint. I may not agree with each design decision, but Apple will tinker with this and get it right over time, as they always do,” Thurrott writes. “But Lion, overall, is in great shape. Where I’ve generally derided Apple for overpimping its largely evolutionary OS X updates over the years, Lion shows that there’s some life left yet in the Mac OS X side of the house. This isn’t just a collection of minor updates and refinishes. It’s a step away from the norm, finally, after a decade of steady and largely boring minor revisions. I’m excited to see where they take OS X next.”
Full “review” – Think Before You Click™ – here.
MacDailyNews Take: In the full review, Dvorak Jr. outdoes himself in the backhanded compliment department; not an easy task. Read it if you’re interested in the opinion of a highly-delusional Microsoft apologist/defender who possesses a bunch of domain names that are rapidly diminishing in value.
Related assholery:
Thurrott: ‘Overly thin-looking’ Apple CEO Steve Jobs offers up ‘tepid’ iPad 2 – March 3, 2011
Thurrott: ‘Apple just doesn’t get it when it comes to interacting with a computer’ – October 28, 2010
Thurrott: Dvorak’s right, Microsoft’s wrong, Apple’s iPad is an unnecessary over-sized iPod touch – April 26, 2010
Paul Thurrott: Steve Jobs is a tool – April 5, 2010
Big surprise: Paul Thurrott doesn’t get Apple’s iPad at all – January 28, 2010
I am not going to give the guy a click but I am sure even if it has some positive moments there will be snarky stuff in there as well. Thurott is great at the praise and poison style of writing.
Does Thurrott own a Mac? Has hell frozen over?
maybe he’s like Ed Bott the PC guy at ZDnet who claimed he bought a mac to ‘review’ OSX.
Later we find out Ed bought a Mac Mini, and not just a Mac Mini but a USED (several years old) Mac Mini to run comparison ‘tests’ vs his top of the line PC with Win 7.
He sold all his Apple kit years ago. Has claimed in the past that his wife uses a Mac but maybe he’s fixed that too.
He does own a Mac…..I emailed him a few months ago and asked. He doesn’t like the trackpad though…neither did I until I got used to it…and when I went back to a mouse to try it….it was like dragging a brick around my desk.
Remember his “father”, Dvorak, Sr, didn’t like the mouse.
He’s insane (not that it wasn’t already obvious), this is by far the best trackpad in the industry.
Hell freezes over.
Think Before You Click© fergawdsakes
Agreed. This hit whore doesn’t deserve a click.
The humorous spelling aside, there’s only one sake. God’s sake. Not sakes as many people say these days.
I prefer the increasingly popular “Forsake God” myself. The bible God of course, not the actual God.
In 2012-13, when Windows 8 debuts, Thurrott will heap praise on Windows 8 and say this is Mac OS X 10.7 done right. The big set up for the major fall about 2 years from now.
Only in his mind.
Dude is married to the Colossus of Redmond- it’s what feeds him and pays the bills. Justlike the Teabaggers and the Koch Bros.
Bought & Paid For, but seeking plausible deniability.
You just HAD to go there, huh, RDF? OK, right back at ya: “Just like the Knee-Jerk Leftie Progressives and senile George Soros.”
Doris gave startup money to MoveOn like 6 years ago and not a dime since. To hear the Cons, you would think he single handedly funded the entire progressive movement in the US.
The Koch Bros fund a litany of organizations, think tanks, and do it yearly and have for decades. It’s not exactly the same thing.
Besides, the Koch’s want no environmental laws so they can pollute your air, water and land without restriction just so they can squeeze another couple of billion out.
Here’s a primer/a> for George Soros, and the groups he helps fund, at Discover the Networks.
I think that this is another indication that Windows/Microsoft is on the decline: I read this as Thurrott is trying to get out in front of the tusami. I think he has maybe five or so years to complete his transition (only who’s going to pay him then?)
Lion is not out yet. Is he reviewing the GM seed? Apple’s screenshots? He does not say. The guy’s a douche.
Hm. This is the same deep thinker who disliked his review iPad so much that he said “Is there any point to even reviewing this thing?”
Now he’s saying “It’s impossible to look at the iPad in particular and not immediately wish that your PC (or, in this case, Mac) exhibited some of its better bits of functionality”?
No click from me.
Nothing worse than an obviously biased pundit who writes review articles for the general public. Occasionally, to reestablish a semblance of credibility, he will throw some compliments Apple’s way. But inevitably, his inane, illogical Apple bashing will resume soon thereafter. He trashed the iPad when it first came out, didn’t he? Schizophrenic fool.
No matter how MDN spins this, Thurott is spot on.
C’mon, Apple! Get Lion out the door.
Some of the features like Auto Save is going to save me a ton of time!
I’m ready to download!!!
The engineers need to get more bugs out though.
Veruka says, “Make ’em work nights!!”
Thurrotts check from Dell must have bounced this week.
The truth of MDN’s take is evident just in their small excerpt from his article. Thurrott is an internally conflicted, closet Apple lover. Thurrott needs to come to grips with his admiration of Apple and Apple products, and realize that his unsatisfying relationships with Windows PCs are merely attempts at penance for an unworthy life.
actually- I thought it was a very fair and informative review from a windows guy- he gave plenty of credit where it was due- I got no problem giving him a click
I actually thought the same thing. When he didn’t care for a feature/design decision, he usually stated that for the mass marked iphone/iPad users, it was an understandable decision. Several times he even praised Lion over Windows. BTW, he said he has and still owns at least one Mac since OS X has come out. Can he be a gas-bag? Absolutely. But, I feel he gave a very favorable review of Lion, and stated up front it was from a Windows user’s perspective.
So here’s a thought I’ll toss out there…can we take all the text only from sites like his, D-whore-hack and others and repost it, giving them full editorial and creation credit for their masterpieces of course (like I’d plagiarize that) but make it link-free? There are times I would like to read the whole thing, but not to give a click.
What the hell is wrong with you?
LOL 🙂
It was awfully nice of Lord Thurrott to bestow his blessings on Lion.
Who gives a rat’s ass what this guy thinks? For starters, he is repetitive in his prose and then he loves to give, as MDN put it, back-handed compliments.
Hey nice dress. It makes you look great. Hell I bet you would look GORGEOUS in it (if you weren’t so pudgy)
Once a dork, always a dork.
Biggest idiot/shill on the planet.
Oh shit! Bass-ackwards Thurrott is praising Lion? That’s a bad sign, isn’t it? I better cash in on my AAPL stock while it’s still high.
Doom is near, and he-who-should-not-dance-on-stage will rise to power again.
I did read the article, it is a good read to see how the Windows crowd will try to spin Lion. And why they are afraid.
It obvious that he knows little about Mac. Thurott thinks that a four finger gesture is hard to do on a track pad, and that most Mac users can’t figure them out. OK go to settings and they have a video to show you how to do it. The dock takes up real-estate; It can be sized, put on the side, or hid. He may be a person that still thinks that Macs have one mouse button. I can see why he has difficulty understanding that Lion is more than just a little evolution.
He did praise a lot of Lion, but then belittles what he likes. Example: he likes how cheep you can add on a server, but then states it may be as good as some of the light versions of Windows servers. He does not say it is a pro app and does not restrict how many users it can have. This is how the article is written. He tell us about things he likes, but then finds some misleading faults about it. I guess it is good to see that he could not come up with a list of things that were bad, or Windows does a lot better. There is a lot of things that he thinks that Win needs ASAP, good luck with that.
Two things he likes is the price of Lion and the app store. I know that there has been a lot of bitching about how Lion will be download only. That is why we can get it ( and other software on the app store) cheep. The packaging of software must be expensive. Not the box itself, the designing, producing, shipping, and shelf time. Along with the risk that is may not sell. If it was sold the old way I believe it would have been at the old prices. That is the great thing about the app store, it gets rid of things we don’t need so we don’t have to pay for them.
I think people should read the article. You will understand how the Mac haters will be spinning Lion. I do think this is a preemptive strike, when Lion does come out it will get a lot of press about how it is a big leap over over Win 7.
I keep hearing birds…..
related assholery? never noticed that before. sweet.
Having recently heard Mr. Thurrott speak recently, I can verify that he is as much an anti-Apple rectal pore as ever. His opinion about anything remains irrelevant at best.
Recently! <–sorry for the hiccups.
Clearly Paul makes all his income from Microsoft but desperately wants to live in a world where things just work….in an Apple world.