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Apple Releases Final Mac OS X Mountain Lion to Developers

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Re: Apple Releases Final Mac OS X Mountain Lion to Developers

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Something very odd is happening at Apple. Either there is a massive shortage of developers (unlikely) or developers have been moved to a new project (AppleTV ?).

Because Mountain Lion and iOS6 are by far the most underwhelming updates yet in terms of features.

Re: Apple Releases Final Mac OS X Mountain Lion to Developers

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post #2

Something very odd is happening at Apple. Either there is a massive shortage of developers (unlikely) or developers have been moved to a new project (AppleTV ?). Because Mountain Lion and iOS6 are by far the most underwhelming updates yet in terms of features.

Eh. OS X has been on somewhat of a tick-tock update cycle since Leopard. Add features then refine them.

Also, it's twenty bucks.

Re: Apple Releases Final Mac OS X Mountain Lion to Developers

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Something very odd is happening at Apple. Either there is a massive shortage of developers (unlikely) or developers have been moved to a new project (AppleTV ?). Because Mountain Lion and iOS6 are by far the most underwhelming updates yet in terms of features.

What exactly would have been overwhelming?

Re: Apple Releases Final Mac OS X Mountain Lion to Developers

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post #2

Something very odd is happening at Apple. Either there is a massive shortage of developers (unlikely) or developers have been moved to a new project (AppleTV ?). Because Mountain Lion and iOS6 are by far the most underwhelming updates yet in terms of features.

Eh. OS X has been on somewhat of a tick-tock update cycle since Leopard. Add features then refine them. Also, it's twenty bucks .

The cost has nothing to do with the product, that's determined based on other factors, like how many Mac's OSX sells. There's no straightforward relationship between price number of features.

The direction appears to be cheap upgrades, and merging feature sets between IOS and OSX so eventually there's one operating system that changes in unison.

Re: Apple Releases Final Mac OS X Mountain Lion to Developers

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Something very odd is happening at Apple. Either there is a massive shortage of developers (unlikely) or developers have been moved to a new project (AppleTV ?). Because Mountain Lion and iOS6 are by far the most underwhelming updates yet in terms of features.

Does the amount of stuff added matter? If the quality is good I honestly don’t care.

Lion was a bit of a dud. Mountain Lion doesn’t add much but it improves massively on Lion. It corrects its mistakes. I’m very much ok with that, I don’t need flashy new features. I really don’t want Apple to start pulling features out of there ass (especially now that they switched to a yearly update cycle), mere refinements every year for something mature like OS X would be awesome.

Re: Apple Releases Final Mac OS X Mountain Lion to Developers

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Something very odd is happening at Apple. Either there is a massive shortage of developers (unlikely) or developers have been moved to a new project (AppleTV ?). Because Mountain Lion and iOS6 are by far the most underwhelming updates yet in terms of features.

They have also moved to an 18 month release cycle for OS X[1], so we should not expect huge swathes of changes in each release.

[1]: http://forums.appleinsider.com/t/143731/mac-os-x-mountain-li...

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