On 16 Feb 2005, at 08:44, Neil Hughes wrote:
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 20:37:46 +0000, Mark Benson wrote:
I meant a minor monetary incentive, i.e. �30 off or something...
Yes, particularly if you bought the previous version on its own or with a
new machine only a few months before.
Having beta tested OSX for Apple, i.e. bought 10.0 and the 'free' 10.1 upgrade, I was pretty miffed at being asked to pay the full whack for Jaguar. In the end I waited about 9 months until I needed to buy a new machine. Ditto Panther.
I've been using OS X since 2001. I have a legal copy of all 4 versions. OK, granted 3 of those came with my student ADC subscription but I still paid $99 a year for that, so it works by proxy.
I must be mellowing now though - with the time between releases increasing the full purchase price doesn't seem so bad. I'm also pretty good at resisting upgrades unless there's something really worthwhile, i.e. I've stopped being an upgrade junkie and beta tester.
I'm not buying 10.4 when it is released, I'll throw the cash into buying a G5 based machine with a graphics card capable of handling the new CoreGraphics library instead, which when I buy it will be shipped with 10.4. Similar strategy to yours with 10.2 I guess.
What does bug me is when I'm pressurized to upgrade the OS for no good
reason other than the apparent refusal of a software developer to make
their software compatible with an older OS that was itself new less than
a year previously. Case in point - evaluating an email client for 10.1
only to find that the new version required 10.2 because of the latter's
enhanced address book. Big deal.
There is a huge gap between 10.1 and 10.2 but from there upwards it seems that a lot of stuff just requires an up to date 10.2.8 install or better. I know that all stuff built in XCode is currently compatible at least back to 10.2.
FWIW I wasn't to taken with 10.4 last year when the first demo aired from WWDC. Since watching Job's demo at MacWorld SF 2005 though there are a lot of features that were simply not in the WWDC demo (presumably new ones since then) that are really looking like the sorta things that will make me use 10.4. Stuff like Spotlight, Smart folders in Mail and Finder, and Automater.
My prediction now stands for release on June 6th at WWDC 2005.
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