Since we're lumping in Jaguar with .Mac already, I might as well take a chance to sound off also.
No - I haven't done it - taken either plunge, just yet. I am VERY annoyed with Apple for the bait & switch mentality which they're using with their LOYAL CUSTOMER BASE. That's something that Apple should have learned not to take for granted by now...shrinking market share anyone? Still - I'm stuck - they have me - by the end of the month I'll most begrudgingly shell out probably for both. .Mac is by far NOT worth the money, Virex or no virex. (Just how many OS/X viruses are out there anyway? puh-leez) But the fact that I use this email address a lot now is a major inconvenience to switch.... Again still not worth the money - but I am what Apple is counting on - a lazy well paid platform zealot. For those of you at The Company who might subscribe to this list - pass this along to the Powers that Be - I'll play along THIS TIME - but Yellow Dog LINUX is just a download away the next time. I RESENT the fact that I just paid for 10.1 & now I have to pay the full price all over again for a system that I haven't owned for two years yet. Both 'major improvements' were speed related - which screams to me that OS/X was "beta-released" as non-optimized code. As a software developer I find that distasteful - as a consumer the fact that I have to pay money to have debugging scaffolding removed from a production release - or whatever optimizations were required - just to be told that I have to do it AGAIN at FULL PRICE - completely unacceptable. So to answer the poll - NOT YET. or rather - SOON TO BE, BEGRUDGINGLY On Friday, September 20, 2002, at 09:14 PM, Rich & Michaela wrote: >> > At $129 for a dot release? Not a chance. Maybe to go to 10.5. > > ..Mac is even more of a disappointment. At the same time that Apple is > pushing as hard as they ever have to get folks to switch, they are > treating their loyal installed base like crap. > > -Rich > > ellem wrote: > >> Because 10.2 and 10.1.x are different beasts I notice that some >> discussions need disclaimers like"but I haven't tried this on 10.1.4" >> and such so I am wondering.... >> >> Have you upgraded to 10.2? >> >> I have not, I am on 10.1.5. >> >> (And on a far less important note: Have you signed up for .Mac?) >> >> (Me either.) >> -- >> Lou Moran >> http://ellem.dyn.dhs.org:5281/resume/lmoran2002.html
