I, on the other hand, much appreciate the later Mac OS as it becomes more iOS like.
David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: [email protected] Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 Sent from my iPhone > On 27 Jul 2014, at 4:27, Sabahattin Gucukoglu <[email protected]> wrote: > > If your Mac journey starts with Lion, then I'd agree that anything subsequent > is a vast improvement. Of the three released since Lion, I think ML has > proven to be the least annoying and most stable, but Mavericks will probably > prove less frustrating at the current rate of VoiceOver instability and > Safari crashes. > > I don't agree that OS X is substantially better since SL, in fact, I'd argue > that many things now taken for granted started their life in SL. This > includes the many VoiceOver changes since Leopard, which IMO were among the > biggest. FWIW, my first Mac came with Leopard, although I wasn't much > impressed by Tiger before it, and didn't even know Apple had a Spoken > Interface preview before then. I had some dealings with classic Mac OS, but > only through a musical friend downgrading for the use of Outspoken from > Panther. > > The Windows comparison is highly strained, because indeed, Windows 7--still > used by many people--was released in the same year as SL. I realise the > power of nostalgia, but Apple's release cycle is much shorter than > Microsoft's, and there are still people using SL because they have to, EG > those with Core Solo Macs. So, yes, SL is to Apple what XP is to Windows, > but only because it's discontinued and many people have, use, need and enjoy > it. > > I don't think I could go back to SL. I might install it, and use it, between > now and Yosemite, as a kind of personal protest. Sadly, some of the tools I > use (in particular OS X server's caching server and Arq) require later > versions of OS X. Still, I do maintain that SL was, subjectively at any > rate, the best version of OS X I've used--better than Leopard 10.5.8, Lion, > Mountain Lion, and Mavericks. The latter three, in my opinion, are > destroying the platform, rendering it less and less "Mac-like" and more and > more "iPad-like", which is not a trend I appreciate at all. As soon as > "Windows 9" (or whatever they call it) comes out and proves to be everything > that's likeable about Windows 7, but with all of the under-the-hood goodness > in Windows 8, I'll take a serious look. > > Cheers, > Sabahattin > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
