I have been using Macs since...the very first Mac...I still have that Macintosh, and the subsequent Macintosh Plus as well as the Macintosh SE....ALL THREE BOOT AND FUNCTION STILL....
....I did some work for Apple in the 80's and got a first hand experience and clear understanding of the corporate culture and values at that time and I also did some work for Next and had a more intimate and direct experience of the daily work routines of Steve Jobs, both the genius and the demons.
I have every single commercially released version of OSX on disc, including the "pre-release beta" which was sold to the public for $39.00...
.....and now I find myself here, owner of several MacBook Pros, Mac Minis, iMacs and Mac Pros (including Server software), confronted with Lion.....and I can only say that it seems as though Lion's release was rushed to market in time to beat Steve's death, as it was truly an unfinished product like none from Apple I've ever experienced....and that Steve's "Reality Distortion Field" is surly an embedded part of the current Apple corporate culture.
When I found this post while searching for another issue, I was diverted and started to write my response, but an hour later I found I had begun a mini-novel....and two hours later I realized Apple would surly not allow its post here as they sanitize this resource so thoroughly as to make it useless to many people....AND....be assured, there is NO FREE SPEECH tolerated in full here....so, when I'm happy with my reply in full, I'll return and post a link so I may be read by those interested. I would not want to tarnish this "perfect and pristine" world, no matter how fabricated or false it truly is.
This leaves us all with the single major dilema I have always seen between Apple and its users: For all of the innovation and creativity that Apple has given and sold the world, the stability and reliability needed for business and surly anyone who in turn needs to be relied upon or be seen as stable, it does not and likely will not exist....or at least if it does or has, it did or will for only a very short periond of time....."bits of stability."
The trade off between innovation and stability has been a tough one. Lion has taken from me time, money, effieincy and much much more...genius major features that were part of my daily work flow are GONE....features as fundamental and as old as the first Macintosh....GONE!!!...spell check on STEROIDS re-writing my writing....and I, of course, regret GREATLY having upgraded the day it was made available. I subsequenlty spent a ridiculous amount of time and effort (and again, money) trying to return several machines to Snow Leopard, but in the end, realized it was futile and that we are all being FORCED into it....FORCED, that is, unless we settle for, say something lesser, like Windows....or maybe a better alternative like Ubuntu...???
I do have "Faith" in Apple....to make Lion into a great product....it is now, after multiple releases in a very short time, a much much better and maybe even really great OS....but they are likely to abandon it shortly after it is finallly fully refined and then they'll likely release another half-baked OS for all of us to struggle with....again.
....is there any wonder why Apple has never captured the business world or why Apple's user base is so small?
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