Are there 200 people here complaining about Lion? Maybe 2000? Or 5000? That's still a drop in the bucket compared to the number of machines shipping with Lion and/or people downloading it to their own machines. Apple sales are surging and Lion is part of that.
Apple announced Thursday that sales of OS X 10.7 Lion topped the one million mark on Wednesday, the first day of availability. Lion is only available through the Mac App Store, and at US$29.99, that means Apple has added another $30 million to its coffers (you know, becauseApple was running short on cash). “Lion is off to a great start, user reviews and industry reaction have been fantastic,” Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing, said in a statement. “Lion is a huge step forward, it’s not only packed with innovative features but it’s incredibly easy for users to update their Macs to the best OS we’ve ever made.”
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Hmm- more than a million sales the first day. That sounds like a statistic to me. I wonder how many more have been sold since that first day. One or two copies, or maybe a few million more? Or ten million?
That actually sounds like Lion works for most people. They sell millions and some number of thousands of people have issues. No one, especially the people posting here about how bad Lion is, have ANY idea how many people actually have major problems with it. They report they have issues, they see a few hundred, or even a few thousand, people complain, and boom, Lion is bad. Don't use it. Their problems do not make Lion bad.
Again, every time an OS is released, we go through this here. The posters with problems assume the issue is global because they see similar problems here. It's not. I keep quoting the statistics I was asked for (units sold vs. possible users on this forum, to show that the percentage of complaints is actually quite small, for example), and someone says, well, mine doesn't work, my friend's doesn't work, so they all don't work, or the majority don't work.
No. Because there are many more people whose copies work. Even here, in this thread, people report that theirs work. Mine works. Just above this post are several reports that theirs work. I'm not saying (again, as I keep doing) that yes, YOU may be having issues, even with a new machine (I bought a new Honda Civic the first year of a new model, and it had four recalls. It was a great car, just had some shaking out to do). But that does not mean that Lion is a disaster. Millions sold and in use. And if you go to an Apple Store, people aren't clamoring for help. This isn't even up to the p.r. tumult over the iPhone 4, in which pressure was put on Apple to give out free bumpers to solve some problem that some folks may or may not have actually had. I hear crickets over Lion.
So, please, if you have issues with Lion, I'm sorry. Go to Apple, or revert to SL, or spend $29 and install SL on your new computer if you can't get it to work with Lion, or take your new computer back and get a refund. But please don't tell the rest of us that Lion doesn't work , and then demand statistics when we tell you that it does for us. The numbers sold tell the tale. It works for most people.
