Why Apple removed the "Welcome video"??
iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.2)
Waste of time, I would imagine. It was particularly annoying in Snow Leopard that you couldn't do anything to stop it, but instead had to sit through "welcome" in multiple languages. I was cute once. After that, don't care! Stop! Let me get on to using my computer.
I didn't write this, but I thought that it was a really good explanation! I copied it from this Reddit link: http://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/2hxqqz/what_happened_to_the_mac_osx_welco me_videos/
"Bandwidth.
(At least for another few years/decades 'till we transfer data as richly as we think in density, and as fast as we think, etc. Or just until downloading a welcome video adds more financial benefit than the cost of making a new one every version of OS X every 2 years, paying for every part of that process and hosting and serving viewing and downloading of that same Welcome Video...
Those are possible "cynical" business motives.
I think Apple did it so the Internet Recovery option of OS X, the total overall data sent to/from customers in the new open OS X beta, and the setup process time is smaller - perhaps up to 1GB/15seconds - smaller if you take into account different renderings of the video for Macs different screen resolutions, etc.
The OS X Welcome Videos were ahead of their time, and thus died ahead of their time. They were awesome.
May they come again.
When?
Bandwidth."
It sounds like a no-brainer, given that the intro videos stopped right when OS X became a "download-only" OS.
We don't know that answer but it hasn't been used since Snow Leopard.
Why apple removed OS X intro video?
