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Panther is where OS X should have been two years ago.
Let's calculate a sum. I've given Apple $129 for 10.1, $129 for 10.2 and, $129 for 10.3. I've now paid a total of $387 for the same piece of software that my friend, who bought his first mac yesterday, acquired for only $129. I feel like I've been robbed.
I purchased "Windows XP Pro" for $200, which, when compared with OS X, is a much better value for the money. Applications are less likely to crash on XP and there are many more available.
No wonder OS X doesn't provide a calculator program in utilities. If you actually did the math, you would be livid.
To add insult to injury, Panther still has UI bugs that have existed since 10.1. They are too numerous to list here.
Applications are another story. Safari still has significant rendering errors and problems. DVD-player looks better, but the controls are still buggy. QuickTime continues to harass us to pay for the pro version. IChat now makes it difficult to understand that you don't need to pay Apple for a dot-mac account in order to use it. Apple also wants you to buy from their ITunes music store. OS X is beginning to feel like ad-ware or spy-ware.
The prior versions of OS X were too buggy for a user to rely upon so they were just an expensive toy to play with. Those of us who have been buying from the beginning have had to endure these long years waiting for, and paying for, Apple to get its act together. The only reason I purchased OS X at the time of the initial release was because I thought wouldn't have to pay for bug fixes and trivial features in the future, which is exactly what 10.2 and 10.3 are: additions to the OS that should have been included in 10.0.
This is the end of the line for you Apple, once again you're a day late and a dollar short. My g4 powerMac is now my g4 paper-weight.
Let's calculate a sum. I've given Apple $129 for 10.1, $129 for 10.2 and, $129 for 10.3. I've now paid a total of $387 for the same piece of software that my friend, who bought his first mac yesterday, acquired for only $129. I feel like I've been robbed.
I purchased "Windows XP Pro" for $200, which, when compared with OS X, is a much better value for the money. Applications are less likely to crash on XP and there are many more available.
No wonder OS X doesn't provide a calculator program in utilities. If you actually did the math, you would be livid.
To add insult to injury, Panther still has UI bugs that have existed since 10.1. They are too numerous to list here.
Applications are another story. Safari still has significant rendering errors and problems. DVD-player looks better, but the controls are still buggy. QuickTime continues to harass us to pay for the pro version. IChat now makes it difficult to understand that you don't need to pay Apple for a dot-mac account in order to use it. Apple also wants you to buy from their ITunes music store. OS X is beginning to feel like ad-ware or spy-ware.
The prior versions of OS X were too buggy for a user to rely upon so they were just an expensive toy to play with. Those of us who have been buying from the beginning have had to endure these long years waiting for, and paying for, Apple to get its act together. The only reason I purchased OS X at the time of the initial release was because I thought wouldn't have to pay for bug fixes and trivial features in the future, which is exactly what 10.2 and 10.3 are: additions to the OS that should have been included in 10.0.
This is the end of the line for you Apple, once again you're a day late and a dollar short. My g4 powerMac is now my g4 paper-weight.