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I worked for Apple during Snow Leopard and Lion, and I was still excited for his reviews post-launch. To his immense credit, he would always manage to cover som

I worked for Apple during Snow Leopard and Lion, and I was still excited for his reviews post-launch. To his immense credit, he would always manage to cover some new feature or other thing I didn't know about, and I wrote parts of the damn operating system.

marincounty 12y ago
I was so happy with Snow Leopard and Lion. All my stuff just worked.
- Angostura 12y ago
  Snow Leopard? Yes. Personally I found Lion one of the worst, slowest, buggiest OSs I've ever come across.
  - Khaine 12y ago
    Snow Leopard was a great release. I hope the next release is in a similar vein. Just polishing what has already been delivered
  - fastball 12y ago
    I guess you never used Vista. Or Windows 8.
  - ghshephard 12y ago
    I concur. I loved 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard), but I was burned so badly when I upgraded (too quickly) to 10.7 (Lion), that I've been paranoid ever since. That operating system was, freeze and kernel panic city for me. I'm pretty happy with 10.8.5 (Mountain Lion), and Its only about now that I'm considering upgrading to (10.9) Mavericks. (Just one operating system before the current (10.10) Yosemite) Of course, Apple doesn't make it easy to upgrade to their stable and regressed operating system - I'm going to have go through all sorts of hoops to upgrade to anything other than the (still not fully trusted by me) Yosemite.
    - coldpie 12y ago
      Oh My God what a mess. Everyone, please just use the freaking version numbers.
    - wyclif 12y ago
      I still use Snow Leopard. It's super stable and functions just fine as a developer OS.
      - jasode 12y ago
        The old OS X version can be fine if you're primarily doing Python programming. However, if one is using Xcode to write iOS 8 apps for the millions of new phones people bought a few months ago, you are pretty much forced onto the Apple upgrade treadmill. For example, Xcode 6.3 requires 10.10[1]. Apple decided that OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) released less than 18 months ago is not recent enough. Staying with OS X 10.6 means the latest Xcode you can install is v4 which means iOS 5 is the last version you can write apps for. That would be a severe handicap since iOS 5 has less than 3% marketshare[2]. I'm not sure if Apple servers would even allow developers to submit an iOS 5 app these days[3]. OS X 10.6 definitely was very stable but staying on it has severe economic penalties for many programmers. [1]https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/xcode/id497799835?ls=1&mt=12 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/xcode/id497799835?ls=1&mt=12 [2]http://david-smith.org/iosversionstats/ http://david-smith.org/iosversionstats/ [3]http://www.macworld.com/article/2080865/apple-requiring-app-submissions-to-be-optimized-for-ios-7-by-feb-1.html http://www.macworld.com/article/2080865/apple-requiring-app-...
  - Keyframe 12y ago
    What was/is wrong with 10.7.5? Damn fine OS.
- protomyth 12y ago
  I loved Snow Leopard, but Lion caused me so much pain. The whole "Save As" fiasco is Lion's legacy. Snow Leopard is still my favorite. Mountain Lion was ok and Mavericks and Yosemite have been error-filled and support headaches. I am hoping the next version is better tested.
  - McUsr 12y ago
    My favourites are Tiger, Snow Leopard and Mavericks. And I am more pleased with Mavericks than Snow Leopard which I am more pleased with than Tiger. I agree about the testing, but still I think they have managed to keep the technical debt somewhat in control. I really yearn for the day they license Plan9, and port OS X on top of that. Because I believe that would give bigger opportunities, both with respect to hardware, but also with respect to a better foundation for developing more sophisticated features.
    - protomyth 12y ago
      Did you use Mavericks as an individual or as part of a network of machines? I did like Tiger, Core Image was so fun and lead to the first commercial program I ever released. [edit: I should say that OpenStep was my favorite release and somethings are still not in OS X which is a pity - as to Plan 9 - I do have dreams of OpenStep on top of Plan 9]

marincounty 12y ago

I was so happy with Snow Leopard and Lion. All my stuff just worked.

Angostura 12y ago
Snow Leopard? Yes. Personally I found Lion one of the worst, slowest, buggiest OSs I've ever come across.
- Khaine 12y ago
  Snow Leopard was a great release. I hope the next release is in a similar vein. Just polishing what has already been delivered
- fastball 12y ago
  I guess you never used Vista. Or Windows 8.
- ghshephard 12y ago
  I concur. I loved 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard), but I was burned so badly when I upgraded (too quickly) to 10.7 (Lion), that I've been paranoid ever since. That operating system was, freeze and kernel panic city for me. I'm pretty happy with 10.8.5 (Mountain Lion), and Its only about now that I'm considering upgrading to (10.9) Mavericks. (Just one operating system before the current (10.10) Yosemite) Of course, Apple doesn't make it easy to upgrade to their stable and regressed operating system - I'm going to have go through all sorts of hoops to upgrade to anything other than the (still not fully trusted by me) Yosemite.
  - coldpie 12y ago
    Oh My God what a mess. Everyone, please just use the freaking version numbers.
  - wyclif 12y ago
    I still use Snow Leopard. It's super stable and functions just fine as a developer OS.
    - jasode 12y ago
      The old OS X version can be fine if you're primarily doing Python programming. However, if one is using Xcode to write iOS 8 apps for the millions of new phones people bought a few months ago, you are pretty much forced onto the Apple upgrade treadmill. For example, Xcode 6.3 requires 10.10[1]. Apple decided that OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) released less than 18 months ago is not recent enough. Staying with OS X 10.6 means the latest Xcode you can install is v4 which means iOS 5 is the last version you can write apps for. That would be a severe handicap since iOS 5 has less than 3% marketshare[2]. I'm not sure if Apple servers would even allow developers to submit an iOS 5 app these days[3]. OS X 10.6 definitely was very stable but staying on it has severe economic penalties for many programmers. [1]https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/xcode/id497799835?ls=1&mt=12 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/xcode/id497799835?ls=1&mt=12 [2]http://david-smith.org/iosversionstats/ http://david-smith.org/iosversionstats/ [3]http://www.macworld.com/article/2080865/apple-requiring-app-submissions-to-be-optimized-for-ios-7-by-feb-1.html http://www.macworld.com/article/2080865/apple-requiring-app-...
- Keyframe 12y ago
  What was/is wrong with 10.7.5? Damn fine OS.
protomyth 12y ago
I loved Snow Leopard, but Lion caused me so much pain. The whole "Save As" fiasco is Lion's legacy. Snow Leopard is still my favorite. Mountain Lion was ok and Mavericks and Yosemite have been error-filled and support headaches. I am hoping the next version is better tested.
- McUsr 12y ago
  My favourites are Tiger, Snow Leopard and Mavericks. And I am more pleased with Mavericks than Snow Leopard which I am more pleased with than Tiger. I agree about the testing, but still I think they have managed to keep the technical debt somewhat in control. I really yearn for the day they license Plan9, and port OS X on top of that. Because I believe that would give bigger opportunities, both with respect to hardware, but also with respect to a better foundation for developing more sophisticated features.
  - protomyth 12y ago
    Did you use Mavericks as an individual or as part of a network of machines? I did like Tiger, Core Image was so fun and lead to the first commercial program I ever released. [edit: I should say that OpenStep was my favorite release and somethings are still not in OS X which is a pity - as to Plan 9 - I do have dreams of OpenStep on top of Plan 9]