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The Obligatory Mountain Lion Poll
Since Snow Leopard there where no really interesting new features in OSX. As Apple is now heading for iOS/OSX merge, follow the cloud hype and no longer interested in classical desktop apps like the Finder (still a lot to improve here) there is no need for any update... until the day where I am forced by new hardware.
Agreed, but the cost is so cheap
I agree that these recent updates have been very minor and are definitely not must-have updates. However, with the cost being less than many video games and productivity apps, it's worth considering for the conveniences it offers: twitter / facebook / flickr integration, notification center, messages (whose beta will expire very soon), encrypted disks, better remote desktop, airplay mirroring, automatic app updates, multiple time machine targets, etc..
Reasons...
In my case, reasons not to upgrade from Snow Leopard include:
Reasons to upgrade:
Also, I disagree with how the platform is slowly but surely being turned into a walled garden. As a power user and occasional developer, I fear that my long-term future is more likely to be with Linux than Mac OS X. :-( ---
Andy/
Reasons...
Rosetta is a good reason to stay on Snow Leopard, if you need it and can't afford to upgrade, or don't have any alternatives. As for the rest:
Agreed, but the cost is so cheap
Apache is still there and there's a launchdaemon plist for it. It's just the preference option to start it has gone. I've no idea why they would do that. |
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