on 9/26/01 10:01 AM, jake williamson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> hmmmm.... the download thing is tricky. i've just downloaded the redhat OS
> for an old pc over the last few nights. it took 8 or so hours to download
> one cd iso image from their ftp servers on a 512 adsl line - not bad!
>
> it seems strange that apple would neglect the fact that a majority of it's
> users are going to have access to a high speed line (i'm not ruling out home
> users at all - i'm thinking along the lines that running X on a iMac is
> going to be a bit sticky and slow and the product is aimed more at
> professionals?.)
I think you're forgetting how macmall and macwarehouse promoted the HELL out
of OS X... Grandma's and non-technical people were upgrading to it, probably
when they shouldn't have been.
It took you 8hrs to download that CD, and I BELIEVE that the normal DSL line
is 256, or half your speed... Imagine taking 650megs over 14 hours, times 5
million people. Apple's servers or just going to choke on that...
> i reckon apple should offer it as a pay for cd, free in dealers or a free
> download....
You can get the update free in apple stores, while supplies last.
> i'm guessing they may have worked out that a lot of original CD's have been
> duped onto cd-r and shared around (i'm not advocating this but apple ain't
> to generous - an os that doesn't have many (if any!) apps to run???!!). i
> guess its one way of making the people who haven't bought it yet go and
> spend some cash. looking at apples site, some app's (office included) will
> not run under anything but 10.1.
I don't like that... You don't dig the product, because it has a dearth of
native apps... So instead of buying it you use a copy of it illegally? I
really hate pirates. Yeah some fudging here and there is no big deal (like
using the same macos X CD on more than one machine you have) but just giving
it away is unethical.
I do graphic design, and have to spend thousands on software. It sucks, but
it means if there isn't a lot of value in It for me, I don't buy it. I don't
go out and pirate it. Even still, I don�t think they even have that in mind.
> i guess my grumble is that the OS wasn't finished in the 1st place, why
> should i have to spend more money so i can play dvd's and use the new
> version of word? classics not an option - i didn't fork out for all that ram
> for photoshop to have my os take 1/2 of it!!
I can understand that you wanted macOS X to be something it wasn't when it
first came out...
But unless you were living in a cave, or just bought it from the
macwarehouse advertisements... You knew exactly what you were getting- a
piece of software that apple HAD to get out the door to show everyone it was
serious this time about it's OS, and that it was coming and real.
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