[News] [Rival] Apple's Leopard: Polish -- Maybe. Data Loss -- for Certain.
Roy Schestowitz
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| Aaaand … poof!
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| The directory on our Desktop is now gone. The directory shown in the C$ mount
| will only contain files that were copied entirely before the connection was
| disrupted, but nothing more (in the demonstration case, there’s only one file
| in "test", so nothing was copied successfully).
|
| [...]
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| Where’s the rest of our data?
|
| Apple, please FTFF already. This is unacceptable.
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http://tomkarpik.com/articles/massive-data-loss-bug-in-leopard/
But, but... Apple says Macs are just perfect. Down to pixel level where it
matters /least/ if one's data -- the bread and butter -- is lost.
Related:
Leopard early adopters suffer for the rest of us
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| Mac OS X 10.5.1 will likely arrive around Thanksgiving with fixes for most of
| the problems encountered by the brave early adopters.
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http://www.news.com/8301-13579_3-9809571-37.html
Some Leopard upgraders see 'blue screen of death'
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| A significant number of Mac owners upgrading to Leopard on Friday reported
| that after installing the new operating system, their machines locked up,
| showing only an interminable -- and very Windows-like -- "blue screen of
| death."
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=printArticleBasic&articleId=9044378
New iMacs plagued by interface freezing issues
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| A growing number of users have reported that Apple's aluminum all-in-one
| computers suffer from a flaw that locks up the interface, rendering the
| system all but inert until a reboot.
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http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/07/10/03/new_imacs_plagued_by_interface_freezing_issues.html
Apple Arrogance Unleashed!
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| But the only problem with Apple is that it has no gratitude. Or humility. Or
| generosity. Or manners.
|
| I'm a big fan of Apple products. But there's no escaping the fact that Apple
| has always been, well, arrogant. Which was fine -- their superiority complex
| has always been both partially deserved and one of the company's motivations
| to strive for better things. But in the past few months, the company seems to
| have crossed some kind of invisible line, now brazenly pissing off not just
| competitors, but its most devoted fans, closest partners and industry
| supporters.
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