Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 21st Feb 2008 15:30 UTC, submitted by CIozzio
"Leopard started out with a generous share of first-version glitches, but almost all of them have now been resolved by the second of two automated updates, which brings Leopard up to version 10.5.2. Finally, Leopard is extravagantly overdressed for the jobs that it's designed to do, and its pervasive eye-candy starts out looking dazzling but soon becomes distracting. Fortunately, from the beginning, the OS started out with options that let you put it on a low-eye-sugar diet, and the latest update has even more."
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it's by far the best operating system ever written for the vast majority of consumers
No it is not. It may be a very nice OS. It may be the best thing since sliced bread for everyone with suitable Apple hardware to run it on. But the best OS for most people, it ain't as long as it involves them in a total hardware replacement to get it. Because Apple hardware is not the best hardware ever shipped for the vast majority of consumers. So an OS that forces them to get this hardware to run it simply cannot be the best for them.
What we see emerging here is a marketing slogan originating in Cupertino for mindless recital by the faithful in puff pieces masquerading as reviews and articles. Like many or most marketing slogans its a wild distortion of the facts. Like most Cupertino ones, and like the Party Line about OSX being in some way open source, it is a wild distortion, but it also has cultish overtones which make it more unpleasant than most.
Macs are fine if you like that sort of thing. They are indeed the right choice for a rather small minority of people. What they are not is the best computer ever made for the vast majority of consumers, and its quite gross to hear people parroting this sort of thing over and over again. It is in fact counterproductive for this reason. For every faithful follower who nods his head reading this sort of thing, there will be 10 or 100 outsiders who will say to themselves, no, not for me, Steve. Not like this.