AppleSeed members are also eligible for the GM download. There is no charge, since AppleSeed participation is by invite from Apple only.
Just to clear that up.
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AppleSeed members are also eligible for the GM download. There is no charge, since AppleSeed participation is by invite from Apple only.
Just to clear that up.
just out of curiosity, how do apple pick people for these invites? or is it mainly people who have friends working in one way or another for apple, that can sign people up?
Likely not "Software Updates" will take you to the App Store "Updates Tab", you wont be able to update an application that you don't have a valid purchase for.
just out of curiosity, how do apple pick people for these invites? or is it mainly people who have friends working in one way or another for apple, that can sign people up?
I'd love to know the answer to this as well.
I understand wanting the latest OS X but why now wait a couple more weeks and get the update then?
When the new iMac comes I'll hopefully have the best of both worlds, my current G5 Leopard and a new Mountain Lion iMac both within arms reach of each other.
Dumb question but I haven't had much experience with Lion and understand 'Save As' is no more, has this changed in ML?
You know you don't have to buy it right?
When the new iMac comes I'll hopefully have the best of both worlds, my current G5 Leopard and a new Mountain Lion iMac both within arms reach of each other.
Dumb question but I haven't had much experience with Lion and understand 'Save As' is no more, has this changed in ML?
You know you don't have to buy it right?
You can also hold the Option key while you look at the Go menu in the Finder Menu Bar.
just out of curiosity, how do apple pick people for these invites? or is it mainly people who have friends working in one way or another for apple, that can sign people up?
Go here: https://discussions.apple.com/
Then register and start posting responses that help people solve their problems.
What sort of reply is this? You don't have to buy? We should feel appreciative that they don't stick a gun to our heads and say BUY or DIE?
This software is a service pack to lion, it's not a new os.
Not all people you know drink the kool aid to think that notes, reminders, chinese and twitter warrant a new os. Neither do bug fixes - if they've bothered with them, cause I 've not heard anything yet about their piss poor custom smb protocol. Not all people think autofill passwords in safari, and reading list offline are exactly os features to be touted in a keynote.
You know what the right price for it should have been?
$0
You know how much apple will be making off this, if half of the 50 million os x users upgrade? one billion dollars.
Does anyone, in their right mind (note: this is important, they have to be in their right mind to make this judgment) think mountain lion is worth one billion dollars? For what, tweaking a few ui items? Staying a kernel behind ios? Featuring almost ZERO new features (oh I forgot, airplay, boy that's hard to implement...)
p.s. don't just downrate me boys, cause I already got a -1, answer with arguments to what I am saying. I know some of you boys have itchy fingers to downrate, but let us hear your counter arguments here too.
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If it bothers you THIS MUCH, then don't upgrade. Really show them that they've screwed up. Who really cares what Darwin version it is compared to iOS? What does that change for the end user? Even if people think it is just a "service pack" it includes new features and API's for developers, and runs so much faster then Lion, even on older systems. It's well worth a mere $20 USD.
Well...the price has been set. I suggest you get over it quickly or stick with Lion or Snow Leopard.
If you're that irate about it...http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html
While I agree ML is what Lion should've been, ML is not a "service pack." From Wikipedia:
"A service pack (in short SP) is a collection of updates, fixes or enhancements to a software program delivered in the form of a single installable package. Companies often release a service pack when the number of individual patches to a given program reaches a certain (arbitrary) limit. Installing a service pack is easier and less error-prone than installing a high number of patches individually, even more so when updating multiple computers over a network."
This is not a collection of updates, so...
You would be better off spending twenty bucks on some reading comprehension tutoring.
Just my opinion.
Who cares if they update the os kernel to the latest version? Are you joking? No it doesn't really change anything for the end user, so they might as well revert back 3 kernels of darwin? Are you serious in saying it doesn't benefit the end user? Jesus Christ.
To say it runs faster than lion, isn't really a compliment, seeing as lion was dirt slow, slower than the linuxes, much slower than windows 7. As far as older systems go, which ones are you talking about? The ones apple is force obsoleting? And we shall see how faster it is than lion, when the proper stats about this come out after release.
It's not a mere $20, it's a billion dollars (minimum, could be 1.5 billion) for apple, for a service pack, that a lot of us are forced to upgrade to because lion was such a poor release to begin with.
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The way fullscreen works with spaces would make that confusing as hell. Apple seems to think of fullscreen as a form of presentation rather than a way of working.
yeap, but it is a collection of fixes and enhancements.
I think at the end of the day we are playing with semantics. In all honesty, is this closer to a service pack or to a new os?
Well, maybe not private one-on-one tutoring. But group tutoring? Yeah, you could probably find something.
Good luck.