I don't have anything to add about the original post, but I did have something to say about the 10.6 vs 10.7/8 discussion.
I happen to prefer 10.7/8 and the changes to Spaces/MC/Expose, but that's really a workflow adaptation. (Not to mention the whole idea of autosave, which is good in theory, but was poorly executed in 10.7 and only minor improvements in 10.8).
There are complaints of serious bugs with 10.7/8 that weren't there with 10.6.8. But 10.6 had several big updates to iron out bugs. We only had 3 patches to 10.7 and we are on our 3rd patch for 8. In comparison, 10.7 & 8 seem half-baked. But 10.6.3 was still pretty buggy as well.
It's always been this way. 10.4 went up to 10.4.11. And 10.5 was crap compared to that. Then we got to 10.5.8 and 10.6 came out and deleted user data. 10.7 never really had the chance to have the bugs worked out the way that it's predecessors did. And ML seems rushed because we still didn't get 10.7. working right.
All this to say that when 10.9 comes out this summer, hopefully we won't have a serious regression like in the past. Apple seems to do much better with iOS, because it's been more regular and incremental. Hopefully 10.9.0 is at least as good as the latest version of 10.8 at the time.
I happen to prefer 10.7/8 and the changes to Spaces/MC/Expose, but that's really a workflow adaptation. (Not to mention the whole idea of autosave, which is good in theory, but was poorly executed in 10.7 and only minor improvements in 10.8).
There are complaints of serious bugs with 10.7/8 that weren't there with 10.6.8. But 10.6 had several big updates to iron out bugs. We only had 3 patches to 10.7 and we are on our 3rd patch for 8. In comparison, 10.7 & 8 seem half-baked. But 10.6.3 was still pretty buggy as well.
It's always been this way. 10.4 went up to 10.4.11. And 10.5 was crap compared to that. Then we got to 10.5.8 and 10.6 came out and deleted user data. 10.7 never really had the chance to have the bugs worked out the way that it's predecessors did. And ML seems rushed because we still didn't get 10.7. working right.
All this to say that when 10.9 comes out this summer, hopefully we won't have a serious regression like in the past. Apple seems to do much better with iOS, because it's been more regular and incremental. Hopefully 10.9.0 is at least as good as the latest version of 10.8 at the time.