"It's a trend in general that people just aren't upgrading as much as they have in the past," said a commenter identified as "Patty O'Furniture" on Monday. Some griped about the fast pace of Apple's upgrades, now slated for annual release, mimicking the "upgrade fatigue" that not only affects Windows users, but has been cited by analysts as a major reason why enterprises, just finished with or even still in the middle of, their upgrades to Windows 7, are unlikely to migrate to the new Windows 8. Meanwhile, Windows XP - at 11 years and counting, more than three times older than Snow Leopard - ran 44% of all Windows PCs last month. Both were more popular than Mountain Lion or Leopard, which powered 26% and 9% of all Macs, respectively. "Īccording to Net Applications, 31% of all Macs that went online during October ran Snow Leopard, about the same percentage as relied on Lion. "Lion and Mountain Lion haven't brought anything that we need and take away things many of us do. "It's perfectly simple," said Clive Sweeting. "Lion was the worst thing Apple ever put out," asserted Jeffrey Martin. Still others objected to Lion and Mountain Lion on more practical grounds. In October 2010, when former CEO Steve Jobs introduced Lion, he put it plainly: ""Mac OS X meets the iPad," he said. "The last thing I need is my desktop workstation mimicking a toy walkie-talkie (iPhone) or Etch-a-Sketch (IPad)."īoth readers were referring to the moves Apple made last year in Lion, and expanded this year with Mountain Lion, to bring elements of iOS, the operating system that powers iPhones and iPads, to Macs. "I'm never switching until Apple removes all the kiddie toy iOS 'features' and changes of Lion," echoed "xbj" in another comment. I want a computer that looks like a computer," said "SusanW" in a comment Monday on. "I have no urge to upgrade again since I do not want a computer that looks like a tablet/phone.
In many cases, that thinking was tightly tied to complaints about Snow Leopard's successors, OS X 10.7, aka Lion, and OS X 10.8, Mountain Lion. There's more to a Mac than just its own hardware - there's something called drivers for third-party hardware."Īnother thread running through reader commentary was a not-surprising "if it's not broken, don't fix it" attitude, which is as common among long-time users of Windows XP as it is in the Snow Leopard camp. "I'm running with new peripherals whose drivers depend on Rosetta to work, and there's no suitable replacement for Mountain Lion," said Chris Gray, also in an email.
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