I adore Merlin, but you'd have to be pretty epically stupid to upgrade all 5 of your computers on day zero of the release before realizing that your shit's broken. While you're supposed to be writing a productivity book. When you knew that the release has no new features that affect you.
I guess someone has to lead the troll brigade (deserved or not) for every major release of every major platform.
It's better that you're the principal complainer at the moment than any of the usual suspects -- like the greybeards at macintouch (still pining for OS9) or the denizens of any of the Mac rumor forums (oh no my themes and Haxies!) or any of the surviving BBEdit users. You're doing a pretty good job of playing the goat on Twitter too.
Given your usual quality of effort and the normal tone of your writing, it took me several readings to realize that you weren't taking the piss!
Did you really upgrade every Mac you come in contact with? When you ran into trouble why didn't you just revert to a backup?
I guess Merlin's argument taken to the extreme is that Apple should wait until every piece of software written for a Macintosh computer is SL-compatible before they release Snow Leopard? "Well, I don't want to go that far -- I just want the apps that I use to be compatible", you might say. That's not fair unless you consider all of the apps that everyone uses and wait for those to be compatible. Very quickly we get closer to needing every app to be working again.
Upgrades can be bumpy. I lost a Dashboard widget that I use a lot (and didn't get upgraded until today), a few Preference Panes are a bit buggy, and my Safari plugins are totally f'd (since Safari64 can't load 32-bit plugins, I believe. I could be wrong, though -- ask John Siracusa). Yes, Merlin probably shouldn't have had TextMate and Photoshop crash on him. But at the same time, this is point-oh software -- I guess that in 2009, that means we should take it with a grain of salt.
By the by: I can't imagine that Apple releasing Snow Leopard a month ahead of schedule was a good thing for developers ( == 1 less month to Snow Leopard-proof their applications). I wonder if that is a contributing factor to the mountain of problems that people are having.
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[ 4.4 ms ] story [ 22.1 ms ] threadI guess someone has to lead the troll brigade (deserved or not) for every major release of every major platform.
Thank God you adore me, blasdel.
Given your usual quality of effort and the normal tone of your writing, it took me several readings to realize that you weren't taking the piss!
Did you really upgrade every Mac you come in contact with? When you ran into trouble why didn't you just revert to a backup?
Upgrades can be bumpy. I lost a Dashboard widget that I use a lot (and didn't get upgraded until today), a few Preference Panes are a bit buggy, and my Safari plugins are totally f'd (since Safari64 can't load 32-bit plugins, I believe. I could be wrong, though -- ask John Siracusa). Yes, Merlin probably shouldn't have had TextMate and Photoshop crash on him. But at the same time, this is point-oh software -- I guess that in 2009, that means we should take it with a grain of salt.
By the by: I can't imagine that Apple releasing Snow Leopard a month ahead of schedule was a good thing for developers ( == 1 less month to Snow Leopard-proof their applications). I wonder if that is a contributing factor to the mountain of problems that people are having.