{"id":1699,"date":"2007-10-18T16:41:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-19T00:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/apples-leopard-no-bigdeal"},"modified":"2017-01-20T14:04:11","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T22:04:11","slug":"apples-leopard-no-bigdeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/apples-leopard-no-bigdeal\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple&#8217;s Leopard &#8211; No Big Deal?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been reading this or that about Apple\u2019s next operating system for the Mac, <a href=\"http:\/\/apple.com\/macosx\/\">Leopard<\/a>, over the past few days. This is largely because Apple just announced the release date, later this month, and also because it\u2019s been uncharacteristically long since the last system software update.<\/p>\n<p>Much of the discussion has offhandedly dismissed this version as \u201cnot a big deal\u201d and \u201cless than the usual.\u201d I think the nay-sayers will be surprised. I\u2019ll tell you what: I think that <a href=\"http:\/\/apple.com\/macosx\/features\/timemachine.html\">Time Machine<\/a> feature will be worth the upgrade price alone. I think it\u2019s <em>that good<\/em>, particularly after reading <a href=\"http:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/07\/10\/12\/road_to_mac_os_x_leopard_time_machine.html\">AppleInsider\u2019s excellent overview<\/a> of its details and technology.<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s true, in a way. There\u2019s not much in the way of killer features or big new additions, beyond that. And it <em>has<\/em> been a while since the last upgrade. So why do I think this version is so great? It\u2019s mostly in the details, and the way everything works so much better together.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past decade, especially the last few years, Apple has shown a great willingness to focus on improving the technology, even at the expense of confusing some customers or the market. Their transition of all their computers to a new Operating System (OS X), a new central processor (Intel\u2019s), and releasing products that \u201ccannibalize\u201d their own sales to stay ahead come to mind.<\/p>\n<p>Leopard is Apple\u2019s OS X release intended to strengthen their footing. They\u2019ve been gaining market share, even while offering computers with a much older operating system than their competition (Microsoft\u2019s Windows Vista). Obviously, if the new OS release doesn\u2019t blow people\u2019s minds (and nobody really expects it to), no big deal.<\/p>\n<p>If this new version gives Apple a far stronger technological foundation for moving forward, however\u2026 well, <strong>I think<\/strong> we\u2019ve got a strategy here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been reading this or that about Apple\u2019s next operating system for the Mac, Leopard, over the past few days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9696,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/q-s\/Shure.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}