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- Ireland, on 01/01/2008, -4/+25And in 2008? iPhone nano & Mac touch :P
- pdawg90, on 01/01/2008, -0/+13Or http://digg.com/apple/popular/365days
- Auzy, on 01/01/2008, -4/+17I'd say the fact that our Software update server on OSX server downloaded 280GB in the first month because it kept crashing (costing us about AUD $10000) should have joined the list.
Or the fact that apple's highest end computer, still only has a X1900 video card and out of date quaddro available as upgrades, while even the worst companies are using better for laptops? Thats why I sold my mac pro.
Or the EA announcement that EA would be working a lot harder on gaming for OSX, claiming they would release Mac OSX Need for Speed and Windows together, but probably realised afterwoods (as I did recently), even the most powerful mac can barely even run prostreet, hence why its not a reality.
Or the fact Apple released a server, which just about the entire planet cannot use as a file server because the only thing thats consistant about the file sharing, is that most people end up getting constant authentication issues after trying to log in a second time. Been there,done that, thanks to Apple, we now have to run 2 servers until they fix this. Theres a reason it costs less then windows server. And windows servers AFP sharing probably actually works too. Kind of a bummer it takes another company to get your own file sharing protocol working.
I would have also have put Apple charging for network drivers so users can get 802.11n (note, yes, they are only drivers, many people are claiming its a magic firmware patch. Its not. And no PC company would ever pull off the same stunt because its obviously an attempt to screw customers).
The file corruption story in Leopard I think was pretty big too (and yes, we experienced that too at the reseller I worked at, when the migration wizard failed, or so I suspect it was due to this).
Or the fact Apple released the worlds first multitouch device, that really should be single touch. The only use of the multi-touch on it is the zooming, and this is a bad design decision anyway because its not immediately obvious to users that zoom exists. I dare anyone to find anywhere else apple used multi-touch on those things. And the iPhone only runs at 2.5G still (so 56K speeds), and finally, no video conferencing. So other then having a touch screen, its not really an evolution of mobiles, because it is no better then any other smartphone (in fact, most smartphones are better).
Or the fact that every Apple reseller out there was promoting the fact that you could run Windows on your Mac for free with Boot Camp, and then they cancelled the beta period, and now you must pay to get the latest drivers (another case where Apple is charging for drivers, which in this case, are mostly drivers which they didn't code). Thanks Apple. Really, its great to see you treat your customers with so much respect.
Apple will have a lot of brainwashing to do over the next year, because it seems a lot of their spin-doctoring is starting to wear out these days, and you can tell that even the attitudes of customers are changing towards apple. It used to be great because every customer who came into the store knew that they were treated with decency by Apple. Before i recently quit, I noticed that now customers are getting a tad peed off by a lot of Apple's business tactics. Apple tried to force a customer to buy an overpriced extended warranty to get their computer fixed, despite it already being fixed over 7 times. Every 2 weeks it was in for service, they could never rely on it. And we had to mostly beg to get the computer replaced. She certainly wasn't rich either. And how exactly do you convince a customer to buy a quad core mac to run windows costing $7000, when they use such a shocking video card? Geforce 7300 is a great stock video card choice for the highest end computer your company has to offer. And it was always a great choice from the start (and yes, thats sarcastic).
And no, this isn't coming from a random linux user either, I'm a long term mac user
And I happily sold both of our mac pro's 2 weeks ago. Both cost over $5000, I sold both for over $3000. I just got 2 state of the Art PC's which are much faster for $3000 making a profit. The only thing I can thank Apple for is their slow release cycles so I can sell off their crap to get real machines.
Oh, by the way, the new features in Leopard? Vista mostly has them. Vista may be a bit slower atm, but when SP1 comes out, I think its safe to say that Microsoft is catching up. And yes, Vista does have the equivilent of time machine for years, and just cause it isn't flashy, in many cases, applications use it to the equivilent to Mac.
And thanks for .Mac apple. I tried uploading all my photos to my .Mac account the other day. It kept timing out. I tried again, timed out, tried again, timed out. Never had that problem with flickr, and they actually have decent integration API's into other services like facebook. - RubberBinder, on 01/01/2008, -1/+7There wont be an iPhone Nano, they don't have a price point that they could successfully fit it into, but a tablet isn't out of reach.
- AGiantBear, on 01/01/2008, -4/+10Meh. What's the point of this article, exactly? If I want to hear about Mac news, I'd rather hear about what's coming up (new sub-notebook?) than the same old stuff people have been arguing about on Digg all year.
- TheWorm, on 01/01/2008, -1/+7How could they possibly make the already small iPhone storage any smaller? It's already nano sized.
- anti_hax0r, on 01/02/2008, -1/+6No he speaks the truth.
You would get emotional if your company could bill more if the computers were faster. - whatthefu, on 01/01/2008, -1/+5Another "top in 2007" list, this one having to do with Mac stories that each got to the front page 3 times.
- filovirus, on 01/01/2008, -1/+5My #1 (and unfortunately many others)
"Apple breaks Airport Extreme since 10.4.9 and the bug persists for months into their current Leopard release."
Upon discussion group users commenting on Airport randomly dropping connections or not reestablishing on wake, Apple is conspicuously quiet on the subject.
Fix this now! I spent enough money on your hardware and it should work, and did before you screwed something up in 10.4.9. - Auzy, on 01/02/2008, -1/+5I also want to add that using Leopard server cost our company over $10000 and their leopard server software still hasn't been patched yet for anyone for file serving to work properly.
Microsoft would never release such a buggy server. - Auzy, on 01/02/2008, -2/+5Apple TV was the worst product ever released. I think our store only ever sold about 3 or 4 of them. And I feel sorry for the person I sold one of them to.
And the first version of the firmware released on them had wireless issues, so you have to use a ethernet cable to upgrade the firmware first. And whenever you restore them, u have to repeat upgrading the software again to make them usable. Ours was mounted in our showroom with double sided tape so we needed to stretch a ethernet cable across the building after restoring it to make it work.
Also, the wii seems to do youtube better actually..
I don't think microsoft
- EatingPie, on 01/01/2008, -2/+5Or not. :)
Good list. I think the DRM issue was FAR bigger news than a perpetually delayed Intel version of MS Office. But otherwise, pretty much nailed it.
-Pie - inactive, on 01/02/2008, -0/+3Banmaster, I am a PC user and I have to say that Apple makes great products. I hate fanboys of either camp. I feel that you should use the right tool for the right job. Sometimes that is Windows, sometimes OSX, and even Linux on occasion. Fanboys in either camp replace logic with rabid emotion and do both products a disservice.The vitriol you brought to your comment only proves to most Mac fans that PC users are brainless idiots. If you don't like Macs, fine. If you hate fanboys, fine. But at least present an argument other than just 'stupid idiots.' Your ignorance shows when you do that.
- FDL1, on 01/01/2008, -1/+3It's missing "Brain-eating zombies invade SF Apple store!"
http://www.digg.com/apple/Brain_eating_zombies_inv ... - inactive, on 01/02/2008, -1/+3Mac had it's share of problems in 2007, but why people are upset that Macworld.com didn't stress them is beyond me. Leave that to the PC forums and websites. Let them enjoy their victories. I am a PC user looking forward to getting a Mac for the first time this year. I will not be switching full time, but just using it to support the Mac users in my company. Using the right tool for the right job is one of the reasons I get paid well for what I do. To all the aspiring IT people on Digg I would suggest that you divorce yourself from emotional ties to any hardware or software format and learn to use the tool that accomplishes your goal the best. That will vary from job to job, and any experience you get with Windows, Linux, OSX, and Unix will serve you well.
PS Flaming fanboys is fun, though. I admit to it myself on occasion. Carry on. - inactive, on 01/02/2008, -0/+2Seems to be some confusion - most of these are APPLE stories, not mac.
- archer75, on 01/02/2008, -0/+2It's amazing what people have accomplished with absolutely no support from apple. Just imagine if apple did support this and hardware vendors were allowed to release mac drivers for thier products. What this shows is that getting OSX to run on any PC would be much easier for apple and hardware vendors than most people realize. Giving apple not only far more software sales but continued hardware sales from the mac faithful and those wanting excellently supported products.
- Auzy, on 01/02/2008, -0/+2I was resigning in 1 month time. We just disabled the Software update server, as we no longer trust apple. And I wanted to train everyone first before leaving. The only broken Apps I have seen though were Apples fault. Like Filemaker 7 server got broken (filemaker is owned by Apple), file sharing (who uses a server without file sharing anyway) and every other Apple service (Nobody can work out how to work caldav, cause apple barely documented it, and wait, thats another bug. it wont accept that you gave them permissions to use Caldav for many people).
Seriously, I dare someone to find me a service in Leopard server that works. 10.5.1 didn't fix anything really in OSX server. And I never suspected Apple of not testing their products sufficiently, but anyone who has used this thing, knows its a total disaster. I knew there would be small issues, but I didn't believe that NOTHING on it would work, other then the prompt that asks for a serial number.
Oh yeah, RAID is a bit buggy too, I pulled out a harddisk to test it, put it back in, and pulled it out again, and it would no longer accept the drive into the raid set. Which means I cant trust raid either.
Leopard server I think I vote #1 for worst tested Apple product of the year. Its the only server os, where the client software works better then the server. - kimcastic, on 01/02/2008, -0/+1Heh. When I first read that I thought it was Biggest Mac as in the BigMac from McDonalds.
- richthomas, on 01/02/2008, -0/+1this is the "mid ranged mac tower" idea. Apple will never do this as they already sell what they think is the perfect consumer desktop; the iMac. i too would love a tower that doesn't use workstation CPUs and RAM that allows GPU and HDD upgrades.
- knightboat, on 01/02/2008, -0/+1Yes, using a draft-N Airport Extreme on two 1.0.0 Apple TVs.
- banmaster, on 01/01/2008, -2/+3Apple! "It just works"
- richthomas, on 01/02/2008, -0/+1have you installed Mac OS X on this beast? are you able to install drivers correctly without instability or crashes and update via the software update feature? this is whats keeping me from doing this.
- banmaster, on 01/01/2008, -1/+2Like selling more than 100 million copies of Vista when apple struggled to shift 100 thousand leopards??
- daliminator, on 01/01/2008, -2/+3You mean an *Apple* product?
- rebotfc, on 01/02/2008, -0/+1will never happen. Apple is a hardware company not a software company.
- knightboat, on 01/02/2008, -0/+1I upgraded the original firmware just fine on two Apple TVs using wireless.
- mal1964, on 01/02/2008, -0/+1Shouldn't a computer always be number 1
- Onetrack, on 01/02/2008, -0/+1Archer - Build your own - mine has a core 2 duo, is in a thermaltake lanbox lite and has a 7950GT under the hood. Although thats ' entry level ' compared to some - I know a fellow with a nice quadbox and 8 gigs of ram.. I'm building one myself next and putting it into a sopranoRS case.
- Auzy, on 01/02/2008, -0/+1Don't worry. At least your file sharing works. Leopard server's doesn't
- archer75, on 01/02/2008, -0/+1Now we just need a mac tower and a greater selection of video cards to use in it. Something that uses C2D processors and DDR2 or 3 ram.
Yes, there is the mac pro, but it's a workstation, uses xeon and fb-dimms and isn't really targetted at the home user. It's also quite spendy. They could easily make a tower for under a grand using more mainstream parts.
Then I could upgrade that video card and continue to use my monitor. - HimThatSpeaks, on 01/02/2008, -0/+1I agree, you lack much personality and tact. You think your special because everybody looks at you with disgust. I am guessing you have three teeth and two of them stick out of your forehead. And the personality to match. How long have you been single? How many nights do you spend looking at yourself in the mirror wondering what is wrong with the rest of the world and why are you so lonely.
- marybaboo, on 01/03/2008, -0/+1What? No talk about how to customize the apple logo at bootup? http://www.tinyduck.com/quack/Custom_Apple_Logo
- mal1964, on 01/02/2008, -0/+1I was kidding you might know that, but thanks for the info!
- orlyfactor, on 01/01/2008, -3/+3#11 - Steve Jobs gets a new turtleneck...maybe.
- edwartica, on 01/02/2008, -1/+1they'll come. Trust me, as macs gain more and more popularity, those who write malware will be more and more inclined to write malware for macs.
- richthomas, on 01/02/2008, -1/+1the ***** are you even here then!?
- x0epyon0x, on 01/02/2008, -1/+1How to commit social Digg suicide 101: say something negative about (insert Macs/Apple, Ron Paul, atheism, etc). But in all seriousness, it was a fresh breath of air to read your comments regarding Mac. Now I'll continue rocking out Crysis while continuing to rock out on my Zune.
- HimThatSpeaks, on 01/01/2008, -0/+0Yeah, like that. Were you basing that comment on the assumption I was flaming?
- grason1129, on 01/02/2008, -5/+5damn mac fanboys I DON'T CARE!
- Auzy, on 01/02/2008, -1/+1Using Apple Wireless routers though? and is it running the original firmware? Version 1.0.0 of the firmware has a bug. We had 3 people with Apple routers and the issue as we had the appletv's in stock so long.
- richthomas, on 01/02/2008, -1/+1if youve lost $10000 you really should think about downgrading to Tiger. it's not very wise to upgrade your company to x.0 software. many applications are broken in Leopard and the developers haven't some out with an updates yet. you should of stayed in Tiger its a really great rock-solid OS.
- habhi, on 01/01/2008, -0/+0to make a mac top 10 list wouldnt it be easier to just get a list of the 10 most dugg topics?
- mal1964, on 01/01/2008, -1/+111, Apple TV?
- tupperbacharach, on 01/02/2008, -1/+1Link didn't paste correctly. Here it is:
http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=ip ... - tupperbacharach, on 01/02/2008, -2/+1***nothing I’m going to say is going to convince you that this was the most important product Apple released this year... Instead, I’ll just quote my Editors’ Choice Award write-up for the iPhone***
Great. Not only is this another fanboy worship piece, but it's gonna include rehash of fanboy worship.
***Just as the Macintosh changed personal computing in 1984 and the iPod did the same for digital music in 2001, the iPhone heralds a dramatic shift in the future of smart phones.***
Yes. All three utilized technology/usability that had existed previously for years and and all three became popular by mass-marketing/hype. But very little was actually innovated.
***Future devices might challenge and even surpass it, but for the time being, every smart phone that hits the market will be a response to the iPhone.***
Please, fanboy. It was surpassed long before it was released. Lack of tactile keyboard buttons is a huge usability problem. However, several other PDAs/phones had the same set of functions and big touchscreen many years prior. If anything, the Iphone was a weak response to prior art. This piece includes a good rundown of the Iphone cons: http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=ip ...
***What’s more, the iPhone story doesn’t end as the clock strikes midnight—we can expect development guidelines for third-party iPhone applications in February and a 3G iPhone later in the year (at least if AT&T is to be believed). And those are just the things we already know about.***
Really? Golly gee!!! - Onetrack, on 01/01/2008, -6/+5The biggest mac news of 2007 was that you could install Leopard on common pc hardware and thus save the apple tax.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om7mziP0Jdk - HimThatSpeaks, on 01/02/2008, -2/+1Yeah, "the trojan." Not "the trojans." And I know Macs are not that great when the eye of the hackers turns to it. But, be honest, one trojan, not too bad.
- happyfrog, on 01/01/2008, -2/+0I remember hearing that apple makes macs
- Cherubim, on 01/02/2008, -3/+1The only "Mac" news is this :
Apple have NO clue about the desktop computer market. They should cut their losses and stick to marketing overpriced appliances for gay people. -
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