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Four Mac OS X upgrades in three years... too much?

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Four Mac OS X upgrades in three years... too much?
October 24, 2003 - 11:32 EDT Roger Kay, analyst at research firm IDC, said the release of Mac OS X 10.3 Panther raises a question as to whether Apple is asking too much of its small customer base to buy four upgrades in three years. "There may not be that many people who take every upgrade," Kay said. "Not everybody is going to want to take something like Jaguar and turn it into Panther. Jaguar is pretty good. Just a few months ago, they were saying it's the best thing in the world." But Ken Bereskin, director of Mac OS X product marketing at Apple, said he thinks the new features of Panther are worth it. "We're just convinced there's never been more value in these software upgrades," said Bereskin. "For a small amount of money, it's like having a new Mac all over again."

My Comments: I do think they need to start charging a bit less, but I do like the large upgrades in a small amount of time. The problem with panther that I see, is that there are only a couple of the new items that I would actually use.. the rest.. I wouldnt.
 
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Wait until you actually use it :)
 
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the money does pizz me off a bit since i just bought this pb in july but im excited about panther since it will be my first major update on this. with the student discoutn it is a big price saver and then i also got 3 software coupons with my pb that i think will get me some more discount
 
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i think jaguar was a bit over priced. but panther is like the difference between os 8 and os 8.6.. they really could have called it OS 10.5 with all the changes theyve made and new technologies theyve added
 
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i guess im glad that i missed the jaguar upgrade.

what was the name of OS 10.1 by the way
 
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10.1 puma
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alrighty thanks
 
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off topic: I own a 2002 Cougar C2

Anyways,

I'm pissed

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rman: Cheetah was 10.0
 
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w00t w00t
The new OS X will be Cougar!

Speaking of Cougars, I was driving mine and another kid in a red cougar was behind me, we raced, I won, got up to about 105mph

yah!

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or how bout hyenna
 

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trpnmonkey41 said:
or how bout hyenna

Apple will save Hyena for when Longhorn comes out. :)
 
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I thought Hyena's were of the canine species. i think apple will stick with animals of the feline species
 
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bobcat, cougar, grimalkin, kitten, kitty, leopard, lion, lynx, malkin, mouser, ocelot, puma, puss, *****, tabby, tiger, tomcat

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This is an old thread but when i was messing around on my Mactracker program I saw that all of the OS's from 7.6 + have had names
7.6 - Harmony
8.0 - Tempo
8.1 - Bride of Buster
8.5 - Allegro
8.6 - Veronica
9.0 - Sonata
9.1 - Sonata (Not sure why same name)
9.2 - Moonlight
10.0 - Cyan, Cheetah
10.1 - Puma
10.1 Server - Puma
10.2 - Jaguar
10.2 Server - Tigger
10.3 - Panther
10.3 Server - Panther

this thing is pretty cool it has a history of all of the updates for each OS and a link to download all of them as well
 
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UMM os 8 was code named "copland"
 
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