Apple seeded developers with a new build of Mac OS X Leopard Thursday night, the first in more than a month. Leopard 9A343 is 22 builds newer than the previous seed, 9A321, and marks the 102nd build since Apple first distributed seeds of Leopard to developers at its Worldwide Developers Conference in August last year.
Apple recently (mid December) released a beta of OS X 10.4.9 to developers. The final version of this minor release should be sometime late January. Until this summer, I know that I will still be using Tiger. It’s nice to see they haven’t abandoned Tiger because of Leopard. 😉
Edited 2007-01-19 23:26
Any signs that they have started to FTFF yet I wonder?
One could only hope!
They constantly fix Finder but they just don’t have a single design in mind that would work for everyone.
It’s the kind of work that reminds one that decisions are far too often made by committee.
I’ve seen other applications that have cutesy effects and others that are extremely efficient in a single-minded way but nothing that’s truly easy to use, efficient, and pleasant to see.
lol, good one Apple.
Makes me wonder if ever getting a machine is such a good idea. To bad the open OSes are short of pro-grade apps :/
The charge for drivers is all thanks to the ridiculously restrictive Sarbanes-Oxley law. It is because of adding “significant enhancement” to an existing product. If Apple did not charge they would be hit with a huge fine for accounting practices.
That is complete BS because other companies do it too. I doubt it is 100% because of SOx. And if it is, couldn’t they say that charging users $5 would cost Apple more to process it, then they could skip it all together.
What about your video card…when a new driver comes out that supports a new version of DirectX they don’t charge you $5 for accounting reasons.
But then I guess it’s whoever made it who is retarded and not Apple then =P
Can’t they argue you already paid for it with the hardware? I mean the feature was there and we knew it (even thought Apple didn’t told us..)
I just think it’s rather lame on OS X that you have to pay for say mpeg II (or is it DVD?) and fullscreen support in quicktime, sure I know it cost money to license the first stuff but anyway. Also all the small shareware utilities which people wanna get money from. iTunes buttons in your menu? Better pay, virtual desktops? Pay, there are probably commercial/shareware screengrabbers aswell, atleast video ones
Nothing wrong with getting money for your work thought but I’m cheap and don’t wanna pay but I still want the features so that will just make me pirate them, thought I’d rather not and use a free os where things are supposed to be free (both beer and speech) but since the commercial/pro-grade software support is so limited they have their flaws aswell.
> Apple seeded developers
Eh? Apple released it over BitTorrent??