Financial Times Tiger review
Ivan | Tue, 2005-09-06 11:02
I was amazed to read this snippet in the Financial Times' "How to spend" supplement and decided to share it with you.
Apparently Tiger is complicated and gimmicky. It's main function is to slow down the Mac, so that you will be forced to buy a new one. What is this guy talking about? I read many Mac related sites and magazines and I NEVER read that Tiger would be slow. That is something actually Windows releases are acused of. Maybe he got confused? I think Tiger is actually faster than Panther. OS X continously improves in speed with each release. Big mistake right at the beginning. But there is more.
He dismisses Spotlight as something that Google Desktop has already done before. But the truth is Spotlight is way more advanced than Google Desktop both in it's architecture and user experience. Most importantly Spotlight is part of the system, which makes it essentially different from an add on application.
And than he talks about Dashboard as a novelty that he liked most. WHAT? So the gimmicky stuff does it for him afterall? Of course he fails to mention the more than thousand widgets that are available for free and only mentions a site which sells like 5 widgets.
For the rest of the Tiger innovations he's not sure. RSS for example is so arcane that he simply doesn't understand what it supposed to be. Hmm... This guy is supposed to a journalist, a tech journalist. And he doesn't know what RSS is? So, how does he get his tech updates from around the world? Opens them in separate windows in Explorer, because I bet he never heard of tabbed browsing either. And he probably not quite sure what the point of blogging is and never heard of Podcasting either. He is the typical journalist I imagine who writes that iPod's are for stealing music. Of course I'm taking it a bit too far, but why the hell one would mention a technology in a review if he has no clue about.
He also mentions Automator: "life is too short to be bothered with it". Ahem, isn't his job to review stuff? What the hell is he spending time on if not trying things out and reporting about it? Sir, in case you didn't notice Automator IS MADE TO MAKE YOURSELF MORE FREE TIME! Clearly somebody is being payed by the number of typed characters.
I hope he had good time playing with the translator as he mentioned, that's the level he should have stayed at instead of reviewing the most advanced operating system known today in such a sloppy way.
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Thats soo funny, that guy has no idea his talking about... the bit that made me chuckle the most was about RSS ...... you would have thought a normal sane person would research on something that they didnt know about.. but maybe google is too complicated for him too - D'oh !
I wonder if that magazine has been taking on work experience students from the university of microsoft ? Certainly sounds like some jeaslousey going on behind the stupidity there.
Anyone got the phone number for the guy who wrote the article? I wanna have a few words lol
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great article ivan, i must admit, about two years i would have agreed with the "journalists" article as i had never really heard about a mac and the os. Recently i have wroten a 1000 word article for college on my choice of macintosh over windows. I will quite gladly post it if you would like. (its made on pages, not word)
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maybe someone should send him this link:
http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/winvista_beta1_vs_tiger_01.asp
I can't wait to see what he has to say about Vista. LOL, that has RSS too and is totally and openly aimed at current Win2k, Win98, WinXP users to have them upgrade. The marketing for every single version of Windows AND Mac (OS and hardware) tries to entice people to buy! So ... whats wrong with that? everybody does that, phones, cameras even food items, you name it. Dont want it? dont buy it! Conspiracy theory my foot.
I think that column is just a piece of filler material, he is obviously not qualified to give any OS a full review. On the first line he writes "A vast amount of techie blah-time ... ". So this guy is not a techie and obviouly uses Windows, safe to say hes new to the Mac platform ... I say give him some time ... since he already tried one while writing his filler article, I'm confident he'll eventaully buy a Mac ( I'm serious!! ), just a matter of time, same cannot be said of people who never used one? But this guy used one, he'll convert. No way to find out for sure, but I'm confident.
Lol!
What a poor example of journalism...
He should indeed make researches when he does not know an element. But is (s)he really a technology journalist, or is it filler text made by the first person that showed up in the editor's office?
The editor should be aware that such an uneducated article is a disservice for the readership of the magazine.
As a long time windows user, I felt very confortable in Tiger and did connect to my network, changed the UI to graphite, adapted time and date, installed Photoshop within minutes, without even opening the "Missing Manual"... That person is really clueless!
pierre-etienne courtejoie
This magazine is published in the UK and everybody that knows a thing about technology ignores this guy. All he writes is crap.
That this 'journalist' is touching on something that we all may know about Tiger but are afraid to vocalize lest the Mac zealots march to our door with pitchforks and torches?
I'll be the first to say that Spotlight is a *tremendous* help to me in my full-time and freelance work, and the Dashboard saves me a lot of time looking up little tidbits of information that I normally would in a browser- HOWEVER, I still run at 10.3.9 on an older machine at home and I don't see much need to upgrade it. Not that Tiger would be all that much slower, but there's really not much about the OS that would be a great leap over what's going on in the later versions of Panther.
However, that's just my opinion as a designer. Perhaps there's users out there that are benefitting from a few unheralded features that I have yet to make use of?
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What an absolute load of tripe. Clearly one of the most moronic and biased 'reviews' I've ever had the misfortune of reading. Spotlight is worth the price alone for Tiger. As a designer with files scattered throughout our network and back-up drives, Spotlight finds my files as quick as can possibly be. Took me a while to get used to Dashboard, but now it too is an invaluable tool.
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A quick scout around Google and beyond uncovers the fact that his day job is writing biography for Michael Palin, Uri Geller, Billy Connoly etc. He also wrote O: the intimate history of the orgasm.
I think you'll agree a perfect CV to tackle writing about the the best operating system on the planet. Maybe not.
But I as Pete have not yet upgraded at home or work for fear of disruption to a system (10.3.9) which is near perfect for my needs. I have Konfabulator installed so I don't need Dashboard (although some of the dashboard widgets turn me green) and am well organised enough to know exactly where my files are so Spotlight is a bit redundant too.
I'm sure i will upgrade before Leopard but am certainly not rushing out to do so.
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OMG, what a @#$%$@ IDIOT. Someone should write a letter to his boss about how much of an idiot they're paying to write complete garbage. Seriously, this guy gets paid to look like a retard?
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This guy is too much of a tool to be a writer. How did he end up writing for the Financial Times?
He obviously has no clue about the rapid spread of RSS so he just brushes it off like it's a just an extra gimmick and far too difficult for the average user. Apple has taken painstaking care to ensure that Safari's RSS feature is as easy as possible to use, like how much of what OS X is based on--user friendliness. Don't even get me started on his comments about the Google Desktop search for Windows...
I can picture this kind of individual later writing a review about the upcoming Vista OS and heaping praise and extolling IE7's RSS integration.
How can Windows users be trusted to honestly write an accurate overview of OS X?