Clawing back Tiger
Seems like someone in the logistics
department at Apple is looking for a new job.
Engadget reports that some customers received Tiger
(Build 8A428) more than a week ahead of
schedule.
Vendors PCMall/MacMall and ClubMac gave pre-order customers a treat by unleashing the OS ahead of schedule, quickly followed up by a “recall” of the copies from PCMall. They’re telling customers the Tiger copies that shipped out early will not be supported by Apple, and that users will have to return the boxes and get new copies shipped next week.
It is stupid to criticise others for releasing your product before you do, and then fumbling the ball so badly to gazump yourself. It is even more stupid for the direct sellers to compound their mistake by putting the onus on the innocent customer -- who paid in advance -- with such a hollow bluff. Even if Apple could somehow detect the early shipments -- and it is unlikely it could because it couldn't even stop them going out in the first instance -- it would be illegal for the company not to support a legally acquired product.
Steve needs to step up and tell these clueless resellers to retract their statements, that they did not originate with Apple, and that although unfortunate Apple will honour its commitments.
A poster to the Engadget forums writes:
I have had Tiger installed for a couple of days now and it's great. Not so much of a difference from Panther except for the Spotlight and Dashboard. The best thing for me was that it enable monitor rotation feature in the display preferences so i can finally put my Dell widescreen 2005FPW into portrait mode, at least it does on my Mac Mini. Haven't had a chance to play with Automator but it does look like it'll come in handy. The RSS built into Safari is nice and the RSS Visualizer screensaver is mighty sweet with Engadget feeds flying around the screen in 3D. The only hiccup I had so far is that it broke Candybar so I have to wait for the Tiger version to come to fix my icons.
No telling whether his version is an early shipment or Torrent.
Videos of the opening sequence and RSS Safari screensaver.
The Safari screensaver is sweet, but not very practical. Definitely eye-candy to make Windows users drool.
Vendors PCMall/MacMall and ClubMac gave pre-order customers a treat by unleashing the OS ahead of schedule, quickly followed up by a “recall” of the copies from PCMall. They’re telling customers the Tiger copies that shipped out early will not be supported by Apple, and that users will have to return the boxes and get new copies shipped next week.
It is stupid to criticise others for releasing your product before you do, and then fumbling the ball so badly to gazump yourself. It is even more stupid for the direct sellers to compound their mistake by putting the onus on the innocent customer -- who paid in advance -- with such a hollow bluff. Even if Apple could somehow detect the early shipments -- and it is unlikely it could because it couldn't even stop them going out in the first instance -- it would be illegal for the company not to support a legally acquired product.
Steve needs to step up and tell these clueless resellers to retract their statements, that they did not originate with Apple, and that although unfortunate Apple will honour its commitments.
A poster to the Engadget forums writes:
I have had Tiger installed for a couple of days now and it's great. Not so much of a difference from Panther except for the Spotlight and Dashboard. The best thing for me was that it enable monitor rotation feature in the display preferences so i can finally put my Dell widescreen 2005FPW into portrait mode, at least it does on my Mac Mini. Haven't had a chance to play with Automator but it does look like it'll come in handy. The RSS built into Safari is nice and the RSS Visualizer screensaver is mighty sweet with Engadget feeds flying around the screen in 3D. The only hiccup I had so far is that it broke Candybar so I have to wait for the Tiger version to come to fix my icons.
No telling whether his version is an early shipment or Torrent.
Videos of the opening sequence and RSS Safari screensaver.
The Safari screensaver is sweet, but not very practical. Definitely eye-candy to make Windows users drool.
Posted: Mon - April 25, 2005 at 01:10 PM
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