Comments on: Meet Apple OS X Mountain Lion

By: Guest

Guest — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 18:22:00 +0000

I’ve been with Apple for 14 years, but this is beginning to look like “Snake oil”.
In Snow Leopard I had Notes and Todos in Mail. Within the body of a note I could add todos (and readily assign it to a calendar, give it a date, priority, etc), link files and URLS, make lists. In Mail’s ToDo window I could also get a wide-screen view of the todos, and sort or search by various criteria. Granted, Mail tended to hork on sync, especially before SL – things would sometimes duplicate, for instance – but I could, and did, use it as a quickie form of project management. And in Snow Leopard iCal I could at least see the todos, select multiple ones and change calendars (for instance). I could sort them by different criteria, or manually. DId I mention that I could select a sentence in an email and turn it into a todo, with the email linked? In Lion, Notes lost the tasks. To-dos disappeared from Mail, leaving me either a narrow column on the side of iCal to manage them (or possibly Bento). In Lion I could no longer select text in a mail and turn it into a todo, and the colored flags have no date associated with them. (I can physically drag an email to a date on the calendar – that’s it). In Lion I could no longer select multiple todos in iCal’s Todo pane and change properties, so now if I need to move more than one todo from one calendar to another, I have to do it individually. Oddly, enough, this persists in Bento. I can only change calendars on one todo at a time. But at least I could still sort todos by priority, due date, etc. Now Mountain Lion comes with the new “Reminders” app. Apples’ page trumpets, “see your reminders in the order they were created. Keep track of them by due date.” It shows a screen that looks very much like the Reminders app on the iOs. Reminders on iOs does not show priorities, and does not allow any sorting – not by date, priority, title, or manually. You can click on a calendar and show those reminders that are due on that date only. You don’t even have the ability to see all your reminders, on all your lists, let alone to sort them in any fashion. And no word if third party applications will be able to add “reminders” to your reminder list. (one of the selling points of the Mac Os used to be that third party applications could interact with iCal’s todos.)This takes away functionality. It does not add functionality. My work flow was broken, quite severely, especially once iCloud came out. I’ve had to abandon anything that integrated with iCal for task management – in my case that was Curio – and go elsewhere. (Yes, I’ve tried Things, which kept losing data on me, and I am aware of the little 99-cent ToDo list app, which is one of the few that not only syncs with Reminders lists on my Mac, but on iCloud). Apple used to have something called integrity. I’m not sure about it anymore.

By: m00tikins

m00tikins — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 20:20:00 +0000

”I am not claiming this is the exact same thing, but how can you
criticize android for being “fragmented” when the apple computer OS is
almost fragmented?”

You’ve just contradicted yourself in the same sentence. This is no way related either.

By: m00tikins

m00tikins — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 20:14:00 +0000

And of course Ubuntu stole a lot of things from other linux distros. If all you know about linux is Ubuntu, then sorry, you don’t know about linux. And by your logic, it makes you an idiot as well.

By: a Martin

a Martin — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 13:32:00 +0000

I don’t understand. Just because some features are taken from iOS to Mac OS X it doesn’t mean OS X is turning into iOS. The implementations of these features into OS X is in my opinion done on a way that still makes sense in a desktop. I don’t’ see the problem.

By: a Martin

a Martin — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 13:32:00 +0000

By: a Martin

a Martin — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 13:29:00 +0000

Lion works fine for me overall and I backup using TimeMachine without anything freezing.

By: Jay Rathbun

Jay Rathbun — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 23:46:00 +0000

almost as fragmented*

By: Jay Rathbun

Jay Rathbun — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 23:45:00 +0000

“So far, 30-percent of Mac users have made the leap to Lion. A further 50-percent is still on Snow Leopard.”For all the android haters out there, I am not claiming this is the exact same thing, but how can you criticize android for being “fragmented” when the apple computer OS is almost fragmented?

By: Annihilator3008

Annihilator3008 — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 21:41:00 +0000

Not going to lie, I really miss my Snow Leo. Spaces seems crappy and the whole interface just seems like it is made to be used by children. Easy is good but not at the expense of functionality. I love you Apple but keep your OS for grown-ups. If I want to use an iPad, I will buy an iPad. Don’t turn my powerhouse laptop into a casual use device when I want a monster. SL was a monster. Lion seems to be a housecat.

By: Jon

Jon — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 19:44:00 +0000

Don’t understand this OS, or Win 8 for that matter. They’re trying to incorporate lots of smartphone/tablet features and so far I see nothing new for power users (I am currently using Avid Media Composer to edit films on my Mac). Lion is still new and you can guarantee there’ll be ‘Mountain Lion only’ compatible software before long forcing us to upgrade. Don’t like the way OSX is heading and Windows is no better!

By: Fire Eagle

Fire Eagle — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 19:17:00 +0000

It is true that most of OSX’s features like mac-app-store, multiple work-spaces, notifications, cloud integration, and launchpad are all features that Ubuntu implemented first. It doesn’t make you a idiot not to know this. Ubuntu only runs on 1% of desktops. I don’t see how not knowing this makes you a idiot.

By: نائل العباسي

نائل العباسي — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 14:35:00 +0000

and of course apple stole a lot of things from Ubuntu if you don’t know about it then you are an idiot

By: Daleos

Daleos — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 15:36:00 +0000

If it’s going even further down the iPad road then it looks like I’ll be sticking with Snow Leopard. Am I the only one that does not like current trend at making the easy tasks even easier by sacrificing the capabilities to do difficult ones?

By: android!

android! — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 01:13:00 +0000

I think its to soon but I thinking of buying a macbook if google dont announce a android laptop.love windows tho

By: android!

android! — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 01:13:00 +0000

I think its to soon but I thinking of buying a macbook if google dont announce a android laptop.love windows tho

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:53:00 +0000

After reading about how much trouble people have had with Lion I chose not to install it on my 27″ iMac that I bought last May. I’m still concerned and would wait until those issues are cleared up before considering Mountain Lion. Another concern is that you can’t go back if you don’t like it. My iPhone 3GS got very slow with iOS4 and I wish I could go back to the previous iOS.

By: 導航旅鴿

導航旅鴿 — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 01:36:00 +0000

Always wiser to wait.

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 19:05:00 +0000

Completely agree. I’m still unable to use Time Machine without my computer freezing on a daily basis.

By: Matti

Matti — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:09:00 +0000

Why would that be blasphemous? Because fanboys say so?
Use whatever works best for you.

By: Matti

Matti — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:08:00 +0000

No improvements to Xserve or updated X11 specific libraries?
Sounds like a service pack to fix the broken, buggy, resource hog that is Lion. The same thing Snow Leopard did for Leopard.

By: Matti

Matti — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:08:00 +0000

No improvements to Xserve or updated X11 specific libraries?
Sounds like a service pack to fix the broken, buggy, resource hog that is Lion. The same thing Snow Leopard did for Leopard.

By: Conan O'Brien

Conan O'Brien — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 17:03:00 +0000

Again no video..missing plugin..what plugin, I use chrome. Seriously what the hell is wrong with you slashgear? Stop that crap !!

By: Peetr

Peetr — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:31:00 +0000

It’s shameful that they release a new OS when Lion is full of bugs. I hope they offer Mountain Lion free for those who have bought Lion last year.

I am completely UNSATISFIED WITH LION

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:51:00 +0000

I agree totally, I have no desire to have my laptop operate like my phone does.

By: koller

koller — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:23:00 +0000

I don’t like that my PC looks like mi iphone, I feel that we are loosing the experience of using a PC and making all looking the same, this goes for both Win8 and OS X Lion +

By: Hyundella

Hyundella — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:19:00 +0000

5GB iCloud space, really? Even my flash drive has got more storage… geez…

By: ZacharyKoterba

ZacharyKoterba — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:16:00 +0000

I know this may seem blasphemous to Apple users, but I just use Google Docs on my Macbook, haha

By: masands

masands — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:54:00 +0000

Hmm I was going to purchase my first Mac soon but I think Windows 8 is offering some serious goodies too. Will have to wait and see.

By: iDaveG

iDaveG — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:46:00 +0000

I really hope iWorks is cloud based, would be handy to save pages docs to cloud and edit on the go.