I trekked over to the mall’s Apple Store yesterday to check out the new Leopard OS. I would’ve gone on Friday, but there would have been people swarming around as if the eighth Harry Potter book were being released. The verdict? I’m very sad to say that I’m a little disappointed. Sure, the new features rocked, and the interface was, as usual, impossibly beautiful. However, I feel that Apple was mainly trying to cater to older users, so did not place as much emphasis on pleasing younger generations of users.
As an example, Time Machine is baller. I squealed like a preteen who had run into Zac Efron when I saw the program. Needless to say I fell in love – until I remembered the hard drive I had already dished out too much money for to back up all my data. The fact that the one major difference between Tiger and Leopard was useless to me was more than a little disappointing. Not to mention that few kids I know will appreciate being able to recover their computer history.
I was also particularly offended by the “parental controls.” By promoting this change, Apple is endorsing parental control over ALL kids’ computer-related activities, regardless of whether or not the Internet is involved. In my eyes that is simply unacceptable. Internet regulation I can understand for safety purposes, but application logging? That’s just going beyond necessary.
These are just two of the many reasons why I’m not particularly pleased with Leopard. I guess I could just use the money I’ve been saving up on a nice iPod Shuffle now…
