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Looks like Apple is no immune to problems. Perhaps when you actually start to sell software in numbers problems crop up. Welcome to the big leagues Apple.
How about a little data loss to go along with that OS sir?
Perhaps the most troublesome of the problems has been a data loss issue caused by Finder, which performs a function on Macs similar to that of Explorer in Windows. In Leopard, when Finder moves a file from one drive to another, it deletes the file from the originating hard drive, without first checking to see if the file arrived safely on the destination hard drive. If anything goes wrong during the file transfer, such as a momentary power glitch on the destination hard drive, the file would then be destroyed on both hard drives.
May I suggest a little hard drive failure to go with that data loss?
In an unrelated issue, data recovery firm Retrodata has found a disturbing hard drive failure rate in some Apple Macbooks.
Thanks to Leopard, the dreaded Blue Screen of Death is now a part of the Mac operating system. When I first tell this to Mac users that haven't yet upgraded to Leopard, I usually hear something like "Yeah, I get Blue Screens of Death when I use Windows on my Mac". No, that's not quite what I mean - Blue Screens of Death are occurring not only in Windows, but in Leopard as well.
But wait there's more.
Leopard has been plagued by a series of other problems as well. There are graphics artifacts followed by freezes, which may be caused by the new operating system's increased use of the Mac graphics card. A poster at AppleInsider.com reports returning four new iMacs because of this problem. A search for Freeze or Lock or Hangs in Apple's Leopard discussion groups returns the maximum allowable 500 hits.
Oh boy.
There are also two bugs in the usually trouble-free Mac firewall. The first caused the firewall to be installed turned off by default, which some Mac users didn't find out about until they ran into problems. The second refused to allow some third party applications to access the Internet, including, of all things, World of Warcraft. Yeah, that'll be good for building support among gamers!
Behold the mighty Apple censoring complaint threads!
There are a variety of other reports, including a Mac Pro becoming completely inoperative after a Leopard upgrade. One user asked, Is it me, or is Leopard just a mess?. Apple locked the topic, preventing replies. Another user echoed my sentiments at the start of this article by asking Is ANY part of Leopard ready for release? Worst product from Apple so far. Here's a shock, the entire thread was censored. And amazingly, despite all of the above, and everything else we've seen go wrong since Leopard debuted 3 weeks ago, at apple.com/mac/, an Apple ad on the left side of the page says "Leopard just works".
Now I am not saying the Apple OS isn't a good system. It is. But like any software when you have big numbers you have various compatibility issues.
And that is the sound of the other shoe dropping...
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