Comments on: Twitter reactions to Apple’s OS update

By: Jess

Jess — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 23:21:25 +0000

My co worker had the same experience after updating her mac yesteday.

By: David Barnes

David Barnes — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 19:46:14 +0000

Lots of food for thought here but the funniest comment is Rosnya’s “taking one for the team: we’re used to it” line. Now I’m an Unsanity customer and like their stuff and also had a fully updated version of APE so missed out on the BSOD but forgive me for not buying the martyr position from a company that hides the way they do. No updates or information on 10.5 compatibility, no responses to customer comments/requests unless you get lucky and the freedom to post anywhere and any time without having to face the music is not exactly painful. I’m another person voting with my feet when it comes to their products but have to admit to being totally irked by the company and in the developers.

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 00:46:27 +0000

10.4.11 put my system in a coma. Blue screen frozen progress bar.
I went through all of the steps, restarting 3x Rebuild desk top zap prams,
The only thing that I could open was the console. I was able to fire wire to my other Computer in target mode and save most of my information and files.
I did a clean install and the upgrade to 10.4.11 again. I have not loaded any of my large programs like adobe suite. I am keeping my system lean. It is operating very sluggishly and freezes and crashes a lot just running Safari or firefox or Thunderbird. It really stinks.

By: Jean

Jean — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 01:12:52 +0000

I have “killed my mac” problems on my G4 (1gz)powerbook:
The apps I’m commonly using are: mail 2.1, safari 3.0.4, azureus v3406. I have had
1. the clock freeze on 2 occasions and some of the items disappear from that bar – time connected,and other icons.
2. finder repeatedly crashing trying to look at finder windows. after a restart.
3. some webpage I loaded wiped out the tabs (several opened) so couldn’t clik on the close button for any tab (killed with apple-W)
4. Finder doesn’t show all firewire disks (one occurence)
5. One grey screen
6. Misc safari problems.

Safari has never been very reliable – freezes or dies – but I’ve never had the finder issues before.

By: solannoyed

solannoyed — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 16:01:07 +0000

FWIW, and hopefully this helps someone, I’m experiencing the boot-crash problem after installing the 10.4.11 upgrade as well; after tiring of this and booting into single-user-mode to see what was going on, I found the following interesting tidbit repeated frequently in the logs:

“Login.app respawning too fast”

Now this suggests to me (though I freely admit to not developing binaries for Mac OS) that there may be a problem with one of the libraries Login.app is linked against that may have been upgraded (while Login.app was not?). Hopefully, someone more versed with the software architecture of the OSX gui can take this, run with it, and find the fix….

By: Tosh

Tosh — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 08:22:31 +0000

“I’m not sure you understand the strategy behind advertising. Why in the world would Apple use System Bombs in their own advertising? I don’t ever recall a Microsoft ad using BSOD’s to advertise their products.”

MS never used BSODs to “advertise” their product, but then again, they never used Mac System Bomb screens to advertise Windows either. Microsoft doesn’t spend dozens of minutes at their dev conferences trashing Apple. Jobs is about such childishness, but MS isn’t.

The point was that System Bombs happened much more often on Macs 10 years ago than did BSODs on Win9x. Apple’s childish use of the BSOD icon implies otherwise (and a lie by implication is still a lie). And any criticism Apple gets is well deserved by such antics. They bring it on themselves so if you want to blame someone because you think Apple is being criticized unfairly, blame Jobs.