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Re:How Retroactive makes Aperture, iPhoto, and iTunes work a... by filoleg on Monday March 02, 2020 @04:55PM (#22469472)
I actually don't think that would be a good idea, because it would result in a culture of "eh, why fix the bugs in this major OS release, we have a fix-up OS release next year just for that". I don't want to end up in the same situation as that of old Windows releases, where major OS versions were nigh unusable until the Service Pack 1 release.
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Re:How Retroactive makes Aperture, iPhoto, and iTunes work a... by samatman on Monday March 02, 2020 @05:47PM (#22469918)
You may be right. I just have good memories of Snow Leopard, I suppose.
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Re:How Retroactive makes Aperture, iPhoto, and iTunes work a... by filoleg on Monday March 02, 2020 @07:51PM (#22470775)
I totally forgot Apple doing this before, I think that's the time period where Apple actually followed this methodology you described. Snow Leopard was the fix-up release, while Leopard was the feature release. And yeah, agreed that Snow Leopard was a wonderful release.
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