Pete's Eats

But since Apple’s last OS update my installation of Safari seems to be struggling rather a lot of the time… The spinning beachball, which now inhabits even my sleeping mind, is making work fairly difficult in recent days. “Change browsers then”, I hear you all chant… Well, it isn’t that easy is it? I mean, I have 5 years worth of bookmarks in Safari and it knows a lot of passwords that I’ve long forgotten myself.

It seems to me, that Apple are getting a little bit ‘Redmond’ in their attitude to software updates these days (I heard that sharp intake of breath…). There was a time when you could count on anything Mac-related to work really, really badly and we all got used to that – loved them for it even! Then came OS X and everything changed – our wallets getting even thinner because of all the new software we had to buy was one of those changes – but more than anything else, it worked! I once had a Mac OS X Quicksilver machine that ran for over a year with no restarts at all for instance – try that with OS9! But, lately, the various things coming out of Apple HQ are sometimes of questionable quality – in recent years various updates have attracted considerable negative commentary because of things that got broken along the way etc.

It’s not good enough you know. We expect better from the glowing white Apple.

Oh, and a nice OS X driven pda/phone wouldn’t go amiss either…