Apple to Continue Near Annual OS Updates
The Unofficial Apple Weblog:As of Friday, Apple will have released five major updates to Mac OS X since its introduction in 2001 (unless you want to count the public beta. Nit-pickers). In Monday's interview with The New York Times, Steve Jobs said this pace will continue:
"'I'm quite pleased with the pace of new operating systems every 12 to 18 months for the foreseeable future,' he said. 'We've put out major releases on the average of one a year, and it's given us the ability to polish and polish and improve and improve.'"
That's a lot of innovation in a short amount of time. Considering the changes between 10.0 and 10.5, can you even imagine what 10.9 will look like?
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Contrast this with Microsoft and Windows. It takes MS years to come up with its updates to Windows. And when they do come out, it often comes with a plethora of problems and bugs, like with Vista.
The more time passes and the technology world evolves, I can't help but feel like Microsoft is gradually becoming less and less able to effectively compete. Sure they still have this huge legacy market share, but one wonders over time if they are destined to become a dinosaur, a company so stuck in past methodologies that they eventually grind themselves into obsolescence?
Already, Apple is gobbling up market share quickly. While they have a long way to go, let's face it, for most consumers there is no longer any real reason to choose Microsoft over Apple.
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