Twenty minutes before doors would open for the Mac OS X Tiger launch party, more than 100 people lined the sidewalk outside the downtown San Francisco Apple store. At least 17 of them sported white iPod earbuds.
For the Mac community, a product launch like this one is a seriously big deal, no matter where you are in the world: On Friday, April 29, more than 1,000 people queued up for the Tiger launch in both the Tokyo and London Apple stores. And while nowhere near that many showed up at Apple's flagship downtown San Francisco outlet -- probably because the Bay Area has 11 stores -- company employees and customers were eager for the event.
"It should just be another classic example of how excited our partners and customers are about our products," said Frank Casanova, senior director for Mac OS X audio and video technologies, 30 minutes before the event began. "I'm like a little kid. This has been a long run for us … and this is it. This is our coming-out party." (Find photos of the San Francisco Tiger launch.)
Of course, big crowds for Apple product launches are not unusual. Hundreds of people flocked to the company's dozens of retail outlets for the last OS X update launch in 2003, and similar numbers were on hand when the company unveiled the iPod shuffle during MacWorld in January. And given Mac fans' fervor for the operating system and for Apple in general, it should come as no surprise that so many of them were determined to be among the very first to get their hands on one of the company's new products.
Heres to you mom.
Me waves hi to your mom also.
Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.
woowwwww more than a T H O U S A N D !more than 1,000 people queued up for the Tiger launch in both the Tokyo and London Apple stores
Yah that explains a lotThis is our coming-out party
MAC is lame.
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mac is lame....but piggy backed on a pc its a tag team that cant be defeated.
g5 + pc = lots of video editing fun
Lots of haters here. Hows Longhorn going guys? Oh yeah that's right, it's not.
OSX the best OS in the world. Don't hate if you can't afford it.
Afford? Thats funny, your comments only prove that most mac fan boys are pompous arrogant assholes who, when faced with no other recourse for intelligent comments boil the subject down to monetary superiority.Originally Posted by kidmidnight
grow up.
Communism: "We pretend to work and they pretend to pay us."(old Russian saying)
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Why would I want to respond intelligently to crap like "MAC is lame." and insinuations that Apple users are homosexuals. I think it's you that need to grow up.
But . . you did.
You did respond.
If you didnt respond intelligently, who else is to blame?
The next time, try to think before you respond, and maybe try to gay it down a little.
That "dont hate it if you cant afford it" is gay as that commercial "dont hate me because im beautiful"
We already have a "Which is better MAC or Windows" thread, so if you want to get your scrawny elitist butt kicked with the 2 other MAC users there, go ahead, gay up that thread too.
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It also might be you need to learn to read because I stated none of those inflamatory remarks, and neither did Krell. Saying that something is lame is an opinion, get used to it.
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P.S. Take your own advice,
Second, he made a valid comment! Even though it was child like. The fact is MACs are way ahead of the game. Its not apples fault! If you want windows to beat them then fix windows.
Both have benifits
Its personal preference.
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Looks up from the fray and sees apples and windows flying everywhere.
As soon as a break is seen I yell "I like Mandrake or maybe Red Hat, how about a little knoppix."
Apples and windows continue to fly followed by a few penguins. :icon_tong
Personally I like them all, they all have there strengths and weaknesses.
Thanks Krell for pointing out the obvious, but I think most PC bigotes were already laughing when they read Jorge's post. -No offence Jorge
I think we could really use a more positive outlook on Macs around here and I appeciate that someone actually cares enough to post about them, thanks.
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Software? Sorry officers no software here, I only have hardware!
It is about personal preference yes, I agree. But when it comes to windows vs [fill in competing OS here] Then windows WILL lose out since most users use machines for what they are which is computing. Not for spreading, virouses, trojans and spyware. The problem with windows is that for the amount of time it has been on the market it has not progressed at all! While all other OSes be it, Linux, BSD or OSX have progressed greatly to benefit the users needs!
The only thing windows fanboys do is bash other people simply because other people CAN get things done in their OS and make fun of how windows fucks up! If the fanboys of windows do not like this then why not change it? Why have the same OS that dates back to 1985! Longhorn not being ANY different exept added DRM thus causing SUPER trojans! I mean really! When one compares MacOSX with Linux, BSD and the like it could be a valid argument but also heated. But when one compares windows with anything (which is nothing more than a hobby OS hacked very very very badly) to anything then it gets retarded!
To All:->
Sure Have your preference. But stop blaming other people for the crappieness of windows by calling other people 'l33tists' simply because they were smarter than you by actually getting a computer that worked rather than sit there and try to figure out .dll hell/BSOD's et all while blaming theenduserbadhardwaresoftware's fault all the time getting slammed with trojans, spyware, viruses and malware NOT TO MENTION bad legacy support and broken applications due to "a service pack" that does more damage than an actual virus! It isn't going to fly.
So get over yourselves and move along......
P.S. I'm a Linux user not a Mac user by the way! I just know a good OS when I see one!
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