OS X Mountain Lion Ratings on App Store

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http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/os-x-moun...6512?mt=12

with so many complains here on MRF and on most tech websites, I am surprised to see so positive reviews

[Billybob]

I hated lion; but so far I really like mountain lion.

[(vikm)]

I installed it yesterday with no problems.

To be completely honest, I really haven't noticed much of a difference from Lion. That may be bad news for those that had complaints about Lion. I wasn't one of them, though. Everything works fine for me (so far). I've not tried my scanner yet but other than that, so far so good. With that said, I suppose if I had a gripe, it'd be that it seems my iMac doesn't make use of some of the upgrades/add-ons.

[olnacl]

I too have it on all three of my main machines and, other than my error in not updating Parallels before installing, I had only one problem. I installed it on my 2011 Mini Server that I'd switched to plain old Lion (no server) and it did not install the first time I kicked it off. It ran the 34 minutes and appeared to complete, but when it rebooted, it was still running Lion. I repeated the install and it completed. I'm writing from it now.

So far my only complaint is the change in Calendar from offering choices about how long before it pops up another reminder for something I've scheduled to just having the the fixed 15 minute (I believe) "Snooze" button. I have birthdays set to remind me a week ahead and I just told "old" calendar to remind me the next day until I did something about it. I don't want reminders every 15 minutes to do something about an event a week from now.

[Speedy]

olnacl wrote:
So far my only complaint is the change in Calendar from offering choices about how long before it pops up another reminder for something I've scheduled to just having the the fixed 15 minute (I believe) "Snooze" button. I have birthdays set to remind me a week ahead and I just told "old" calendar to remind me the next day until I did something about it. I don't want reminders every 15 minutes to do something about an event a week from now.

It's the Apple way. Learn to like it.

[Jerry®]

$20 twitter client. 5 stars.:redface:

[RAMd®d]

with so many complains here on MRF and on most tech websites, I am surprised to see so positive reviews

You're kidding, right?

Official Forum Protocol- bash every new thing Apple does, talk about how bad they've screwed up, why you're about to leave the Apple Walled Garden for good this time, recite the If You Don't Need It, Don't Do It Mantra as though it meant something, proclaim how much better the previous OS was, even though you hated that too when it came out, and try to be the first to either post you've installed or be the first to post that you're going to wait until the next OS while the lemmings and fan-boys.

And then announce that anybody getting/using the Latest and Greatest must be a fan-boi (it's important to spell that the kewl way) or Apple employee.

Pass the Kool-Aid.

Leave the pitcher.

[Billybob]

To me, it's well worth the $20 it cost to upgrade.

Let me count the ways:

My system just feels snappier than it did under lion

I really like dictation; I do a lot of writing and this helps tremendously

Safari absolutely flies now (did I say already how much snappier everything feels?)

I like the way that you can use a gesture to see all the open tabs in a single Safari window (However, I don't know if this feature was present in the previous version)

And I haven't really tried all the other things that they bragged about in this update. I think I'll like the Message feature when they get the iCloud bugs worked out.

[OnCoreSoftware]

olnacl wrote: So far my only complaint is the change in Calendar from offering choices about how long before it pops up another reminder for something I've scheduled to just having the the fixed 15 minute (I believe) "Snooze" button. I have birthdays set to remind me a week ahead and I just told "old" calendar to remind me the next day until I did something about it. I don't want reminders every 15 minutes to do something about an event a week from now.

Yes, that drove us crazy too, so we wrote a menubar app to have control over snoozing the Apple Calendar alerts. Check out "SnoozeMaster" (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/simpleftp/id614955483?mt=12) on the App Store. Hope everyone likes it?