Snow Leopard sales double that of Leopard, I think not just because of the price.

According to theAppleBlog, sales of SL are double that of Leopard.

Most will agree that the price is pushing sales high, but I also think Leopard was just not good enough. At least in my case, and talking to other Apple users, a lot of them aren't (weren't) really happy with Leopard.

Leopard was suffering from "Windows syndrome". Being bloated and slow. Some of it due to carrying legacy PowerPC support, some of it by feature creep and unoptimized code. In SL there are still some loops open, but that is mostly in the application area. (iTunes is still carbon for
instance). That will change in due time (I predict an "iMovie08" makeover for iTunes next year)

The OS is finally mature :-)
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Well, I for one was very happy with Leopard and I'm not yet especially impressed with Snow Leopard. For me Leopard was where Mac OS X really arrived and shined. It never felt bloated or slow, Leopard has always been very fast for me.

I've had a number of system crashes so far with Snow Leopard which I'm not very pleased about. The only thing that has really impressed me so far is the speed improvements that I notice in Safari. I think SL will eventually get the kinks worked out and be great, but right now it's a little less stable than I'd like.

Also, the fact that there are really no new major user features in SL shows just how good Leopard was. All Apple did was take the best release of OS X to date and polish it up.

On a side note, why does it matter if iTunes is Carbon or Cocoa? I agree that I think Apple will likely move it to Cocoa someday, but I highly doubt that any end users will actually notice anything different when they do make the switch (aside from us geeks of course).

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