Welcome to the MacNN Forums.

omac · Apr 19, 2002, 01:37 PM

using x , do you consider yourself as an unpaid test bed for all the **** -ups in x OR do you instead look upon yourself as priviliged in being instrumental -( if you can actually be bothered to get in touch with apple with your problems. ). - in shaping x ?

eh?

malvolio · Apr 19, 2002, 01:47 PM

I am a willing and happy volunteer. I am definitely not a guinea pig. I read a lot about OS X before installing it. Nobody tricked or forced me into using it.

Ghoser777 · Apr 19, 2002, 01:59 PM

We're always a corporations gunnie pig. They try out new stuff on us and see what happens. If we like it, they keep it or extend it. If not, they see how much we dislike it and make appropriate changes (if neccessary) so that we don't jump ship.

Apple really didn't have a choice in this matter. They could have waited until X was perfect, and then we would have never seen a release, a next to zero apps would have been ported. Every piece of software is in a sense a beta. There's always bugs and problems - cars have quite a few varibales to control, so it's a lot easier to come up with a final design that works well than with an operating system with so many modules and portions that can be altered, removed, or added.

Sometimes I feel more like a gunnie pig than others. But right now, I'm quite happy being able to run unix apps on my OS X box and have all the nice stability and multitasking that comes with a BSD core.

F-bacher

stupidFish23 · Apr 19, 2002, 02:10 PM

i am proud to be a X user.

omac · Apr 19, 2002, 02:49 PM

as long as microshyte exists we are ALL revolutionaries..

hooray !

'we are the chosen few'..

KidRed · Apr 19, 2002, 03:08 PM

mm, neither. I'm a mac user running the latest OS offering. Why would it be anything else? Stupid question.

3R1C · Apr 19, 2002, 03:31 PM

what a stupid answer.

omac · Apr 19, 2002, 03:43 PM

yup

typoon · Apr 19, 2002, 04:43 PM

Usually stupid Questions require a stupid answer but in any case

I'm Proud to be a user of OS X. I know my friend who used to Use 9 now loves X too. He was reluctant but after using it for a while he loves it.

omac · Apr 19, 2002, 04:50 PM

the answer will become clear in years to come..

Griggsy · Apr 19, 2002, 05:15 PM

I'm a very happy 'X' user, (it's sooooooo stable compared to 9 on my machine) and a guinea pig!

starfleetX · Apr 19, 2002, 06:03 PM

We aren't guinea pigs; we're pigmy shrews.

[ 04-19-2002: Message edited by: starfleetX ]

sgrup · Apr 19, 2002, 06:13 PM

As long as I'm getting an OS which is better than any other OS I've used I don't mind whether I'm a guinea pig or a privileged user or any other nomenclature you want to give me. I do however feel that sending feedback is a way of having the users' preferences/complaints (ie ours) reach the developers and thus have a more customized OS.

s

Brian David · Apr 20, 2002, 04:45 PM

Originally posted by omac:
<STRONG>using x , do you consider yourself as an unpaid test bed for all the **** -ups in x OR do you instead look upon yourself as priviliged in being instrumental -( if you can actually be bothered to get in touch with apple with your problems. ). - in shaping x ?

eh?

</STRONG>

Well, I'm not sure how to answer. I paid to be a OS X Beta tester, and now I am using OS X as my full time OS, so I guess the answer is...yes.

SMacTech · Apr 20, 2002, 04:53 PM

And we are not guinea pigs with any other OS out there?
I wouldn't run anything else.

KidRed · Apr 20, 2002, 04:55 PM

Originally posted by 3R1C:
<STRONG>what a stupid answer.</STRONG>

Stupid answer because it's not defending anything or flaming in any great detail? It was a stupid question, and I still answered it.

jwblase · Apr 20, 2002, 10:24 PM

In the financial world, we're not guinea pigs, we're "test marketers". We're the ones to see whether a product will succeed or fail in the future.

As long as we get what we want out of it, who cares about the difference?

JB