I've previously blogged about how difficult the upgrade process was for me (the installer refused to recognize that I had a hard disk in my MacBook Pro until I forced it to see it by saving the EULA on it) and how my keyboard randomly freezes (this happened to me about a dozen times yesterday while hacking out the countdown timer for Seb during the conference). My recent upgrade to Leopard, however, has left me with a sour taste in my mouth and I've started questioning whether Apple is truly committed to OS X and the computing business or whether those will take a back seat now to its mobile and devices business. Not because I own any stock in Apple (*doh*) but rather because switching from Windows to OS X (Tiger) made me love playing with computers again after 23 years on PCs. And I've probably done my little bit to nudge quite a number of people onto Macs. So much so that sometimes a sea of luminescent apples would greet me when I looked into the audience. At each event, I kept noticing more and more developers on Macs. This year I spoke at about ten international conferences and a couple of other meetings, starting with MacWorld in San Francisco in January. Leopard is tarnishing the reputation of OS X
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