OS X past and future...

Hello everyone.
I was just thinking about OS X and stuff today. I just feel the need to express my thoughts, at least here on forums.
1) Leopard (10.5) was a perfect OS for me, worked 100% (never had any issues). It took lots of space on HDD yes, but in my opinion it was worth it.
2) Snow Leopard (10.6) was lightweighted version of Leopard. I never liked it much. I had plenty of issues with the OS, including first failed installation of Mac OS in my whole Mac experience (I have started with OS 7 in 1993 like).
3) Lion (10.7) - basically much better version of Snow Leopard with lots of "shiny additions". I have only issue and these issues are with wifi. Sometimes I have problems joining wifi networks (for comparison, I have no issues under bootcamp, this is obvious OS issue).
My point is, that it seems to me we got into some kind of race to release newer and newer OS X versions just for the sake of releasing - to fight with Microsoft? To look good in media? Too look good for public?
But there seems to be no ideas of what should be improved. Lion added things like natural scrolling, launchpad (I thought we have applications in dock...), some trully stupid gestures for trackpad (3 fingers drag&drop for example is horrible).... I had to manually change everything to get back the Snow Leopard feeling. Today I changed even Mail to old look - conversation system under Lion and new look, I just like the old Mail much better.
Why couldn't we just stick with Leopard (oook then, Snow Leopard but Leopard was better......) and polish it without adding tons of shiny and useless new additions. For me the OS development since Leopard goes downhill.
And don't even let me start about loss of me.com to iCloud. Me.com offered much more (iDisk, galleries)... iCloud has
- iWorks documents sharing - I use Office 2011 though, for PC compatibility and so this is useless to me
- Photostream - turned it off week ago, every damned photo I make (like photo of phone number in job so I can call someone later) gets uploaded and makes event in my iPhoto... And since I no longer synced manually through cable, my iPhone camera folder has hundreds of photos (if you imported photos to iPhoto manually, you were offered the deletion of photos on phone) I need to delete.... It would be much better if you would sort photos on iPhone (into albums, events) and AFTER that they would sync with all your devices...
Anyway me.com was much more useful that iCloud (I repeat, iDisk for backup or file sharing, Gallery to show photos to friends....).
I love Apple and their products, I will continue to buy them (there is no rational alternative) but.... Only positive thing of late is their expansion of iTunes store to my country (that's actually awesome). I miss Leopard and me.com. And I'm afraid this downhill tendency (adding more useless shiny things to OS X just for the sake of releasing new version with lots of new features) will continue.
Just my 2 cents. And of course all written above just expresses my own opinion, feel free to disagree. :-)

Davon Semris wrote:
Would Time Machine Lion backup work with SL Time Machine?
I don't believe so, but I might be wrong. I'm not a TM expert (prefer clones, myself, more stable and more configurable).
In any case, in your position what I'd do is use your install disks to install SL on an external USB hard drive (so if you don't have a spare one you'll need to invest $50 or so to get one). You'll have to run software update combo to bring the new SL install up to date. Then you slowly copy and paste your apps and folders over to the SL installation from the Lion one.
This has several advantages:
i. You don't lose Lion while you're doing it
ii. You can just migrate the stuff you need
iii. You can see what works and doesn't work (and anything that doesn't work you can still use in Lion)
iv. You can see objectively the difference between the two OS's and which serves your needs best.
If or when you decide that you want to use SL as your main install and relegate Lion to your backup disk, use a cloner (Carbon Copy Cloner is free) to switch the two installs over so that SL is on your internal and Lion on your external (you may need a 3rd disk to do this but maybe not, depending on how much free space your internal disk has currently got).
If you do swap SL back to your internal drive, you would want to remove the Recovery HD if you're worried about security issues.

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I hear the frustration and concern in your post. I'd like to assure you that we're still here doing what we've done in the past and that your business is valuable to us, don't give up yet! :)
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The rumors of our early demise are highly exaggerated. Berkeley DB products are alive and well in Oracle. Just look at the releases we've made in the past 12 months.
As for our three pronged attack. ;-)
1. The distance between first contact with support and helpful information has, in some ways, increased. This is due to the Oracle infrastructure for support that manages all Oracle products. The forums are the replacement for the discussion email lists we managed at sleepycat.com. We're managing a much larger amount of traffic than in the past and most of it is done with the same Berkeley DB engineering team you've come to know and love. Maybe we need to make it more obvious when we answer a question by having a signature indicating who we are, sometimes that's not obvious. As to the particular question you posed, I don't know what happened but the same thing can happen on an email list. My apologies for the lack of a response.
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