Apple Inc. has launched Leopard
and everyone has been happy. But it seems that this move is somehow similar to
the iPhone experience. After just a few days or weeks since the product has
been released, the troubles have started to appear. In Leopard’s case it seems
that Apple Inc. has hurried to release the new version of its Mac OS X, and
this way hasn’t been able to offer a secure operating system as they would have
wanted.
Although the security features
that the famous American company has added to Leopard look greet on paper, in
practice most of them are half-baked or just useless, according to the security
researchers. Furthermore, this security issue comes to add to another recently
discovered problem involved Leopard. It seems that the new Mac operating system
is slowly “killing” the users’ wireless connections. Whether there is a
connection between these two recently discovered problems one could not know
till now.
Rich Mogull, one of Gartner
Inc.’s annalists, has said that he thinks “that this is the most significant
update in the OS X line when it comes to security.". But he has as well
added that “Apple didn't finish the job. There's a lot of room for improvement
here." It appears that Apple Inc. has really been in a hurry. This
hypothesis seems correct if one remembers that some time ago the annalists and
users have been asking themselves whether Apple will launch Leopard in October,
as promised. Apple Inc. had already delayed once Leopard’s release because of
its iPhone project.
And now it all makes sense, after
all. Apple has launched Leopard in October, as promised, but the OS is not
finished and the users are exposed to security threats. This problem comes
despite that fact that Apple Inc. touts more than a dozen of new security
features and tool in its new operating system.
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