Mar 25, 2017 This same base OS was then resold to Apple and became a proprietary OS and is now known worldwide as the OS X. So technically speaking, OS X and a Linux based OS like Ubuntu are essentially based on the very same concepts. All in all, Mac OS X is a special kernel with a good-looking GUI placed on top of UNIX. There Is No Right-Click. Android: 39.19%, Windows: 35.12, iOS: 13.85%, MAC OS: 5%, Linux: 0.77% are some numbers for the market share of these companies. As of July 2019, Android’s pervasiveness through portable smartphones has made it an undisputed leader in the Operating Systems domain.
Main Disadvantages of Mac Operating System
First of all there is no way to upgrade the Mac operating system, instead every time you have to buy a new OS. This factor doubles its cost. Mac OS is really very compatible to Apple PC’s and Laptops. Apple PC’s and laptops are on the other hand very expensive. Mac operating system is not a good choice for gamers because there are not many games stored on this OS. Mac operating systems are not for everyone they are mostly used by graphic designers. It is difficult to theme Mac OS. Mac operating systems are not that user friendly. Therefore if you want to install new OS on your PC go for some other option. The software developers and hardware developers for this OS are same therefore there are limited number of software applications for this OS like games etc. it is really stable but not that stable than Linux is. It is an expensive OS and contains really bad interface. Moreover it is not compatible with majority of the hardware.
Disadvantages of Mac OS X
So far there is no software compatibility available for Mac OS. All the Windows applications can not work or operate on this operating system. Hence trying to install any of the windows applications like Adobe Photoshop on Mac X would go all in vain. The Mac OS versions need most advance and latest hardware in order to run. It is an expensive operating system. It is termed to be really secure and safe against viruses but the question is how long. This OS is safe until there are not plenty of users. It is expensive therefore people find it harder to use. It is more convenient for professional users. The hardware compatibility is very limited. The most compatible hardware is Apple laptops which only few can afford. Mac OS X is not customized and its programming and modification lies entirely in the hands of the company. Incase of any failure the customer has to wait long till his problem is resolved form the company .when you are using Mac OS you do not have plenty of choice to switch to the desired hardware instead you have to choose from the limited variety of hardware. Most suitable hardware for any Mac OS X would be Apple computers.
Brief Comparison to Windows
The comparison of Mac with other operating systems like Windows would help in highlighting some more disadvantages of this operating system. First of all there are more users of Windows as compared to the Mac. This is because windows users find it very interactive and the interface of Windows is not very complex. If at any level Windows users need any help and guidance he can seek it from unlimited Windows users. On the other hand the users of Mac are few and the interface is complex. One has to ask the professionals in case of any problem with the operating system. The file management in Windows is easier as compared to the Mac. The Windows save dialogue box offers more convenient and flexible options to save delete or rename a file. No matter what windows do Mac is more stable and secure.
Comment Amid Apple's attempt to fend off criticism for its removal, restoration, and re-removal of an app used by pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong, the company is also facing particularly voluble criticism from users of its latest desktop operating system, macOS Catalina.
Since at least 2015, developers and other technically-savvy folk have fretted that Apple's software quality isn't what it could be. The gripes reached Apple executives and by 2018, there were reports that company technical leaders were focused on improving quality.
To judge by the reception of macOS Catalina, aka macOS 10.15, it appears Apple's quality push was more aspirational than actual.
In two posts this week, macOS developer Tyler Hall, from Nashville, Tennessee, savaged Apple's macOS Catalina update, likening it to the reviled Windows Vista and subsequently detailing its many alleged faults.
The Register contacted Hall to discuss his concerns, but he declined to comment further. '[T]his has all blown up way more than I ever intended,' he said in an email. 'And I’ve heard personally from folks inside Apple who I’m friends with and others that I just know by reputation, that my comments were hurtful. I’d rather not say anything else.'
The Register also asked Apple whether the company would comment on how macOS Catalina has been received and whether user dissatisfaction differed from previous releases. But Apple – and this may not come as a surprise – has not responded.
To some extent, dissatisfied users should be expected with any software release. And there's no shortage of these. Apple's macOS Catalina forum is currently full of people reporting problems, and criticizing Apple's quality assurance process. Discontent can be attributed in part to Catalina's removal of support for 32-bit apps, necessary for a possible future transition away from Intel. But there's more to it than that.
Experienced macOS users tend to advise waiting a few months for updates and bug fixes before installing a major operating system revision. Even so, macOS Catalina appears to be worse than people's general low expectations for software.
Among those discussing Hall's posts on Hacker News, there's quite a bit of support for his concerns.
• 'I'm sort of surprised that they actually released with the state it is currently in.'
• 'This year all their OSes seem to be riddled with issues at release. iOS 13.0 was so bad they released 13.1 in less than 5 days, but even now many things are still hit and miss (with 13.2 in beta). watchOS 6.0 is also still pretty bad and not yet fixed (with 6.1 in beta). macOS 10.15 GM seems pretty buggy.'
Sentiment on Twitter isn't much better:
macOS Catalina is a trash fire right now. I’m not updating a single machine yet. Definitely not production ones (never do this), but I’m not even gonna do my laptops yet.
Then there are theposts that purport to be from Apple employees and describe the company's internal disarray and lack of communication. The Register is unable to verify who these people might be, but other people posting to the thread confirm that Apple employees they've known have raised similar concerns.
In particular, these supposed employees raise the same issue cited by Hall, that Apple's marketing group overrides engineering concerns.
As Hall argues, 'Apple’s insistence on their annual, big-splash release cycle is fundamentally breaking engineering.'
Michael Tsai, a macOS software developer who blogged about Apple's software quality problems back in 2015, told The Register in an email that he thought Hall's critique is mostly fair.
In Twitter message, developer Steve Troughton-Smith said he didn't have much to say about Catalina. 'It's been in a pretty stable state for a while, as far as I know,' he said, noting that much of the criticism of the operating system follow from its security and privacy features, which he's disabled on his machine.
'I don't think it was premature, I think it's been in roughly the same state for a while,' he said. 'People were running into problems syncing their Reminders to Mojave from iOS 13 because of the new Reminds app, so it wouldn't surprise me if Apple accelerated Catalina by a couple weeks just to make that problem go away.'
Even so, Troughton-Smith agreed that Apple's software quality recently has been uneven.
'I think they made last year a little better at the expense of this year,' he said. 'They've been having software quality issues since at least iOS 7 and the switch to [Craig] Federighi.'
'I think iOS 8, 11, and now 13 have been breaking points. iOS 13 has been the first time the OS didn't make it over the line for the iPhone release. There is a pattern here that may be due to scale/complexity, or management style, but it seems balanced on a knife edge.' ®