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    The Tiger Report: So How Many Fixes Does 10.4.3 Have?

    November 5th, 2005

    For weeks, the rumor sites were overwhelmed with speculation about some sort of incredible bug fix update for Tiger. It would contain hundreds of changes, more than anyone would have the right to expect. It boggles the mind. Well, 10.4.3 appeared in my Software Update list yesterday afternoon. Officially it provides the following changes and […]


    Apple’s Quality Control: A Fable?

    September 24th, 2005

    Can you imagine what might have happened as Apple prepared to introduce its new music products last week? Just days before the event, someone knocks at the door of the CEO’s office and asks Steve Jobs to postpone the press briefing. “Why?” he growls, and he’s told that both the Mac and Windows versions of […]


    The Tiger Report: The Biggest Update of All!

    July 16th, 2005

    What can I say? It’s not as if the arrival of the 10.4.2 update wasn’t highly anticipated. It had been rumored for several weeks, and there were still some Tiger bugs that had to be fixed, but when it comes to the list of fixer-uppers, this one has most of the others beat by a […]


    The Tiger Report: Sowing the Seeds of Update Confusion

    May 21st, 2005

    Now that the 10.4.1 update has spread across the planet, Mac users are weighing in on what it fixes, what it doesn’t fix, and the new bugs it creates. But in all this there is one large problem, and it appears to stem from Apple’s efforts to make the update as small as possible, at […]