Regretful upgrade: Snow Leopard incompatibilities

1
Regretful upgrade Snow Leopard incompatibilities

• By Heather Shriner

2
Apple Newest upgrade

• New Operating System Snow Leopard
• Cost 29
• Upgrade to a Mac OS X10.6
• The upgrade works best with all of Apple-APPS,
  but for some is a regretful investment
• The product was released a month earlier than
  developers expected

3
How Does it Work

• Who is able to use it ?
• Apples own apps-mail, calendar, and i-tunes
• Firefox
• Photoshop (newest)
• Who is having problems using it?
• iStat Menus- a Mac system monitor
• Growl universal-app pop-up notifier
• CoolIris- plug- in for Firefox
• X-Marks

4
The Information System

• Hardware desktops, laptops, PDAs, large
  computing equipments
• Software operating systems, application
  programs
• Data facts and figures entered into computers
• Procedures how the other four components are
  used
• People users, technologists, IS support

5
People Business Applications

• SMART Information- Is this new upgrade creating
  SMART information systems that are sufficient,
  money-worth, accurate, relative, and timely?

Accurate entering incorrect sales data creates
false information. Timely knowing that
production doesnt have enough raw materials for
next weeks schedule wont be useful information
three weeks from now. Relevant if your boss
needs to know how many shipments were late last
month, you shouldnt give him a list of all items
that shipped. Just barely Sufficient if your
boss wants to know how to send an email, you
shouldnt teach her how to build a
computer. Worth its cost (Money) is it cost
worthy to map out the entire U.S. if you only
need one state?
6
for some people it is an operating system
upgrade which means a step backward in the
pleasure and smoothness of using the
platform the early release is making this
impossible to accomplish the daily jobs
responsibilities demanded of me Incompatibilitie
s with the existing apps are causing the
information system process to slow down, while
resulting in inefficiency.
7
Resources

• Kroenke, David M. Using MIS. New Jersey
  Prentice Hall, 2009.
• Needleman, Rafe. Regretful upgrade Snow
  Leopard
• Incompatibilities. ZDNet News 1 September 2009.