{"id":12203,"date":"2015-09-08T14:10:30","date_gmt":"2015-09-08T18:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=12203"},"modified":"2015-09-08T14:10:30","modified_gmt":"2015-09-08T18:10:30","slug":"why-you-should-upgrade-on-your-own-terms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/08\/why-you-should-upgrade-on-your-own-terms\/","title":{"rendered":"Why You Should Upgrade (On Your Own Terms)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Adam C. Engst<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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I know many of you are tempted to scream, “Stop this bus! I want to get off!” And many people did just that some years back when the misbegotten OS X 10.7 Lion was on offer — there’s a vocal group still happily (or at least defensively) using 10.6 Snow Leopard. There’s probably still a set of iOS 6 users holding out against the flat look of iOS 7 and iOS 8 too. None of you are wrong. You may be merely postponing a world of upgrade hurt, but you’re not wrong.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

I’m not saying that you should drop everything to upgrade as soon as Software Update alerts you to the latest and greatest. In fact, apart from certain security-related updates that would be good to get sooner rather than later, I think waiting a decent amount of time before upgrading makes a ton of sense. Immediate upgrades are for those of us whose business revolves around the latest details — we’re the penguins diving off the ice floe first so the rest of you can jump in without worrying about leopard seals. Wait a bit after a major upgrade, and for a minor update or two to address bugs that became obvious only after widespread public release. We may have early-bird releases of “Take Control of Upgrading to El Capitan” and “El Capitan: A Take Control Crash Course” available now, with updates planed for El Capitan’s release day, but we also continue to refine those books after launch.<\/p>\n

So wait if you want, but don’t wait too long. Community knowledge doesn’t go back that far any more — there’s just too much to know, and too many facts that quickly stop being relevant. Options disappear too — drag your feet on upgrading to the mature Yosemite now, and in a month or so, Apple will replace it with El Capitan, and you won’t be able to download a fresh copy of Yosemite, just as you can no longer get a new copy of Mavericks from the Mac App Store.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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