The Case Of The Disappearing Leopard Features
Ars Technica has noticed that Apple seems to have pulled mention of a couple of features in Leopard, which arrives in stores later today. The original 300+ new features page on the Apple site mentioned that Leopard’s Mail.app could sync notes with your iPhone, but the page has since been updated to remove all references to the iPhone.
We suspect that the notes synchronization is still in the works, but may require an iPhone update as well as Leopard. For those of us who would sooner stab a fork in our eye than take notes in Marker Felt, the loss of synchronization isn’t such a big deal, but the other change in Apple’s Leopard features is more disappointing.
Time Machine originally promised to make backups to networked drives, but Apple has changed the Time Machine feature notes to strike all mention of “AirPort Extreme” and “AirPort Disk.”
There are a number of disappointed users complaining in an Apple discussion board post of the subject, including many who have already purchased new drives and Airports in anticipation of the Time Machine features.
According to one poster it may be possible to enable remote storage support even if Apple has disabled it, but if Apple has disabled it, it’s very likely due to bugs and instability so enabling it through the Terminal may not be a good idea.
Since I don’t yet have a copy of Leopard, I can’t say for sure whether either of these rumors are true, but I’ll be sure to update this post when my copy arrives in the mail.
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