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Aaron Pressman points out that many third-party applications don’t handle text rendering very well on the retina MacBook Pro, and then concludes:

So, okay, the MacBook Pro with Retina display — It’s a not-ready-for-primetime-player of a Mac, a rare misstep in Apple’s lengthy track record of getting things right.

Uh, what?

So, because there are third-party applications not yet optimized for the retina MacBook Pro—a notebook computer with a radically higher-resolution display than anything else available before it—it’s not “ready for primetime” and a “misstep?” What was Apple supposed to do? Wait for software developers to fix their applications and then release it?

Get ready to have your mind blown: sometimes, when releasing a product that really is a giant step forward, there’s going to be inconveniences and rough spots for a while. If you take Pressman’s conclusion seriously, then, we should hold them back until those inconveniences—even ones outside the company’s control—are fixed. To which all I can say is: might want to consider thinking about what you’re going to say before you say it.

(Via John Gruber.)