This week Apple unleashed the Tiger – a new versions of OS X with a desktop search capability that has been very favorably reviewed everywhere. I didn’t dash out and buy a copy, because I was on the road having fun with the Hurwitz team in New York and Boston.

I ran into Jerry Peterson, who was once a senior executive at HP and at Tandem. Now he spends his days doing advisory board work and taking more holidays than he used to. We discussed the Apple phenomenon, with me being enthusiastic about Apple’s ease of use. (I just plugged my printers and scanner and cable modem in and they all simply worked). Jerry tells me that it wasn’t that good when OS X first came to market. Indeed there were many drivers missing and Apple was forced to put in a good deal of effort with the peripheral vendors.

Jerry has been an Apple user forever. Even when working at Compaq he’d come to work, and to meetings, with an Apple laptop under his arm. It’s a productivity and usability thing. He then goes on to relate how impressive the Apple photography software is, explaining how he recently assembled an album of holiday photos in no time at all. (A few hours at most).

When Apple users get together their conversation gets very in-grown. (We used to meet in secret but not any more!)

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