Apple Drops Mac OS 9

Eugenia Loli writes "MacCentral has the up-to-the-minute updates on the Apple WorldWide Developer Conference. The first big news is that Apple drops Mac OS 9. 'It's time to drop OS 9,' Steve Jobs said. 'We can do things in X that we just can't do in 9... a hundred percent of what we're doing is X only. [...] Mac OS 9 isn't dead for our customers, but it is for developers. Today we say goodbye to Mac OS 9 for all future development,' said Jobs." We all expected this to happen sooner or later, more sooner than later. There's been no new Apple development for Mac OS 9 in some time; only maintenance updates. But I won't stop Mac OS 9 development. You can't stop me! Muahahahaha! Update: 05/06 18:31 GMT by P : More news from WWDC continues to roll in. Eugenia Loli writes "Probably the really big news is with Jaguar, the codename for Mac OS X 10.2. There is handwriting recognition technology that will be recognized by any application that uses text. Apple also introduced Quartz Extreme, which takes the compositing engine in Quartz, and accelerates it in graphics cards, and combines 2D, 3D and video in one hardware pipeline via OpenGL. 'Everything on the screen is being drawn in hardware by OpenGL.' It requires AGP 2x and 32MB of video RAM. It is not possible on older graphics cards like RAGE 128 cards, said Jobs -- that means it'll work on newer iMacs and eMacs, but not on older machines, he emphasized. Jobs said this puts Apple two years ahead of 'the other guys.'"

Update: 05/06 18:46 GMT by P : An anonymous user writes: "Apple is releasing Mac OS X Rackmount Servers. Also releasing AIM-compatible messaging called iChat; you can create buddy lists of anyone on the local network, and you can use your mac.com username to log in to it."

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[The Turd Report]

Foist Proast, Beotches!

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[Anonymous Coward]

You win! You win my ballz! (-) (0)

Holy Crap!

[Anonymous Coward]

I realize now that Apple truly sucks donkey 'nads!

you are gay

[Anonymous Coward]

this is the "you are gay" first post

Pirst Fost baby!

[Anonymous Coward]

mods on crack!

stupid moderators

[Anonymous Coward]

OK, this is an "anonymous" post that starts at 0.
nobody in his right mind would vote it up.
the default threshold is 1 so most people will never see this post.

so why the fuck do you waste your mod point to mod it down instead of using your mod point to mod a good comment up??
don't you realise you're a retard?

Re:stupid moderators

[Anonymous Coward]

the default threshold is 1 so most people will never see this post.
So why is there a configurable threshhold? For people to make their own decisions for themselves. Not you. Jerk.

so why the fuck do you waste your mod point to mod it down instead of using your mod point to mod a good comment up??
Moderation is blind to results, it only cares about the process. You'll note that there isn't a "+1 More people should be able to see this post" moderation.

don't you realise you're a retard?
No.

A Proposal:

[dupper]

"x>9": an emoticon denoting the extreme pain induced by a Jobsian freak's rant.

Thank you for your time.

Re:A Proposal:

[Mr. Neutron]

You may not realise this, but a false "-1 offtopic" can really hurt a guy.

"Offtopic" really means "What you said, while inarguably related to the story, was clever or irreverant in a way I, the moderator, find unsettling."
Haven't you figured that out yet?

Re:Rendezvous sounds interesting... open standard

[the_2nd_coming]

kick ass, no more SMB!!!!!!!!

Re:Great. My iBook just went old.

[thomas.galvin]

Parent isn't flamebate, he's just upset that his investment isn't going to have the longevity that he would like. Nothing wrong with that.

As an aside, I would not be surprised if Apple hears enough of comments like these to try and lower that 32M threshold.

Mod Parent up please.

[NSupremo]

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