Inside OS X Mavericks

rjmarvin writes "Apple's era of naming OSs after big cats is over. The Mavericks wave is rolling in, and the first four developer previews have given an inside look at the cutting-edge OS. Users and developers have almost entirely positive things to say about Mavericks, from faster speed and improved stability to new features like iBooks and iCloud keychains. While some installation concerns and errors have arisen, developer preview have improved version by version, and Mavericks is looking good."

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AirDrop

[exomondo]

Anybody know is OSX Mavericks AirDrop compatible with iOS7 AirDrop? I know Mountain Lion's isn't.

Re:AirDrop

[drinkypoo]

As the previous poster said about Parallels,
> They eventually found the bug and fixed it... in Parallels 3. Their solution to the problem of
> selling me a product that was not fit for purpose was for me to give them more money

And I'd bet they both learned this trick from the MSOffice team.

Nope. Apple has known this forever. The Rev.1 B&W G3 macintosh had a UDMA data corruption error. Apple's "fix" was to either buy FWB toolkit and disable UDMA (and half a disk's performance!) or to buy a mac ATA card which, due to the mac tax, would cost literally four times as much as buying the same card for the PC, with a different ROM. When they rolled the old TechInfo Library (TIL) into the modern Apple Knowledge Base (KB) they imported articles before and after the one where they describe this problem, but they deleted the article on B&W G3 data corruption in an attempt to hide the fact that they told their customers that they had to spend more money because the product they purchased did not in fact meet specifications (didn't do ATA correctly.) Early Sun UltraSparc machines which I have used personally have the same chip and don't have the same bug.

Nobody has anything to teach Apple about blaming the victim or hiding the evidence.

If by "looking good", you mean "looking like iOS".

[zedrdave]

From the article:

> He concluded by mentioning that he hoped Mavericks would serve as the bridge between OS X and iOS, allowing his company to make Mac versions of its iOS titles.

So basically this guy is happy that OS X is bridging closer to iOS (because his business stands to gain from this).

How exactly is that supposed to warm my heart as a user who already thoroughly loath the very idea of the "Natural Scrolling(tm)" option on previous updates?

Is it too much to ask for them simply not to break anything and leave me with the halfway-decent UI to a powerful *nix that I am happily using?

Re:Apple press release

[the_B0fh]

Been using it since beta 1. What kind of problems did you see? I saw no issues other than the email sync issues.

Re:If by "looking good", you mean "looking like iO

[Anonymous Coward]

Why? What change have they introduced to improve iOS compatibility that you can't just ignore if you don't like it?

The OS X desktop and interface have not changed much at all.

The scrolling, which is a vast improvement for many, you can turn off. Autohide scrollbars, again a godsend for many users, you can turn off. Everything else, you can just not use.

Re:If by "looking good", you mean "looking like iO

[SJ]

I hated... HATED... "Natural Scrolling" when it first came out. But I gave it a week. You push up on the trackpad... screen goes up. You push down, screen goes down. It just feels.. natural.

Now when I use another computer the scrolling just feels weird.

Re:If by "looking good", you mean "looking like iO

[jbolden]

Apple sees what Microsoft is going through with the XP transition. Why would they want that?

That being said... 25% of the userbase holding back from Lion / Mountain Lion is an interestingly high number.