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Apple Announces Its New Desktop OS macOS Sierra Featuring Siri, Apple Pay (9to5mac.com)
After playing with the names of cats and a few California landmarks, Apple at WWDC 2016 announced that its desktop operating system will now be called macOS -- and its first version update is macOS Sierra. It comes with a range of new features including Siri, the digital voice assistant. The move comes roughly a year and a half after Microsoft brought its Cortana virtual assistant to desktop platform Windows 10. Sierra also supports Apple Pay payment service via Safari web browser. Ars Technica reports about some other features of macOS Sierra: Universal Clipboard answers a longstanding complaint of Mac and iOS users -- copying and pasting now works automatically between an iOS device and a desktop Mac device. iCloud now plays an expanded sync role, too, letting you move files and folders from Mac to Mac or from Mac to iOS. Another new feature called Optimized Storage can sweep through old documents and files and push them to iCloud, clearing up local disk space for other uses. It also can automatically dump your trash, clear your web history, and do some other behind the scenes sweeps. Tabs are coming to more and more applications. Federighi said that Apple wants tabs on all multi-window applications, and says that tabs can be flipped on without developer modification. Update: 06/13 18:55 GMT by M : macOS Sierra won't support many Mac models from 2007, 2008, and 2009. Find more information here.
>> Sierra with Siri
Somewhere, Apple's marketing and tech support personnel are currently forming an unholy alliance to overthrow management.
welcome to the machine
is becoming the default place to store all of your things on all Apple devices...
I'm sure nothing bad will ever come of that[again].
Clearly, Apple is beginning the long process of de-emphasizing the Macintosh.
Is that a step towards the convergence of OS X and iOS?
How long before macOS be stuck with a walled garden in which we can't install non-approved "apps"?
Despite using Linux for a couple of decades, I switched to OS X after I experienced numerous problems with Linux. After spending so many hours fighting to get stuff like PulseAudio, GNOME 3 and systemd working, I finally had enough. Although it was expensive, I bought myself a Mac Mini.
I didn't expect I'd ever say this, but OS X (or macOS or whatever it's called now) is superb. It is UNIX under the hood, but with a really nice UI. Most importantly, it just works. There's no fighting with it like there was with Linux. While upgrading my Linux system was always a crapshoot, I've never had any problems doing an upgrade on OS X. At this point I don't think I will ever have any reason to use desktop Linux ever again.
I moved all of my servers over to FreeBSD. Like OS X, it was a breath of fresh air. Everything works so much better. Plus I get ZFS out of the box. Plus most of its code is released under much friendlier and freer licenses than so much Linux code is.
So I need to ask, with OS X and FreeBSD available to us, what room does that leave for Linux? I know on my computers it means that there's no room for Linux any longer. FreeBSD is excellent for servers. OS X is excellent for workstations. That means that there's no need for Linux any longer.
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by TheSpoom (715771) Uncaring Linux user here. I have nothing to add to this but please continue. *munches popcorn*
Apple doesn't pay, you do.
I really don't care for Siri, nor the fact that the computer will have to actively listen in 24/7 to support that. I was hoping for some under the hood improvements, like a new filesystem, better software RAID, iSCSI, a package management/repository system usable by third parties, so signed code and repos would be easy to add, so we wouldn't need ports, brew, or other third party stuff. Maybe even more blue-sky stuff like having root be a role like Solaris as opposed to an actual user, filesystem snapshots (something like btrfs send/zfs send), deduplication (since all Mac laptops are SSD based, might as well have an offline dedup process to help with storage), maybe even build in a ESXi compatibile hypervisor, so virtualization is baked in and usable without third party utilities, which adds to security.
I wish Apple would actually extend OS X to do more fundamental stuff, not 1-2 gewgaws.
This WWDC is so boring I've actually stopped watching. Is it just me or is the age of Tim Cook extremely dull? This is like watching paint dry.
As far as I can tell, the biggest advantage of a desktop OS over a tablet is the ability to have multiple monitors filled with dozens of windows. I can't even begin to imagine the hell that OS X would become if, for example, Terminal.app forced all of its windows into tabs, or even used tabs by default. Imagine doing all your work in a single terminal window running screen and you're roughly in the ballpark. If you've ever done this, you know what a nightmare it is, and not just because of the control-A behavior. The cognitive load induced by hiding the state of other windows is considerable.
So I just want to make sure that it is as easy to disable the tabs feature systemwide as it is to disable the unnatural scroll direction feature. Not only do I not want tabs to be created automatically, I don't want them to be created at all. I don't want to accidentally release the mouse at the wrong time while dragging a window around and have two of my windows suddenly become a single window with tabs.
Frankly, I don't like tabs even in a web browser, much less in any app that I use to actually get work done. Tabs mean having to manage a nested hierarchy of content state. Not only do I have to remember which browser window something is in, but also which tab. And to get to it, I have to remember three different keyboard navigation shortcuts—one to choose the app, one to choose the window, and a third one to choose the tab. And the headache gets even worse when you start minimizing windows into the dock, because the dock shows you only the frontmost tab. When you go to find something later, tabs make serious computer use an absolute nightmare.
So yeah, that feature is fine for your non-power-user who is scared by having to see more than one window at a time, but it absolutely must be possible for users to kill it with fire as soon as they realize that it is hindering their workflow... because it invariably will for some people.
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I've got a Mac and an iPhone, and although I would say I tend to favor Apple products, I would not call myself a fan.
I just heard about this "rich links" feature in Messages where links to images or video will display in a preview attached to the link. My immediate reaction was one of revulsion and disbelief. That kind of "feature" is a security nightmare and there better be a way to disable it or else I am NOT going to upgrade. Whoever thought this was a good idea is a fucking idiot. Your phone should NEVER pre-emptively download the content of a hyperlink that someone else sends you. I don't care if it's a trusted site or not.
A burglar break in and plays an edited recording of YOU:
Hey Siri,
Move $500 to account # 123456789...
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They should just call that "feature" GOATSEvision and be done with it.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
I don't even know what to think about these "innovations" and demos. Between the horrible fake scripts, diversity check lists (gay guy, old guy, mom, hipster indian, fat woman into fitness, etc), and many ideas that are "new" (only if you define new as a first on apple and not a first in industry) I really wonder if Apple as finally lost it? Glad they renamed OS X to mac OS cause that will improve security, reliability, etc.
As I type this on my 2011 macbook pro (OS X 10.11) I wonder what I will do when I need to finally upgrade. Stick with apple just because it is what I know or finally jump to something else. And based off the multiple forums I am reading I am not the only one.
I am sick and tired of modern OS's focusing on adding 8 tons of crap thats not useful to 99% of the users, and not working on better I/O, networking, etc.
Between Windows 10, and this, it sure seems like each new version just gets more and more bullshit stuffed into it, but no real improvements otherwise.
Lawyers, MBA's, RIAA? A jedi fears not these things!
Not sure why this is a feature. The slowest connection is my internet connection. The biggest issues I have is getting media files to be viewed by other devices and other users without having to run an app for every type of file. You need iTunes to be running to share music. You need photos t/b running to share pictures. The easiest solution is provided by third party software.
Now in order for sharing to happen between devices it will be synced with iCloud? iCloud would free space on my system? How much would it cost to store 10TB on iCloud to free space on my system? Now instead of using my 1gbps network card I would be using my 10mbps internet connection to share 4K UHD video between my Macs?
iCloud should be an option to share documents which require remote access. Let me use my network to sync my files. Using iCloud to sync between two Macs sounds pointless when you are on the same network. As media files increase in size we should be looking at ways to manage the data. Media files need to be indexed over several volumes and duplicated with backups. Sharing needs to be simplified so that my sound system can play my music and playlists. That my TV can play the UHD videos from my system. It should be immaterial on what system it resides. Going through iCloud for any of this is just ass backwards.
DRM? No thanks, I'll just get it somewhere else...
Macs were extremely popular with nerds a decade ago, when Linux required a lot of hacking and tweaking to get working on a laptop. "Just save the trouble and buy a Mac, it's certified UNIX with a nice graphical shell and the hardware was high quality" is what a lot of people said. Even at Linux developer conferences, everybody had Macs.
Nowadays, the hardware is not competitive at all for the price point; plus the drives and RAM are soldered in, so tweakers have moved on to other things. OS X is falling way behind in features to Linux (native ZFS, kGraft, gaming and GPU support, etc.), and newer versions are splicing in iOS features rather than adding anything compelling.
I don't blame them. Focusing on stylishness, ease of use and cross-device features (to encourage vendor lock-in) probably yields higher profits than repairability, high performance and terminal utilities. But that's also a dangerous road to go down.
I've already left the walled garden of Apple for greener pastures. The buggy mess known as Apple TV, gen 4 was the last straw. I left Apple behind before the rest of Apple's products caught the low-contrast text cancer that seems to be spreading. I'm happy to be off the Apple Hardware Upgrade Treadmill.
I guess that they finally got tired of OS 10 (X)? They must be trying to be anti-Microsoft. With Microsoft bringing Windows 10 to both platforms, Apple wants to make sure you don't confuse the iPhone OS with the mac OS. I always loved the name game. I was looking forward to Windows 9.
How long before macOS be stuck with a walled garden in which we can't install non-approved "apps"?
A developer needs Xcode for macOS to develop apps for iOS. Since Xcode 7, any Mac owner has been able to build apps from source and install them on an iOS device on the same Apple ID without charge. (This is a change from previous Xcode, which allowed only developers with a valid App Store seller account to do this.) The walled garden that you propose would reverse this trend. Under the walled garden that you propose, what would one use to develop apps for macOS?
Why drop systems with 32bit efi? they can run 64 bit windows and with boot loader hacks 64 bit mac os.
Also the older mac pros can take new video cards. apple is just being an dick. Even old core 2 or even 1st gen amd 64 systems can run windows 10 in 64 bit.
with OS X and FreeBSD available to us, what room does that leave for Linux?
That depends on whether FreeBSD supports the hardware in a particular computer better than Linux. For example, how well does FreeBSD work on a 2009 Mac mini? Because according to the article, macOS sure doesn't.
This WWDC is so boring I've actually stopped watching. Is it just me or is the age of Tim Cook extremely dull? This is like watching paint dry.
Because there's isn't a lot of new stuff to be done nowadays. It's mostly refinement--which is important, but not exciting.
When was the last great innovation in (petrol) automobiles? Do people get excited about ABS, traction control, auto-closing hatches on SUVs? The basic functionality in most product segments (including smart phones and computers) is generally done.
Good luck with that. In my experience, Apple's user interface hubris knows no bounds, to the extent that when they decide what the user experience should be like, they are very reticent to provide any customization which would allow it to be changed.
Example: click-to-focus. It's not possible to have focus-follows-pointer in Mac OS X. There is no option that would enable it. Apple decided that everyone should use click-to-focus, and that is the unassailable law in the Mac world.
Another example: dock color. This is such a dumb preference but I cannot imagine why they don't make it user customizable. I like dark colored dock backgrounds, they look better on the desktop backgrounds I choose. But Apple simply will not make them customizable. They have decided what color your dock should be. You must accept it.
There are dozens/hundreds of other examples. Given all of this, I highly doubt that they will make the tab/window behavior customizable if they decide that there is One Right Way that All Users Must Use.
I know it's silly, but the thing I would most like to see improved in MacOS is the print dialog.
Agreed but what I would like to see is printing supported on iDevices properly. Yeah I know about AirPrint but guess what? Millions of printers don't have that (including all of mine) and Apple can't be bothered to make a simple way make existing printers compatible with AirPrint despite it being technologically trivial to do so. It could be done with a simple network attached print server or an app on any macintosh. I get if they don't want to support Windows but it's absurd that my mac can't provide AirPrint services right out of the box.
It just amazes me that Apple, which gave us the original desktop publishing revolution back in the 80's, can have such terrible print support now.
Apple seems to be concerned with making things easy and pretty rather than deeply functional. If your needs don't extend beyond what Apple provides their devices work great. But $diety help you if you need to do something not approved by Saint Jobs or one of his disciples.
Apple is moving desktop Macs in the "consumer electronics toy" direction. They have been for some time now. Their focus has been on gewgaws, not fundamentals for a good bit. This is not the company you want to stick with for desktop computing if that's what you care about. They are the company for people who have the attitude of a computer being a disposable device they don't care much about: You get the one you like the looks of, don't worry a whole lot about the technical stuff, and use it until it breaks or you decide you like the looks of a new one better.
If low level stuff and long-term support is what interests you, then you want to look at Linux or Windows. Yes really, Windows, Microsoft makes fundamental improvements to their OS quite often, and they are usually good. Either way while all OSes have fluff you don't care about and will keep getting it, Windows and the vast majority of Linux distros also spend plenty of time on the under-the-hood part.
Another polished, metric-tracking, telemetry-reporting, vendor locking piece of s/w designed to get you to buy more Apple products (hint: Apple is a HW company)
This WWDC is so boring I've actually stopped watching. Is it just me or is the age of Tim Cook extremely dull?
In comparison to Steve Jobs pretty much anyone they put on stage would likely be considered extremely dull. It's hard to follow an act like that and Cook has never been known for his oratory skills or charisma. Like him or not you have to admit that Steve Jobs was second to none as a salesman.
So Apple does this in a way that really does not change the core of the OS. But it's mostly to nudge those running older Mac's to finally say time to buy new hardware. I finally got fed up with OS X and Mac's, the time has past when OS X was lean and fast and stable. Now, it takes 4 or more updates to fix and re fix stuff. Their stuff used to be really good, but ever since Mavericks its been a downhill progression.
That's Apple for you. I have two of the older Mac Pros. One required the boot loader hack to run El Capitan and one didn't. Looks like both will be too old to run macOS without a similar hack. I use them for app development and I don't have thousands of dollars to pour into buying the newer mac pros. Plus I don't like the trash can design.
Actually I have been using nothing but tabs in the Terminal application since I first bought a mac 5-6 years ago. I find it much, much better than what I used to do in the windows days with cmd windows up all over the place. I generally keep a tab open for each project I am working on and one or two for system utility stuff, and that works out very nicely for me. YMMV.
If you want to solve my space woes, do something about the 2 GB of "other" on my phone. Or up the base model from 16 GB to 32.
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Just owning all the Abble products isn't enough to make one completely ghey; you have to actually use them as intended. Even if you DID jack off while wearing the iWatch, it wouldn't give them your pulse correctly since Abble has such a closed ecosystem, its not like GNU is gonna help them. HOWEVER Abble users switching to teh Lunix is *PROOF* that homosexuality is a *choice* and IT CAN BE CURED The one time I went to the Abble store at the mall, the resident ghey Socialst came up to me in his Speedos and offered me a tiny cup of Froot Loops; he explained that sadly, they had to cut back on the portion size because they were running out of money. I politely turned them down because I wasn't sure what they were glazed with. And his iWatch had the wrong time.
Actually, you've got two choices, light and dark, which sounds like it might suit you. It's not in the Dock Control Panel, of course. It's in General.
You, like most here, don't seem to understand the keynote is a 2-hour user-oriented publicity piece in a WEEK LONG conference. It covers the flashy highlights that Apple wants in the news. The rest of the conference covers the actual nuts and bolts.
There are multitudes of deeper changes that don't get mentioned in the keynote because they're not sexy and because 2 hours cannot possibly cover everything, including the new filesystem you made your first bullet point: Apple File System Guide (prerelease)
The cognitive load induced by hiding the state of other windows is considerable.
I agree with you. But when I've mentioned this before on Slashdot, a lot of replies were to the effect that "all maximized all the time" behavior is something that people can and ought to just learn to tolerate. I seem to remember their reasoning being along the lines that people got used to it on the Apple II, Commodore 64, IBM PC running DOS, and old Macs running Switcher, and they can get used to it now.
I'm in the same boat. I bought a second hand 3,1 octocore Mac Pro which is supported by El Capitan, bumped up the RAM to 32GB and added a SATAIII card + SSD's. It's a monster, does everything I want and more.
I went that route because I wanted something with some grunt for dev and graphics work (and a bit of gaming in Windows via bootcamp) and it still worked out about the same price or less than a Mac Mini once I'd added the extra bits. Difference is, it eats Mac Minis for breakfast!
It has 64-bit EFI like other modern Macs and has more grunt than some Macs do today, so I'm very disappointed that it's now going to be forced in to obsolescence within the next couple of years. I picked the 3,1 model because it still met the technical criteria for running modern versions of OS X / macOS.
Yes, if only Apple had been making something like that for the last decade. What a wonderful world we would be living in..
Try again.
The Airport Express does NOT solve the problem. It does not turn non-AirPrint printers into compatible ones by plugging into the USB port. You will need third party solutions to actually print to any non-AirPrint compatible printer attached to it. I actually own the hardware and have tried. Eventually I bought a third part print server (Lantronix xPrintServer) which solves the problem. It's ridiculous that any Mac cannot provide this functionality out of the box.
Waitwaitwait. They want me to use iCloud to store files to save hard drive space?
Really?
I use my hard drive (and a couple of prodigious USB flash drives) to save iCloud space, which is currently at a premium. Seriously - the free tier is still 5 GB, and currently 90% of that is backups for just my iPhone. I had to disable backup of my iPad because neither one was backing up any more. Immediately, my iPhone unloaded another two gigs into iCloud.
Right now, I’m afraid to use iCloud, for fear of my backups stopping. Either let me sync through Box, who gave me 50 underutilized gigs, or match their offer. Now that iCloud is multipurpose, and only has room for a single purpose, I fear that none of the features announced will actually work.
This guy also points out that the internet connection is the slowest connection in the house. He has an excellent point.
While exceedingly cool on paper, I fear that this is gonna suck
Windows SP / patch level / update level / build level has also gotten bad with 8 and after.
Windows 8 then windows 8.1 then windows 8.1 update X with the X part not being listed any where that is easy to find.
Windows 10 has build numbers but why not windows 10.1 windows 10.2 windows 10.2.1 etc?
How is it, that Sierra supports a MacBook from 2009, but "NOT" a MacBook 'Pro' from 2009?
What kind of BS are you going to spin to justify Apple this time?
You may be right. It's been a while since I futzed with it. I believe that they changed the color of the dark dock, and it's a color that clashes with my background. So I guess it's not that I can't choose a dark dock, it's that I can't choose an arbitrarily colored dock.
>"Apple at WWDC 2016 announced that its desktop operating system will now be called macOS "
Really, it has always been MacOS. The big change happened when it went from MacOS version 9 to MacOS version 10... they just used a roman numeral "X" for the major version of 10 and added a cutesy cat name as an alternative for the minor version number. So really, they have just dropped the "X" nonsense so perhaps now it is possible to actually have a MacOS 11 at some point.
We can finally stop hearing the incorrect "MacOS Eckes" or people saying the redundant "MacOS ten version ten point four" or whatever. Yay! :)
Well to achieve the same effect as that now you could just download a disgusting image and send it as an attachment. Messages would automatically show it.
It's turtles all the way down.
Not content with turning unmaintainability into an art form, now Apple want to turn the Mac into an overgrown iPhone, and charge you for the privilege. I think I'll stick with older macs, and get my preferred version of Siri from my favorite porn site.
ZFS requires an absurd amount of RAM dedicated to managing storage.
And ZFS needs ECC RAM, errors must be detected because with ZFS there can be a write to the hard drive to fix a mismatched "checksum" when the software is requesting a read. Bad RAM is a much bigger problem with ZFS than other file systems. Its really not a good idea for consumer hardware.
Going to Unix was a business decision to use a Freely available OS and just tweak it with a New UI.
No. Going NeXTSTEP was the business decision to get a modern operating system. NeXTSTEP just happened to be built upon Unix. NeXTSTEP contained many software elements beyond Unix. And NeXTSTEP would bring Steve Jobs with it.
Unix was a useful afterthought. Something useful to attract some scientists, engineers and other high end users to the Mac platform. People who were migrating from traditional Unix workstations and weren't sure about PC-based Linux.
The move comes roughly a year and a half after Microsoft brought its Cortana virtual assistant to desktop platform Windows 10.
Microsoft's had Cortana in Windows 10 for a year? Big deal! Apple's MacOS had Casper (aka PlainTalk) back in the early 1990's. Speech-to-text wasn't powerful enough nor reliable enough back then for it to be useful, though.
The last thing I want is OS X trying to upload terrabytes of audio/video clips to iCloud because it thinks they're "old files".
iCloud storage must be great when you don't have 300ms latency and expensive ISP-imposed bandwidth caps to deal with, but the rest of the world doesn't actually want it.
Dear Apple:
I don't want new features. All I want is for you to fix the bugs in your current release. Bugs that have been widely documented for years and years now. E.g.: Why is the font in the Apple Store so tiny, so that I can't even read it, and there is no way to increase it, as I can on many other apps. Until you allow me to set the font size on all Apps, I neither want nor need any other upgrade. And fix the file explorer while your at it.
Thanks!
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For instance, I have a MacBook Aluminum unibody Late 2008 that is out of support
But the MacBook late 2009 Policarbonate is supported.
Both use Nvidia's 9400m as graphics + Chipset.
Both Use Penryn Type processors as the CPU (2Ghz and 2,4Ghz in the 2008 case, 2,2Ghz as in the 2009 model)
Both come in 2GB/4GB (max) RAM Configurations
Both come with Mechanical HDD (min 120GB in the 2008 model, min 256GB in the case of the 2009 model).
So, aside from the fact that some of the base models have slightly lesser specs of CPU, and that the Min Storage is smaller (easy to change, the 2008 model can be opened SANS TOOLS), I guess that the reasonign is along the lines of:
We would love to get rid of the 9400m Machines, but a late 2009 model would generate an outcry. Let's leave it for a generation more.
At least, when I hack the OS instaler to install Sierra on that machine, I'll be confident that the Kexts for the CPU, Graphics and Chipset are fully supported, and since my machine is the 2,4Ghz model, I'll be actually beyond the spec...
Contradictory, It would have been better for apple (but worse for me) if they discontinued support for ALL 9400m type machines.
*** Suerte a todos y Feliz dia!
It's the slow march to unification across macOS/iOS/tvOS. Last major update they made "zoom" take the window full-screen in its own space by default. This major, they move towards apps grouping documents under the same window. Next major they improve spaces support (potentially making an application space run in a window), then they've migrated the window-based-paradigm into an app-based-paradigm (like iOS and tvOS). iOS apps already support flexible sizing since iOS 9 to enable this. Once applications can (optionally) support multiple input methods (touch / mouse / keyboard), all new apps are already using the same underlying tech (CloudKit, UIKit, etc.) across all apple OSes, and iOS apps bytecode format already runs on macOS. Respect to them for exercising restraint toward unification to let their users catch up, as opposed to going too far too fast (windows 8) and alienating everyone, but yes some people will still be alienated. No one can argue "system integrity" AKA Rootless doesn't improve security, but it can't be argued it doesn't disable some use cases.
It has been that way since 1984, though. There's a big difference when you're talking about something that they change after the fact. They at least sometimes make those optional. Not often enough, mind you, but....
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They still don't have a usable mechanism on iOS for having more than two apps onscreen at the same time. There's no way OS X users would tolerate such a limited environment. There are definite limits to how far unification can go without driving users away, and I think we're pretty much at that point already.
Full-screen UIs are useful for some things in some situations, and are favored by people who use their computers for very limited purposes—the sorts of people who could just as easily use a tablet with a keyboard (and possibly without). Although it does no harm to make that usage model possible, it would be very harmful to make that usage model the norm.
How do I know that it would be harmful? Because I remember history. We already tried the whole "put the entire app in a single window" model. It was called Microsoft Windows. Mac OS was always an alternative to that UI abortion. That design didn't work when Microsoft did it; it would be pretty silly to believe that it will suddenly magically not suck if Apple does the same thing. It will suck almost exactly as much, and for the same reason.
That's just not realistic. The sorts of apps that folks use on OS X aren't feasible on iOS precisely because windows matter and precise pointer positioning matters. I don't think we'll ever see UIKit replace AppKit or vice versa, because they target fundamentally different types of hardware for fundamentally different types of apps.
This is not to say that they won't make it possible to run iOS apps on OS X. That would be pretty trivial; they already have a simulator that can run iOS apps if recompiled for the x86-64 or i386 platform, and with a small amount of extra effort, they could make the remaining unavailable APIs work correctly, then allow folks to submit x86-64 slices in iOS apps and add a tiny bit of code to UIKit that would cause it to open a new simulator window when you double-click the app.
That said, it has been that trivial for eight years now, and they haven't done it, which suggests that it isn't likely.
Which is why you can disable it. Tabs should be no different.
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Well, they're partially right. Some tasks do lend themselves to an immersive design that controls your screen. Video editing and photo editing are great examples, because they both need to control the menu bar and other stuff to minimize visual distractions. I remember when Apple made the Apple icon blue and Adobe had a coronary and made the add an API that would let them turn it grey in Photoshop....
Other tasks lend themselves to the opposite. For example, I routinely have Xcode running with two or three or four windows, editing different files in each window, along with a stack of eight or ten Terminal windows running vi in an ssh session to let me edit code on a staging server that provides content to the software that I'm writing in Xcode. If I were forced into a one-app-per-screen, one-view-per-screen world, I would be forced to run Linux as my primary desktop and relegate the Mac and Xcode to a VNC window, because that's the only way I'd be able to get work done.
And it isn't even different users. I do video editing and photo editing, too. I do rather a lot of photography, actually. My Lightroom library is approaching 70,000 photos, most of which are on a 2 TB portable hard drive because I filled up my terabyte MacBook Pro's internal drive more than once. So it isn't that I don't appreciate having better full-screen support. It is absolutely useful for some apps. But it is also absolutely crucial that such changes be optional and user-controllable, because what works in one situation won't work in every situation.
In much the same way that I would never go back and use an Apple II, I could never replace my laptop with an iOS tablet. I wouldn't survive a week if I tried that. And no matter how slowly Apple made the transition, there would eventually be a point where I'd be running a different operating system because I was no longer able to function without proper windowing. And I say this as somebody who has exclusively used Macs since 1994.
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Well, I *would* have been buying them, but they completely fucktarded the macpro hardware, and so now I buy older machines off EBay.
<shrug>
Don't blame me. I wanted to buy a great new macpro. Unfortunately, they stopped making them.
They wanted me to buy a garbage can with desk tumors. Nah. Not happening. Idiots.
Terminal already has tabs.
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Click to focus is absolutely the right thing to do. I once had to use a Unix desk top environment that gave focus to whichever window the mouse pointer was over. It was a disaster: I would be typing an email, find the mouse pointer was in the way, move it, continue typing and find my my email in a source code editor.
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Considering how bad your macOS fiction is, no thanks.
Of course news about a fake are Fake News.
Click to focus is absolutely the right thing to do. I once had to use a Unix desk top environment that gave focus to whichever window the mouse pointer was over. It was a disaster: I would be typing an email, find the mouse pointer was in the way, move it, continue typing and find my my email in a source code editor.
I really hated it to have a window in the background, just perfect where it was to check its content, and then to have to carefully navigate the mouse pointer around it so it wouldn't pop up, thus having to re-stack the other windows for work.
Of course news about a fake are Fake News.
Why drop systems with 32bit efi? they can run 64 bit windows and with boot loader hacks 64 bit mac os.
https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/26734.html - short answer: because it's a bloody dumb idea not to drop it.
Of course news about a fake are Fake News.
How did you happen to buy so many printers that aren't AirPrint compatible?
AirPrint is pretty recent thing. There are FAR more printers that are not AirPrint compatible than printers that are. My daily workhorse printers are a Lexmark T610 and a Brother HL-4150CDN. Neither of these printers has AirPrint and I don't anticipate replacing either of them any time soon.
I would have to go out of my way to find a wireless printer that doesn't support AirPrint.
None of my printers are wireless. Nor should they need to be. I should be able to access them through a network or through the PC they are attached to if I so desire. That should be an out of the box feature for any Apple product (router or Mac). As it stands I have to buy an unnecessary third party print server to get any iOS device to print. So much for "it just works".
No one said anything about focus-to-raise functionality. In fact this is one of the primary benefits of pointer-to-focus instead of click-to-focus ... I can type into a partially obscured window if I need to, which often I do. But on the Mac I have to spend time moving my windows around so that the thing I want to look at is not obscured by the thing I'm trying to type into, all the time.
Also, it's super easy to dea with mouse pointers that are "in the way". Move them up an inch, but stay within your program. That is like a non-problem compared to the problems that click-to-focus systems bring.
But whatever ... have your preference, and live with it in peace and joy. I just want Apple to give me the same opportunity.
Yes, keyboard navigation in OS X is a total shit show. Apps behave differently to the keystrokes, and some don't respond at all (if the window is "hidden" instead of minimized - why is there a fucking difference?, and if you use a laptop from the built in screen at home, and then use multiple monitors at work, good luck getting UI's and windows to scale right. So much broken.
Also, I know homebrew is nice and all, but OS X REALLY REALLY REALLY needs a decent package manager system. AND a FUCKING UNINSTALLER FOR FUCK"S SAKE. And a central way to find all of the places every app stores startup elements, configuration items, resources . . . etc.
This is all basic "list of main things every OS should do"; and OS X does not get these. Release after release.
These are my friends, See how they glisten. See this one shine, how he smiles in the light.
What did you ever publish?
Besides your first book, "How to Be a Huge Douchebag"?