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Apple To Release Public Betas of iOS 10 and macOS Sierra Today
The next version of Apple's desktop operating system, macOS Sierra, will be made available in a public beta later today. Enthusiasts can also try their hands at iOS 10, the latest version of Apple's mobile operating system today. Both the new operating system versions offer a range of new features and improvements. Sierra, for instance, features Siri voice assistant which will assist users with locating files, answering queries, and search for images and information just by asking. iOS 10 lets users write a message in their own handwriting, and has a feature called "Raise to Wake" which wakes up the device when a user picks up their iPhone. Notifications have gotten more powerful, and now show photos and videos as well. You will find the macOS Sierra preview here, and iOS 10 preview here. More information on Apple's beta program here.
Apple once again provides forced obsolence to their devices, including the device known as the "New iPad".
Um, Every product is "The New..." at SOME point. Then it isn't.
This is the first version of iOS for which my iPad 2 is incompatible. I consider that quite reasonable. It IS compatible with iOS 9, and it will be several years before that is "impossibly too old". Until then, (and even after that point), my iPad 2 will happily chug along, just like it has since my employer gifted it to me several years ago.
Linux rules! Crapple drools!
Honestly, I see absolutely NOTHING "drool-worthy" in the desktop environments that Linux users suffer with. Hell, ask an honest Linux user, and most will agree that the popular GUIs for Linux are generally sucktastic. Add to that the internal strife that systemd has added, and Linux is utterly ignore-able by most Mac users.
As for Android, you honestly couldn't pay me to give up my iPhone for that Orphaned Product-Pile and Malware-Fest that is Android.
Well, yeah, but lets be blunt here, by the fact that you decide to call yourself "macs4all" you're also probably physically incapable of being objective about anything if Apple is involved. I prefer Android but would never call myself "Android4All".
Transparent, user-configurable and multi-cloud tiered storage is very useful.
Non-transparent, non-configurable and single-vendor tiered storage is an awful thing designed to jack up fees for users, spy on their data and an excuse to overprice under-sized local storage on vendor hardware offerings.
I had an iPhone, I feel the opposite: I love being able to use a different browser on my Android phone. You couldn't pay me to have an iPhone. Safari's rendering engine sucks, after I bought my iPhone many years ago I thought "Great! I don't need to lug my laptop around for web admin tasks!" - then found out that Safari wouldn't render pages properly. So I installed a different web browser and same thing.
It was then I found out Apple forces all browsers on iOS to use Safari's rendering engine.
On Android, I actually use a different (non-stock) web browser using a non-Google rendering engine with adblock installed. Can't do that on iOS.
What kind of administration do you do that would let you do meaningful work on a 5 inch screen? I'm not trying to be snide here... I'm just thinking about all the things I do, and virtually none of them are so simple that I could do that work on a miniscule mobile device.
Some kind of GUI front end with pre-configured for various common tasks?
Well, yeah, but lets be blunt here, by the fact that you decide to call yourself "macs4all" you're also probably physically incapable of being objective about anything if Apple is involved. I prefer Android but would never call myself "Android4All".
Ok, while we're being blunt: You're nothing but an Anonymous Coward.
Hell, ask an honest Linux user, and most will agree that the popular GUIs for Linux are generally sucktastic.
Cinnamon (Mint's main DE) is pretty decent, actually. It's not OSX, sure, but not everyone can afford Apple's stupid prices for subpar hardware.
Circumcision is child abuse.
Honestly, I see absolutely NOTHING "drool-worthy" in the desktop environments that Linux users suffer with.
That's why I use the command line.
ArsTechnica has a decent review, even though its still beta
I used Linux/BSD desktops for about 14 years before I gave up and bought a Mac. People laugh about "Just Works", but damned if it isn't true most of the time. "But what about my pet obscure feature X?" I had a few of those that were hard to give up, but once I stopped trying to make my Mac act exactly like KDE or awesome WM and started using their workflows I found myself being way more productive than I ever had been on Linux.
I'm not an Apple fanboy: if Linux or Windows ever got sufficiently better than OS X that I could justify changing ecosystems, I'd totally be open to considering it. Realistically, though, based on the last 20 years of watching their respective user interface development, I don't think that's likely to happen.
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?