It would be nice if they milked the mac, won't happen soon enough.
It started 22 years ago. The quote is from February 1996, before Steve Jobs was back at Apple. He returned in December 1996, became (interim) CEO in July 1997, then Apple started milking.
With iMac in 1998 -- still running Classic Mac OS -- the Mac platform started making money again. This kept the company solvent and afloat until Mac OS X launched in 2001 and finally Apple had a modern software foundation. In the meantime they launched iPod, which made more money and -- in hindsight, more importantly -- gave the Apple brand mainstream positive reputation for portable technology. Milking the Mac (well, and the iPod's reputation) for all it was worth, Apple took Mac OS X and developed their next great thing: iPhone. Thanks to that milk, Apple is now worth more than any other company in the world.
Apple have milked more value out of the Mac than anyone could have imagined possible in 1996. Here we are in 2018. Apple's still milking, but they've clearly moved focus to their next great thing.
Mac OS has supported multiple mouse buttons for at least 16 years. Even when using a now-extinct one button mouse, control-click presented a dialogue box.
Left window controls (yay for all the left handed and left eye dominant people, boo for the other 95% of the world)
Because it's easier to move a mouse up/left with your right hand, and was developed in a country that reads left-to-right.
Launchpad (how is the start menu missing causing a revolt and launchpad even exist? Launchpad is the initial SIN!)
The start menu missing is causing a revolt because Microsoft removed something and replaced it with an abomination. Launchpad - and other questionable features like Dashboard - can be completely ignored.
Finder layout straight out of system commander circa 1988.
Column view in Finder is optional, with icon and list view still available. Also, Finder has had its sorting options greatly improved throughout OS X's history.
Crap loads of docked icons you never use be default.
If you go and buy a Mac today, this is in the Dock: - Finder: File management - Launchpad: Access to all apps not in the Dock (And easily ignored, as previously discussed) - Safari: A web browser - Mail: Email client - Contacts: An address book - Calendar: A calendar - Notes: Short notes - Maps: A map of the entire planet - Messages: Text messaging and IM - FaceTime: Video chat - Photo Booth: Something fun to play with on your new computer - iPhoto: Something to talk to your camera - Pages: Word processing - Numbers: Spreadsheets - Keynote: Presentations - iTunes: Play and purchase music and TV/movies - iBooks: Read and purchase books - App Store: Install and purchase software - System Preferences: Change settings on your computer
The default Dock icons cover managing your computer, using the big two features of the Internet, syncing 'organisational' information with your phone, finding locations, messaging and video chatting with other people, photography, writing, processing numbers, creating presentations, watching media, reading, and installing an app to do anything else you want your computer to do. The default Dock is a slam-dunk for covering what the majority of people use computers for, points users in the right direction to add new capabilities to the computer, and is easily customised to remove the things you don't want. (Launchpad, again...)
The Dock is setup perfectly for you to get started with your computer. Anything else you need to get to can either be accessed through Spotlight (power users) or Launchpad (for people with more experience with iOS).
A separate contact and calendar app....
Just like iOS... but also NeXTSTEP; they have always been separate apps, which makes finding what are ultimately different tasks easier *and* they also seamlessly share the same databases behind the scenes.
General iOS crap
Integration with touchpads is great. Removing always-visible scrollbars removes needless clutter. Things like Launchpad - and pretty much anything else you don't like that reminds you of iOS - are easily disabled or ignored.
Hardwired application dependency locations (the whole point of applicat
CSIRO develop technologies, patent them, then license them at fair terms. They then use that licensing revenue to develop new technologies, patent them, and license them at fair terms. And repeat.
It's not like CSIRO are patent trolls. The WLAN thing only got dragged out in course because greedy companies were not interested in fair licensing terms.
"Even 0.16 which I use at work and hasn't had much but bugfixes since about 2000 is very impressive. It had little thumbnail pictures of app windows for icons just like win7 only back before slashdot existed."
Netscape's source was released in 1997. Mozilla 1.0 was released in the middle of 200s. During those 5 years, Internet Explorer 6 strangled innovation on the web. We're still far from free of its legacy.
It didn't take long for Mozilla's Firefox to emerge from Netscape Navigator's ashes
Netscape's source was released in 1997. Firefox 1.0 was released at the end of 2004. During those 7 years, Internet Explorer 6 strangled innovation on the web. We're still far from free of its legacy.
If the writers of the article have such a poor sense of perspective on browser history, I'm not trusting their views on browsers now.
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says the Federal Government does not support Australian Federal Police (AFP) Commissioner Mick Keelty's call for a media blackout in terrorism cases.
Earlier this week Mr Keelty said he believed the media should be prevented from reporting on terrorism cases until all judicial avenues have been exhausted.
But Mr Rudd has told Fairfax radio that while he has full confidence in the Commissioner, the Government will not be acting on the call.
"He's speaking obviously in terms of his own capacity as head of the Federal Police," he said.
"The Government has its own view and the Government's view is that the media should simply abide by the laws of the land.
"On the side of the media giving full and frank coverage, I think the media's role in the [Mohamed] Haneef case was in the national interest."
The AFP was roundly criticised for its handling of the case against Dr Haneef, who was accused of links to botched car bombings in the UK but was subsequently released without charge.
It's kind of sad that a company who powers its hundreds of thousands of computers in clusters with a trimmed down RedHat puts Linux second on the list of operating systems to support with its software. Third.
Google Desktop has been available for Mac OS X since April.
GS: With this generation, Sony and Nintendo are doing different things from each other and also from Microsoft. Each has its own strategy this time. What do you think of their individual approaches? Do the things they're doing make you want to develop for either of their systems?
HS: [in English] Ah, Kutaragi-san's architecture...seven DSPs and a low-powered CPU. I don't like the PS3's architecture.
"... can't really be moved outside of your local network (it's not like you can take it over to a friends house without unauthorizing their computer and authorizing their computer under your username)."
Apple have this neat little device for taking the movie with you. You may have heard of it. It even connects to your friend's TV!
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It started 22 years ago. The quote is from February 1996, before Steve Jobs was back at Apple. He returned in December 1996, became (interim) CEO in July 1997, then Apple started milking.
With iMac in 1998 -- still running Classic Mac OS -- the Mac platform started making money again. This kept the company solvent and afloat until Mac OS X launched in 2001 and finally Apple had a modern software foundation. In the meantime they launched iPod, which made more money and -- in hindsight, more importantly -- gave the Apple brand mainstream positive reputation for portable technology. Milking the Mac (well, and the iPod's reputation) for all it was worth, Apple took Mac OS X and developed their next great thing: iPhone. Thanks to that milk, Apple is now worth more than any other company in the world.
Apple have milked more value out of the Mac than anyone could have imagined possible in 1996. Here we are in 2018. Apple's still milking, but they've clearly moved focus to their next great thing.
Chrome OS running crouton is fantastic. Run Linux apps in Chrome tabs. (Check out xiwi. Running Firefox in a Chrome OS tab is fun!)
Combined with Android apps on Chrome OS maturing, it's not just about JavaScipt anymore.
An iPhone 3GS running iOS 6 vs a phone stuck with Android 1.6? I'd take the iPhone.
Mac OS has been like this since System 1. And it makes sense; whatever you're doing, its menu is going to be in the same place. Fitts' law indicates that the most quickly accessed targets on any computer display are the four corners of the screen.
Mac OS has supported multiple mouse buttons for at least 16 years. Even when using a now-extinct one button mouse, control-click presented a dialogue box.
Because it's easier to move a mouse up/left with your right hand, and was developed in a country that reads left-to-right.
The start menu missing is causing a revolt because Microsoft removed something and replaced it with an abomination. Launchpad - and other questionable features like Dashboard - can be completely ignored.
Column view in Finder is optional, with icon and list view still available. Also, Finder has had its sorting options greatly improved throughout OS X's history.
If you go and buy a Mac today, this is in the Dock:
- Finder: File management
- Launchpad: Access to all apps not in the Dock (And easily ignored, as previously discussed)
- Safari: A web browser
- Mail: Email client
- Contacts: An address book
- Calendar: A calendar
- Notes: Short notes
- Maps: A map of the entire planet
- Messages: Text messaging and IM
- FaceTime: Video chat
- Photo Booth: Something fun to play with on your new computer
- iPhoto: Something to talk to your camera
- Pages: Word processing
- Numbers: Spreadsheets
- Keynote: Presentations
- iTunes: Play and purchase music and TV/movies
- iBooks: Read and purchase books
- App Store: Install and purchase software
- System Preferences: Change settings on your computer
The default Dock icons cover managing your computer, using the big two features of the Internet, syncing 'organisational' information with your phone, finding locations, messaging and video chatting with other people, photography, writing, processing numbers, creating presentations, watching media, reading, and installing an app to do anything else you want your computer to do. The default Dock is a slam-dunk for covering what the majority of people use computers for, points users in the right direction to add new capabilities to the computer, and is easily customised to remove the things you don't want. (Launchpad, again...)
The Dock is setup perfectly for you to get started with your computer. Anything else you need to get to can either be accessed through Spotlight (power users) or Launchpad (for people with more experience with iOS).
Just like iOS... but also NeXTSTEP; they have always been separate apps, which makes finding what are ultimately different tasks easier *and* they also seamlessly share the same databases behind the scenes.
Integration with touchpads is great. Removing always-visible scrollbars removes needless clutter. Things like Launchpad - and pretty much anything else you don't like that reminds you of iOS - are easily disabled or ignored.
Yes. My Kindle has been gathering dust since purchasing an iPad. I actually prefer a backlit screen; easier in low-light conditions. Shrug.
CSIRO develop technologies, patent them, then license them at fair terms. They then use that licensing revenue to develop new technologies, patent them, and license them at fair terms. And repeat.
It's not like CSIRO are patent trolls. The WLAN thing only got dragged out in course because greedy companies were not interested in fair licensing terms.
Slashdot has been around longer than E16. For instance, here's the Enlightenment 0.15 announcement.
It's amusing that nowadays E is considered lightweight, but back in that thread from 1999 people were complaining about its performance.
Why doesn't someone ask CBS and the RIAA if this happened?
They'll either say no, or no comment. Then we'll know.
Drivetrain (the rejected app) "has a built-in web browser to allow you to find and add torrents when on the go."
Can't do that with Mobile Safari and a web interface.
Visual voicemail.
The concept of voicemail is sound; the technology has been poor. Visual voicemail fixes the technology.
Mozilla 1.0 was released in the middle of 2002.
Netscape's source was released in 1997. Mozilla 1.0 was released in the middle of 200s. During those 5 years, Internet Explorer 6 strangled innovation on the web. We're still far from free of its legacy.
Also, I understand the history of the Mozilla project. I've been pedantic about their history here before.
...at:
Netscape's source was released in 1997. Firefox 1.0 was released at the end of 2004. During those 7 years, Internet Explorer 6 strangled innovation on the web. We're still far from free of its legacy.
If the writers of the article have such a poor sense of perspective on browser history, I'm not trusting their views on browsers now.
It's 2008. Steve Jobs has already delivered the keynote at Macworld 2008.
Next year is 2009.
It's taken over four years to copy Private Browsing from Safari, yet they didn't even bother coming up with a new name!
"This thing is going to kill us all."
Yes.
Teasers trailers don't stop people 'buying' current films, in theory...
Advertisements don't tell you to wait.
Google Desktop has been available for Mac OS X since April.
Apple have been putting it in Macs for years!