"Storage space maxed out? No problem. macOS Sierra can help make more room by automatically storing rarely used files in the cloud and keeping them available on demand. It can also help you find and remove old files you no longer use. So there’s always room on your Mac for new files and the ones you’ve used most recently."
Uhm, no. I do NOT want or need anyone managing my storage for me, or to deal with service outages leaving my files unavailable. Thanks, but no thanks. Take your cloud service and shove it sideways up your ass until you can taste it.
From what I have read about "Storage Optimization", All that stuff is OPTIONAL. I personally don't use ANY Apple (or anyone else's) Cloud services.
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.
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.
Its more like "Nice to see Apple defaulting to only allowing developers who pay them rent to be able to install applications" This has nothing to do with UNIX. (Which had a terrible security model to begin with considering security was not even remotely a factor in the design. Linux ppl have had to constantly work to bypass that shitty design.)
But it helps Apple that useful idiots like you who have absolutely zero knowledge about kernel design and won't ever have it, continue to suck dick for them.
You don't have to pay Apple "rent" for any such thing, hater.
Apple now will hand out for FREE a Developer Cert. to anyone who Registers. No "rent" required.
Nice to see the security features of an *nix based OS working here. Gatekeeper will prevent most from installing it, and for those who disable security features, you ought to know what you are doing anyway.
And - unwritten in TFA is the fact that there will probably be a fix for this post haste.
It's also nice that in more recent version of OS X/macOS, Gatekeeper only lets you be completely unprotected for a certain time period, and then reverts back to the middle-level of security. So you can only be stupid for awhile...
A home OSX server with 2 macs and another windows user is not an enterprise level environment.
Things get really tricky when you have multiple LDAP forests with 2 way trust and require fine grained workstation control with group policies. As far as I am aware the Microsoft platform is a lot more suited for this than Apple's. Apple has traditionally always catered for the general consumer and their products and software reflect that.
Here's the point: For every business that is the size that needs to have "multiple LDAP forests and 2 way trust that require fine grained workstation control and group policies" (and, more importantly, the attendant Computer Priests to utter the proper incantations and shake the incense burners over their server racks), there are 1,000,000 homes and small businesses that could get by just fine with a Mac mini server QUIETLY tucked away on a shelf.
Not every business is a Fortune 500 multinational. In fact, only 500 businesses are, eh?
. They still don't have a competing email server or office productivity suite or DB or enterprise domain management or robust user access controls or server OS or print servers, file servers, collaboration environment, web server, development language, etc.
And that is because Apple considers itself a hardware company; not a software publisher.
But I would argue about your "Development Language" assertion. Apple has a fine IDE (which, unlike VS, is FREE), that supports several "Development Languages".
They didn't invent that. They BOUGHT it. Only reason Apple doesn't have it instead of MS, was that the original company that invented what became Kinect liked MS' buyout deal better than Apple's.
Huh, most people on a PC just press the "Print Screeen" key.
Cool.
Now type me an accented "e", like é. In Windows, you have to memorize some frickin' ALT+nnn Code (which can ONLY be entered on a NUMERIC KEYPAD, and which is COMPLETELY different for each accented character!), but on my MacBook Pro, I just have to type Option + e + e.
Now, which do you think people (especially those living in "accented-letters"-lands) do more often?
And don't get me started on that ridiculous "Invert the Shift Key if in Caps-Lock" bit with Windows. That just needs to die...
You probably spent time troubleshooting which extensions were conflicting and causing crashes. Or disabling control panels so your computer would start in a reasonable time. And then reinstalling some, because you really couldn't live without those eyes following your mouse cursor. And those flying toasters are cool, so better reactivate After Dark.
Extension conflicts happened for awhile; but for every Mac Extension Conflict, I will see you and raise you TEN Interrupt Configuration nightmares and DLL Hell incidents on DOS/Windows systems.
Just taking a picture of a window to the clipboard takes a lot of keys
True. But they are the same keys they've always been, right back to the very original Mac. Mac users just know what they are, it's part of their DNA.
Incidentally, taking a screenshot to a file (which is put on the desktop) is easier and a lot more typical.
I just use macOS' Grab Utility. I have been using Macs since they were called Lisas, and I think I have used the keyboard-shortcut for "Save a Screenshot to Clipboard" about 2 or 3 times in my life.
Whatever your personal feelings, Windows is, without question, the more useful desktop OS for the majority of users. That may change in the future, but I can't see it happening any time soon.
Useful? More like Entrenched.
And Mac Users that install BootCamp generally do it because they want to; but rather because their work environment forces Windows on them.
Windows is more like a self-replicating virus than a reasonable OS these days.
And I develop Windows business Applications; so I spend quite a bit of time in their OSes.
People buy the iMac because there is no desktop Mac in the sweet spot between the underpowered mini and the overpriced Pro.
A mid tower, easy to repair and upgrade, would be much more useful.
Give it a rest. The days of the tower computer are sadly numbered, at least outside the server and game rooms.
People buy iMacs because they are easy, understandable, elegant and a good value (notice I did not say CHEAP).
While I would like to see a mid-tower from Apple, it just isn't going to happen; and obviously, they don't feel a marketing "hole" for not having that configuration.
My wife's first (second?) gen iPod Touch. Upgrades only go though I think iOS4. Her iPad Mini I think is only getting upgrades through iOS8.
I don't know about the iPod Touch; but your Wife's iPad Mini (even first gen.) is good-to-go up through iOS 9 (the current release). I believe it may not be supported on iOS 10; but for now, your wife can upgrade it to the latest version of iOS.
Of course the key in there is "lifespan" - and the "lifespan" defined by Apple may not be what it is defined by its users. These are still perfectly good devices.
And they will continue to be perfectly good devices. It doesn't mean that when iOS 10 comes out, your wife's iPad mini will suddenly no longer boot. It simply means that it won't be able to load the newest version of iOS. So what?
Only the glass is broken; and yes we took it to an Apple Store and they said they won't fix it. I doubt warranty had anything to do with it; they would have been happy to give her a discount on a new device if she turned it in, but that was it. So yes, Apple refused to fix it for "any price".
It still sounds like you were asking Apple to just replace the GLASS, rather than replace the more-expensive front-panel assembly; which they may very well not do.
I've advised her of several vendors that claim to do it; but she has yet to take it in. I'm not saying it can't be fixed - it most certainly can. My point was regarding Apple's service, not third party vendor service.
Well now she's just being obdurate. She has been shown a way to effect a repair on her iPad mini; however, she just refuses to use that solution.
As an older guy with hundreds of records and CDs who wants to keep building my own library of digital music but doesn't have to pay for songs I don't like to get the ones I want (figure it out), I'd be interested in a service where I pay a minor subscription fee ($10-25/year) for the right to stream an album or two at a time, so I can check out new music that interests me. Then pay maybe 99 cents per song for a decent DRM-free MP3 download for the songs I like and want to keep. A FLAC download for the snobs could cost a bit more per song.
I don't want to pay the larger monthly fees for today's streaming services because most of the time I listen to the thousands of songs I already have. I just want to be able to evaluate new music in a convenient and affordable fashion, and pay a reasonable price for what I want to keep.
Other than the fact that it is $10/mo, that's exactly how I use Apple Music.
I'm an old guy too, with tens of thousands of songs already ripped from my CD collection (never got around to ripping all my vinyl). I use Apple Music for two things:
1. As a jukebox while at work. Don't have to mess with iTunes Match, but I don't listen to the "Stations". Instead, I just do a search for what I want to listen to (generally entire albums, and generally Prog), and off it goes...
2. As a "Audition/Trial" Service. If I find that I keep streaming an album (or song) repeatedly (like I recently have with Steven Wilson's most-excellent album "Hand. Cannot. Erase."), then I generally purchase it (because I'm an old guy, and like physical things). I generally don't purchase the iTunes version (no physical thing) if it's an album, but I do if it's just a particular song or two.
It might not be the #1 most cost-effective way to use streaming; but at least I don't have buyer's remorse when I purchase an album that I've only heard a song or two from, only to find out the rest of the album is "filler material".
So, given iTunes' VAST collection, I believe mine is a use-case that somewhat matches what you wanted to use Streaming for.
The chief reason why Linux will probably not succeed on the desktop has nothing to do with any technical characteristics, merits, or lack thereof of the OS itself, but rather on the typical technical aptitude of computer users.
Actually, you inadvertently pointed out the real reason why Linux will never make if on the Desktop: Because Linux "Experts" hold nothing but contempt and derision for "clueless users". IOW those not card-carrying members of The Computer Preisthood.
Until that mindset changes, enjoy your little Toy Operating System. Nice hobby; and some really nice F/OSS Projects come out of the Linux Community; but until Linux has a more "nurturing" reputation, most people won't give it a second glance.
and you are of course the dictator of who cares about anything or anyone ? If you don't like it ignore it, if you really did not care you'd not waste the time to post Just because you don't know anyone who uses Spotify that of course means that no one does...
You sir are a self involved douche bag...
Funny. That doesn't seem to have stopped the Hackintosh community from installing El Capitan on their Hacks.
Yes, people have found ways around it like they do for every version. However almost all of the solutions involve some combination of patching the installation to remove the checks and/or software solutions that use UEFI modules to intercept and spoof the results of various hardware checks to trick the OS.
The points is, you cannot simply take a current OS X install drive and get it to boot directly on non Apple hardware without using such tricks and modifications due to the checks done during the boot process.
Shouldn't be a serious impediment for the typical Slashdot reader, who, afterall, is adept at installing Linux on everything from VCRs to Microwave Ovens...;-)
Honestly, do you really think that, if Apple was truly threatened by OS X piracy that they couldn't do a better job at locking it to gen-u-ine Apple hardware than these little cat-n-mouse games?
I honestly think they do that stuff simply as a little internal game, to see how long it takes the Hackintosh people to find all the "puzzles" left by the OS X Devs, rather than a serious attempt at "DRM".
Afterall, the first couple of Mac Intel mobos actually HAD a TPM chip on them, but they apparently never implemented a driver for it, and soon took it back out of later designs.
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Uhm, no. I do NOT want or need anyone managing my storage for me, or to deal with service outages leaving my files unavailable. Thanks, but no thanks. Take your cloud service and shove it sideways up your ass until you can taste it.
From what I have read about "Storage Optimization", All that stuff is OPTIONAL. I personally don't use ANY Apple (or anyone else's) Cloud services.
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.
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.
VS is also free.
I had heard that MS was discontinuing their free version of VS.
I see that there is VS "Community" (f/k/a Visual Studio "Express"?), which implies it is in some way a stripped-down or "lite" version of VS.
XCode is XCode. All free. No "Lite" version. No "Community" version. The whole enchilada.
Not exactly the same thing. With VS (as with all MS products) there is a confusing array of "Levels" or "Packages". VS is NOT VS.
You are of course every Mac user in history
Shhh! Don't tell everyone!
Yeah, gatekeeper prevents it from being installed... Unless the user right-clicks and clicks open in the menu there... Then it's game-on.
And if that wan't allowed, the entire innertubes would be ablaze about how the Mac is not allowing software from anywhere but the App Store.
So tell me, how EXACTLY does Apple "win" here?
Its more like "Nice to see Apple defaulting to only allowing developers who pay them rent to be able to install applications" This has nothing to do with UNIX. (Which had a terrible security model to begin with considering security was not even remotely a factor in the design. Linux ppl have had to constantly work to bypass that shitty design.)
But it helps Apple that useful idiots like you who have absolutely zero knowledge about kernel design and won't ever have it, continue to suck dick for them.
You don't have to pay Apple "rent" for any such thing, hater.
Apple now will hand out for FREE a Developer Cert. to anyone who Registers. No "rent" required.
Nice to see the security features of an *nix based OS working here. Gatekeeper will prevent most from installing it, and for those who disable security features, you ought to know what you are doing anyway.
And - unwritten in TFA is the fact that there will probably be a fix for this post haste.
It's also nice that in more recent version of OS X/macOS, Gatekeeper only lets you be completely unprotected for a certain time period, and then reverts back to the middle-level of security. So you can only be stupid for awhile...
Microsoft's motto should be, "Wait For Us, We're The Leader!"
PERFECT!!!
A home OSX server with 2 macs and another windows user is not an enterprise level environment.
Things get really tricky when you have multiple LDAP forests with 2 way trust and require fine grained workstation control with group policies. As far as I am aware the Microsoft platform is a lot more suited for this than Apple's. Apple has traditionally always catered for the general consumer and their products and software reflect that.
Here's the point: For every business that is the size that needs to have "multiple LDAP forests and 2 way trust that require fine grained workstation control and group policies" (and, more importantly, the attendant Computer Priests to utter the proper incantations and shake the incense burners over their server racks), there are 1,000,000 homes and small businesses that could get by just fine with a Mac mini server QUIETLY tucked away on a shelf.
Not every business is a Fortune 500 multinational. In fact, only 500 businesses are, eh?
. They still don't have a competing email server or office productivity suite or DB or enterprise domain management or robust user access controls or server OS or print servers, file servers, collaboration environment, web server, development language, etc.
And that is because Apple considers itself a hardware company; not a software publisher.
But I would argue about your "Development Language" assertion. Apple has a fine IDE (which, unlike VS, is FREE), that supports several "Development Languages".
XBox Kinect
They didn't invent that. They BOUGHT it. Only reason Apple doesn't have it instead of MS, was that the original company that invented what became Kinect liked MS' buyout deal better than Apple's.
Huh, most people on a PC just press the "Print Screeen" key.
Cool.
Now type me an accented "e", like é. In Windows, you have to memorize some frickin' ALT+nnn Code (which can ONLY be entered on a NUMERIC KEYPAD, and which is COMPLETELY different for each accented character!), but on my MacBook Pro, I just have to type Option + e + e.
Now, which do you think people (especially those living in "accented-letters"-lands) do more often?
And don't get me started on that ridiculous "Invert the Shift Key if in Caps-Lock" bit with Windows. That just needs to die...
You probably spent time troubleshooting which extensions were conflicting and causing crashes. Or disabling control panels so your computer would start in a reasonable time. And then reinstalling some, because you really couldn't live without those eyes following your mouse cursor. And those flying toasters are cool, so better reactivate After Dark.
Extension conflicts happened for awhile; but for every Mac Extension Conflict, I will see you and raise you TEN Interrupt Configuration nightmares and DLL Hell incidents on DOS/Windows systems.
Just taking a picture of a window to the clipboard takes a lot of keys
True. But they are the same keys they've always been, right back to the very original Mac. Mac users just know what they are, it's part of their DNA.
Incidentally, taking a screenshot to a file (which is put on the desktop) is easier and a lot more typical.
I just use macOS' Grab Utility. I have been using Macs since they were called Lisas, and I think I have used the keyboard-shortcut for "Save a Screenshot to Clipboard" about 2 or 3 times in my life.
The OP needs to find a better meme.
Whatever your personal feelings, Windows is, without question, the more useful desktop OS for the majority of users. That may change in the future, but I can't see it happening any time soon.
Useful? More like Entrenched.
And Mac Users that install BootCamp generally do it because they want to; but rather because their work environment forces Windows on them.
Windows is more like a self-replicating virus than a reasonable OS these days.
And I develop Windows business Applications; so I spend quite a bit of time in their OSes.
Makes me appreciate macOS all the more...
People buy the iMac because there is no desktop Mac in the sweet spot between the underpowered mini and the overpriced Pro. A mid tower, easy to repair and upgrade, would be much more useful.
Give it a rest. The days of the tower computer are sadly numbered, at least outside the server and game rooms.
People buy iMacs because they are easy, understandable, elegant and a good value (notice I did not say CHEAP).
While I would like to see a mid-tower from Apple, it just isn't going to happen; and obviously, they don't feel a marketing "hole" for not having that configuration.
What are you talking about? The Surface tablets have vents all around the edges so no matter where you hold them, they are properly vented.
They have VENTS?!? Ewww!
What self-respecting TABLET blows hot air on your hand while you hold it?!?
None, I say...
My wife's first (second?) gen iPod Touch. Upgrades only go though I think iOS4. Her iPad Mini I think is only getting upgrades through iOS8.
I don't know about the iPod Touch; but your Wife's iPad Mini (even first gen.) is good-to-go up through iOS 9 (the current release). I believe it may not be supported on iOS 10; but for now, your wife can upgrade it to the latest version of iOS.
Of course the key in there is "lifespan" - and the "lifespan" defined by Apple may not be what it is defined by its users. These are still perfectly good devices.
And they will continue to be perfectly good devices. It doesn't mean that when iOS 10 comes out, your wife's iPad mini will suddenly no longer boot. It simply means that it won't be able to load the newest version of iOS. So what?
Only the glass is broken; and yes we took it to an Apple Store and they said they won't fix it. I doubt warranty had anything to do with it; they would have been happy to give her a discount on a new device if she turned it in, but that was it. So yes, Apple refused to fix it for "any price".
It still sounds like you were asking Apple to just replace the GLASS, rather than replace the more-expensive front-panel assembly; which they may very well not do.
I've advised her of several vendors that claim to do it; but she has yet to take it in. I'm not saying it can't be fixed - it most certainly can. My point was regarding Apple's service, not third party vendor service.
Well now she's just being obdurate. She has been shown a way to effect a repair on her iPad mini; however, she just refuses to use that solution.
As an older guy with hundreds of records and CDs who wants to keep building my own library of digital music but doesn't have to pay for songs I don't like to get the ones I want (figure it out), I'd be interested in a service where I pay a minor subscription fee ($10-25/year) for the right to stream an album or two at a time, so I can check out new music that interests me. Then pay maybe 99 cents per song for a decent DRM-free MP3 download for the songs I like and want to keep. A FLAC download for the snobs could cost a bit more per song.
I don't want to pay the larger monthly fees for today's streaming services because most of the time I listen to the thousands of songs I already have. I just want to be able to evaluate new music in a convenient and affordable fashion, and pay a reasonable price for what I want to keep.
Other than the fact that it is $10/mo, that's exactly how I use Apple Music.
I'm an old guy too, with tens of thousands of songs already ripped from my CD collection (never got around to ripping all my vinyl). I use Apple Music for two things:
1. As a jukebox while at work. Don't have to mess with iTunes Match, but I don't listen to the "Stations". Instead, I just do a search for what I want to listen to (generally entire albums, and generally Prog), and off it goes...
2. As a "Audition/Trial" Service. If I find that I keep streaming an album (or song) repeatedly (like I recently have with Steven Wilson's most-excellent album "Hand. Cannot. Erase."), then I generally purchase it (because I'm an old guy, and like physical things). I generally don't purchase the iTunes version (no physical thing) if it's an album, but I do if it's just a particular song or two.
It might not be the #1 most cost-effective way to use streaming; but at least I don't have buyer's remorse when I purchase an album that I've only heard a song or two from, only to find out the rest of the album is "filler material".
So, given iTunes' VAST collection, I believe mine is a use-case that somewhat matches what you wanted to use Streaming for.
The chief reason why Linux will probably not succeed on the desktop has nothing to do with any technical characteristics, merits, or lack thereof of the OS itself, but rather on the typical technical aptitude of computer users.
Actually, you inadvertently pointed out the real reason why Linux will never make if on the Desktop: Because Linux "Experts" hold nothing but contempt and derision for "clueless users". IOW those not card-carrying members of The Computer Preisthood.
Until that mindset changes, enjoy your little Toy Operating System. Nice hobby; and some really nice F/OSS Projects come out of the Linux Community; but until Linux has a more "nurturing" reputation, most people won't give it a second glance.
As a Linux admin friend told me, right before giving up on Linux on the desktop for a Macbook (which he loves BTW)
Wow! You're giving props to OS X?!? My how you've grown!
;-)
Sorry, couldn't resist...
and you are of course the dictator of who cares about anything or anyone ? If you don't like it ignore it, if you really did not care you'd not waste the time to post Just because you don't know anyone who uses Spotify that of course means that no one does... You sir are a self involved douche bag...
Oooh, an AC fight!
All the idiocy and none of the Karmic Justice.
Apple copied everything from the iPaq, right down to the name.
http://img.tomshardware.com/cn...
You HONESTLY think THAT looks like a iPhone?!? Seriously?
Look at the Samsung phone and then look at the iPaq. Which one do YOU think looks like an iPhone, and which one looks like a Palm Pilot?
FFS, if you think THAT's the case, then my WALLET looks like an iPhone (and it doesn't).
Yes, people have found ways around it like they do for every version. However almost all of the solutions involve some combination of patching the installation to remove the checks and/or software solutions that use UEFI modules to intercept and spoof the results of various hardware checks to trick the OS.
The points is, you cannot simply take a current OS X install drive and get it to boot directly on non Apple hardware without using such tricks and modifications due to the checks done during the boot process.
Shouldn't be a serious impediment for the typical Slashdot reader, who, afterall, is adept at installing Linux on everything from VCRs to Microwave Ovens... ;-)
Honestly, do you really think that, if Apple was truly threatened by OS X piracy that they couldn't do a better job at locking it to gen-u-ine Apple hardware than these little cat-n-mouse games?
I honestly think they do that stuff simply as a little internal game, to see how long it takes the Hackintosh people to find all the "puzzles" left by the OS X Devs, rather than a serious attempt at "DRM".
Afterall, the first couple of Mac Intel mobos actually HAD a TPM chip on them, but they apparently never implemented a driver for it, and soon took it back out of later designs.