Will they update the unix layer? A lot of the CLI tools there are positively prehistoric.
Maybe while they're at it they can add a real package manager too.
OS X is now macOS and gets support for Siri, auto unlock
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Re: OS X is now macOS and gets support for Siri, auto unlock
#12Copy/paste across iPhone and Mac is very useful. All the other features are Meh.
I really don't want to be that guy talking to my Mac at work. I can't be sure that all my questions to Siri are not awkward to speak out.
Would have been great to have a textual interface though. You know that Keyboard thingy that is always with a Mac?!
Re: OS X is now macOS and gets support for Siri, auto unlock
#13Funny thing, "macOS" (actually "мак ос" / "мак ось") was a slang name for OS X in Russian and Ukrainian languages all this time.
Weren't all pre OS-X versions also called Mac OS?
Re: OS X is now macOS and gets support for Siri, auto unlock
#14Funny thing, "macOS" (actually "мак ос" / "мак ось") was a slang name for OS X in Russian and Ukrainian languages all this time.
We colloquially call it "Mac OS" in English too.
Re: OS X is now macOS and gets support for Siri, auto unlock
#15Safari-tab? What do they mean?
Tabs across all windows, all apps.
Re: OS X is now macOS and gets support for Siri, auto unlock
#16Safari-tab? What do they mean?
The article doesn't contain the term 'Safari-tab'. It does have 'Safari-like tabs' in it, by which I would imagine they mean tabs, like you get in the Safari user interface.
Re: OS X is now macOS and gets support for Siri, auto unlock
#17So, will it be macOS 10.12 or just macOS 12? I don't think they mentioned this during the presentation.
I only heard them refer to it as "macOS Sierra".
Re: OS X is now macOS and gets support for Siri, auto unlock
#18Copy/paste across iPhone and Mac is very useful. All the other features are Meh. I really don't want to be that guy talking to my Mac at work. I can't be sure that all my questions to Siri are not awkward to speak out. Would have been great to have a textual interface though. You know that Keyboard thingy that is always with a Mac?!
Spotlight is already incredibly useful, and I wouldn't be surprised if it's getting some of these improvements. We should know soon since Developer Preview of Sierra should be available today.
Re: OS X is now macOS and gets support for Siri, auto unlock
#19So the Mac is listening all the time. How can I physically disable the microphone?
Re: OS X is now macOS and gets support for Siri, auto unlock
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not like iOS where everything is locked down. You are root and can do anything you want on your machine. It should be pretty trivial to prevent the cloud storage stuff from running.
I have to disable security by typing commands at a reboot to change system icons, so I'm not really root in the traditional sense on my Mac.
Unless they remove the ability to turn off SIP, you have full control over your machine. This is very different from iOS where you have to wait for some team of Chinese hackers to discover a security vulnerability in order to get access to your own device.
Not sure why this is not "root in the traditional sense", unless you're in some environment where you don't have physical access to the machine and can't reboot for some reason.