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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

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Post by salzig »

CGamesPlay wrote: post #69
salzig wrote: post #55

- You can unlock your mac using you apple watch. - You can confirm payments using your apple watch. A thief having your mac and watch can do/buy everything? Is it just me thinging about it?

I think this is fair but I also struggle to think of a situation where my Mac and my Apple Watch get stolen and I'm not aware of it in time to lock my accounts.

maybe you're aware, but not able to do something. Backpack with Macbook, Watch and Phone stolen. What would you do?

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Post by giancarlostoro »

amk_ wrote: post #52
giancarlostoro wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do BSD distros use?

http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=freebsd They are able to distribute GPL v3 code because they way it is packaged complies with the terms of the license.

Well the tools are 'stand-alone' for the most part, and they do provide the code for them, I believe the issue would be if they integrated any tools into BSD licensed software that it would have to be GPL licensed. I was hoping BSD to some degree maintained their own versions, that could of been useful for Apple, not saying they can't maintain their own, but at least they could help fund BSD and maintain their OS' CLI toolset.

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Post by Sanddancer »

allengeorge wrote: post #82
amk_ wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Mostly not, due to licensing. The GNU utils that transitioned to GPL v3 (eg Bash) are kind of stuck there in 2007.

I don't understand. What is it about the licensing of _user space_ tools that prevent their being used?

The new clauses in the GPLv3 bring up legal questions that some teams would rather just not deal with, even as user space tools. As such, Apple has decided to avoid potential legal headaches and stick with tools under better understood licenses. Most of the BSDs have stuck with GPLv2 stuff, with FreeBSD actively working to replace the few bits and pieces of GPLed code in their base system with code that is under the BSD or other liberal licenses.

Re: OS X is now macOS and gets support for Siri, auto unlock

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Post by salzig »

matthewmacleod wrote: post #66
salzig wrote: post #55

- You can unlock your mac using you apple watch. - You can confirm payments using your apple watch. A thief having your mac and watch can do/buy everything? Is it just me thinging about it?

Probably. The Apple Watch locks when removed from the wrist, and required subsequent authentication before it can be used for payments. There's minimal risk here.

I dont own one. Does it look when removed? Is unlocking required for all, or can i disable it?

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Post by facetube »

mhurron wrote: post #5
protomyth wrote: post #3

I hope all the cloud storage can be turned off. Depending on your job (e.g. confidential data) or how much you pay for bandwidth, these are some really bad features.

Ya that cloud storage thing needs to be able to be turned off for my personal use because I don't want that feature and for work otherwise I can never upgrade past 10.11 and will basically have to go back to a Windows machine when it comes time to replace my work machine. Apple Pay in Safari seems very interesting. I wish they had come up with something that would have worked with any browser as my personal primary m…

There are also people who simply don't have access to sufficient bandwidth to make use of cloud storage. Forcing it on would make the OS and my internet connection useless to me.

Re: OS X is now macOS and gets support for Siri, auto unlock

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Post by mhurron »

cag_ii wrote: post #13
hnatt wrote: post #8

Funny 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?

Between versions 7 and 10 it was officially MacOS [VERSION], before that it was referred to as system [VERSION], as in System 6 and so on. That was not an official name, it was the version number of the file `system` and was simply the system that ran on a Mac, because there was only one.

It got the official name MacOS when they allowed the selling of clones.

Re: OS X is now macOS and gets support for Siri, auto unlock

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Post by izacus »

Seriously, did Apple fire their OSX / macOS team? Pretty much all new features are spinoffs of their iOS infrastructure (Siri, handover, etc.) and the main OS development and innovation seems to have stalled. Not even a feature like telling software that you're on a metered connection and it shouldn't run backups!

Is there anyone at Apple still working on innovating / improving OS X? Like people that tried to bring in ZFS, improve the Unix layer, work on Vulkan/3D/VR or something like that? O.o

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