I want to know one thing:
DID APPLE FINALLY MAKE WEB PUSH AVAILABLE IN iOS THE WAY THEY HAVE IN MacOS?
OS X is now macOS and gets support for Siri, auto unlock
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#232Scary they didn't talk about Xcode at all
That will happen in the Dev SOTU later in the day.
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#233Earlier quoted context omitted.
It works great - until it doesn't, and then you find all your music is deleted or something [0] They don't exactly have a stellar record on this sort of thing. 0 - http://9to5mac.com/2016/05/13/apple-officially-acknowledges-...
One random user? Which they officially acknowledged even? This might be a less than a stellar record, but not because of that link.
10-12 years ago (wow...), stories like that were a lot more common. I lost thousands of MP3s to iTunes on my first Mac, a PowerBook 17.
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#234Earlier quoted context omitted.
Huh, in most of the world the mapping between iOS and macOS users is nowhere 1-to-1. There's huge amount of users who use either one or the other. Which doesn't really change the fact that even Windows 10 has been starting to pass them by with significant new features.
You'd be surprised. Actually there are indeed more iOS users than OS X -- but OS X users almost all have an iOS device, which is what's important here.
I would be, because most of the workplaces and other places didn't confirm your observation. With perhaps the exception of SV, which is filled with Apple hardware. Can we conjure any statistics from somewhere to confirm / deny our observations?
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#235It seems like more and more of the work on MacOS is dedicated to propping up iOS instead of simply making a great desktop OS. As someone who does not use or want Apple's mobile devices, it's been hard to get excited about these last few releases.
I like Apple's mobile devices but ever since the iPad turned out to be a giant iPhone instead of a true desktop/mobile hybrid, I'm scared as hell that they will lock down their desktop/laptop ecosystem the way they do with mobile. It's clear now that iOS is absorbing everything Mac. Now I'm trapped between MacOS, Windows 10 and maybe Google's Chrome environment. Linux, please take off. I wished the open source commun…
Designer here. I and a lot of my colleagues love open source and what it stands for, but, the truth is, it is going to be very difficult to convert designers into hardcore open source advocates like coders/engineers can be when the tools we rely on every day are all closed source. Adobe creative suite, Rhino, proprietary render engines, and a bunch of other platforms designers use simply don't have open source alternatives competitive with market leaders, making conversion to open source very difficult for working professionals.
The majority of the professional community for creating UX/UI do not have the tools to work in FOSS, so you aren't going to see many designers working for FOSS projects as result
Re: OS X is now macOS and gets support for Siri, auto unlock
#236It seems like more and more of the work on MacOS is dedicated to propping up iOS instead of simply making a great desktop OS. As someone who does not use or want Apple's mobile devices, it's been hard to get excited about these last few releases.
I like Apple's mobile devices but ever since the iPad turned out to be a giant iPhone instead of a true desktop/mobile hybrid, I'm scared as hell that they will lock down their desktop/laptop ecosystem the way they do with mobile. It's clear now that iOS is absorbing everything Mac. Now I'm trapped between MacOS, Windows 10 and maybe Google's Chrome environment. Linux, please take off. I wished the open source commun…
> Linux, please take off.
Sorry, no can do. We have to complete the process of breaking everything with systemd, then as soon as that's done rewrite KDE and Gnome from scratch again.
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#237Seriously, 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 i…
They did introduce a new file system - it just wasn't part of the keynote.
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#238I thought I had at least 20 years before being scared of new technology. Still sitting on OS X 10.10 scared to update, and completely disinterested in most cloud stuff except for my OneDrive folder. Time to look into Linux, I suppose, since I'm about to become one of those people.
Out of curiosity, what scared you away from 10.11?
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#239Earlier quoted context omitted.
High-level features like 3x larger emojis in an app? O.o
Hey, one less reason for me to use FB Messenger. In complete honesty, I prefer FB Messenger because it seems a lot more expressive and it's way easier to access your photos. FB is really stomping on iMessage in the chat realm, and I'm sad I have to wait for iOS 10.
To be fair, it's probably stomping iMessage because you can also talk to people who didn't buy the same electronics brand.
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#240Earlier quoted context omitted.
It works great - until it doesn't, and then you find all your music is deleted or something [0] They don't exactly have a stellar record on this sort of thing. 0 - http://9to5mac.com/2016/05/13/apple-officially-acknowledges-...
One random user? Which they officially acknowledged even? This might be a less than a stellar record, but not because of that link.
Happened to me and many people I know. It's a very widespread issue.