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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 partiallypro »

JustSomeNobody wrote: post #301
bobbyi_settv wrote: post #99

It 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.

It's already a great desktop OS. And they did announce some things (file system) that will make it even better.

OSX used to be ahead of the curve though compared to Windows, now...it's falling behind. I think that's where people's frustrations come from.

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Post by majewsky »

Ezhik wrote: post #142

I 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.

I can feel you. (Even though I am already on Linux.) It's always weird to be sitting there at 26, wondering about how "kids these days" use the internet.

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Post by majewsky »

quadrangle wrote: post #295

Thankfully, I've been doing much of this mobile integration (like sharing clipboard) for a while via KDE and KDE-connect on GNU/Linux with Android/Linux! Otherwise, the entire reason I use GNU/Linux at all was when Apple added the Mac App Store and made it clear that they would eventually turn the Mac into iOS effectively, complete with the walled-garden stuff, censorship, sabotaging of GPL software (which can't go i…

KDE Connect is one of the most noteworthy developments in FOSS in the last few years, precisely because it's simple and elegant and "just works", like an Apple product, while at the same time carrying all the core values of FOSS.

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Post by partiallypro »

freehunter wrote: post #152
rayiner wrote: post #54

This is all shockingly "meh."

Half the people here are complaining about too many new features and not enough stability, and the other half are complaining that there aren't enough new features. This is why Apple doesn't listen to consumers and instead just puts out whatever they want to.

No, I think they are complaining about too many features that just aren't good. A little different.

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Post by dijit »

stanmancan wrote: post #291
Yhippa wrote: post #286

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm very torn about this. I can see why they might want to keep this on Apple hardware only. I've yet to see a video chat solution work as well as FaceTime on iOS devices does on Android. Maybe Duo is it but I need to see it to believe it. Still, it's very frustrating. I have an Android device as my main phone but have an iPod touch to iMessage and FaceTime friends.

Strange, I've had pretty bad luck using FaceTime. Anytime my wife goes away for work it seems to be laggy or calls don't connect, or it doesn't even ring on the other parties side.

Not trying to dispel your point, but my girlfriend uses her iPhone to FaceTime her relatives in rural Russia with where their main broadband is spotty 3/4g modems; and it performs better than anything else they've tried.

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Post by coldtea »

imron wrote: post #210
coldtea wrote: post #164

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One random user? Which they officially acknowledged even? This might be a less than a stellar record, but not because of that link.

That was just the first link from a Google search. Internet forums are full of other users complaining of the same problem. Even if it only affects 0.1% of users, multiply that by the tens of millions, and that's a large number of people having a horrible experience. It works great for you, until you're in the 0.1% then it's a bitch. Edit: and it's not just music, it's a mulit-year history of botching up sync across…

>Even if it only affects 0.1% of users, multiply that by the tens of millions, and that's a large number of people having a horrible experience.

Still nothing for the remaining 99.9% of them.

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Post by tajen »

TheCoreh wrote: post #238
Ezhik wrote: post #142

I 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?

That Apple doesn't do quality anymore? For Mac OS, system bugs are increasing release after release, kernel panics were introduced in Mavericks and didn't go away with El Capitan even though it was supposed to be a bugfix-centric release. I also have deactivated upgrades.

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Post by jordigh »

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

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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?

Nothing. Apple is just being overly paranoid or hoping to some day do things that GPLv3 won't allow them to do. Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Intel, IBM; all of these companies have some interaction with GPLv3, but Apple staunchly refuses to even touch it.

It's a real pity, because Apple's popularity is sending some message that GPLv3 is poisonous, when it reality it's only a problem for them because they chose to make it a problem for themselves.

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Post by malz »

27182818284 wrote: post #89
unit91 wrote: post #47

This will finally alleviate the awkward pronunciation ambiguity. To this day, I'm not sure whether to say "OS ex" or "OS ten".

If you use the say command in the Terminal you get the definitive answer.

Its rules for pronouncing "X" are also distinct in these cases:

  say "Malcolm X"
  say "Louis X"

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Post by Philipp__ »

tjl wrote: post #276
Philipp__ wrote: post #203

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I know. Very familiar with CLI. I spwnd 80% of time on my MacBook in iTerm. :) I was pretty disappointed by this WWDC. Any info on next XCode version?

The beta for XCode 8 is up which includes Swift 3 and support for iOS 10. Before you decide you're disappointed, wait for the Developer State of the Union later today and the other sessions. There's interesting things like an "Apple File System" session. It looks like the beta for the file system will be in macOS Sierra and come out officially in 2017. You won't be able to use it as a boot drive (probably a safe prec…

Yeah I read about those, checked everything! Can't wait to learn more! :) Thanks anyway!
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