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

Post by SunShiranui » Mon, Jun 13, 2016, 10:09 PM UTC

nothis wrote: post #208

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.

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…

Post by macinjosh » Mon, Jun 13, 2016, 10:12 PM UTC

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.

Post by pier25 » Mon, Jun 13, 2016, 10:14 PM UTC

izacus wrote: post #239

orbitur wrote: post #229

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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.

Post by r2dnb » Mon, Jun 13, 2016, 10:26 PM UTC

tjl wrote: post #277

kylec wrote: post #268

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This is huge! I can understand that they wouldn't want to devote a lot of time to it, but I can't believe this wasn't even mentioned in the keynote. It is a developer conference after all.

They cover things like this in the "Developer State of the Union" which is the talk really focused at developers. That's later today.

Post by sovande » Mon, Jun 13, 2016, 10:29 PM UTC

izacus wrote: post #97

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 i…