Instead of pointless name changes, they should start supporting latest OpenGL and Vulkan.
OS X is now macOS and gets support for Siri, auto unlock
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It was under the impression that it's not one desktop being synced across all your computers, but rather your desktop on other machines are accessible anywhere. Akin to iCloud tabs, or Chrome tab syncing. Basically you open Finder on your MacBook and there's a new sidebar entry: "Desktop on imron's iMac"
Remote Desktop with the ability to copy/paste text and files would be useful. Sync would be dreadful.
You can already sort of do this. But it is done with drag-n-drop. Pick a file on your Desktop and drop it into a Screen Sharing window! Drag a file from a Screen Sharing session onto your desktop.
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#463Safari-tab? What do they mean?
I’ve been asking for this for awhile now. It has never made sense for every app to try to tab-ify its windows in a slightly different way, when it so clearly needed to be a window manager feature. Although, I really hope it allows inter-app interleaving of tabs, and not just all-one-app tab stacks.
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To be fair (regarding "closed tech"), Apple was hardly the only one to release a propriety Vulkan alternative (there's also Mantle and DX12) and Apple released Metal to developers almost two years before Vulkan 1.0 was released.
Basically making it like OSX's implementation of EFI vs. UEFI, or their Lightning cables vs. USB-C: 1. Apple creates their own implementation of something and pushes the industry forward; 2. Everyone else realizes it's a good idea, and standardizes on something slightly different/incompatible (usually with Apple on the standards committee!); 3. Apple continue using their own thing that Works For Them rather than adop…
That's incorrect with respect to Metal, AMD's Mantle predates Metal and is what pushed the industry forwards.
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I would settle for fixing the bug where I have to restart Finder to rebuild the connection every time my NAS drive spins down. Also the combination of screensharing to a headless MacMini and then AirPlaying to an Apple TV produces some fairly loathsome results.
Oh that's a Finder bug? I was blaming Synology but I'm basing that on nothing.
Nah, happens with my AirPort Extreme mounts as well
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#467As an owner of still-functioning early-2008 hardware, it stings a little to see the machine suddenly unable to “support” such a minor-looking OS update. It was easier to handle back when you saw something like a complete transformation of the OS from one version to another. There are many reasons to want a more layered software architecture, and this is one of them: I would like to be able to continue improving the core of old machines without necessarily having to support whatever else they feel like building on top.
On the other hand, Apple has always done this: it blasts forward, and it always finds ways to make you just a little dissatisfied with what you have. They’re sort of brilliant at it, actually.
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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.
The definitely said it wont be available today.
The developer previews will be available today, already have iOS 10 running on one device.
http://appleinsider.com/articles/16/06/13/ios-10-watchos-3-m...
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#469Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Are you sure this isn't a hardware problem? I've been running El Capitan on really quite unsupported hardware (Skylake K6700 / Samsung 950 Pro SSD) and haven't had a single kernel panic – nor on the Macbook Pro.
Also if you're looking for quality (opposed to freedom or configurability) Linux on the Desktop really doesn't fit. I adore it on the server, but there isn't a distribution/hardware combination where essentials sleep/wifi/graphics/sound work out of the box. UI inconsistencies are a constant annoyance, dist-updates will always break something etc. It's not an indictment of Linux, it's just that GUIs are terribly hard to get right.
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#470What's the state of running linux (e.g. Ubuntu or Debian) on recent ( Given what El Capitan has done to my otherwise fantastic macbook, I'm not so sure I want to keep up with their latest developments.
It's the state of Linux on the Desktop anywhere. Expect three hours of fiddling kernel parameters to get sleep to work as expected, followed by the same for Wifi, Sound, Graphics. To be repeated at least with every dist update.
Expect different applications to use different languages, some to have menu bars within the window, some on top. Sometimes strg+c copies something, sometimes highlighting text does it. Not all applications use the same clipboard. Font rendering is inconsistent. Some applications bring their own color-, font-, kb-layout-management.
Linux is excellent on the server. On the desktop it's ... not something for people complaining about OS X.