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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 r2dnb »

PhasmaFelis wrote: post #479
r2dnb wrote: post #397

Looks like the best way to be downvoted on HN is to be critical of either Facebook or Apple - and to a lesser extent MS. That's the only way I ever managed to get downvoted.

You were downvoted for being wrong. And now you're being downvoted again because you're whining about it, instead of just admitting that you were wrong. I see about as many people complaining that HN irrationally loves Apple as that it irrationally hates Apple. Neither one is true. Mostly HN downvotes people who don't check their facts.

I never said that you have to attend physically. See my comment below.

"Whining about it". Please avoid personal attacks.

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

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Post by spacecowboy_lon »

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…

It would be nice if OSX could actually work with share point - a big issue if you have a mixed OSX / Wintel Shop.

It's not a major issue just adding more modern crypto.

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

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Post by raimue »

abalone wrote: post #384
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…

Seriously, how is this the top comment? They are in fact working on a brand new filesystem under the hood plus a Dropbox Infinite competitor, on top of all the other stuff. They didn't exactly phone this one in. Also from the likes of your pet feature wishlist I'm not sure you are making an informed critique. Apple has withdrawn from the Vulkan group and put serious effort into its own graphics API, Metal. While you…

APFS is only a developer preview in macOS Sierra, your system will not use it by default. It is meant for production use with the 2017 release.

The filesystem does not seem to include any innovation, it is just catching up to the state of the art. A new filesystem was long overdue ever since ZFS was dismissed.

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

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Post by dchest »

dcgoss wrote: post #411

In the past year since El Capitan I have had essentially zero major issues with the software. I feel that most of the time programmers tend to overstate the bugginess of Apple software - most users I know have a consistently smooth experience.

How can they overstate bugginess? If you didn't hit a bug yet, you luckily don't know about it. If there's a bug, there's a bug.

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

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Post by izacus »

derefr wrote: post #385
harryh wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

How are you connected to the NAS drive? If it has the option, making it an iSCSI target and installing an iSCSI initiator works wonders compared to most network file-system setups.

Does that require the nas to be formated to compatible FS?

Does it still freeze and hang Finder regularly after you move away from the network where the NAS is available?

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Post by TazeTSchnitzel »

raimue wrote: post #483
abalone wrote: post #384

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Seriously, how is this the top comment? They are in fact working on a brand new filesystem under the hood plus a Dropbox Infinite competitor, on top of all the other stuff. They didn't exactly phone this one in. Also from the likes of your pet feature wishlist I'm not sure you are making an informed critique. Apple has withdrawn from the Vulkan group and put serious effort into its own graphics API, Metal. While you…

APFS is only a developer preview in macOS Sierra, your system will not use it by default. It is meant for production use with the 2017 release. The filesystem does not seem to include any innovation, it is just catching up to the state of the art. A new filesystem was long overdue ever since ZFS was dismissed.

It's focused on SSDs and encryption, though, so it's modern.

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

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Post by _ph_ »

reacharavindh wrote: post #12

Copy/paste across iPhone and Mac is very useful. All the other features are Meh. I really don't want to be that guy talking to my Mac at work. I can't be sure that all my questions to Siri are not awkward to speak out. Would have been great to have a textual interface though. You know that Keyboard thingy that is always with a Mac?!

>I really don't want to be that guy talking to my Mac at work.

If Siri might bring an end to shared offices, I am all for it! But joking aside, yes, there are surroundings, where you don't want to talk to your device - in which I also prefer text messages to phone conversations.

But well-done voice integration can vastly improve usability. Just think of not having to grab your mouse and look for that music/video player control just to mute/stop things, but being able to do it with a short voice command without leaving your editor.

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