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I'm not really looking forward to that. With each upgrade comes that little bit of agony about the unix underpinnings: what are they going to do to the default python install? Ruby? ...
Given that OSX has got to a fairly stable point, what would you want to see in a new version of OSX that would make you want to upgrade?
I must admit, one thing I've become absolutely dependent on in Windows 7 is when you press Start you can do a quick lookup of the program you're after by typing a few characters. Sure OSX has the Finder and Spotlight but it's not quite as quick and convenient, in my experience. But my big request is this: implement the TRIM command in the OS to open up the SSD choices. This is long overdue.
It seems like a lot of keystrokes, I know, and you have to switch to the Finder and it only works on initial characters (e.g. LIghtroom, not LightRoom) -- but since there's no search involved it "feels" extremely fast, which is often the thing that trumps all else.
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How would window management go away in a desktop OS? By having only fullscreen apps à la iOS/Android? I don't see that feasible or desirable. In a small format it works, but on a desktop I very often want to see multiple windows at the same time. (say, reading documentation with code, or multiple files open at once)
A 10/GUI style horizontal window scroll is quite feasible with the new touch mouse and trackpad.
Given that OSX has got to a fairly stable point, what would you want to see in a new version of OSX that would make you want to upgrade?
When I select "restart" (edit: at least when installing system updates), the computer should save application state and reboot instead of every application asking me stupid questions like "are you REALLY sure you want to quit web browsing?". I want to select "restart", go to the kitchen, get my dinner, come back, and the computer be rebooted and my applications restored the way they were before. Also, the developer t…
I don't see much Apple is likely to do to help. They could bless a package manager as official, include it in OS X, and pay for build-boxen and for people to work on it; but you'd still need a lot of community involvement, and that's not Apple's cup o' tea.
Apple could also just make a few things easier about building nix packages: Currently the OS X linker will automagically look for libraries in /usr/lib and /usr/local/lib by default, this should become easier to turn off so that packages don't end up with hidden dependencies on stuff the user threw in /usr/local. * A lot of libraries that are extremely common on other nix aren't included in OS X, eg: readline, iconv, gettext. But many of these are GPL3, so don't count on Apple being helpful. Universal, backwards-compatible binaries are currently a PITA to build from the command-line. You need to specify the SDK, DEPLOYMENT_TARGET, and compiler separately; and then if you ended up using different SDKs for different architectures, you need to use lipo to combine the results. Some way to specify all this stuff at once, and use sensible defaults would be great: 'gcc --sdk=ppc/gcc-4.0/10.4 --sdk=x86_64/clang/10.6 ...'
In 2009, Apple added a video camera to the otherwise perfected iPod Nano. It was a sign: While one might have had to be quite prescient to imagine exactly what would come after it, it was obvious that Apple felt it had reached the end of what could be innovated with that form factor. The 2010 reinvention of the Nano was the only logical next step, at least for Apple. In 2009, Apple released Snow Leopard, whose emphas…
My feeling is that this unlikely because it doesn't seem like they've had enough time or resources to dedicate to something big. It's been one year since the release of Snow Leopard and since that year they've released an OS on a new hardware platform and a heavily updated iOS for the iPhone.
I think it's far more likely that this is an incremental release focused on user concerns with perhaps some other new software.
Given that OSX has got to a fairly stable point, what would you want to see in a new version of OSX that would make you want to upgrade?
It's time to break up iTunes. Like a bank that has become too big to fail, iTunes has become this massive hub that manages everything from audio and video syncing to mobile file and app management. Mobile device interaction not relating to multimedia needs to be offloaded to a renovated iSync, or better yet, Finder needs to be updated to integrate the iOS anti-filesystem. Photos, apps, app files -- all hierarchically…
The elegance of that solution seems too much for Apple to ignore.
I wonder if this could prompt Apple to adopt Fuse as a means of filesystem abstraction in Finder?
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> " two instances in the same window, so that drag+drop doesn't require multiple windows." Why wouldn't you just use copy/paste?
Well, then I'm left with two copies and I have to go back and delete one. If OSX had a cut/paste, that might work better. Even so, with the way Finder currently works, it's easy to have 10-15 Finder windows going at any moment, so cmd+` can be a pain.
I wish they would get rid of the absurd "mount a disk before you run an installer" paradigm. Installing an app downloaded from the web, Windows vs Mac: Windows: 1 - Click a download link 2 - Yes, I'm sure 3 - Run 4 - Next, Next, Next, Finish 5 - Delete the setup file OS X: 1 - Click a download link 2 - Yes, I'm sure 3 - Open a finder window 4 - Open .dmg file, and it mounts 5 - Open the mounted image 6 - Run the inst…
Ubuntu:
1 - Select package(s)
2 - Click Apply
(or use the command line to reduce to 1 step)
Lion: King of beasts. Lion: King of OS X big cat releases -- Last 10.x?
If they had a sense of humour they'd release "OSX Kitten" after "OSX Lion"
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Well, then I'm left with two copies and I have to go back and delete one. If OSX had a cut/paste, that might work better. Even so, with the way Finder currently works, it's easy to have 10-15 Finder windows going at any moment, so cmd+` can be a pain.
... it doesn't have cut/paste?