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Apple Releases Final Mac OS X Mountain Lion to Developers

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Re: Apple Releases Final Mac OS X Mountain Lion to Developers

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Post by tensor »

ary wrote: post #5
taligent wrote: post #2

Something very odd is happening at Apple. Either there is a massive shortage of developers (unlikely) or developers have been moved to a new project (AppleTV ?). Because Mountain Lion and iOS6 are by far the most underwhelming updates yet in terms of features.

What exactly would have been over whelming?

ZFS file system. Fixing iCal and Address book by returning them to proper non-skeuomorph applications, maybe even adjusting the UI to the strengths of computers rather than bring in the inefficiencies of the paper tools we left behind.

Proper Mail.app plugins. Not limiting the notification system to App Store apps. Finder replacement. Maybe with something like semantic tagging replacing folders, complete with proper filesystem level unix support.

Even bigger pie in the sky features: distributed process migration. If you are at home and have multiple computers, why not borrow your desktops CPU to do heavy processing (say for photos or video?)

In other words, features targeting professionals, the opposite of Apple current strategy.

edit: these would be overwhelming to me

Re: Apple Releases Final Mac OS X Mountain Lion to Developers

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Post by gdsf34dfsg »

taligent wrote: post #16
chrisdroukas wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Eh. OS X has been on somewhat of a tick-tock update cycle since Leopard. Add features then refine them. Also, it's twenty bucks .

I think I might have been misunderstood. I have no complaints with Mountain Lion and think it offers tremendous value. My point was whether there had been a movement of developers to a new iOS/OSX based project e.g. like an AppleTV. Because it seems that iOS6 and Mountain Lion combined seem to lack the combined punch of previous releases.

Agreed.

I think they have gone quite carefully on iCloud.

Beyond that, actual UI enhancements are minimal.

It's more iClouding Apps. Or App improvements. Less to do with the OS itself.

Re: Apple Releases Final Mac OS X Mountain Lion to Developers

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Post by shawnz »

tensor wrote: post #21
ary wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What exactly would have been over whelming?

ZFS file system. Fixing iCal and Address book by returning them to proper non-skeuomorph applications, maybe even adjusting the UI to the strengths of computers rather than bring in the inefficiencies of the paper tools we left behind. Proper Mail.app plugins. Not limiting the notification system to App Store apps. Finder replacement. Maybe with something like semantic tagging replacing folders, complete with proper…

While you have some legitimate suggestions spliced in here, the majority of your post says to me "The feature they should have added is to change everything back to the way it was, and change the business strategy". This is not really a very good interpretation of the question, for obvious reasons.

Re: Apple Releases Final Mac OS X Mountain Lion to Developers

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Post by sneak »

dguaraglia wrote: post #19
akulbe wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Very much so!

Sorry, that didn't clarify much. Is "very much so buggy as hell" or "very much so fixed"? I'm confused :(

Very much fixed. Apple doesn't ship crap software these days.

Re: Apple Releases Final Mac OS X Mountain Lion to Developers

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Post by mkaltenecker »

bstar77 wrote: post #10

Can anyone comment if airplay is disabled on pre 2011 macs? I'm going to be royally pissed if airplay is disabled because I'm missing some BS drm chip. Hopefully the era of "Jailbreaking" macs has not started.

Quick Sync is not DRM. It’s a video de-/encoder.

Re: Apple Releases Final Mac OS X Mountain Lion to Developers

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Post by paupino_masano »

DeepDuh wrote: post #17
chrismealy wrote: post #4

Anybody know if Messages has improved? The beta I'm using is buggy as hell.

One question about messages: Does it only work with iMessages or does it actually integrate my SMS when the iPhone is in the same network?

It only works with iMessages. You're right though: SMS functionality (somehow) would be pretty awesome.

Re: Apple Releases Final Mac OS X Mountain Lion to Developers

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Post by mkaltenecker »

tensor wrote: post #21
ary wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What exactly would have been over whelming?

ZFS file system. Fixing iCal and Address book by returning them to proper non-skeuomorph applications, maybe even adjusting the UI to the strengths of computers rather than bring in the inefficiencies of the paper tools we left behind. Proper Mail.app plugins. Not limiting the notification system to App Store apps. Finder replacement. Maybe with something like semantic tagging replacing folders, complete with proper…

Skeumorphism is about taste. You just don’t share Apple’s. Simple as that. As long as it doesn’t impact the UI there is nothing wrong with skeumorphism.

Every app can use the notification system. They only can’t use push notifications if they are not in the App Store. Not terribly relevant for the desktop.

Re: Apple Releases Final Mac OS X Mountain Lion to Developers

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Post by jaylevitt »

taligent wrote: post #16
chrisdroukas wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Eh. OS X has been on somewhat of a tick-tock update cycle since Leopard. Add features then refine them. Also, it's twenty bucks .

I think I might have been misunderstood. I have no complaints with Mountain Lion and think it offers tremendous value. My point was whether there had been a movement of developers to a new iOS/OSX based project e.g. like an AppleTV. Because it seems that iOS6 and Mountain Lion combined seem to lack the combined punch of previous releases.

Frankly, if the only punch Mountain Lion packs is "breaks way less", I am first in line.
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