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My in-depth OS X 10.9 wishlist

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Re: My in-depth OS X 10.9 wishlist

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Post by droob »

batista wrote: post #22

Some things one agrees with and some that sound like typical non-programmer (and sadly, some-programmer) lists. E.g "Return Apple to its roots with minimalism - does a photo manager have to be 707 MB?" Yes it has. People think the binary is "bloated", while in actuality it's mostly templates for photo books and such, that doesn't get loaded or impact performance at all if you don't use them. > Unix package manager -…

> People think the binary is "bloated", while in actuality it's mostly templates for photo books and such, that doesn't get loaded or impact performance at all if you don't use them.

A huge hunk of it is in databases for the location features, too.

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Post by roc »

batista wrote: post #22

Some things one agrees with and some that sound like typical non-programmer (and sadly, some-programmer) lists. E.g "Return Apple to its roots with minimalism - does a photo manager have to be 707 MB?" Yes it has. People think the binary is "bloated", while in actuality it's mostly templates for photo books and such, that doesn't get loaded or impact performance at all if you don't use them. > Unix package manager -…

> "You know what is worse than using one app to handle 15 tasks related to your media/app collection? Using 15 apps to do the same."

Funny, it works out just fine from the iOS side. And that's even when I consider additionally managing podcasts in downcast, comics in comixology and reference PDFs in goodreader.

Re: My in-depth OS X 10.9 wishlist

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Post by redial »

roc wrote: post #30
redial wrote: post #27

The biggest problem for iTunes is actually Windows. Imagine telling a new, novice user to download and install ten different applications in order to sync their media to their phone, one for their music, another one for their photos, another one for their podcasts and so on. That would be suicide. iTunes is just bad[1] software. I personally love it on the mac, but it's gotten bloated with the years. I avoid this pro…

They could break up iTunes under the covers and maintain a legacy 'unity' interface for a cycle or two. And the sync problem is solving itself as iOS devices continue to migrate away from iTunes as the repository manager.

That's what I think they would do. They are going to rewrite iTunes, but nothing radical, and just wait for iCloud to replace it.

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Post by superjesuspants »

_urga wrote: post #23

As far as I understand, the versioning implementation in OS X is built on top of SQLite, which has one-reader/writer-at-a-time-only transaction semantics. I wonder how much this contributes to the beach balls. Save As must come back. iCloud syncing of Notes is broken. Notes which are supposed to be in iCloud often get branched to On My Mac without me noticing, where I continue editing them, only to create conflicts.…

Save As will show up in all apps automatically if you bind Shift-Cmd-S to "Save As..." in your keyboard shortcuts preferences.

Re: My in-depth OS X 10.9 wishlist

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Post by batista »

roc wrote: post #32
batista wrote: post #22

Some things one agrees with and some that sound like typical non-programmer (and sadly, some-programmer) lists. E.g "Return Apple to its roots with minimalism - does a photo manager have to be 707 MB?" Yes it has. People think the binary is "bloated", while in actuality it's mostly templates for photo books and such, that doesn't get loaded or impact performance at all if you don't use them. > Unix package manager -…

> "You know what is worse than using one app to handle 15 tasks related to your media/app collection? Using 15 apps to do the same." Funny, it works out just fine from the iOS side. And that's even when I consider additionally managing podcasts in downcast, comics in comixology and reference PDFs in goodreader.

Because you don't manage them there, you mostly consume them, and one at a time at that. In any case, you do it at your leisure, while delving into them. Consuming them, and mostly one at a time is the main reason for having the iPhone/iPad.

On the contrary, when you want to sync/manage/backup your collections from your desktop to your iDevices, it would feel like madness to have to use 15 or even 8 different apps. You want to be able to backup/sync everything with 1-2 clicks, drag new songs (and maybe some movies), etc.

Re: My in-depth OS X 10.9 wishlist

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Post by the_mat »

Can you imagine the pain caused by transitioning away from HFS+? Is there something so fundamentally wrong with it to justify all the compatibility headaches of a new filesystem?

Under the hood, there's some low-hanging fruit that I'm surprised Apple hasn't gone for yet:

* Turn off the writing of ALL memory to disk every time a laptop is put to sleep. Got an SSD MacBook Pro with 16GB? Every time you close the lid, sixteen gigabytes get written. Every time.

* Disable file access times so every file that gets opened doesn't need to have the timestamp updated.

Re: My in-depth OS X 10.9 wishlist

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Post by MatthewPhillips »

batista wrote: post #37
roc wrote: post #32

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> "You know what is worse than using one app to handle 15 tasks related to your media/app collection? Using 15 apps to do the same." Funny, it works out just fine from the iOS side. And that's even when I consider additionally managing podcasts in downcast, comics in comixology and reference PDFs in goodreader.

Because you don't manage them there, you mostly consume them, and one at a time at that. In any case, you do it at your leisure, while delving into them. Consuming them, and mostly one at a time is the main reason for having the iPhone/iPad. On the contrary, when you want to sync/manage/backup your collections from your desktop to your iDevices, it would feel like madness to have to use 15 or even 8 different apps. Y…

I agree that so many apps would be overkill, but I literally only use iTunes for 1 thing: to add comics to my iPad. The process of doing so is ridiculous in its complexity and lagginess. If they simply let me add files to an iPad via Finder it would make the process 100x easier than it currently is.
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