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Maybe Apple did get better at keeping things under wrap, but it's also because people lost interest with the lack of innovation coming out of Apple.
Something has been brewing at Cupertino, and I'm looking forward to tomorrow. Between this and E3, this week is like nerd Christmas.
Maybe Apple did get better at keeping things under wrap, but it's also because people lost interest with the lack of innovation coming out of Apple.
In the span of ten years (2001 - 2010), they brought Unix computers to the mass market, revolutionized the smartphone, and introduced mainstream tablets. Saying that there's a lack of innovation there is ridiculous to me. I am extremely pleased that Apple only rarely embraces change for the sake of change[1]. I get the sense that people like us tend to want to see lots of changes, and are too quick to write things of…
Not really. 90% of Mac users don't care or know what Unix is. They don't know that OS X's toolchain and userland are based on FreeBSD. All they care about is ease of use.
Developers like OS X because it is Unix, and if OS X wasn't, they would just be using GNU+Linux or BSD anyway.
I'm not sure if Apple did a good job at keeping secrets, or whether there isn't anything to keep a secret about? We're expecting new software, but that's easy for Apple to keep under wraps as it doesn't really have to be used outside Cupertino, unlike manufactured products like an iPhone. Nothing abnormally secret there. We're expecting new MacBooks, but the rumour is a move to Haswell, which would only be a spec bum…
>> "We're expecting new software, but that's easy for Apple to keep under wraps as it doesn't really have to be used outside Cupertino" I would assume they have to use iOS out in the field to test things like Maps and any changes they've made to the software controlling the radio signals.
I'm not sure if Apple did a good job at keeping secrets, or whether there isn't anything to keep a secret about? We're expecting new software, but that's easy for Apple to keep under wraps as it doesn't really have to be used outside Cupertino, unlike manufactured products like an iPhone. Nothing abnormally secret there. We're expecting new MacBooks, but the rumour is a move to Haswell, which would only be a spec bum…
>> "We're expecting new software, but that's easy for Apple to keep under wraps as it doesn't really have to be used outside Cupertino" I would assume they have to use iOS out in the field to test things like Maps and any changes they've made to the software controlling the radio signals.
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>> "We're expecting new software, but that's easy for Apple to keep under wraps as it doesn't really have to be used outside Cupertino" I would assume they have to use iOS out in the field to test things like Maps and any changes they've made to the software controlling the radio signals.
It would be very difficult to know if the person near you is using a secret version of the software.
I'm not sure if Apple did a good job at keeping secrets, or whether there isn't anything to keep a secret about? We're expecting new software, but that's easy for Apple to keep under wraps as it doesn't really have to be used outside Cupertino, unlike manufactured products like an iPhone. Nothing abnormally secret there. We're expecting new MacBooks, but the rumour is a move to Haswell, which would only be a spec bum…
I am happy if they add a share button like the Android one. It's a small wish but it's clear that Apple is falling behind in many areas except performance and battery life on tablets. Relaxing App Store rules to include programming languages/VMs will give a little boost to our community too. If I want to learn Haskell I want to do it on the iPad.
App Store allows programming languages and even VMs. It doesn't allow running externally sourced code.
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In the span of ten years (2001 - 2010), they brought Unix computers to the mass market, revolutionized the smartphone, and introduced mainstream tablets. Saying that there's a lack of innovation there is ridiculous to me. I am extremely pleased that Apple only rarely embraces change for the sake of change[1]. I get the sense that people like us tend to want to see lots of changes, and are too quick to write things of…
> brought Unix to the mass market Not really. 90% of Mac users don't care or know what Unix is. They don't know that OS X's toolchain and userland are based on FreeBSD. All they care about is ease of use. Developers like OS X because it is Unix, and if OS X wasn't, they would just be using GNU+Linux or BSD anyway.
This is exactly why it is brilliant. The average user is NOT a unix user, but the average developer is. The reason OS X is doing so well the same reason Facebook Home bombed. Developers are actually using the systems they are writing code for.