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Apple Announces Mac OS X 'Mavericks'

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Re: Apple Announces Mac OS X 'Mavericks'

#73

I really hope iCloud can be disabled in OSX-M. As far as I am concerned iCloud is a disaster. It causes all manner of data loss on iDevices, generally without the user having a choice. For example, my wife lost her entire calendar -all events- just for turning off calendar synchronization. All events had been originally entered through her phone. Somehow iCloud decided to delete anything that was also stored in the c…

Historically, use of Apple's online services have been optional, even in iOS. I would be surprised if that has changed.

Re: Apple Announces Mac OS X 'Mavericks'

#74

I'm kind of surprised and amused that they chose the name of an old Ubuntu release (October 2010): http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/releases/maverick/

"Mavericks" is different than both the singular noun/adjective found in Ubuntu, "Maverick" and the plural adjective/noun NBA team, "Mavericks". It is a singular place name - "Mavericks". Cook got it mixed up a few times in the keynote too. It's a tricky one to use...

Re: Apple Announces Mac OS X 'Mavericks'

#76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If the next releases are all California surf spots, I'm all for it.

I'd be more excited if they used fictitious navy pilot call signs, maverick, goose, iceman, merlin... Who's with me?

Top Gun?

Re: Apple Announces Mac OS X 'Mavericks'

#77

Somewhat more technical information found 2 links deep on Apple site http://images.apple.com/osx/preview/docs/OSX_Mavericks_Core_...

With at least one questionable statement:

  OS X was the first operating system to ship as a single
  install that could boot into either a 32-bit or 64-bit
  kernel, either of which could run 32-bit and 64-bit
  applications at full native performance. OS X now
  exclusively uses a 64-bit kernel, but it continues to run
  both 32-bit and 64-bit applications.
I believe Solaris was actually the first to do this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solaris_%28operating_system%29#...

Re: Apple Announces Mac OS X 'Mavericks'

#79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If the next releases are all California surf spots, I'm all for it.

I'd be more excited if they used fictitious navy pilot call signs, maverick, goose, iceman, merlin... Who's with me?

Great balls of fire!

Re: Apple Announces Mac OS X 'Mavericks'

#80

Are Goose and Iceman the next releases? Sea Lion was 100x better And Keychain stored in iCloud, yeah, nice try there Apple. Finally - the new MacPro looks like a roll of toilet paper encased in glossy plastic. What is that thing.

And Keychain stored in iCloud, yeah, nice try there NSA.

FTFY

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