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Re: OS X Yosemite

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Post by Jtsummers »

moe wrote: post #16

I wish Apple would spend their resources on finally fixing some of the most broken fundamentals (photo sync, notifications, finder...), rather than letting Ive further trash the GUI and celebrating that as some sort of accomplishment...

Other than Finder, the rest of the keynote seems to have addressed photo sync (nonissue for me so I saw something happened but didn't follow the details), but notifications is getting a big revamp (in experience more than UI it seems).

EDIT: The Notifications UI is actually getting customized widgets finally. About damn time.

Re: OS X Yosemite

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Post by ryanSrich »

moe wrote: post #16

I wish Apple would spend their resources on finally fixing some of the most broken fundamentals (photo sync, notifications, finder...), rather than letting Ive further trash the GUI and celebrating that as some sort of accomplishment...

Which keynote are you watching?

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Post by mcintyre1994 »

rayiner wrote: post #6

HandOff is the kind of thing I'm surprised took so long. Honestly, I was expecting MS to get something like it first. After all, your Windows Phone already runs Windows, right?

It's like Pushbullet built into both OSes with the polish that entails. Absolutely genius. I hope Google builds Pushbullet or something very similar into Chrome and Android, that integration is awesome.

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Post by dirkgently »

dfc wrote: post #11

> With this new design, OS X...now looks a bit more like iOS 7, but > there is still quite a bit of depth. Indeed, more than flat, the > design almost seems to focus more on translucency than anything else. The above is an incomprehensible collection of words to me. I am not sure if this is because of my lack of an intimate connection to Apple products, terrible writing or some combination of the two.

When design of an _Operation System_ boils down to just how "truculent" and "flat" (but with "a bit of depth") it is, you know we are talking less about the Operating System and more about the GUI/Window Manager.

Re: OS X Yosemite

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Post by cosmc »

moe wrote: post #16

I wish Apple would spend their resources on finally fixing some of the most broken fundamentals (photo sync, notifications, finder...), rather than letting Ive further trash the GUI and celebrating that as some sort of accomplishment...

Yes, I agree. I think the current OSX UI has timeless quality and this new design feels like a fad design that will look dated in no time. Fixing finder doesn't make for exciting headlines I suppose, and that seems that's what Apple shoots for these day, trying to maintain the innovation image at all costs.

Re: OS X Yosemite

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Post by colmvp »

dfc wrote: post #11

> With this new design, OS X...now looks a bit more like iOS 7, but > there is still quite a bit of depth. Indeed, more than flat, the > design almost seems to focus more on translucency than anything else. The above is an incomprehensible collection of words to me. I am not sure if this is because of my lack of an intimate connection to Apple products, terrible writing or some combination of the two.

I interpret it as using translucency to add depth instead of adhering to true flatness doesn't have gradients or shading.

Re: OS X Yosemite

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Post by wingerlang »

Gracana wrote: post #17
dfc wrote: post #11

> With this new design, OS X...now looks a bit more like iOS 7, but > there is still quite a bit of depth. Indeed, more than flat, the > design almost seems to focus more on translucency than anything else. The above is an incomprehensible collection of words to me. I am not sure if this is because of my lack of an intimate connection to Apple products, terrible writing or some combination of the two.

That does seem to be a bit of a jumble. I think what they're trying to convey is that although it uses flat design like iOS 7, on the desktop it has a feeling of depth due to the layering of translucent UI elements. Maybe.

That's what they're doing on iOS7 also.
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