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Re: MacOS Sierra
#2yeah don't be an idiot and install this on your work computer and break vpn. what kind of idiot does that....
Re: MacOS Sierra
#3This is the first version of Mac OS X that I'm 0% excited about.
Literally none of the new features[1] are useful to me, considering:
I don't have or want an iPhone
I don't have or want an iPad
I don't have or want an iWatch
I don't have or want an iCloud account
I don't have or want an Apple Pay account
I don't have or want an iTunes Music account
I don't use or need Photos.app
I don't use or need Messages.app
I don't like speaking to my computer
I don't watch TV while doing something else on the computer
I don't use the computer enough for tabs to be useful
[1] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/macos-sierra/id1127487414?mt... (click "...More")
Re: MacOS Sierra
#4This is the first version of Mac OS X that I'm 0% excited about. Literally none of the new features[1] are useful to me, considering: I don't have or want an iPhone I don't have or want an iPad I don't have or want an iWatch I don't have or want an iCloud account I don't have or want an Apple Pay account I don't have or want an iTunes Music account I don't use or need Photos.app I don't use or need Messages.app I don…
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Re: MacOS Sierra
#5This is the first version of Mac OS X that I'm 0% excited about. Literally none of the new features[1] are useful to me, considering: I don't have or want an iPhone I don't have or want an iPad I don't have or want an iWatch I don't have or want an iCloud account I don't have or want an Apple Pay account I don't have or want an iTunes Music account I don't use or need Photos.app I don't use or need Messages.app I don…
Well, if you use your computer as a sort of "dumb device" or single (or few) purpose instrument (typewriter, internet terminal, etc), then there's only so much innovation they are likely to make in those areas over a period of time. It's natural for them to also look at integrating with other devices and providing new functionality. Obviously not everything will interest you, and it's possible some releases will just happen to have few changes that hit the particular areas that you care about.
Re: MacOS Sierra
#6I'm excited to see a working speech interface. I use the one on my phone quite a bit to send quick messages to my wife while I'm driving. The shortest command so far is [press siri button on dashboard] + "tell my wife to come down in 2 minutes". I wish I could tell Siri I trust it and not to confirm the message. [Are you ready to send this message?] "Yes" [Ok, I'll send it]. Every. time.
On the flip side, we're past the line of scrimmage where I like my OS knowing about my files and talking to a mothership about them. I know it was probably three operating systems ago that my checksums started leaking to interested parties, "hey he has a copy of Frozen, did you know that?"
In about 4 months I'll give it a try. I want to hear how the hardware reacts. I installed 10.10 the day it came out, and got bit by that flakey wifi bug for what was it, nine months before Apple fixed it? I automatically bluetooth paired with the phone when the wifi froze, did about 19 gig over LTE (which kept up!) A beautiful failure scenario.
I think I might not value my privacy enough, is my lingering thought, in reflection of this being available.
Re: MacOS Sierra
#7This is the first version of Mac OS X that I'm 0% excited about. Literally none of the new features[1] are useful to me, considering: I don't have or want an iPhone I don't have or want an iPad I don't have or want an iWatch I don't have or want an iCloud account I don't have or want an Apple Pay account I don't have or want an iTunes Music account I don't use or need Photos.app I don't use or need Messages.app I don…
I apologize to you for Apple for not catering to your specific needs and wants when rolling out their newest version of OSX. I'm so sorry that you consider none of these new features exciting nor useful. Personally, I agree with you to an extent - I prefer taking notes on individual parchment paper with a Ticonderoga #2 HB pencil that I sharpen with my $400 hand crafted knife. Heck, I don't even use digital photos or credit cards. I am 100% satisfied with the polaroid camera that my father left me before he passed, and I always prefer to barter with the root vegetables that I grow in my back yard (100% organic of course) as a means of payment.
Re: MacOS Sierra
#8This is the first version of Mac OS X that I'm 0% excited about. Literally none of the new features[1] are useful to me, considering: I don't have or want an iPhone I don't have or want an iPad I don't have or want an iWatch I don't have or want an iCloud account I don't have or want an Apple Pay account I don't have or want an iTunes Music account I don't use or need Photos.app I don't use or need Messages.app I don…
Well, if you use your computer as a sort of "dumb device" or single (or few) purpose instrument (typewriter, internet terminal, etc), then there's only so much innovation they are likely to make in those areas over a period of time. It's natural for them to also look at integrating with other devices and providing new functionality. Obviously not everything will interest you, and it's possible some releases will just…
"Integrating with other devices" is not their goal. Selling desktops, laptops, monitors, phones, tablets, watches, keyboards, mice, trackpads, ear buds, and to a lesser extent subscription accounts, that's their goal.
If they truly wanted to provide useful integration, they would make Android and Windows Phone devices first class citizens just as much as the iPhone. They're first and foremost a hardware company. Even their Mac's OS is free! Because they get money from the Mac, not the OS.
There's plenty of useful innovations they could still make that doesn't require them to focus on up-selling me new hardware, if innovating was still their goal. They're using a Star Trek future as their marketing ploy, and it's working scarily well.
I guess the one upside you could say is that they're probably not selling your data and/or profile to advertisers. So at least they have that going for them.
Re: MacOS Sierra
#9This is the first version of Mac OS X that I'm 0% excited about. Literally none of the new features[1] are useful to me, considering: I don't have or want an iPhone I don't have or want an iPad I don't have or want an iWatch I don't have or want an iCloud account I don't have or want an Apple Pay account I don't have or want an iTunes Music account I don't use or need Photos.app I don't use or need Messages.app I don…
I apologize to you for Apple for not catering to your specific needs and wants when rolling out their newest version of OSX. I'm so sorry that you consider none of these new features exciting nor useful. Personally, I agree with you to an extent - I prefer taking notes on individual parchment paper with a Ticonderoga #2 HB pencil that I sharpen with my $400 hand crafted knife. Heck, I don't even use digital photos or…
Ticonderogas make for fine pencils though.
Re: MacOS Sierra
#10This is the first version of Mac OS X that I'm 0% excited about. Literally none of the new features[1] are useful to me, considering: I don't have or want an iPhone I don't have or want an iPad I don't have or want an iWatch I don't have or want an iCloud account I don't have or want an Apple Pay account I don't have or want an iTunes Music account I don't use or need Photos.app I don't use or need Messages.app I don…
I agree. Apple needs to take a page from Android, and start breaking up these apps and distributing them outside of the OS so they can deliver new features faster.
Why do we have to update the entire OS just to get a new version of the photos and messages app?