Apple to announce OS 10.7 (probably) on October 20
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Re: Apple to announce OS 10.7 (probably) on October 20
#2And to save you asking the obvious first question: the announcement has a picture of a lion on it.
Re: Apple to announce OS 10.7 (probably) on October 20
#3Lion: King of beasts.
Lion: King of OS X big cat releases -- Last 10.x?
Re: Apple to announce OS 10.7 (probably) on October 20
#4And to save you asking the obvious first question: the announcement has a picture of a lion on it.
So, it's a peek of the lion.
Re: Apple to announce OS 10.7 (probably) on October 20
#5Given that OSX has got to a fairly stable point, what would you want to see in a new version of OSX that would make you want to upgrade?
Re: Apple to announce OS 10.7 (probably) on October 20
#6Lion: King of beasts. Lion: King of OS X big cat releases -- Last 10.x?
One could go in almost any direction, like bible codes[1], by trying to infer things from the nature of the particular cat in question.
For example, "Lions are unusually social compared to other cats,"[2] which means that MacOS X Lion could have social networking as its main feature. Just pick what you hope for the most and find a way to tie it to the critter.
I only wish they had gone with "Liger".
Re: Apple to announce OS 10.7 (probably) on October 20
#7Given that OSX has got to a fairly stable point, what would you want to see in a new version of OSX that would make you want to upgrade?
Maybe a UI overhaul. They've been teasing us for years with iTunes. Time to finally ditch Aqua.
Maybe something MacRuby related? Maybe making it a first class language?
Re: Apple to announce OS 10.7 (probably) on October 20
#8Given that OSX has got to a fairly stable point, what would you want to see in a new version of OSX that would make you want to upgrade?
That's a good question. I'm guessing that UI tweaks will be the order of the day:
- I remember when the Dock was a new idea; will there be a similar revelation in task management?
- The "Spaces" feature could use some work to bring it up to par with similar functionality in Ubuntu.
- Complete the transition to 64-bit for every single Apple sub-system|program.
- Tighter integration/control of external stuff: AppleTV, Airport Express, etc.
Re: Apple to announce OS 10.7 (probably) on October 20
#9Given that OSX has got to a fairly stable point, what would you want to see in a new version of OSX that would make you want to upgrade?
Snow Leopard was all about the internals. UI changes were not a priority.
Apple has presumably learned much from their iOS work that will inform their thinking about how people want to interact with a device. I don't think we'll see a touch-the-screen interface, but we might see an interface that is less file/application oriented and more task oriented. It won't be a replacement, but it might be a new direction.
Oh, and some gradients and textures will be slightly different and 10,000 blogs posts will be written about that.