Is there anything noteworthy under the hood that would compel power users to upgrade? None of the features listed on Apple.com look like things that would be useful from my perspective.
MacOS Sierra
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Re: MacOS Sierra
#22OP here. OT, but I came across a post on HN saying macOS Sierra was out, and it gave instructions on how to navigate to it from the App Store for download. So I did, then I copied the direct link and posted it. Now I'm on the front page. HN is funny.
Your post provided less friction. The least amount of friction typically wins :)
Re: MacOS Sierra
#23> "Copy a quote, image, or video from an app on one device and paste it into an app on another device." Oh my I'm looking forward to this. How many silly workarounds (pastebins, email drafts, iMessages to self, Safari bookmarks) have we used to approximate this?
While they're at it, can we make paste and match style the default? I can never remember the four key chord to do this and as a result send emails that look like ransom notes because of mismatched formatting.
I also find this frustrating. For applications where it happens frequently, you can map paste/paste-and-match to keystrokes you can remember using System Prefs > Keyboard > Shortcuts > App Shortcuts. There isn't a global change you can make without 3rd party tools, AFAIK.
For frequently-used shortcuts that have hard-to-remember modifiers, I change them to the full set of shift-ctrl-opt-cmd so that just mashing my hand across the entire corner of the keyboard will get the job done. Has the nice side effect of (usually) avoiding the unexpected overwrite of other default app shortcuts.
Re: MacOS Sierra
#24> "Copy a quote, image, or video from an app on one device and paste it into an app on another device." Oh my I'm looking forward to this. How many silly workarounds (pastebins, email drafts, iMessages to self, Safari bookmarks) have we used to approximate this?
Having I iCloud access to your clipboard is scary ( unless it is encrypted E2E). Now your data, that was otherwise not meant to go to cloud, will endup being there.
Do you have a source for that? According to this (not so definitive) source [1] it's peer to peer like the rest of the continuity features.
[1] http://www.idownloadblog.com/2016/06/23/macos-sierra-preview...
Re: MacOS Sierra
#25"Siri makes its debut on Mac" Siri has been in iOS since 2011 and still can't handle basic parsing/questions. There was that demo of something that looked a lot better, but I've never seen it actual rolled into the product.
Is it a voice/accent thing? Siri and Google both do fine with my general questions and commands. If you have some list, I would love to test them.
> Siri and Google both do fine with my general questions and commands
I think it depends. For instance asking Siri while my phone is locked what time it is and Siri will tell me (useful when I'm across the room, in the shower, etc). Google? I ask it for the time and it tells me to unlock the phone. Yet Siri can't handle asking anything about current events whereas Google can.
If only there were a way to combine them or at least see progress on them working on their shortcomings.
Re: MacOS Sierra
#26Is there anything noteworthy under the hood that would compel power users to upgrade? None of the features listed on Apple.com look like things that would be useful from my perspective.
I guess the new file system is kind of exciting.
Re: MacOS Sierra
#27Sierra wiped my iTunes library
Re: MacOS Sierra
#28I'd rather see updated Mac hardware. According to MacRumors, it's been 490 days since the last MacBook Pro Retina was released.
MacMini 705 days (2 years)
Mac Pro 1009 days (almost 3 years)
Appalling!
Re: MacOS Sierra
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
While they're at it, can we make paste and match style the default? I can never remember the four key chord to do this and as a result send emails that look like ransom notes because of mismatched formatting.
I also find this frustrating. For applications where it happens frequently, you can map paste/paste-and-match to keystrokes you can remember using System Prefs > Keyboard > Shortcuts > App Shortcuts. There isn't a global change you can make without 3rd party tools, AFAIK. For frequently-used shortcuts that have hard-to-remember modifiers, I change them to the full set of shift-ctrl-opt-cmd so that just mashing my han…
Can't you put it under "All Applications" to have it take effect in all apps?
Re: MacOS Sierra
#30Is there anything noteworthy under the hood that would compel power users to upgrade? None of the features listed on Apple.com look like things that would be useful from my perspective.
I'm sure there are plenty of new insane defaults with obscure configurations to disable on which to test their powers.