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Careful if you're a user of Karabiner, it doesn't work in Sierra - there's a rewrite underway to correct.
yeah don't be an idiot and install this on your work computer and break vpn. what kind of idiot does that....
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"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…
> "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. Obviously, but offering better integration (even if only with their own ecosystem) is how they are trying to sell more right now. > There's plenty of useful innovations they could still make that does…
They shut it down quite a few months ago.
Before that iAd was pretty restricted because of Apples privacy stance: https://9to5mac.com/2015/07/14/iad-user-data-privacy-policy/
"Former iAd exec leaves Apple, suggests company platform is held back by user data privacy policy"
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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…
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> "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. Obviously, but offering better integration (even if only with their own ecosystem) is how they are trying to sell more right now. > There's plenty of useful innovations they could still make that does…
> Apple ran (runs?) their own advertising service for mobile apps, iAd. I'm not sure the status currently. They shut it down quite a few months ago. Before that iAd was pretty restricted because of Apples privacy stance: https://9to5mac.com/2015/07/14/iad-user-data-privacy-policy/ "Former iAd exec leaves Apple, suggests company platform is held back by user data privacy policy"
Yeah, I looked it up before I posted because my information was fairly old, but I found some conflicting info when I did. Some sites state it was just the developer integration that allowed developers to advertise their own apps (as an update to the story). I'm not sure if Apple still runs an advertising framework or not, and wasn't willing to dive much deeper when the first few sources seemed ambiguous and nothing official seemed to clarify.
- Universal Clipboard: Neat, but iOS only. Doesn't appear there's an open API for it that would make it useful elsewhere, which is too bad, because it could be rather neat.
- iCloud Drive: Cloud sync of your document folders. Free space (5GB) is surprisingly limited and the upgrade pricing isn't any better than Dropbox, so not a lot of motivation to switch from Dropbox/Onedrive/Google Drive -- except for the iOS integration. It'll be interesting to see if they end up making any of the filesystem or sync logic that they're using public, so that Dropbox et al could use them (instead of Dropbox's bolt-on hack), but I'm not holding my breath.
- Optimized Storage: Basically a 'feature' that automatically deletes stuff off of local storage when your disk gets full, leaving it on iCloud Drive. This basically makes my skin crawl and I can't imagine ever using it; it seems like a conceptually bad idea. Anyone want to place a bet on how long before the first article in a major news outlet about some poor soul losing everything they've ever created since the age of 5 due to this thing uploading it to the cloud, and then deleting their iCloud Drive account? I'm giving it six months on the outside.
- Apple Pay: Conceptually interesting, and I'm certainly interested in anything that shakes up electronic payments, but there's no way to use it from the desktop (AFAICT) without an iOS device, because that's how you authorize payments. Unfortunate.
- Apple Watch Unlock: Obviously only of interest if you have an Apple Watch. Again, a quick search doesn't seem to reveal any sort of API for other hardware, so it's a dead end unless you're interested in the Apple Watch.
Looking through more feature lists, the only thing I can come up with that seems remotely interesting is the picture-in-picture video, although I don't know why it's better than QuickTime Player's relatively-ancient "stay on top" mode (unless they removed that when I haven't been looking). But hey, I can at least see that getting some use on my workstation.
All in all, it seems like a representative sampling of what Apple has become: a bunch of neat ideas (well, except for the 'Optimized Storage' thing), but they've basically crippled them for business reasons in order to prop up their walled garden hardware ecosystem. It's exactly the sort of behavior people used to lament Microsoft for: coming up with great ideas, but then kneecapping them on the way out the door to make sure nothing threatened the golden goose.
[1]: http://www.wsj.com/articles/apples-macos-sierra-five-top-fea... or if that's paywalled, Google for "Apple’s MacOS Sierra: Five Top Features"
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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.
This 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…
Nope, I'm still using OSX Mavericks and will keep on using it as long as it is useful for me. I may eventually upgrade if I start developing for iOS, and only because you can only install the latest XCode versions in the latest OSX versions.