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OS X is now macOS and gets support for Siri, auto unlock

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Re: OS X is now macOS and gets support for Siri, auto unlock

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Post by eric_h »

r2dnb wrote: post #357
tjl wrote: post #277

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They cover things like this in the "Developer State of the Union" which is the talk really focused at developers. That's later today.

"Developer State of the Union", Jesus... you talk about a closed platform. I've never been able to stand these ecosystems where you need to attend state of the unions to know what will be deprecated and how the "establishment" has decided you would run your business (tools, etc...). I know there's good money to be made there but Apple is just too much for me.

To be fair, you don't need to attend anything, just wait 24 hours and read all the blog posts.

Re: OS X is now macOS and gets support for Siri, auto unlock

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Post by blakeyrat »

leogiertz wrote: post #230
Animats wrote: post #216

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It's a very valid assumption to make given that mobile data quotas are increasing and metered broadband connections are most likely going to be a thing of the past. The trend is in the other direction. AT&T now has data caps even on DSL lines. Almost all "unlimited" plans really have some limit.

Isn't fiber being rolled out across the US?

Not in my area. Verizon was working on it, then they threw in the towel and sold all their non-mobile business in Washington State to Frontier, who has made it crystal clear they won't be doing any more fiber roll-outs any time soon.

Re: OS X is now macOS and gets support for Siri, auto unlock

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Post by EugeneOZ »

izacus wrote: post #97

Seriously, did Apple fire their OSX / macOS team? Pretty much all new features are spinoffs of their iOS infrastructure (Siri, handover, etc.) and the main OS development and innovation seems to have stalled. Not even a feature like telling software that you're on a metered connection and it shouldn't run backups! Is there anyone at Apple still working on innovating / improving OS X? Like people that tried to bring i…

they have a lot of updates to browsers https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/content/relea...

Re: OS X is now macOS and gets support for Siri, auto unlock

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Post by trizzle21 »

dman wrote: post #226
STRML wrote: post #224

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Appears there is one: https://developer.apple.com/wwdc/schedule/#/details/701

Excellent news! at a developer conference I would expect this to be the headline announcement.

Yeah but emojis apparently are more important

Re: OS X is now macOS and gets support for Siri, auto unlock

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Post by robotresearcher »

pier25 wrote: post #355
izacus wrote: post #239

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To be fair, it's probably stomping iMessage because you can also talk to people who didn't buy the same electronics brand.

Nailed it. Any app or service that isn't cross platform has no real future.

Some features are not intended to maximize penetration; they are differentiators for their platform. Super Mario has a real future and you can only get it on Nintendo.

Re: OS X is now macOS and gets support for Siri, auto unlock

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Post by thothamon »

spilk wrote: post #42
reacharavindh wrote: post #12

Copy/paste across iPhone and Mac is very useful. All the other features are Meh. I really don't want to be that guy talking to my Mac at work. I can't be sure that all my questions to Siri are not awkward to speak out. Would have been great to have a textual interface though. You know that Keyboard thingy that is always with a Mac?!

I think clipboard permissions for applications is going to become an issue with features like this. I may be incorrect but I'm pretty sure that clipboard access is unrestricted on both OS X (ugh, macOS) and iOS.

I think I'm gonna stick with calling it OS X, marketers be d*ed.

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Post by eric_h »

mikewhy wrote: post #251
imron wrote: post #107

> if you use multiple macOS machines, Apple will now sync your desktops between them, too Oh No. Please no. If I had to come up with a list of 5 things Apple is really bad at, sync would be one of them. I've basically stopped syncing my phone and desktop because of all the duplicated calendar entries syncing creates. It's something I have absolutely zero trust in them to do properly.

It was under the impression that it's not one desktop being synced across all your computers, but rather your desktop on other machines are accessible anywhere. Akin to iCloud tabs, or Chrome tab syncing. Basically you open Finder on your MacBook and there's a new sidebar entry: "Desktop on imron's iMac"

I haven't read enough about it to corroborate, but I very much hope this to be the case. My personal machine and my work machine have very different use profiles (not to mention monitor setups), and I would not want actual automated syncing of everything, but being able to grab something from my home machine would be useful (which I already do with iCloud browsing history).

Re: OS X is now macOS and gets support for Siri, auto unlock

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Post by therealmarv »

kriro wrote: post #51

I foresee a lot of trouble as a MBP user with no other Apple products (MBP=work machine). Interoperability with Android phones is already sucky and they seem to bundle their product line even more. Siri for MBP will be annoying, hope it can be disabled completely...which of course won't stop my co-workers from using it all day :( It also sounds like there will be a few new attack vectors. The log in when close by sou…

What is sucky with Android phones and OS X? You want Universal Clipboard use something like Pushbullet or alternatives http://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/26495/univer... you want cloud sync use the existing cloudservices or use Syncthing which lets you sync even without a cloud. You can get nearly all features today also with Android ( even unlocking the Mac with Android Wear https://www.gadgetish.com/index.html ). Of course you will not get them from Apple ;)
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