Let's hope they won't screw everything up for at least 5 years, just as many as Steve Jobs prepared product plans for.
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OS X 10.9 to Include Siri and Maps Integration
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No wonder my > 2000 rMBP performs so sluggishly when Apples top priority is to release a new OS every year, and stress to make all these "cool" new features... operational?
Hardware sales. They aren't getting any from me right now and wont' until they sort out their desktop platform
They will start a new. The first release under the new animal will simply be called "Boo"
I don't know how about other people, but I was completely OK with two year update cycle for OSX. Apple should stick to it, instead of releasing a "new" OS every other year, which only feels like a semi major, but paid update. I'd say people would be more blow away if they saw some breakthrough between updates. But it's their call. My Mac came with ML preinstalled anyway...
Meanwhile give us iTunes 11 already!
P.S. I don't quite understand the maps. I doubt someone will benefit from that breathtaking turn-by-turn navigation on a Mac.
Besides, here in the czech rep, it rarely works *properly*.
Meanwhile give us iTunes 11 already!
P.S. I don't quite understand the maps. I doubt someone will benefit from that breathtaking turn-by-turn navigation on a Mac.
Besides, here in the czech rep, it rarely works *properly*.
Yes. Command key + P + Return = Print ---WHOA!!!!!
Sadly she's totally frightened of computers since the first one we got her, a Win desktop. I figured that if she feels she's ordering the machine to do something she wants (hence "Command" key), she'd feel better about it.
Although if she could use Siri on her iMac, and fuss at Siri as she does the iMac now, --and if Siri replied to all the fussing with wit, heh, I'd pay to watch that.
Your mom sounds like a trooper.
My mother-in-law is on our family cell plan, but doesn't have unlimited data like us. At the end of every month when she is approaching her data cap, she calls and texts asking what apps use data.
She's about to inherit my husband's old MacBook Pro. When I initially suggested it to my husband, he only agreed on the promise that I would be her tech support.
Now my desktop Mac will be able to track my house when a tornado blows it away to Oz.
Siri: "You're not in Kansas anymore."
I'm Stoked!
Siri: "You're not in Kansas anymore."
I'm Stoked!
Good luck, perhaps it will go smoothly.
I do Mac tech support for several friends and family --some are fabulous about it, but the closest family & friends are the absolute worst. In fact, I'm thinking about strangling one of them now because of the past several days' iDrama, lol.
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Hate to state it, but Siri and iOS 6 Maps are two of the biggest weak points on Apple's iOS platform. Why port them to OS X when there is so much more to make it as [universally] stable as 10.6 had been? I fear this rushing of OS X combined with half baked iOS "features" will lead to more OS X disasters.
(yes, it sold well, for $19.99 - 10.6 sold for $129, is only offered on new Mac's, and forced people into 10.8 for iCloud integration, so sales numbers do not equal success in overall product quality)
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(yes, it sold well, for $19.99 - 10.6 sold for $129, is only offered on new Mac's, and forced people into 10.8 for iCloud integration, so sales numbers do not equal success in overall product quality)
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Matter of opinion. I find Siri to be fine and has gotten much better in iOS 6. Maps was always going to be a project but few companies could launch a new mapping platform without issue the first time around. There's no such thing as universal stability. There's no way to test voice recognition without having thousands of samples and Maps require a lot of crowd sourcing work as well. Apple had to put'em in the field and then clean thing up and that's what they're doing.
No one was forced into 10.8 that didn't buy a computer with it already installed.
I'm with you, and have it where when i click something on say Facebook event, pops up the location and i can grab my phone and go having the direction already there without having to tell it, seamless integration with iCloud.
Agree with everything (comment was more rhetorical/comical
).I do take issue with the last comment. A lot of people had to move to 10.8 if, and only if, they wanted full iCloud support. I had 10.6.8 running on a second SSD in my Mac Pro and was able to get calendar, bookmarks and contacts syncing (the tricky one of the bunch, took me two days to solve the error in which constant contact duplicates were created every time is checked for changes), aside from Photo-stream, Document Syncing, etc there wasn't an issue. However I did need the other benefits to iCloud syncing with all my systems and devices, and the only way to achieve that is via 10.8. In essence, you are strong armed into upgrading unless you don't need full use of all your mobile devices (which by definition defeats a main purpose).
Lol when is getting the OS solid in 5 iterations instead of 10 a bad thing? Given companies like Nokia are still alive even though they only started making decent products recently after a 10 year hiatus, I'd say Apple is good.
Lynx is the rumor, but I could see Ocelot too. Reminds me of Revolver Ocelot in Metal Gear Solid.