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Apple's WWDC 2014 to Focus on OS X 10.10 as Apple Pulls Resources from iOS 8 to Help
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This is all from Mark Gurman of 9to5mac, who's track record for leaks has been pretty great over the last few years. This is inside sources from Apple, and not conclusions based on anything Apple has been doing publicly.
Rene Richie of iMore and John Gruber have both been similarly adamant that there's a large team of people working on both the software and hardware side of appleTV at the moment.
I don't think it's "too big" for most uses, it's just a little large for me to want to travel with every day. Pushing limits is what made Apple successful.. Besides, Google Chrome and Roku both have similar devices that are the size of a large USB thumb drive so I don't see why Apple can't do something better.
This delay will be good news for those that are worried about their iDevices being left out of the upgrade. Personally, I suspect that the iPad 2/3 and iPhone 4S are going to be iOS 7 limited. I still remember when the original iPad was left out of the iOS 6 update.
just changing the OS will change aspects of an application as well. each individual application isn't custom coded to get it's look.. it's drawing UI elements from the operating system.
however, a program like photoshop won't really change in look since its UI is custom.. but any 'mac' app will change in appearance to match the OS.
icons may have to be updated to get a more unified look but things like buttons,sliders,windows,sheets, etc.. those will change automatically.
I don't mean for vacations... I travel >75% for work so I am often gone Monday-Thursday for work. It'd be nice to use my AppleTV at my hotel when I travel.
Agreed, this is Microsoft-like sloppy of Apple and things like beach balls really needs to be resolved. OS X already seems a bit fragile-istic with the need for disk permissions maintenance and such.
It's not always a question of more. Once a team reaches a certain size, in some cases there can be little benefit to simply adding more people. Communication becomes more complicated.
If true this is very good news. I like iCloud but because few apps that I use support it I end up using Dropbox, not that there's anything wrong with that.
Not true at all. There's still about 10% of us on iOS 6. I understand some of that percent are little kids or moms who don't know what that red number 1 means on their Settings app means but there are a lot of us who like productivity over "fashion" and don't want to touch iOS 7.
Even you stated that you think iOS 8 will just be performance improvements over iOS 7.
Two apps displayed at once would be great, too! That's the **one** feature I miss from my Windows 7 laptop, especially when doing things like taxes.
I wonder if they'll bring the tab reloading from iOS 7 to OSX? 
Disclaimer: This is intended as a humorous post. But I do wish they would get rid of the tab reloading in iOS.
Disclaimer: This is intended as a humorous post. But I do wish they would get rid of the tab reloading in iOS.
It needs to be said because the minute OS X redesign is mentioned people jump to conclusions thinking Apple is turning OS X into iOS.
Great thats good news, iOS dont need a ton of new stuff for the next iteration. OSX though, has had very minor updates lately. THough, I hope it will be a proper release, so I dont have to wait 8-10 months before installing, like with Mavericks, creating a ton of problems and bugs on so many programs.
Aren't some of those 10% people using devices that are unable to run iOS 7?
I’m not expecting a redesign comparable to iOS 7, neither in looks nor in extent. Apple could pull it off for iOS, but only because that has some decent developer support. On OS X, I still have to rely on software that doesn’t even make use of Lion’s features! The adoption of a new design will not go quickly and I suspect that a redesign similar to iOS 7 will look awful with the current OS X. I expect some design inspiration where it makes sense, but nothing as radical.
What I was saying is that the statements I bolded contradicted each other. You complained about them delaying new features, and then you said you'd rather wait 6 months to put out a sturdy build.
And also, the wait time between 7.0 and 7.1 was 6 months, and the wait time between 7.1 and 8.0 will likely be 6 months, so you got your wish.
I guess I am a bit mixed about the news. There are still a ton of features and functionality missing in iOS which I would like to see added, and it seems like we may be seeing largely under-the-hood improvements and piecemeal features added.