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OS X 10.9 Activity Ramping Up as Speculation on Developer Preview Release Increases
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I'm not sure there is a point to Siri at all, it simply doesn't work. I'm sure there are some American friends out there who can get it to work for them, but I don't know anyone in the Uk who can get it to respond correctly. It's beyond dire.
It's nothing more than a useless gimmick at best. If it's included in the next release of OSX, it will be quickly disabled and never used that's for sure.
I would agree it is used as a selling point, but I do use Siri often for things. If it improves in certain areas, it will be even better.
Using Roman numerals in this day and age is risky business for anybody.
I overheard some teens on the bus the other day talking about Grand Theft Auto "vee" and how it's going to be better than "eye vee"
As for iOS, I have friends who got confused when iOS 6 came out at the same time as the iPhone 5, they thought Apple were releasing two new phones.
Therefore it'd make sense for Apple to adjust the naming scheme for both and refrain from version numbers. As ridiculous as Androids naming schemes are, even the intellectually challenged out there seem to know that Jelly Bean is the newest version. OS X would probably benefit from the early MS system e.g. Apple OS 2013 or something.
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i don't think that people are lying when they say they find Siri useful, but for my regional accent it simply doesn't work. I speak very clearly, and on occasion get mistaken for being English because I don't drop letters off words when speaking. For the life of me though I just can't get Siri to respond correctly, even for basic tasks like setting a reminder. That's without taking into account that it's next to useless if you're driving in the car (background noise - Wind/ road noise etc), and if you're not on WiFi it's typically server busy.
If it's in OSX, I hope to goodness they don't try to promote it as the next big thing for the OS, I fear they'll just fall flat on their faces if they do
Perhaps you can help educate your friends.
You might also tell them the "X" not only stands for 10 it also stands for UniX.
OS 10 was the first Mac OS to be certified Unix.
Perhaps you can help educate your friends.
Oh I did but my point is that I shouldn't have to. When you try to think like someone less informed the iOS naming scheme doesn't make much sense. It wouldn't be such an issue if Apple didn't market both the OS and the phone so strongly and independently. They're not really two separate entities.
Apple put so much emphasis on numbers as selling points it just adds to the confusion for some.
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10.9 Cat's Pajamas
Would love some more color to the OS. And ideally, a new file system to replace HFS+.
Would love some more color to the OS. And ideally, a new file system to replace HFS+.
June.
WWDC.
Can't wait.
What happened with ML? Didn't they post it on the web first? If 10.9 is this year, I'm impressed at least with the timing. Didn't think they'd keep up the annual releases. Having said that, I would like to see a genuinely "jaw dropping" feature....
I would have loved if the alarm went off simultaneously on all my devices. Then, maybe, I could for once make it to work on reasonable time.
I almost died because I couldn't stop laughing
Some of those were me with my 10.9 Safari user agent.
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I just want them to bring back the color on the sidebar in Finder. And the new default layout of it drives me nuts. Where's the home folder?!
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To replace the current Mac speech recognition, which NEVER works... and that is hardly used for anything. Sometimes, you're not in the mood for typing or clicking something.
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What was so half-baked about Mountain Lion and Lion? The removal of Save As is retarded, but that's been baked for a while, just by someone with horrible judgement.
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I just want them to bring back the color on the sidebar in Finder. And the new default layout of it drives me nuts. Where's the home folder?!
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To replace the current Mac speech recognition, which NEVER works... and that is hardly used for anything. Sometimes, you're not in the mood for typing or clicking something.
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What was so half-baked about Mountain Lion and Lion? The removal of Save As is retarded, but that's been baked for a while, just by someone with horrible judgement.
I actually agree. I live in a place where apple maps is actually more accurate than google maps. Google maps placed a Walmart across my street. It's farmland.
I really don't care for this thread, but I want to thank you for posting about TotalSpaces and XtraFinder, I did not know these applications existed on the mac, and they make me happy.
I could yell launch safari, or I can just click the safari icon. I mean if I had no hands, maybe.
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Yeah Microsoft did the something with office 2013. It is so flat, it's impossible to tell between a message a button or anything else. Hate. Feel like I went colorblind.
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It's not just uk. I saw this one guy talking to Siri. After repeating his message 8 times, he eventually just typed it. I've disabled her the minute the jokes got old.
See what the construction crews are doing there 6 months from now
Lol. No. I know the owner. He is old tho...
QTkit is not dead. It is used for certain 32-bit apps that require carbon.
It will pop up using QT or iTunes etc.
And here's the latest framework from 10.8.3
