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Alleged OS X 10.10 with Control Center, Visual Tweaks, and More Shown in Blurry Photos [Updated]

... But like any sane person, I have my dock on the left hand side - control centre is going to clash with it :(

Would be cool if we can customise which edges notification centre and control centre pop from.

EDIT: In fact, thinking about it, control centre slides over the 'dock' in iOS, so I guess there is a design parity there. Customising would still be cool though.
 
Tough Guy said:
Looks ugly as sin. That dock is an atrocity.
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Were you reminding yourself of this in the Tiger days? Because it's essentially the same style...

I genuinely can't wait to have this Dock on my screen. My first Mac was around 2004/5, and the 2D Dock back then was much smarter; it allowed you to focus on your work. The 3D version was a step back because all it did was add eye candy, and for no reason other than to make the icons appear to be in a lifelike space.
 
Remains to be seen how I like it... kind of hard to tell on these pictures.

Personally, I never had any problems with the Mac OS X look so far - aside from the horrible skeumorphistic adventures which had been removed already.
IOS needed a serious overhaul back then because IOS 6 looked really dated.

Mac OS X though? I dont know. However, I think theyd redesign it very carefully.
 
miniroll32 said:
Were you reminding yourself of this in the Tiger days? Because it's essentially the same style...

I genuinely can't wait to have this Dock on my screen. My first Mac was around 2004/5, and the 2D Dock back then was much smarter; it allowed you to focus on your work. The 3D version was a step back because all it did was add eye candy, and for no reason other than to make the icons appear to be in a lifelike space.
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Exactly. Why go back? This is what you guys call change? A comeback of old design every couple of years?
 
fullauto said:
Wow, you sleep on a pre-WWDC night? I usually find myself wide-awake at 3-4am franticly looking for my iPhone or quietly turning on the :apple:TV to watch the stream :D
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I want to do the sensible thing and get a good night's rest. :)

BUT... it's awfully tempting to stay up and follow the live blog/tweet feed until 4-5am.

I'm so conflicted now! lol
 
n-evo said:
I really hope this is a very early beta. I mean, Apple added two sidebars, made windows white and flattened the Dock. Beyond that it's pretty much the same.
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1)we don't know if it's legit
2)if it is, these shots are from March, highly doubt the redesign was done by then
 
pancakedrawer said:
The dock looks similar to the current dock when mounted on the side of the screen as opposed to the bottom. Makes sense to unify the look.

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I first thought this was the new dock, and wondered why it looks different than the one posted in the leaked pics when it's set to the side. I thought it looked really neat. :) Then I realised it's the current dock, but just set to the side (I have it on the bottom), could cry.
 
bbfc said:
The vast majority of changes in Leopard were well received. The translucent menu bar and 3D dock were not.
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The reflective 3D dock was not well received, by John Sirracusa. But that's not the same 3D dock we have since Mountain Lion. That one he called "the best the 3D Dock has ever looked". I doubt someone will say that about the new 2D dock.
 
nikaru said:
OS X update has never effected positively older hardware.
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But that is also not the purpose of a new OS. I think you both are mixing up a number of things here:

1. The purpose of a new OS is to introduce new features that are in step with the requirements of the market at the time and the performance of hardware that is available. It is not intended to make older and current hardware run the OS "better", with the exception of Snow Leapard, which was.
2. No-one is forcing you to upgrade. If the current version works fine, then keep it on your machine. It is a bit short-sighted to ask for new functionality and subsequently complain when your machine runs slower as a consequence.

mw360 said:
Remember Steve Jobs' quote on the TV business - "Crap Turnover". Basically he, and by extension Apple, have nothing but contempt for the idea of buying a device and keeping it.
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See my point number 1. above. In addition I think you are not observing the situation here completely. The TV business is not attractive because margins are very small (and are distributed across a small number of suppliers that produce the panels) and people only buy a set every 5 years. In addition Steve Jobs had a very good view of the TV market, which is extremely mature and sees only very little innovation (except incremental in the sense of resolution, smart TV software and features such as Ambi-Light). In order to gain a foothold in that market comparable to what Apple has achieved in other markets, they would need to differentiate themselves from the big players such as LG, Samsung and Panasonic. If you know a bit about market dynamics than you will agree that this is extremely difficult for any company. That is what Steve's remark was about and it has nothing to do with what you are assuming.

Overall there are many people that think Apple has a strategy that outlines the planned obscolesence of products after a specific time. That may be the truth (although the proof for that has yet to be produced), but to apply that reasoning to voluntary software hardware updates goes a bit to far IMHO. Again, you are not forced to upgrade.
 
mrbyu said:
So you're telling me that all the Macs that were shipped with Lion weren't positively affected by ML and Mavericks? Interesting opinion you got there.

Actually there are a lot of people with even older machines who experienced that Mavericks ran better than Snow Leopard.
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I have a MBP from 2008 and an iMac also from 2008 and they both run better and faster under Mavericks than they did under Leopard (the OS X version that they original came with).
 
Has nobody said this yet?

Control Center makes no sense at all on Mac. On a Mac, we already have the exact same functionality provided in a better, more mouse oriented way, with the system menu bar (the right side of the menu bar, the part that doesn't change from application to application).

It always gives you at a glance information (in the form of a 22 point high icon or text) and it you want to interact with or modify that information, you click on it. More items can be installed, even from the Mac App Store, but also from outside it) and more from Apple can be found if you dig around the file system or System Preferences.
 
Haha there is on way that's real. I've seen that Safari window made with flavors. The dock was made transparent with a script and the blurred bar across the bottom is on the wallpaper itself. The other stuff was added to it after taking a screenshot.

And if the UI is going to see a big change, the icons will absolutely change too.
 
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https://mobile.twitter.com/dexwell_/status/473407314251501568
 
Anyone notice the 'get widgets' text at the bottom of the notification centre image? Could be Apple moving the dashboard to notification centre.
 
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