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

[lewismayell]

With that mentality, a Windows user would never switch to Mac (or anything). After-all, it's Windows. Get used to it, it's not going anywhere.

Personally, if you don't like it, don't use it and use something else. Never before have I heard such terrible advice just to stick on something you dislike posted with such sincerity.

Well no, I always preferred Mac to Windows, I just couldn't afford to get a Mac, until I could, then I switched straight away. Generally, if a Windows has all they need, why would they want to switch?

 

[Lone Deranger]

If true, and that is what the Finder icon will look like, the first thing I do after installing OSX 10.10 is revert it to the current Mavericks Finder icon.

 

[petvas]

Why would I need control center on my Mac? I can enable/disable bluetooth and Wifi from the menu bar. Being able to control music from the control centre is not important to me, actually I never listen to music using my Mac. Never.

 

[mw360]

I wonder what key functions in 10.9 apple can disable to force users to upgrade, due to a "security issue".

FaceTime? No it would be too obvious.
It would need to be more sneaky than that.

And I'm wondering in what sneaky ways it'll make hardware run slower. I'm surprised so many people embrace the new free, yearly (and virtually compulsory) update regime when it's quite obvious that it serves no purpose other than to quickly degrade older hardware. Apple want us to change Macs as often as we change our phones.

 

[advancewarsbest]

Bring back Snow Leopard!

I too am a huge fan snow leopard. But my preference has finally been overtaken by Mavericks. Am I the only one who feels that?

 

[Zxxv]

That is what made me want my first Mac i saw it and it just looked so nice.

I hate the look of the Dock in those pictures, and i hated the Dock look Pre OS 10.5.

Same as the Dock on iOS 7, it just looks wrong.

When I went in the apple store with my sister she pointed at the macs and the dock and said oh that it looks so nice. I really like that on macs.

So I think apple risk loosing a lot of customers who jumped on board because of the look of ios 5 and osx.

Waiting for sales figures....

 

[Kariya]

I too am a huge fan snow leopard. But my preference has finally been overtaken by Mavericks. Am I the only one who feels that?

Nope. Mavericks is the best OS X iteration imho...for now at least

 

[firefuze]

Apple Special Events ATV Icon?

Does anyone have the "Apple Special Events" Icon on their ATV? If you have, when did it appear?

 

[Cloudsurfer]

Did a lot of people reject the OS X Leopard UI changes at the time? I wasn't here then..

Pretty much. The 3D dock, the transparent menu bar, the Time Machine interface. There was enough to complain about it seemed. Then Lion came with its greyscale Finder icons, man the internet exploded over that.

 

[Even Longer]

Yep!

Bring back Snow Leopard!

Yes, with the new name: Yellow Snow Leopard To glorify the new aesthetics.

 

[RuffyYoshi]

Holy crap this is horrible. Please let this be fake... It has the exact shizo mess that Windows 8 has, meaning tablet and desktop features mushed together, and two different styles that don't match.

 

[vladi]

Can you please show me one example of the Windows dock? I am genuinely interested!

You are right, Windows doesn't have a dock. It has a thing called task bar that has exact same functionality as a thing called dock in OSX.

 

[goobot]

The only time I have ever needed to enable the indicator lights after installing OS X (and I always do a clean install when I upgrade OS X) was on one of the lion DPs, back in 2011. They were enabled by default in mavericks too, or I am going insane.

Mine were enabled.

 

[Gudi]

Yeah let's bring back core 2 duos while we're at it too.

What do you mean by bringing them back? They are still here.

Because when this photo was taken it was still under a working progress! Lots of things could have changed since then.

Work in progress, that's what they said about iOS 7 as well. When we first saw it, people told us to calm down its not the final version. Turns out the icons weren't placeholders to be replaced with nicer ones before release. Game Center is still exactly the same bubbly mess it was back then.

Yikes! Come on' Apple, you can do better than that.

No they can't anymore. The company is now controlled by the taste of Jony Ive. Who just isn't a user interface designer. But he is exactly that type of guy who buys some beats headphones because he thinks they look cool on him.

 

[Jethryn Freyman]

iOS bit the hand that fed it?

 

[peterdevries]

Why would I need control center on my Mac? I can enable/disable bluetooth and Wifi from the menu bar. Being able to control music from the control centre is not important to me, actually I never listen to music using my Mac. Never.

Hmm, genuinely strange that Apple didn't consult you first! What are they thinking?

For some people these functionalities make a lot of sense and would be very useful, even if they are useless to you.

 

[petvas]

Hmm, genuinely strange that Apple didn't consult you first! What are they thinking?

For some people these functionalities make a lot of sense and would be very useful, even if they are useless to you.

I know, right? They should call me first.

 

[attila]

Flat design!!!!!

Mac OS X Yosemite - Coming This Fall*

*November 30th

Not good flat design! Huge, useless surfaces and tremendous amount of blur, highly contrasting colours (red and green against black) and sharp edges.

I won't be getting 10.10 if it's like this.

 

[peterdevries]

I know, right? They should call me first.

They called me. I told them to put it in to piss you off

 

[Mac Heretic]

It is all about version numbers not following decimal system. They confused 10.10 with 10.0.
But I like it, if my current programs and 2010 Mac like it.

 

[Gudi]

And I'm wondering in what sneaky ways it'll make hardware run slower. I'm surprised so many people embrace the new free, yearly (and virtually compulsory) update regime when it's quite obvious that it serves no purpose other than to quickly degrade older hardware. Apple want us to change Macs as often as we change our phones.

Or it could be that making a digital copy costs nothing and the natural price of software should be between free or 99¢. What about free software forces you to upgrade hardware? I still have my Nokia from 2006.

 

[The Phazer]

That control centre looks pretty bad.

And the notification pane looks bad and needs a lot of work in iOS, so who the hell knows why that's being ported. They even kept taking half the screen up showing an empty calendar!

 

[peterdevries]

And I'm wondering in what sneaky ways it'll make hardware run slower. I'm surprised so many people embrace the new free, yearly (and virtually compulsory) update regime when it's quite obvious that it serves no purpose other than to quickly degrade older hardware. Apple want us to change Macs as often as we change our phones.

Do you have any actual prove of this?

 

[springsup]

If true, and that is what the Finder icon will look like, the first thing I do after installing OSX 10.10 is revert it to the current Mavericks Finder icon.

I think Apple's icon design team all simultaneously picked up and left right before work on iOS7 started.

I remember a report saying that the iOS7 icon design was left to the marketing teams! It's like they completely didn't care about them at all and shoved the work off to the first person to walk by. The resulting icons are so ugly, they are clearly one of the biggest complaints about the new design. Just keep in mind that they redesigned the entire GUI, then take a browse through these forums and count how many people complain the icons (and how often it's at the top of the list).

 

[attila]

It looks real, and it looks awful. This gratuitous homogenisation of the UI between devices is like, neurotic. And everything's got to be flat because, Ive says so. Any UI appearance which is actually useful to give a visual cue or an affordance prompt as to function is now deemed "skeuomorphic" and banned. Yech.

Amen.