Since you've always got to innovate and
always needs to be light years ahead of M$ it's reasonable to expect major innovations that are actually useful (like spaces, bootcamp, time machine... you get the idea).
Am I the only one with the feeling it's all been about refinements this year at
?
iPhone 3GS, iPod nano with video camera, iPod shuffle with not so practical voice functions, slightly better MacBook Pro, slightly better white MacBook, slightly better Leopard... despite size differences slightly better iMac.
Slightly better keyboard.
What happened to those times that Apple jumped from the iMac G3 to the amazing looking G4?
When they could easily claim they had the fastest personal computer?
You can't keep putting on new user features on same codebase forever, that's what happened to Windows. Apple needs to take a break once in a while and rework the whole OS to make it ready for the next several releases. That's what Vista was and look how much better it was for MS when they released W7 with refined Vista code. Chances are the next release of Mac OS X will be a major release.
Rumor has it, they actually are considering a change of brand name, as 'Windows' has been tarnished so heavily, for so long.
Good one!
Or perhaps, Portal - hence the mandatory security measures 24/7.
Seven is the new brand name (meaning they stopped attaching the names to the versions like Me/XP/Vista), Windows is too big of a global trademark for them to change and most likely will stay around for a long time.
Isn't that what release parties signify?
No, release parties are for congrats to the devs for finishing off a huge project. Not to send them off to vacations. Devs don't have vacations.
Important? Disk space hasn't been a significant constraint in years, and is getting less so all the time.
For desktops and most laptops, that's true, not for ultraportable devices and tablets. They are going to be tiny in size for a while. SSD is still small but eventually it'll be the default drive for laptops and ultra-portable devices.
You mean they've finished 10.6, put out a couple of service releases, and now they're starting 10.7? Say it isn't so! I can see why this is front page news.
And here I was assuming that Steve would have the entire OS team sitting on their hands for the next several months.
They didn't start 10.7 now, they started it months ago, this isn't really any news. Just a slow news day.
This would be news if Apple *wasn't* working on 10.7. I find it interesting that they're still so early in the process. Apparently they don't do overlapping development.
In most really big developments, the next major release is started as soon as the previous one hits feature freeze.
This news doesn't say anything about the progress of 10.7 development, just some bug report talking about the next build number. Apple started working on 10.7 months ago. There are always overlapping developments, can't start putting in new codes without researching and research takes a long time.
Fair enough, it doesn't indicate XI on the strength that the code is 11, but if the next version were to be XI then what would the code be? would it revert back to 1 instead? It could still be 11A47
It's based on the kernel version (type "uname -a" in terminal), that won't change unless the kernel has been replaced with a brand new kernel. It has nothing to do with OS X version numbers.
Do we have to go all the way up to 11.0 before we get a completely new UI overhaul?
I appreciate the stability and wonderfulness that is the current OSX platform but I am also for killing Aqua.
We are all awaiting for the next GUI refresh but it probably won't be X11. It can be either 10.7 or 10.8. We have no idea, that's what makes rumors fun.
That feels like an awfully fast dev cycle to me. But, I suppose it also depends on how much they're going to shove into the release.
I think there was an earlier post which rang more true to me which pegged a 2010 WWDC preview with a spring or summer 2011 intro date.
The new technologies are all in the kernel now, it is now time for the front end work. They'll continue to optimize the current kernel including the new technologies and rapidly start adding users type of features. We should see another "300+ new features" release in 10.7.
For sure and new Finder (re-written from the ground up), 64 bit kernel only if possible. How about cut and paste in the Finder.
Finder has already been re-written, it's in Snow Leopard and runs as 64bit app. Cut and Paste probably will never come.
That my friend is why Windows is a dying OS-it will because of these things, be forever locked in the mid 20th century- a has been, antiquated;
It will soon be left FAR behind no matter how many times they change the colors schemes on XP v3
Unlike Mac you are not going to see windows switch o a Unix foundation-they are not likely to invent a new system from scratch like BEOS or OS2
Theyll just keep selling a system built with The Registry, DLLs, BIOS, DRM, etc and like 56k modems Windows will become totally irellevant.
the 21st century will become increasingly unkind to Windows as it starts to grow long in the tooth as an OS
They have peaked and now are on a slow but steady downhill slide-while apple rises
Microsoft has been working on that since early 2005, project codenamed MinWin. Ars just did an
article on it today. Microsoft does not need to switch to Unix, their NT kernel is very good, that's not where the security problems are. It's the front top layers. Microsoft previously had the front user stuff like graphics, networking and stuff in kernel land, they switched those to userland when they released Vista and that cut down majority of the OS crashes (BSOD) since they no longer crash the OS but itself. That's going to be continue further down the line, a modular OS is going to be the future for MS. They are on a right track.
-crossfire for ATI cards
-trim/garbage collection for SSD drives
-cut/paste of files in finder
-add to instead of replacing a folder when pasting a folder over an existing one with the same name
Those are the only features I can think of that I really want.
Although, lower ram usage would be really nice. OS X is becoming a ram hog.
Garbage collection does not require an OS support, it's a built in process by the SSD's controllers. Any SSD with that feature will work fine in OS X since it is not file system dependant. As it turns out, it is possible TRIM may not be required for SSD down in the line, the GC might replace TRIM.
