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And wrongly spelled, by the way. You can correctly call it "El Cap", or "The Captain",
but not "El Capitan". If Apple wants to be cool by being open to other languages, then please don't pretend to write other languages like if they were English. It's "El Capitán" (note the accent).

Please, Apple, we're Mac users because we like well designed things. Stop the trash. Stop it.
I don't think Apple was "trying to be cool". It's not incorrectly spelled. Are you from the U.S.? Check it out. EL Capitan is a rock formation in Yosemite Park. Please don't show ignorance by slamming Apple for something you're actually saying wrong. El Capitan does not have an accent on it in Yosemite's online information. And aren't you being very picky? Who cares about a damn accent? Do people nitpick you like this, or are you perfect? Sheesh, this forum.

All that's important is we get a stable OS.
 
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Then why rename it? If I take my new car to the garage to have manufacturers identified faults fixed they don't rename it when I go to collect it.

Stick with an OS for a minimum of 3 years and fix the faults in the first 6 months.
So EL Capitan got no new features added to it, but only bug fixes? Check the keynote.
 
OS X Stupid Name

We went from cool feline names to this! Steve would have never... ah forget it.
You're right! Steve would never...........he just named Apple's cloud storage "iTools", then later decided to charge a $99 annual fee for the same service and changed the name to "Dot Mac", decided that Dot Mac needed a few changes and offer even less functions and changed the name to the super successful "Mobile me" and when he realized this was going downhill he changed the name to "iCloud". 4 names (3 name changes) for the same service.

As I said earlier, You're Right! Steve would never.....;)
 
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Let me get this straight, "The Captain" is the worst name ever for any piece of software and it is even worst name for any kind of operating system.
 
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Lets just hope it doesn't get the name the way some have already started calling it. El Crapitan.
 
And wrongly spelled, by the way. You can correctly call it "El Cap", or "The Captain",
but not "El Capitan". If Apple wants to be cool by being open to other languages, then please don't pretend to write other languages like if they were English. It's "El Capitán" (note the accent).

Please, Apple, we're Mac users because we like well designed things. Stop the trash. Stop it.

No, you're the one who is wrong. The place name does not use accents:

http://www.nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/formations.htm
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@37.733956,-119.6373944,15z?hl=en

"Stop the trash. Stop it."
 
Safari-How about letting us clear the browsing history without wiping out everything else!?
Safari is the only browser without any options in that area and it's ludicrous

You can just delete history, but you have to open the history window and manually delete it. I agree that it would be nicer to have a simple Clear History option in the menu bar which doesn't also delete cookies and web data.

If you click on Clear history and web data in Safari, it immediately signs you out of iTunes. It can even delete metadata from iTunes. For that reason, I strongly advise against using it. Instead, manually clear history in the history window, and manually clear cookies in Preferences.
 
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I really just picture a bunch of apple guys sitting around at lunch and placing a bet on the most ridiculous name to call OS X 10.11. I then just imagine them cracking up somewhere with beers in hand as apple released the name at the keynote.... That or it was bring your kid to work day at apple and let the kids decide.
 
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Apple continuing their Windows 8 adoption numbers bs at this year's event. Of course OSX 10.10 would have the fastest adoption ever, it's a free update for ANYONE with a Mac and there is a less percent of Macs out there than Windows PCs. Plus Windows has 92PCT market share, so percentages mean nothing. How about the fact that more people use Windows 8/8.1 than ALL OSX Versions (10.2-10.10) combined?

Plus Windows 10 will be FREE for all 7-8 users. So let's see how those adoption numbers look at WWDC 2016. I don't mind a little competition, but blatantly lying to your fans for applause is just wrong.
 
Based on...what?

- The Start menu is back
- Cortana voice assistant (Still no Siri on Macs)
- Virtual Desktops
- UI Re-designed from the inside out
- Faster, more secure, and more reliable than any other Windows version
- Windowed ModernUI apps
- Action Center notifications
- Microsoft Edge browser is faster, smoother and can sideload Firefox/Chrome extensions natively
- Stream Xbox One games over WiFi onto your Windows 10 PC
- Continuum (Tablets will default to full screen Windows 8 style, Computers will default to classic desktop)
- If you’d like to force a switch, the new Action Center has a dedicated “Tablet Mode” button that you can enable or disable at will
- Now, there is one Settings menu, available from the Start button. As a bonus, the somewhat annoying Charms menu has vanished.
 
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- The Start menu is back
- Cortana voice assistant (Still no Siri on Macs)
- Virtual Desktops
- UI Re-designed from the inside out
- Faster, more secure, and more reliable than any other Windows version
- Windowed ModernUI apps
- Action Center notifications
- Microsoft Edge browser is faster, smoother and can sideload Firefox/Chrome extensions natively
- Stream Xbox One games over WiFi onto your Windows 10 PC
- Continuum (Tablets will default to full screen Windows 8 style, Computers will default to classic desktop)
- If you’d like to force a switch, the new Action Center has a dedicated “Tablet Mode” button that you can enable or disable at will
- Now, there is one Settings menu, available from the Start button. As a bonus, the somewhat annoying Charms menu has vanished.
So no actual performance numbers or by any actual standards. Please. This is MSFT marketing nonsense.
 
Yosemite has made many macs so less efficient that they need to implement Metal to improve overall performance, including UI. So after nearly 2 years since Yosemite's first appearance, people are praying for OS X to be as smooth as Mavericks and its predecessors. Good job!
 
You can just delete history, but you have to open the history window and manually delete it. I agree that it would be nicer to have a simple Clear History option in the menu bar which doesn't also delete cookies and web data.

If you click on Clear history and web data in Safari, it immediately signs you out of iTunes. It can even delete metadata from iTunes. For that reason, I strongly advise against using it. Instead, manually clear history in the history window, and manually clear cookies in Preferences.

I'll look into that. It's just bizarre that Apple doesn't have the option to only delete history on the menu bar.
Anyone at Rumors have any connections at Apple to see if they can rectify this?
 
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Yosemite has made many macs so less efficient that they need to implement Metal to improve overall performance, including UI. So after nearly 2 years since Yosemite's first appearance, people are praying for OS X to be as smooth as Mavericks and its predecessors. Good job!
Mavericks was introduced 2 years ago. Yosemite is one year old.
 
I'll look into that. It's just bizarre that Apple doesn't have the option to only delete history on the menu bar.
Anyone at Rumors have any connections at Apple to see if they can rectify this?

In addition, I wouldn't delete the Apple cookie, and possibly the iCloud cookie, in Safari. I'm not sure if deleting it is the culprit for deleting metadata in iTunes. But I do know that when I have used the Delete history and web data option in Safari, it has sometimes got rid of months of Play counts and other metadata in iTunes.

There has been a historic link between Safari and iTunes, partly, I think, because iTunes is built on web foundations. It seems anachronistic to still have this bizarre connection today. I feel they should rebuild iTunes from the ground up. iTunes Match has got a lot more stable over the years, in my experience, but iTunes's overall handling of metadata leaves much to be desired.
 
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So no actual performance numbers or by any actual standards. Please. This is MSFT marketing nonsense.

From my experiences, it's as fast as Windows 8 with a slightly smaller memory footprint. For all its UI flaws, W8 was a very smooth OS.

And the new Edge browser? It has the potential to be great, since MS has stripped out everything that made IE such a massive security hole while adding features that actually make sense. It's basically built around web standards and nothing more. The only problem is it's a little...olol...spartan at the moment.
 
That's a user point of view. But I'm a developer. So, from my point of view, an API that gets cornered into compatibility/support status is a dead API, because in the mid-term you won't be able to use it for accessing the latest hardware features. In that context, what Apple is saying today is that OpenGL and OpenCL are dead (in other words, if some future GPU supports any new feature, you can expect it implemented in Metal, not in OpenGL nor OpenCL).

A very disappointing bit about this are the users who purchased a new Mac Pro. An expensive machine, theoretically optimized for OpenCL, with expensive dual GPUs, whose degree of support under Metal is still uncertain. I'm glad I decided to wait for later generations of the Mac Pro, when the new strategies from Apple get clearer.

Regarding Vulkan, it's still unborn, just preliminary implementations, but we see Microsoft pushing for DX, and now Apple pushing for Metal. Who's going to push for Vulkan? And it didn't arrive to a public status yet.

I've read very good reviews of the internal design of Metal, although didn't use it myself yet. If it's such a good API, maybe a good approach could be to write a compatibility layer from Metal to other OSs APIs (if that's feasible to some level), and write everything in Metal.

Because I develop for Mac, but also for other OSs. I know Apple wants us to target Apple products only, and the new API strategies from Apple clearly show their will, but sorry Apple, we'll still develop for other OSs too (you know, no OS stays forever, and well designed software surpases OSs lifetime).
But Swift becoming Open Source is a step in the right direction. Now if Metal could be open...
 
I'll look into that. It's just bizarre that Apple doesn't have the option to only delete history on the menu bar.
Anyone at Rumors have any connections at Apple to see if they can rectify this?

Another tip: if you use Private Browsing, it doesn't retain your history, but still allows cookies. I tend to use this, though not all sites play ball, including, ironically, Apple's support pages.
 
Another tip: if you use Private Browsing, it doesn't retain your history, but still allows cookies. I tend to use this, though not all sites play ball, including, ironically, Apple's support pages.

Not sure if you suggested it but show history and deleting history also deletes everything.
I'll try private browsing but it's so odd that Apple hasn't changed that history nonsense back to how it was before. Apple is really slipping IMO when it comes to user experience
 
Not sure if you suggested it but show history and deleting history also deletes everything.
I'll try private browsing but it's so odd that Apple hasn't changed that history nonsense back to how it was before. Apple is really slipping IMO when it comes to user experience


Really? Perhaps I'm wrong, but when I last did it, I selected all the history links in the history window and right clicked on delete. I think cookies were retained.
 
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