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Apple Has Already Started Work on Mac OS X 10.8

New features would be cool, but I want them to focus on fixing the issues in Lion first.

Maybe a clean install may fix these (yet to try), but the personal problems I find are Memory Management, Mission Control Freezing and this:

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How awesome would it be if the called there next release Nyan Cat! I know copyright issues would make that impossible but it would still be awesome :p
 
Lord Appleseed said:
"The cougar, also known as puma, mountain lion, mountain cat, catamount or panther..." (Wikipedia)

All the same cat; so no, we'll not see a cougar or mountain lion OS.
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Meh. The leopard is also known as panther, and snow leopard is snow panther in other languages. Leopard, Puma and and Panther were all OS X code names, so double use of a name is no impediment, thus far.

Apple should have named 10.7 Clouded Leopard, though.
 
Slurpy2k8 said:
Launchpad is fantastic. I use it all the time to launch applications not in the dock. Beats opening up the finder and scrolling through a tiny list.

Also, those who say they hope Apple will reverse the 'iPadification' in their next OS are really disconnected with reality, and havent been paying attention. If anything, it will clearly increase. The endgame is the merging of both iOS and OSX. Anyone who can't see why that would be Apple's goal in the big picture.. wwll, there's nothing to say. I'm not even sure what people here WANT in a desktop OS, and neither do they. Innovation on the desktop will now stem from innovations in the mobile space, which will spred to both. People say they're disappointed with Lion, yet don't offer a single feature they would have liked to see. Lion is the best desktop OS Apple has ever made. I could never go back to SL. What the hell are 'SL roots anyway'? Some of you are utterly clueless.
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Lion is a great release with a lot of awesome feature. Mission control (though it still needs a few tweaks) and 64 bit system-wide capabilities, just to name a couple.

However, Launchpad is not one of them. How about using stacks? Or better yet Alfred, quicksilver, or even spotlight? There are a million better ways to launch an application. iOS and OSX may be destined to merge, but I think Apple jumped the gun on this one.

Also, I don't think the user who posted about going back to SL roots is totally clueless. SL made a lot of big improvements to Leopard (especially in the stability department), without reducing much functionality at all.
Now, granted, Lion is still in the first couple of point stages, but I've had SL from the GM release, and I never had as many problems with it as I have had with Lion.
Add to that the fact that Apple has pretty much crippled any users who want to use full screen with multiple screens.

...I guess I wouldn't mind Apple taking a page out of their SL book.
 
Slurpy2k8 said:
Launchpad is fantastic. I use it all the time to launch applications not in the dock. Beats opening up the finder and scrolling through a tiny list.
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Launchpad isn't the curse some whine about.

But nothing 'beats' cmd+spacebar > first letters of a program's name.
You can open 'apps' like that too. :D
 
carlemil said:
Everyone is talking about Lion as was it a terrible vista, speed clogging, OS.

Am I the only one who has seen speed increasment over Snow Leopard, and just experienced an all together OS improvement?
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There are a lot of improvements that came with Lion. To be clear, Lion is definitely no vista. Whoever is saying that clearly never used vista. However, (at least in my experience) it has had more bugs than I am accustomed to seeing in OS X.

kevin2i said:
Launchpad isn't the curse some whine about.

But nothing 'beats' cmd+spacebar > first letters of a program's name.
You can open 'apps' like that too. :D
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Enter Alfred. (or Quicksilver). Spotlight has a slight lag, since it has to search through ALL the files in the index.
 
Another post for 'what's the point of this story'?

They will have the iPhone 6 and maybe 7 in development, it's kinda what the company does, makes and develops things..

Instead of posting a pointless news article, why not see if you can dig up some rumours about it's features and how the interface will look MacRumors?
 
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jaedreth said:
I used to work for AppleCare in Austin, and I can tell you that Apple starts up its next operating system development as soon as the old one is out the door.

Apple doesn't waste time. This is why Apple has been able to deliver new operating systems every 2 years like clockwork, unlike Microsoft.
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Microsoft work on the next version of windows before the current one is finished.

The reason why microsoft aren't on time is (1) too ambitious (2) they are much more open about their shipping dates.

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Lion is the worse OSX yet since Panther IMO ( Panther was the first OSX I really really liked - smoother / better performance / refined)- mainly due to its GUI changes, a few:
(1) LaunchPad? A mess of cluttered icons of all gathered applications.. Not *much* different that having a 'shortcut' to Applications. quicker to use Spotlight or alternatives such as LaunchBar to open the application you want.
(2) Auto hiding scroll bars - thank god you can turn off the automatic hiding of scroll bars - Scroll Bars that hide automatically are a GUI mess - you can't see at a glance if there are more items in a combo box.
(3) only one desktop allowed in full screen applications
(4) Horrid and pointless skins on iCal and AddressBook ( its not the 80s, the vast majority of people know what a computerized calendar and Address Book are ) which make them totally inconsistent with the rest of the GUI / Apple provided applications. Fortunately there's 'hacks' out there to remove the skins.

Some things that work on a small device do not work on a full desktop O/S.
 
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It's way too early to start talking about the looks. I'm 100% sure the current builds look exactly the same als Lion.
 
Hopefully it will be less of a catastrophe than 10.7.

And I really hope we don't have to wait a year for the massive improvements 10.7 requires to be usable.

Phazer
 
arn said:
Sure, perhaps better title would have been. "Apple Employees Should be Working on OS X 10.8 But Instead Are Browsing MacRumors.com." :)

arn
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To be fair Arn - they are coming here to find out if they're on schedule for 10.8 ;)
 
OS 10.8 features;

  • Siri for Mac
  • iMessage ("Awesome killer app!")
  • Newsstand
  • iBooks
  • Minimal file system; everything becomes reliant on Launchpad
  • ARM support

Whether many of those are good remains to be seen, but in typical Apple fashion, they'll dress them up as being significant upgrades.
 
carlemil said:
The only thing I find problematic about Launchpad is that you can't choose which apps not to be included in launchpad, and that it is to easy to click outside of an app area, resulting in launchpad returning to the desktop, and you have to open up launchpad again.
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Try LaunchPad-Control ( link to MacUpdate - LaunchPad Control Info and Download page)
 
Slurpy2k8 said:
Launchpad is fantastic. I use it all the time to launch applications not in the dock. Beats opening up the finder and scrolling through a tiny list.
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Not a fan of the keyboard, are you? :) Try command+space, type a few letters from the name of you app. (ok, "Install Xcode.app" got on my nerves though...)

My dock is mostly the annoying thing that comes up when i mouse my mouse down too much...
 
OSX Lion

I've never had any problems with OSX Lion. Then again before i got my 2011 MBP i was running OSX Tiger on a PPC G5 so I've never even done work on SL.
 
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