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Apple Has Already Started Work on Mac OS X 10.8

Alchemist said:
I'd go for any of:

10.8 Steve
10.8 Liger/Tigon
10.8 Sabre-Tooth Tiger
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So you're saying we should go back in time where there was Sabre tooth tigers, or another cat at the same food chain as lion if not higher possibly lower of the food chain? or something I don't want to say because it might be offensive but you get the idea.

Try again.
 
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Apple has already begun work on the next major revision to Mac OS X which is being labeled as version 10.8.
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Like DUH!

Anyone involved in creating and maintaining software of this magnitude knows that Apple is not only working on 10.8, but 10.9, 10.10, 10,11 and beyond.

A list of features/benefits is created and in constant flux, arranging what features need to be incorported in what order. Lines are drawn to show what ends up in each release. It would be impossible to create and manage an operating system if you concurrently worked on only one or two releases ahead.
 
OS 10.8 Cheetah

Cheetah seems like a natural progression from Lion... make the best the fastest (because its driven by the cloud!)
 
Amazing how many people can't be bothered to look up the cat names that've already been used before suggesting them. :rolleyes:
 
Abazigal said:
OSX Fatcat, if it ends up slowing down my imac just like Lion did. :p
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No idea why people have voted this down, it slowed down my MacPro no ***** end. Start up is now a joke, takes well over 1 minute. Thats from a clean install, when every I use is loaded is takes nearer 2 minutes. Start up times for software has also seen a large increase. Although not a vast amount of time and does not really reduce productivity it is bl'dy annoying that as things progress they get slower.

Before all the apologists come and say it's something i'm doing it's not, as I have 10.5, 10.6 and 10.7 all running on the same machine. All have the same software on them. 10.6 is the fastest to start up to a fully working desktop.

Apple managed to break something that was fixed.
 
If Apple continues the iOSification of OS X, I may be stuck on Snow Leopard forever. I want to manage my own files and versioning, thank you very much.
 
Kennywayne3295 said:
I really love Lion, I don't understand why people complain so much. Yes, I've noticed a little bit of a memory leak, but I'm sure they'll fix that. And no, I couldn't ever go back to Snow Leopard.

Having said that, I could totally see them transition to bird names (which would be cool, but their implementation of cat names was just genius –it gave the name a cool factor you just don't get with "Vista"). But it seems like they're ditching all that cutesy stuff that started this beautiful platform. They've scratched out the "Mac" in Mac OS X, and they no longer have the awesome intro movies that gave youtube millions of hits, all while rapidly progressing to a more streamlined experience.

Apple, the weird, fun-loving, quirky-little-think-different company is dropping all that for a professional image with simple, sleek notebooks, today's pop-culture(think lady gaga, and all the other things the youth's are into) and boring professionalism (no more white macbook :( ). It's sad that they say the best days of Apple are ahead, but everything that established this brand is departing.

It's not necessarily a bad thing, I'm sure they're more great apple products to come, but I guess what I'm trying to say is that all the little things that defined them, the quirky things that made using a mac so enjoyable, so different, is happening to leave us. So no, it wouldn't surprise me if they dropped the naming all-together in favor of a more "streamlined" naming technique such as "Windows 7."

Whats next to go: Startup chime. :(
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I agree, I could never go back to Snow Leopard. But I think this professionalism you're seeing happens to all companies when they start to mature. But I don't think the quirky little things will ever go away (at least I hope not), like take for example the wiggle effect when you rearrange the iPhone apps (you can even do it in launch pad, no reason... just for fun).
 
Slurpy2k8 said:
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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Ironic that you bash others as "clueless" when your point-of-view is so limited. Lion is the most useless Mac OS upgrade, period. It's dumbed down. If that makes you happy, then good for you!

I'm still waiting for a breakthrough UI and I'm sure Apple will be the ones to do it. Lion is far from it, though. It's just Snowleopard with some features taken out and some candy for the kids and soccer moms added in. If you think Lion is the future, you've got to think bigger, bud.
 
Aw, no tidbits on what 10.8 may contain! Well, in general I like Lion.

But what always gets on my nerves is when Apple removes a feature... when they remove something that was perfectly fine, for no apparent reason. And these things are usually, small, specific things, but small specific things I use frequently. for example, the bounce feature in Mail. Or, the file compression feature in preview for images (in the old an new preview, for example, you can adjust the compression rate and file size for jpegs... and in the old preview, it actually told you what the new file size would be, and in the new preview, it doesn't! What's up with that! How useful is compressing a jpeg when you have no clue how big the resulting file will be!).

The ironic thing is that it would take less time for Apple to leave an existing feature in than it would take to remove it. C'mon Apple. Don't mess with us for 10.8.
 
Hope 10.8 brings back the power.

Because I find absolutely no use whatsoever with 10.7/Lion, in fact couple that with iCloud (which is not compatible with 10.6.8) and you have the worst experience out of Apple that I have personally used.

Go ahead and vote this down, it's qft.
 
Discoverer said:
I wonder if 10.8 won't run on Core 2 Duo Macs because of "technical limitations".
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Not because of technical limitations, but to force users to upgrade their hardware ;) Logic Pro 8, "apparently" isn't supported by Lion, and yet a user can easily open the application up by simply searching through a few folders.
 
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