Sure. And I would be glad if they were so kind to share that vision with us in press releases, blogs and other forms of communication. You know, just as EVERY other company in the IT industry does it.
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Apple Job Posting Suggests 'Revolutionary' New Mac OS X Feature
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Sure. And I would be glad if they were so kind to share that vision with us in press releases, blogs and other forms of communication. You know, just as EVERY other company in the IT industry does it.
I guess they'll be changing the "i" from iEverything with something else. Now THAT'll be something amazing and at the core of iEverything as well. 
It's time for "u".
Sent from yourPad.))))))
It's time for "u".
Sent from yourPad.
))))))To all those guys wishing for some 3D desktop:
Maybe you don't know, but there are people doing actually work on our computers. Maybe you have nothing better to do all day than marvelling at your beautiful operating system or getting bored with it, but I for one would prefer a leaner, meaner system without superfluous eye candy that actually decreases usability.
Have you ever seen virtual Desktops on a modern Linux machine? With a cube you have to rotate to get to the next screen? I'll just stick to Spaces' birds-eye view.
Fixing TFF (that would include a Spatial mode that isn't broken, thank you very much) should have priority over some visual effects.
That being said, keep in mind the feature has to do with some deep-level OS stuff dealing with the internet. If it's a Cloud feature, I'd like to see OS X become less iDisk-y and more Dropbox-y.
Maybe you don't know, but there are people doing actually work on our computers. Maybe you have nothing better to do all day than marvelling at your beautiful operating system or getting bored with it, but I for one would prefer a leaner, meaner system without superfluous eye candy that actually decreases usability.
Have you ever seen virtual Desktops on a modern Linux machine? With a cube you have to rotate to get to the next screen? I'll just stick to Spaces' birds-eye view.
Fixing TFF (that would include a Spatial mode that isn't broken, thank you very much) should have priority over some visual effects.
That being said, keep in mind the feature has to do with some deep-level OS stuff dealing with the internet. If it's a Cloud feature, I'd like to see OS X become less iDisk-y and more Dropbox-y.
I don't think anyone is wishing for 3D, just speculating as to what Apple are upto.
I'm pretty sure most people on here use their Macs for work, but what makes it such a joy to use IS that is both elegant and functional. If Mac OSX looked like a dog (read: Windows XP) then what would be the initial "draw" to the average windows user?
Nobody wants superfluous eye-candy, but I also want it to remain "beautiful"
I LOVE dropbox, an enhanced version of dropbox integrated into Mac OS would be a welcome feature.
No. The ability to resize a window from any corner or *gasp* maybe even from the borders. This will definitely require the hiring of new programmers.
But really, clipboard history with Spotlight integration would be great. On both Windows and Mac OS X I've always had to use add-on utilities to get that functionality.
There's nothing more annoying than inadvertedly overwriting a large chunk of text in your clipboard with something else, knowing you're NEVER going to get it back.
Nice work putting two and two together here, and the name definitely makes sense but Im not sure if its different enough from Snow Leopard and Leopard, too many leopards. I would be THRILLED if true cloud computing was built into 10.7.
Oh and nice photoshop graphic lol
Oh and nice photoshop graphic lol
That is how you do it with windows. Why? Because unlike OS X, windows doesn't have stuff like spring-loaded folders, a dock, expose, or all the other things that make dragging and dropping far easier than cutting and pasting. People that complain about no cut for files, are just used to the windows way of doing stuff. It's pretty easy to do it the mac way, it just takes some getting used to.
Like the revolutionary "Put Back" feature?
Well, they technically already had that feature before OS X, for some reason they didn't implement it in OS X till Snow Leopard...
WindowShade please!
Double click on any window title bar and whoops, the window shrinks to the title bar. Now that would be real magic back from the old days
And it would be obviously revolutionary, since it takes months for Unsanity to recode the feature each time Apple upgrades the system...
Double click on any window title bar and whoops, the window shrinks to the title bar. Now that would be real magic back from the old days
And it would be obviously revolutionary, since it takes months for Unsanity to recode the feature each time Apple upgrades the system...
Holodeck
I keep saying this and no one believes me but I am convinced Apple is going to launch a a Holodeck system where you are in the computer and can make it seem to be anything or anywhere you want.
I keep saying this and no one believes me but I am convinced Apple is going to launch a a Holodeck system where you are in the computer and can make it seem to be anything or anywhere you want.
Thought
This isn't for 10.7.
I bet they want to abandon X, and go to 11, for 2011 and other reasons. So, the change must be from the ground up. No more spinning hard drives in any Mac machine.
Complete Solid state-based OS?
Maybe that's what everyone is talking about when they say iOS X.
More cloud-based (although I'm still not a huge cloud fan).
This isn't for 10.7.
I bet they want to abandon X, and go to 11, for 2011 and other reasons. So, the change must be from the ground up. No more spinning hard drives in any Mac machine.
Complete Solid state-based OS?
Maybe that's what everyone is talking about when they say iOS X.
More cloud-based (although I'm still not a huge cloud fan).
Yes. Apple once almost ported all of the Mac OS to the PC platform in the Star Trek Project. But they realized that they get more money from hardware than software, so they axed it. Still interesting that they ported the core system, QuickTime, and Finder to the PC though.
"Apple Job Posting Suggests 'Revolutionary' New Mac OS X Feature"
Eh, must be something that has been out for some years now and Apple is just implementing it.
Eh, must be something that has been out for some years now and Apple is just implementing it.
Just rename .DS_Store to thumbs.db and it's all good.
We covered this here, a couple of pages back:
This is metadata that OSX uses to store additional data about files.
You can certainly create a zip file without the Mac-specific metadata (an easy method would be to use the zip command from the command shell), but by definition an archive file in OSX *should* contain a .DS_Store file and the __MACOSX folder.
Mac users used to know this stuff...
apple knows the approximate configuration of their computers 2-3 years into the future. Intel along with their other suppliers send engineering samples of pre-production CPU's to customers months before release for testing and to engineer computers around them. and they all have roadmaps going out several years.
people that paid $29 for 10.6 paid full price for a second copy when they bought new Mac's starting late last year.
if you look at apple over the last few years they are trying to find little ways to increase the average revenue per unit of everything sold. $29 OS X upgrade, battery charger, magic pad, bumpers for a iphone defect, etc.
it's like when best buy started making most of their profits from accessories around 10 years ago