More revolutionary products from Apple? No way
Come on Apple, can't you use other adjectives other than "magical", "amazing", "revolutionary", "incredible" ?
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Apple Job Posting Suggests 'Revolutionary' New Mac OS X Feature
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Come on Apple, can't you use other adjectives other than "magical", "amazing", "revolutionary", "incredible" ?
I too love OS X for development. I do web development (PHP, MySQL mainly) with lots of media creation thrown in and for the most part I love it. What has been a drag is the multitude of bugs that have particularly impacted my area of work, such as the QuickTime bug that prevented playback of videos produced by OS X Server's Podcast Producer in Windows for months. I realize no system is perfect, but some of what I've seen coming out of Apple has made me suspect that their rate of growth is having some pretty serious ramifications on QC, both in hardware and software.
Oh, and Quicktime X is really lacking.
OMG! that is such a brilliant idea, that i cant believe NOBODY ever thought of before! I think snow leopard would be a more appropriate name though.
Mac OS X + iOS = boom
I woe the Personnel Office assistants that handle inflow form the open public rec. My guess is over a thousand on line applications are going to hit on this one. There are a lot of engineers that are out of work and refuse to work for smaller outfits so they can just keep their unemployment benefits paying their mortgage.
Open rec's for high profile jobs at Apple and a few other outfits always concern me. Also, if it is so "revolutionary" why isn't the classic old-boy's network of Apple engineers pulling in their connections?
It may be "revolutionary" but it also sounds like a job that may be the scapegoat position if it doesn't work out either technically or by some exec's mood swings.
For a little perspective, read this : http://thurly.net/s0m (Ha, first time actually using the extension).
It's a surprisingly good article that I agree with. Funny that this job posting comes out the same day the guy writes the article.
Whatever is ahead of us, it'll be exciting. Maybe even revolutionary.
It's a surprisingly good article that I agree with. Funny that this job posting comes out the same day the guy writes the article.
Whatever is ahead of us, it'll be exciting. Maybe even revolutionary.
How about writing some magical drivers so we can use Steam and Blizzard Clients on OSX without losing 50% of my fps
Sorry to be blunt but... are you nuts? Yes, they use other people video cards and hard drives and Intel chips but the motherboard designs, the other special components in their hardware, the overall design (not just the looks, but the design of the guts to go into the pretty cases) are all Apple designed. Not to mention their own A4 chip for the iPhone4.
What makes Apple unique in the industry is they do both... make killer hardware and make killer software to run it. This is why they are winning on many fronts right now... they have the control over the entire eco system.
But to say they don't make hardware is crazy... yes, they don't manufacture it in-house... almost no one does anymore... but they are responsible for all the design and what goes in it. Even the custom bits they toss in.
Of course they do the design but they are a software company at heart. To say Apple is a hardware company is just weird. If they have 10 people working on hardware design, they'd have thousands working on software engineering.
As much as I'm enthused about a revolutionary new feature, I'm cautious of Apple's overuse of hyperbole.
As for "never been done", it probably has already.
As for "never been done", it probably has already.
I don't know about Steam but my World of Warcraft on OS X runs at 85% fps of Win7, which is pretty great if you ask me considering one is OpenGL and other is Direct3D.
The magical driver your talking about is a baseball bat to valve and blizzard devs so they start using mac os frameworks in their port and optimize their soft with the techs on this side of the computer world?
iBrain>you wear a bluetooth alpha wave transmitter who needs to touch!
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X is just the version number not the name, so the Mac OS is already called OS. Ergo, iOS is already the mobile version of OS (v4.0.1 and v10.6.4 respectively), so why change OS to iOS and iOS to iOS Mobile? That would be going the Windows naming route, so I'd give it a low probability score.
More seriously imagine the engineer getting to his first day....
- So what is that revolutionary magical product??
- Poor boy Your going to the filesystem team, since we decided against using ZFS we're pretty much rewriting our own version. Tedious work...
Honestly that has to be one of the most pressing issues Apple has to be working on for OS X evolutions. Probably also clean quicktime X implementations of old quicktime functions.
Then again there is still the AI company they bought a few month ago...
- So what is that revolutionary magical product??
- Poor boy
Your going to the filesystem team, since we decided against using ZFS we're pretty much rewriting our own version. Tedious work...Honestly that has to be one of the most pressing issues Apple has to be working on for OS X evolutions. Probably also clean quicktime X implementations of old quicktime functions.
Then again there is still the AI company they bought a few month ago...
They're going into stock breeding? That is revolutionary! A whole new meaning for Generation X.
I think Apple has a pretty good handle on what mainstream consumers want as well as what professionals want. I seriously doubt it will be a cloud OS, or anything like that. Or a complete iOS integration. I do think that they will try to incorporate touch control to the operating system though and may label that as iOSX. Who knows right?
A lot of people depend on the BSDness (excuse the pun) of OSX. The software that a lot of professionals like myself use on a daily basis are coded for OSX and the like.
I don't think it will be like a massive iTunesesque desktop thing either complete with a minimall.
I do think maybe they are taking into account Microsoft's endeavors with project Natal. I could see head and hand tracking possibly in this "revolutionary" computer thing, that has not been done. Maybe turn your head, or swipe in the air to clear the screen. "Air" gestures. Maybe a simple nod a certain, customizable, way could in fact start a program.
They are saying something that hasn't been done before for computers.. so that's possibly where this is headed. There have been touch based operating systems and the like before. Me thinks that iOSX will have motion tracking built in as well as touch capability.
A lot of people depend on the BSDness (excuse the pun) of OSX. The software that a lot of professionals like myself use on a daily basis are coded for OSX and the like.
I don't think it will be like a massive iTunesesque desktop thing either complete with a minimall.
I do think maybe they are taking into account Microsoft's endeavors with project Natal. I could see head and hand tracking possibly in this "revolutionary" computer thing, that has not been done. Maybe turn your head, or swipe in the air to clear the screen. "Air" gestures. Maybe a simple nod a certain, customizable, way could in fact start a program.
They are saying something that hasn't been done before for computers.. so that's possibly where this is headed. There have been touch based operating systems and the like before. Me thinks that iOSX will have motion tracking built in as well as touch capability.
sure, why not? (ignoring the fact that on my machine, at least, that doesn't happen) it doesn't all need to be paged in at any given time and it's never caused me or anyone i know any problems.
