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Apple Job Posting Suggests 'Revolutionary' New Mac OS X Feature
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Cloudy OS. The idea of a client server meme is to have a thin client and a thick server. Apple's "thin clients" are more capable than the very "thick servers" of old, and the shift of thick "content" to the cloud is the new meme.
The handtop can do 4K displays and content push if one were to take it to its logical 2 year extension from the present. Store-forward, not stream. "Live" streaming sucks.
What will "surprise and delight" is a "virtual display" and an iPod Nano like local CPU, and a 10,000 node X-serve physical server farm, useable in time sliced and space sliced fashion with "bandwidth usage pool" based pricing.
We are nearly there.
Rocketman
More seriously imagine the engineer getting to his first day....
- So what is that revolutionary magical product??
- Poor boyYour 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...
Yeah, if I was that guy I think i'd be pretty disappointed and depressed. File systems = boring.
At least this talk of a new revolutionary step forward will take our minds off antennae problems and yellow tinting
They will finally
They will finally steal all of our thoughts directly from our mind. No keyboard interaction necessary. It'll be called CoreMindControl.
They will finally steal all of our thoughts directly from our mind. No keyboard interaction necessary. It'll be called CoreMindControl.
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I believe it will be something down the lines of a few things and not just one but just throwing this one idea out there.
They have iTunes (nice driver initially for the app store and other pay per consume) It's on every mac made and always been the default but an app is bot a tune is it now.
They will pull the focus back onto iTunes for subscription music with the new data centre then build the new revolutionary stuff on the apps for all devices.
So it will be on every mac made and the default location you go for the walled garden of applications. How about they call it "iStore" or "iApps" and then have all the iPhone iPad and mac os apps in one place but give it a social experience too, connecting friends and businesses.
It's just an idea now they have the ball rolling on the apps. They still can't get over how much it is driving the business for them. They totally under estimated it, even Steve did not want them in the beginning, go way back to 2007. You remember Steve saying No apps. How it has changed
Maybe it will be the first ever 3D OS and you need to wear those 3D glasses.... Apps jump out at you.
I believe it will be something down the lines of a few things and not just one but just throwing this one idea out there.
They have iTunes (nice driver initially for the app store and other pay per consume) It's on every mac made and always been the default but an app is bot a tune is it now.
They will pull the focus back onto iTunes for subscription music with the new data centre then build the new revolutionary stuff on the apps for all devices.
So it will be on every mac made and the default location you go for the walled garden of applications. How about they call it "iStore" or "iApps" and then have all the iPhone iPad and mac os apps in one place but give it a social experience too, connecting friends and businesses.
It's just an idea now they have the ball rolling on the apps. They still can't get over how much it is driving the business for them. They totally under estimated it, even Steve did not want them in the beginning, go way back to 2007. You remember Steve saying No apps. How it has changed
Maybe it will be the first ever 3D OS and you need to wear those 3D glasses.... Apps jump out at you.
At least this talk of a new revolutionary step forward will take our minds off antennae problems and yellow tinting
and the crappy Airport issues!!!!
Honestly, I wish the focus would be on fixing OSX 10.5 and 10.6. They are both broken and thrown together in a haste. I think that if Snow Leopard worked the way it was advertised it would be revolutionary.
If that is the case then I will never buy a Mac again. I refuse to wear glasses every time I need to use my mac.Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_0_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/532.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.5 Mobile/8A306 Safari/6531.22.7)
I believe it will be something down the lines of a few things and not just one but just throwing this one idea out there.
They have iTunes (nice driver initially for the app store and other pay per consume) It's on every mac made and always been the default but an app is bot a tune is it now.
They will pull the focus back onto iTunes for subscription music with the new data centre then build the new revolutionary stuff on the apps for all devices.
So it will be on every mac made and the default location you go for the walled garden of applications. How about they call it "iStore" or "iApps" and then have all the iPhone iPad and mac os apps in one place but give it a social experience too, connecting friends and businesses.
It's just an idea now they have the ball rolling on the apps. They still can't get over how much it is driving the business for them. They totally under estimated it, even Steve did not want them in the beginning, go way back to 2007. You remember Steve saying No apps. How it has changed
Maybe it will be the first ever 3D OS and you need to wear those 3D glasses.... Apps jump out at you.
They shaved off a couple of Gigabytes with 10.6 by removing all the universal binary fat.
2nd no change updates
Good, that would mean that the Mac OS would have versions 10.5, 10.6 & 10.7 with the same feature set. Maybe they can get it right & not need so many .x updates to correct bugs. Bugs with no change is a wonder of computer OSes.
Good, that would mean that the Mac OS would have versions 10.5, 10.6 & 10.7 with the same feature set. Maybe they can get it right & not need so many .x updates to correct bugs. Bugs with no change is a wonder of computer OSes.
The 10GUI 1:1 trackpad is interesting, but the big flaw I can see is that it doesn't account for multiple monitors, you'd need one for each monitor.
One benefit though is you could sit back with your feet up on the desk and have the control pad in your lap.
Not sure about the sliding windows either. I like positioning windows everywhere it suits me so I can see multiple things at once.
I'd pay good money for it to be resolution independence.
I'd pay good money for it to be resolution independence. It's the only way I'd be able to use any of the crop of HD and higher-resolution displays like on the 27" iMac.
I'd pay good money for it to be resolution independence. It's the only way I'd be able to use any of the crop of HD and higher-resolution displays like on the 27" iMac.
Can't wait for 10.7. I'm already getting kind of bored of 10.6 and I just got my Mac two weeks ago. I want 10.7 to be big though. Not something minor like 10.6. I also want to be able to run it as smoothly as 10.6.
By having the same UI and the same way of doing things for too long. But two weeks are nothing. I've been using Mac OS X 10.4.11 on this iMac G4 for as long as it's been out. But I'm happy again because I'm using Safari 4.1.1 to post this
TBH I'm pretty clueless about fine inner workings of modern operating systems, at least so far as coding goes, but I would love to see a new kernel.
Actually, what I really would like would be a lean, mean, optimized OS that isn't a resource hog and is lightening fast. I would love if the lessons learned and applied to limited memory systems (old cpus, mobile devices) came over to desktop computing, so we could make the most of what we have.
OpenCL, OpenGL, GCD, etc all implemented. Well. That's a start.
A new FS would be cool, but HFS+ still gets the job done.
Furthermore, I think it'd be cool if the system became rather modular; at least so far as compatibility concerns go; a slim, mean core layer with APIs, kernel, and frameworks running the "module" for OSX, with other module additions directly fitting onto of the bottom layer frameworks.
In other words, I want better cross compatibility. There's no reason I shouldn't be able to run almost anything on my OS, so long as Microsoft or whoever made or licensed said modules.
Alas, but that's just a pipe dream, as x11, MacFuse (for file systems), and wine are the best we're going to get. Of course MacFuse isn't even being developed though, thanks to google.
HTTP, etc. sounds like they're moving into the cloud. Ugh.
Actually, what I really would like would be a lean, mean, optimized OS that isn't a resource hog and is lightening fast. I would love if the lessons learned and applied to limited memory systems (old cpus, mobile devices) came over to desktop computing, so we could make the most of what we have.
OpenCL, OpenGL, GCD, etc all implemented. Well. That's a start.
A new FS would be cool, but HFS+ still gets the job done.
Furthermore, I think it'd be cool if the system became rather modular; at least so far as compatibility concerns go; a slim, mean core layer with APIs, kernel, and frameworks running the "module" for OSX, with other module additions directly fitting onto of the bottom layer frameworks.
In other words, I want better cross compatibility. There's no reason I shouldn't be able to run almost anything on my OS, so long as Microsoft or whoever made or licensed said modules.
Alas, but that's just a pipe dream, as x11, MacFuse (for file systems), and wine are the best we're going to get. Of course MacFuse isn't even being developed though, thanks to google.
HTTP, etc. sounds like they're moving into the cloud. Ugh.