I agree. El Cap has been sloppy and laggy. Yosemite was rock solid. I'm kind of hoping Apple will do 10.12 this fall, and that it'll go back to the solidness we saw with Yosemite.
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10.6 dropped PowerPC, not 10.7.
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Sort of. Systems with Rosetta were intended to support software for PowerPC, but 10.6.8 did not run on PowerPC.
Not really, almost all updates to 10.11.0 have come at a faster pace. The 10.x.5 update coming only 7.5 months after the 10.x.0 release with El Capitan, whereas it coming 10 months after the 10.x.0 release with Yosemite has put the writing on the wall already for a 10.11.6 release.
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Sorry, 10.7 dropped support for PowerPC applications running via Rosetta on Intel machines.
Try using Yosemite or El Capitan on a MacBook Air with TN display, rather than a Mac with IPS display for a few hours. Your eyes will scream.
Then try using Mavericks (or earlier) on the same device for a few hours. Your eyes will feel appreciate the change.
I'd be happy if they slowed down to be honest and not introduce 10.12 until next year.
Interesting that people believe that a "New" or the "Next" OS will be better than the previous, as if they had created a new version from scratch. That is why Apple puts out now a "New" OS every year with people thinking that "New" is better. It seems they will just leave off where they were with the previous OS and add "new" features that are still in beta and not ready. This is why we have so many issues with the "New" yearly OS.
Why not just get the current one stable and ride that one out for awhile. Stability in a time of uncertainty is better. But Apple has trained their fans to believe the next is better. We have seem this not to be true. Maybe they can push this phiosphy with iPhones and I watches, but since the OS and computers are a mature product now and is needed for production, it is better for a stable release that "just works".
Mac sales will not improve because of a "hip" OS with new features. What will improve Mac sales is a "cool" or "hip" hardware design, latest tech inside, and a stable OS that has minimum bugs and fast. This is the formula for a successful computer.
Why does Apple believe it is all about fancy new OS tricks? The Mac customer desires more of a stable OS, but could get fancy with design and inner specs...
You're trying to make a point that many people including me are total newbies who misunderstand bugs for the wrong setting preferences, corrupted plist etc. Let me tell you that I have been using OS X for 10 years and I know what I say. If you want then I can list some bugs which are not caused by my strange preferences, or corrupted plists etc. In fact I have reported them and every time I hear from Apple that they are aware of the issue and working on it (for last two years). So stop being arrogant that you understand everything and since you have no problem the OS X is bug free. In fact if it was bug free then Apple shouldn't even try to release any of these updates...
My post was in response to the misplaced enthusiasm on adoption statistics and I was merely pointing out that it means nothing. People switch to a new OS X for variety of reasons and higher adoption of a new OS is definitely not a proof that the new OS is better!
Your ranting about that updates are free and "extortion" has to do with Apple's interest etc. makes no sense. Apple charge a heavy premium on their products and these so-called free updates aren't free, one pays for them when one buys hardware from Apple. Sometime one is also forced to a run a new OS on a new hardware like my 5K iMac needs Yosemite or later. Yeah, it takes more resources to patch up all versions of the OS X, but then Apple should make the current OS X bug free before releasing a new OS X. With this current cycle of OS X releases, it takes almost half a year more before the new release becomes actually usable (not too many bugs but still many). And I find this situation juxtaposed with Apple's constant ranting about the so-called quality and user experience...
People (we Mac users) fail to acknowledge that Apple intentionally cripples all OS versions to create dissatisfaction. Not outright loathing, but just enough irritation to keep all users wanting more.
Apples' biggest nightmare (or at least one of their many) is to create another Snow Leopard type OS that is stable and pleasant to use.
Why? Because they've learned from that experiment that a very large user base won't upgrade again if they finally have a great OS. They also won't upgrade their hardware either... until it dies 10-15 years later or more.
Nope. We'll NEVER see the likes of SL ever again. It'll always be fix-this but break-that forever and ever and ever.
Apples' biggest nightmare (or at least one of their many) is to create another Snow Leopard type OS that is stable and pleasant to use.
Why? Because they've learned from that experiment that a very large user base won't upgrade again if they finally have a great OS. They also won't upgrade their hardware either... until it dies 10-15 years later or more.
Nope. We'll NEVER see the likes of SL ever again. It'll always be fix-this but break-that forever and ever and ever.
This is a timeline of all the "traffic light" buttons in Mac OS X. Top to bottom: Public Beta-10.2.8, 10.3-10.4.11, 10.5-10.58, 10.6-10.6.8 10.7-10.9.5, 10.10-present.
Notice how the last set compares with all the others, much less of a 3D look and only a tiny amount of depth. This is what people look at and immediately think "flat".
The traffic lights are by no means the extent of it, however I do agree people have overreacted. Of course OS X still has depth in all the same places, just not as much as it used to.
Releasing everything 70% complete just for the sake of releasing something then never returning to finish the rest. Very disappointing
Here is my list: (See first posting)
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/how-would-you-improve-osx.1961714/
That is a deliberate design strategy on Apple's part. I wrote about it in my previous post. And yes, new has so far always been better in case of OS X.
Because that would invalidate Apple's position as innovation leader. At the same time, that is also kind of what they are doing, but in a reasonable way. 10.10 represents a new-gen overhaul of OS X and Aqua, they intend to 'ride that one out for a while'. I think you are also confused abut how OS X releases work. Rather then thinking of them as a 'whole new OS', think of them as incremental refinements. Other OSes have concepts of service packs etc. However, OS X is not a bare-bones OS — it is a very rich OS that combines rich API frameworks with a vast collection of internal utilities and features.
It seems like you have some very opinionated believes about what customers want and how things should be. Why not start a computing company yourself? With your insights you should be successful in no time. However, please don't join Apple. I really enjoy what they are doing and I don't want them to be dragged back to boring niche OS that nobody but a bunch of people with specialised software cares about.
Here are my problems with your post:
Clip Book:
- Both already exist
- With easy-to-use browser based alternatives, there's no need for this whatsoever
Contacts:
- How would you do that w/o screwing with the UI?
- Why do you need multiple pics? The whole point is to act as an identifier for that one person
- I'll give you larger font sizes
- How do map snippets help in any way when there's a one click link to the location in Maps?
- Custom Fields - that's what the notes section is for. Or the Notes app
- I mean, ok, it's marginally useful but search works too
- If you can't do that already then sure, I suppose that's useful (although I haven't heard of FT Audio being used much)
- If you sign up for the betas, then you automatically get the Feedback App. For others, Apple's website exists. I'm not convinced it's necessary, but ok
- This would be useful
- As would this
- Tags exist for this purpose already
- Pretty sure that you can already do this
Mail:
- Sure
- I'm honestly not sure how this is at all useful in email.
- I am a student and I've never seen a table be used in any email correspondence from anyone. Ever.
- Sure
- Why? This isn't a mobile device. If you're using Maps on an actual computer, it's expected that you would have Wifi. This seems like something that should be in the iOS 10 wishlist.
Messages:
- You already don't need to leave Messages. OS X is a multi-window OS...
- No. That's highly inconvenient. There's a reason the mobile way is on mobile
Photos: Sure
Uninstall:
- No. There's a reason that preferences stay - the idea is that if you reinstall the app you don't have to go through the setup process again. AppCleaner is good enough for those who want to do more
- It's called opt-green
- Apple already explained why they got rid of the separate button. I agree with them
- It already does this
- It already does this
- It already does this
- Sure, that's useful
Health App: This is impossible due to the severe privacy restrictions Apple places on Health Data
Secure Empty Trash: While I too am annoyed, I'd read this to realize why it was removed in the first place - tl;dr: it didn't work reliably on older devices for specific situations
Overall it's certainly a list, but I'm not sure why a) these couldn't be put in on point updates for El Capitan or b) why most of these are useful.
GPT? What file system?
Moreover I think it represented a move towards the possibility of a single OS in lieu of OS X plus iOS. Apple painted itself into a corner from which any future escape will be inescapably messy.
Some types of fanciness have relatively short-term appeal. Apple - Press Info - Apple Announces DVI to ADC Adapter /cough
There's more, but it doesn't belong in a software topic.
The post was in a different topic, can you move your problems to that topic? Thanks.
No, I won't. My point, which apparently wasn't made clear, is that these so-called 'features', aren't worth an extended development process, nor do they necessarily need to wait for 10.12.
Below, I was surprised by the spaces in the identifier used by softwareupdate(8).
AFAIR last time I noticed a space, it was contributory to failures for a small percentage of testers who who updated without the command line. But that was years ago and I'm out of the loop, so maybe Apple fixed/enhanced the routine.
AFAIR last time I noticed a space, it was contributory to failures for a small percentage of testers who who updated without the command line. But that was years ago and I'm out of the loop, so maybe Apple fixed/enhanced the routine.
Yeah, I remember we talked about this one in some length
As I always said and will say again as someone who has some familiarity with Apple's developer frameworks, I see ZERO evidence that Apple is trying to unify the mobile and desktop OSes (besides the fact that they have always been the same OS, obviously). Their idea has always been OS specialisation and that is what we see — a specialised flavour of OS built on the common platform for different device types. Of course, a reasonable degree of visual convergence is a declared goal, which is why starting from iOS 8 and 10.10 OS X and iOS adopt a similar visual style. So, no need to escape any corners: its not a corner, its a path.
Somewhere behind the looking glass, there has to be a document for each release that shows all the bug fixes, if not, going to be hard to continue the push to corporate buyers that have established SCCM and WSUS on the WIndows side and monitor those systems religiously.
Wow. Five pages and not a single comment discussing what is in the beta, what's broken, how much snappier Safari is.
I hope you are wrong.......
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A new feature would be a stable OS...