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Apple Seeds Mac OS X 10.6.5 Build 10H555 to Developers

macintoshtoffy said:
...you don't have the slightest idea on what the hell you're talking about. There is no replacement for Intel, A4 is of a particular design for mobile devices and thus would never be suitable for a general purpose CPU that professionals and consumers demand for. The iPod, iPad and so on are complimentary devices and in no way replace the traditional ways in which people do their work on - anyone saying otherwise is a grade A moron that is completely out of touch with reality...
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Hi
Not sure you are right.
Apple is taking us in directions we don't comprehend yet :)
Go to a big music event. On stage the band have a multi-cam video rig supported by trucks of gear. That way the music business gets a DVD of the concert to sell.
In the audience there will be 10,000+ little twinkling screens as people video the show on their mobiles. That way everyone who didn't get to attend gets to see the music on YouTube.

OK so at the moment the DVD is good professional quality, and the YT is mostly wobbly crap. But to use Steve's analogy, are the 'trucks' necessary? The big Mac Pro HD video render farms etc?

People are voting with their feet by abandoning conventional 'music business' sales models, and moving more and more over to downloading what they want.

Network all the 10,000 mobiles into the cloud, add people making good recordings with Zoom H* audio gadgets, and give a professional video editor and sound mixer mobile iPad-like access to the cloud, and you could easily get much more 'professional' quality YT uploads.

Similarly with consumer 'computer' stations - iMacs/MacBooks etc. So far we've used those because that's what's available. Not because there couldn't be a better way of using different smaller more mobile devices for the things we do...

I've not got a grasp on it all yet, but I'm a professional Broadcast TV video editor, and I certainly wouldn't bet that some of this won't happen...
I could edit as easily on a networked iPad as I could with the celluloid film and chinagraph pencil and cement splicer I started out with :)

I'm certainly not a moron!!! ;)
 
SockRolid said:
Let me explain why I said this "I'd guess that by 2012 Mac OS will evolve into a hybrid of legacy desktop features plus iOS multi-touch and mobile features."

Apple loves to do two things. They love to use the "halo effect" of successful products to help build interest and mindshare for their other products. For example, iPod+iTunes' success since 2001 helped sales of Macs and paved the way for iPhone. Then iPhone's success paved the way for iPad.

They also love to leverage existing work in hardware and software in future products. iOS itself is a drastically stripped-down version of Mac OS at its core. And the circuit boards used in iPod touch, iPhone, iPad, and now Apple TV are nearly identical.

I think it's time Apple applied the "halo" of iOS and iDevice success to the iMac and the consumer branch of the MacBook line. There are many reasons for this, but let's just focus on market share vs. Microsoft.

Microsoft is entrenched in business and enterprise, but has a very poor track record in consumer electronics, as we all know. Why? Because Microsoft doesn't really need to succeed in the consumer space. They make nearly all of their profits in Windows + Office + enterprise software for businesses. They lost money on WindowsCE, they lose billions on Online Services, they botched KIN miserably, Xbox is barely breaking even now after losing billions, and now Windows Phone 7 is too little too late.

So, obviously, Apple is attacking Microsoft's weak spot: the consumer market. Merging iOS features with Mac OS in next-generation consumer iMacs and MacBooks will make computing easier for the masses yet again. It will refresh Apple's consumer "computer" devices in a way Microsoft could never copy. Ballmer (or his successor) is handcuffed by Microsoft's success. By locking in the corporate IT departments of the world, they have also locked themselves into backward compatibility. And that will prevent them from being able to copy Apple's next-gen OS features.

Businesses failed to adopt Vista because it broke compatibility with too many vital applications. And Vista was just a mild revision of Windows. Just imagine how badly Microsoft would screw up copying a hybrid Mac OS / iOS of the future. Multi-touch ribbons? Not a chance.

Apple could do the same thing with Macs that they are doing with iPhone and iPad. Leveraging (there's the l-word again) consumer adoption of iPhone and iPad to drive corporate adoption. They have been unable to do that with legacy desktops and laptops outside of the music, video, and creative markets. Merging iOS and Mac OS could be the key to increasing consumer market share which in turn would drive corporate use.

There could still be a legacy Mac OS that runs on Intel boxes. Plenty of businesses need servers to crunch numbers and render video without an easy-to-use GUI. But in the consumer space, I expect Apple to move to their proprietary ARM design running a pure iOS or hybrid iOS + Mac OS.
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MICROSOFT is a dinosaur company run by clueless old business model dinosaurs
Their only anchor is their hold on the habits of the business world with their antique OS and watch that quickly crumble as businesses realize they can step outside of THAT ball and chain
 
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Instalded Mac OS X 10.6.5 Build 10H555 and after login Everything frizzes
mouse working bath not the clicks ...

Mac OS X 10.6.4 ; kernel 10.4.0
 
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