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Apple Seeds Two New Mavericks Updates to Employees for Testing
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Are you surprised? Just open activity monitor and look. 5 kinds of crappy services running and all thanks to iCloud which is unreliable and slow (specially in Europe. We pay more and yet we have no Europe based icloud datacentre and in 6 GOD DAMN YEARS we still don't have iOS translated to my language).
This is HUGE STEAMING PILE OF BS. ALL THEY DO IS TALK ABOUT HOW EVERYTHING IS JUST AWESOME NAD YET ALL THE LITTLE THINGS THAT MATTER ARE BEING IGNORED.
If the new 10.10 design would be in style of rewritten Calendar / Contacts / iWork and new iBooks - I'm totally fine with it.
I'd be happy if the fixed the issue with screen sharing and the firewall. [Just can't help myself but get on the latest; if it ain't broke...]
What about the fix for the most annoying thing? The frequent lock of keyboard and cursor. They say rare, I say "rare my ass!"
Mavericks fixed that for me. Prior to Mavericks, when I opened Messages on my MBP the last message from each conversation was missing. Quit Messages and re-open and they appeared. Doesn't happen with Mavericks
Mavericks fixed that for me. Prior to Mavericks, when I opened Messages on my MBP the last message from each conversation was missing. Quit Messages and re-open and they appeared. Doesn't happen with Mavericks
And still i have same icloud account on 1 Mac and two iPhones, but messages are sent and received in sync only on iPhones and Mac is always minutes late to the party. Not to mention that some messages are lost completely and some are received in the middle of the night.
I haven't seen any of those issues - and this is on a 2008 iMac.
- Finder seems very snappy for me - faster than ML.
- Safari also noticeably faster than in ML
- System Prefs is admittedly a little laggy starting up and loading each pane for the first time. But I don't think it's that much worse than ML?
- Sleep would often take a while for me on ML, but it's always instant in Mavericks. OK, I guess it may be just "faking it" by putting the display to sleep first - but does that really matter? (If a tree falls in the forest...)
That's perfectly normal paranoia. Everyone in the universe gets that.
- Slartibartfast, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Please fix fullscreen apps to turn grey, and when you minimise them they offset off the screen!
Also, for 10.10 (or 11), please don't inherit the iOS7 design! It's just too white with too much text and too bright colours!
Also, for 10.10 (or 11), please don't inherit the iOS7 design! It's just too white with too much text and too bright colours!
There's no such thing as a "timeless design" when one is talking about computer hardware, software, or operating systems. Change is inevitable as is the resistance to it.
For some fun, go back to the discussions in 2002 when a vocal contingent was complaining about the switch from OS 9's Platinum user interface to OS X's Aqua user interface. Find some of the OS 9 GUI proponents from back then and see how many would still prefer to use that older GUI now. See how many of them still consider it to be a "timeless design."
Oh nooooooooooooooo....
Seriously,
Apple's team made brilliant work in making the touchscreen based smartphone a smash hit. The team definitely understood the inherent strengths and weaknesses of the interface mode as well as being able to actually define the usage patterns of a new product category...
iOS <7 was defined by the smartphone and the usage patterns thereof, whereas iOS 7 is more sympathetic to tablets and productivity usages.
Apple, please do not make the mistake of going for the "One user interface to rule all devices" -way. You've done away with skeuomorphism, that's good (although you could have done some more real usability improvements as well), don't make my desktop look like a lollipop.
RGDS,
I agree that iCloud remains a shaky proposition, not least because of NSA/GCHQ. I'm befuddled by the american media screaming about NSA infringing on americans' rights. What about 95% of humanity? I guess innocent until found guilty applies only to U.S. passport holders...
On the other hand, europeans should not complain too loudly about iOS language support. We're much better covered than the rest of the world:
Europan languages supported (22):
English (UK), French, German, Italian, Spanish, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian,
Non-european languages supported (12):
English (U.S.), Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Hebrew, Indonesian, Malay, Portuguese (Brazil), Thai, Vietnamese
RGDS,
Yes, but it's SOLD OFFICIALLY here for years now and it still is not translated to all of them. This is UNACCEPTABLE. I'm personally fine with english and actually prefer it in electronics, but there are people that don't understand english or just want to use native language.
Same goes for OS X which being sold by Apple officially and through authorised resellers for years and we still don't have native OS X translation.
In the meantime GAYDAR turns to south if you catch my drift.
Sure. If you're from a universe with a different mathematical system, where 10 = 1, then anything is possible.
From what I've read, the NSA is only spying/eavesdropping on those outside of the US - something about the Constitution (or Bill of Rights?) making it illegal to spy on their own?
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Mac OS Ten Eleven?? That makes a lot of sense
Ah, you need to call it OS 'Ecks' like I do, then OS X 11 sounds OK