First OS X 10.10 Banner Goes Up at Moscone Featuring Yosemite

[mojolicious]

Did Tim Cook come round your house and force you to upgrade at gunpoint?

*considers posting 'Ah, so THAT'S why they hired Dre!'*

*thinks back to just how much casual social stereotyping (if you're being nice) or racism (if you're being less nice) there's been on these forums over the last week or so*

*reconsiders posting*

 

[MellowFuzz]

I might be in the minority but I preferred cat names to be honest.

The whole naming scheme just comes across as parochial narcissism - not a good image for a global company that sells product all over the world. What exactly does "Yosemite" imply about Apple's brand/company values? Nice scenery? Lots of trees? Does an Australian give two cents about Yosemite?

 

[hslightnin]

Did Tim Cook come round your house and force you to upgrade at gunpoint?

Yes, if you needed to restore.

 

[mrbyu]

I just hope 10.10 will be the new Snow Leopard - performance-tuned and super stable.

Mavericks is the "new Snow Leopard". Except a few people who happen to have problems, the majority of Mavericks users think that it is actually the most mature, stable and fastest version of OS X ever.

 

[deluxeshredder]

Mavericks is the "new Snow Leopard". Except a few people who happen to have problems, the majority of Mavericks users think that it is actually the most mature, stable and fastest version of OS X ever.

Definitely agree.

I think OS X 10.10 is likely to be the "New Coke" release. OS X users are just less suspective to brute force marketing/advertising ploys that put iOS 7 on the map.

 

[RMo]

No, flat doesn't need to go away. A near 90% adoption rate of iOS 7 is evidence that it doesn't.

That's because (1) new devices are compatible only with iOS 7, and (2) may apps no longer work on iOS 6.

EDIT: Oh, and once you upgrade, you can't go back.

 

[NMBob]

OS X Uranus.

Somewhere in the world a 13 year old laughs.

We have to wait until they get to OS25 (or OS XXV) for that version.

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Did Tim Cook come round your house and force you to upgrade at gunpoint?

No, he went to the developers and held a gun to their heads and told them to only support newer versions or else. Why do you think there has been a flurry of iOS app updates lately to to the 'fresh, new, iOS7' interface way of doing things?

No bullets were fired, because they like to eat, but you're still going to end up in the line of fire.

Have a cup of coffee and wake up a bit.

 

[HenryDJP]

Yes but he was an ******* at work and too stuck in his out of date methods. No one liked working with him.

But there are many people here that dislike him which makes no sense if he was just a A****L at work. Should have no reflection on anyone here how was in the workplace.

 

[the8thark]

But there are many people here that dislike him which makes no sense if he was just a A****L at work. Should have no reflection on anyone here how was in the workplace.

Well when things get to the point where Jon Ive refuses to be anywhere near Forstall, as well as many other Apple employees, things have to change. And since Sir Ive has the most say, and people like working with Ive, Forstall had to go.

 

[bumblebritches5]

Yosetime National Park? No.

"Yo-sem-it-ee"

I didn't say yosetime, you may want to re-read it...

 

[medazinol]

That's El Capitan in Yosemite for sure:

My money is on Mac OS X Yosemite

 

[Agent-P]

Didn't they use all of them? I liked sea lion though.

Me too. OS X Sea Lion would've been a great transition to start naming the OS after marine life. So many choices in that department.

 

[richwoodrocket]

Me too. OS X Sea Lion would've been a great transition to start naming the OS after marine life. So many choices in that department.

OS X perry

 

[TheThing]

They already knew the new name at WWDC 13

Watched the Keynote from one year ago. They placed a nice easteregg there!!

 

[mojolicious]

OS X perry

Butthole Surfers classics now?

How about OS X Ray Of A Girl Passing Gas?

 

[flat five]

I didn't say yosetime, you may want to re-read it...

then what did you say? to me it looks like you said

"Yo-Set-A-Me is how it's pronounced."

(or maybe i'm missing a joke somewhere?)

 

[Am3r1ca16]

I can't wait!!!

I'm more excited for iOS 8 though.

But hopefully OS X 10.10 brings changes like its been rumored

 

[Tyler23]

The whole naming scheme just comes across as parochial narcissism - not a good image for a global company that sells product all over the world. What exactly does "Yosemite" imply about Apple's brand/company values? Nice scenery? Lots of trees? Does an Australian give two cents about Yosemite?

It's just a naming scheme. Apple is a California based and rooted company. Nothing wrong with using names of places in California.

Why should any give two cents about the name of the operating system? It doesn't change anything.

 

[calaverasgrande]

I'm not a fan of those landmark names either. It's too California-centric, too USA-centric. And some of these names could be hard to pronounce correctly if you don't speak english. Hopefully they'll stay with single-word names.

when I was in college I worked for a fund raising effort for Yosemite.
I was working there for a week before a person I called mentioned I was saying Yosemite wrong.
I'm not from California and honestly had never heard of the place when I moved out there.

"Yosemite means literally “those who kill” (Yos, “to kill,” the modifier e, “one who,” and the plural suffix -meti). It was used by the surrounding Miwok tribes. The Yosemite people were referred to as killers by these surrounding tribes, who feared them. The Yosemite tribe, led by Chief Tenaya, were composed of renegades from multiple tribes, including Mono Paiute from the eastern Sierra.

 

[Parasprite]

it brought us— stop losing work in the event of an app crash.

Save state keeps me from losing my work, I rarely use duplicate (and don't see how it would help anyways).

However, unlike other people I'm not that stuck on using save as except when I have a massive document that uses a lot of memory (because it essentially opens the file twice).

 

[CarlJ]

ME TOO - the sun will rise on June 2nd and set later that same day.

Hopeless optimist.

 

[Analog Kid]

Mavericks was the 10th major release of OS X.

Making it the ninth point update.

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"Yosemite means literally “those who kill” (Yos, “to kill,” the modifier e, “one who,” and the plural suffix -meti). It was used by the surrounding Miwok tribes. The Yosemite people were referred to as killers by these surrounding tribes, who feared them. The Yosemite tribe, led by Chief Tenaya, were composed of renegades from multiple tribes, including Mono Paiute from the eastern Sierra.

Thanks! You just made it worth my time to have been scanning this otherwise banal thread...

 

[DaveN]

Well, I didn't see it on the first or last pages of the comments so I'm going to chin in and say that it isn't going to be Yosemite but will be

El Capiten... get it? 'ten' vs 'tan' because it is 10.10.

 

[CarlJ]

The whole naming scheme just comes across as parochial narcissism - not a good image for a global company that sells product all over the world. What exactly does "Yosemite" imply about Apple's brand/company values? Nice scenery? Lots of trees? Does an Australian give two cents about Yosemite?

Apple is an extremely successful company. I don't think they're sitting around saying, "look, you've all seen the rumor sites, clearly we're doomed, is there any name we could use to help stave off our impending slide into bankruptcy?"

I also don't think they spend much time saying, "what name would maximize shareholder profit?" (About the only time anyone's seen/heard Tim Cook lose his cool in public was when some group wanted Apple to back off on their commitment to using cleaner energy and safer materials unless it could be shown to "maximize shareholder profit".)

I think they chose a name that appealed to, and inspired, them.

 

[Parasprite]

Yes, if you needed to restore.

That's actually a really good point. It's similar with upgraded apps—if you have an old copy laying around you can reinstall it, but if you prefer an older version (without ads, iOS 7 redesign, IAP, etc.) you are otherwise screwed if your phone goes down (unless you explicitly restore from backup).

I remember having some app or another that got pulled because of having some functionality that Apple doesn't allow and it got upgraded later on without the feature. Luckily I had an older copy around.