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How long will apple carry on with OS X?
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Eric5h5 said:After OS 10.9, they'll do OS 10.10. Let's not get into THAT again.
--Eric
They will of run out of cats by then
Maybe they will go onto actual names of cats like OS EX
10.9 Fred
Apple will move to OS XI when they completely overhaul the concept of an OS and how people use an OS and their computer in general. As I've posted elsewhere, it looks like they're well on their way.
Too much of a toy with little consumer application ... although it will impress people in a meeting ....~Shard~ said:Apple will move to OS XI when they completely overhaul the concept of an OS and how people use an OS and their computer in general. As I've posted elsewhere, it looks like they're well on their way.
Eric5h5 said:After OS 10.9, they'll do OS 10.10. Let's not get into THAT again.
--Eric
My whole point is that it doesn't matter what they call it, it will still be based on the current OS X. Who cares what its called.
Nothing cracks me up more than when people speak with authority about what apple or any other company are going to name something so far in the future. none of us know at all, lets not pretend we do. And again, its not relevent to what I was saying. What we do know is that whatever they call it, its unlikely that there willl be a major change to the underlying OS base. Apple as much as said that when OS X came out originally. OS X, whatever its called, is supposed to last for many, many years.
Nermal said:
Yeah, that's true. but all releases of OS 9 after OS X came out were nearly entirely to make it work better in the classic environment. For all intents an purposes, the old mac OS had no features added after OS X was released.
Your first Mac with MacOS X may have shipped with MacOS 9.2.2. However, that does not mean that your Mac had MacOS X 10.0 preinstalled. MacOS X 10.0 shipped with MacOS 9.1. MacOS X 10.1 shipped with MacOS 9.2.1. Software Update updated MacOS 9.2.1 to MacOS 9.2.2. Apple bundled MacOS 9.2.2 with its computers after the OS was released.Max on Macs said:
Savage Henry said:
I'm sure that's exactly what people said when the first mouse came out as well.
I disagree. I think many people would find the functionality dealing with digital photos, maps, music editing, turntabling and video editing to be quite powerful and useful. Yes, perhaps it would be geared more towards pro users than consumers, I see what you mean, but I think that this "Minority Report" style of UI is definitely the future.
I can see some, particularly the photos, but not enough. I can see it sustaining conversations from the Xmas purchase into the first 2 weeks of Jan ... and then normal lives resume.~Shard~ said:
I can see the style is there, but I'm just not convinced on the functionality and the little tangible gain.BakedBeans said:
'praps I'm more of a luddite than I suspected
. 5 Years from now, after Vista has grown stale, the industry will be a very interesting place, and maybe all this will seem less like the a panel on the bridge of the Starship Enterprise.
BakedBeans said:
Me too that is fricking amazing, well actually not in this day and age, but its impressive.
You also get an upper body workout instead of repetitive strain injury from your mouse
Although when doing 'busy work to fool your boss' you will still have to keep moving when not actually doing anything! 
Eric5h5 said:Nah, they'll use breeds of house cats. 10.9 Persian, 10.10 Siamese, 10.11 Maine Coon, 10.12 Abyssinian....
--Eric
Don't forget 10.13 Norwegian Forest Cat!
Pokeon said:
No, it's not whatever, it's TEN. Roman Numeral TEN (X). Why, after having OS 7, 8, 9, would they have OS EX TEN? Or OS EX?
When I worked at Apple I would constantly correct people until I pissed them off and they wouldn't talk anymore.
It's like when people pronounce "warez" as "WARR-EZ" It makes me want to take a ****ing blunt object across their skulls. It's WAREZ. Like SOFTWAREZ, or "would you like to sample our warez."
dejo said:Unless you're really offering to let people sample your Juarez...
Oh, well, that's only on Fridays, you see.
MisterMe said:
Actually, when OS X was first introduced, Jobs said that the move to OS X was going to set up Apple for the next 10 years.
Then, at last year's WWDC, when Jobs shocked the pants off the entire planet by announcing the move to Intel chips, he reached out to anxious, gasping, transition-leery developers by mentioning that OS X had set Apple up...for the next 20 years.
That's 10...20...do I hear 30?
Peyton said:
that's a bit of a confused view. OS X is based on Unix, which has been around over 25 years already, and proved it's no old git. what you're used to, too, is the GUI etc that's Aqua, and it's so modular it could be ported to be based on one of many other distributions. so there's two reasons that calling it "kind of blind", i think, is blind on your part, not on Apple's.
Mac OS X is the best operating system to date (on any platform). No, I don't think apple is afraid to move on because there is so much more territory to be covered with OS X. Apple has never been afraid to say "hey, we don't care what the rest of the world thinks, we are going to make the best computer out there." Apple won't lead you wrong. I think apple will update from OS X once they find something "REALLY REALLY BIG" to advance on. Until then, apple has your back.
