Hahhaha - love it! So you, too, have experienced that "Ohhh shoot!" moment when the wife says "Honey... Can I just use your laptop for a minute..."
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Hahhaha - love it! So you, too, have experienced that "Ohhh shoot!" moment when the wife says "Honey... Can I just use your laptop for a minute..."
RTP.
Agreed.Kind of amazing how some people continue to cling to this crazy nonsense prediction.But then there are a lot of people who"just know"with absolute certainty what Apple will or won't do.See the posts about last year's lost/stolen iPhone 4.There are plenty of things in life to get upset about without inventing more.
I've just watched .mov and .avi video files in Safari Version 5.0.5 (6533.21.1) in OSX 10.6.7, so anything's possible. I did this by CTRL-clicking a file and Open with..., Other and as Safari doesn't come up as a Recommended Application, you have to change the drop-down to All Applications.
Safari doesn't open these files from the File menu, so this means that you have to have access to the video file in the first place.
That is not true! Check the "about this Mac" window on my 2009 iMac running Mac OS X 10.7 Lion (DP4). It clearly says "Mac OS X", doesn't it?
No, it's not.
Quite the contrary, I'd say.
Mobile Me might have been a shot at providing "Apple experience" in the browser - albeit not a particularly successful one, it seems. iCloud represents a (recent) paradigm shift to that. Both store your data in the cloud. But while Mobile Me is about web applications, iCloud is about syncing devices. If you look at Apple's respective press releases, the difference is striking:
Mobile Me Announcement:
"Apple® today introduced MobileMe™, a new Internet service that delivers push email, push contacts and push calendars from the MobileMe service in the “cloud” to native applications on iPhone™, iPod® touch, Macs and PCs. MobileMe also provides a suite of elegant, ad-free web applications that deliver a desktop-like experience through any modern browser. MobileMe applications (www.me.com) include Mail, Contacts and Calendar, as well as Gallery for viewing and sharing photos and iDisk for storing and exchanging documents online.
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MobileMe web applications are 100 percent ad-free and provide an incredible, desktop-like experience that allows users to drag and drop, click and drag and even use keyboard shortcuts. MobileMe provides anywhere access to Mail, Contacts and Calendar, with a unified interface that allows users to switch between applications with a single click, and Gallery makes it easy to share photos on the web in stunning quality"
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2008/06/09mobileme.html
iCloud announcement:
"Apple® today introduced iCloud®, a breakthrough set of free new cloud services that work seamlessly with applications on your iPhone®, iPad®, iPod touch®, Mac® or PC to automatically and wirelessly store your content in iCloud and automatically and wirelessly push it to all your devices. When anything changes on one of your devices, all of your devices are wirelessly updated almost instantly.
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“iCloud keeps your important information and content up to date across all your devices".
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The App Store™ and iBookstore℠ now download purchased iOS apps and books to all your devices
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iCloud Backup automatically and securely backs up your iOS devices to iCloud
If you replace your iOS device, just enter your Apple ID and password during setup and iCloud restores your new device.
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iCloud Storage seamlessly stores all documents created using iCloud Storage APIs, and automatically pushes them to all your devices
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iCloud’s innovative Photo Stream service automatically uploads the photos you take or import on any of your devices and wirelessly pushes them to all your devices and computers
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iCloud will store each photo in the cloud for 30 days, which is plenty of time to connect your devices to iCloud and automatically download the latest photos
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2011/06/06icloud.html
Apple is first and foremost a hardware company.
They make software in order to sell (profitable) hardware.
This is why OS X Lion is so inexpensive and iCloud even free:
To "lock in" customers into Apple's eco system.
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As a couple of others have mentioned, Apple is promoting this feature as part of Recovery Mode:
Built into Lion
OS X Lion includes a built-in restore partition, allowing you to repair or reinstall OS X without the need for discs.
Browse the web with Safari
Recovery mode now includes the Safari web browser, so you can check your email or browse the Apple Support site.
So if your system goes down, you can boot into recovery mode and still have web access.
That said, the potential uses as "Kiosk Mode", and help with finding a lost Mac are both intriguing.
Built into Lion
OS X Lion includes a built-in restore partition, allowing you to repair or reinstall OS X without the need for discs.
Browse the web with Safari
Recovery mode now includes the Safari web browser, so you can check your email or browse the Apple Support site.
So if your system goes down, you can boot into recovery mode and still have web access.
That said, the potential uses as "Kiosk Mode", and help with finding a lost Mac are both intriguing.
What's ASUS got to do with OS X?
ASUS ExpressGate - whatever the hell it is - sounds like a Wintel feature. No sale.
No OS X, no sale.
Right. I was about to say the same thing. The article writer obviously missed that.
There will be a "recovery" partition put on the drive when you install Lion so that you can reinstall the OS at any time (as long as the drive is still working)
You also have the option of putting Lion on your own physical media (DVD-R, SD Card, USB thumb drive, external HDD, etc.)
I don't really agree with that, Safari doesn't have apps like chrome OS does to run in the browser. It's also not a stand alone OS for use on "netbooks" and it doesn't really even work in the same way pulling a lot of information from the cloud. It also doesn't have the same type of payment system that chrome os has for users to get the hardware/software/support for a monthly installment.
I can see some instances where this will be nice though. Friends who just want to hop on a website now don't need to be fully logged into my profile or the guest account. Also if the laptop is stolen I can see some people using this feature when they first use the stolen machine which will trigger the "find my mac" feature and hopefully help lead to the recovery of the machine.
Spare your deluded waffle for elsewhere please. Claiming that just because a certain feature is now in an Apple product, it is much better, is utter nonsense. Not saying it can't be, and it has been in the past.
But there has also been times when Apple's version of a certain feature has been trash.That says "Recovery Mode" includes the browser. Nothing about locking down your Mac.
Also, in the article's picture, where the eff is a battery indicator?!
The feature this article is about, is the one I linked to. When you restart your Mac into "Browser only mode" your using recovery modes safari. That's what I've gathered anyway.
Wow, that's extremely interesting. I had no idea. Even if Apple still uses Mac OS X Lion in some places, it's just another example of Apple trying to merge their product lines together and differentiate the Mac less.
That would be a nice feature especially if using browser mode could extend battery life. That is something that I'm sure a lot of non-tech users would be happy with. I spend so much of the day browsing so why not have a browser only mode. I'd think consumers would love it for its simplicity as long as they can boot into full OSX mode whenever they need to.
The Apple website is the only place that "OS X Lion" is used. The press release, the About This Mac screen, the Login Screen, and even the listing in the Mac App Store ALL read "Mac OS X Lion".
Hahhaha - love it! So you, too, have experienced that "Ohhh shoot!" moment when the wife says "Honey... Can I just use your laptop for a minute..."
RTP.
Me, three. I hide my "files" quite well but always forget to clear my recent items menu right before I let my gf use my MacBook to check her email. I got caught a few times but when I ask what is she doing looking around my files in the first place, it's just get the evil eye.
You can currently achieve the same thing by creating a guest account. (And you don't need to logout if you enable fast user switching in the menu bar.)
You're such a fanboy. I've used Asus boards in the past and I must say those features are quite good. Don't troll like this without knowing anything about it. Apple is not the only computer manufacturer in the world.