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Mac OS X v10.7 predictions

SnowLeopard2008 said:
.... Yesterday I was shopping at Fry's. I saw 14 or so people buying 2 or more DVD's, only 1 person (who looked rich, upper class) bought Blu-Ray, and it was only 1 disc, and it was discounted. So no, Blu-Ray is not gaining market share. ....
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Wow - I'm convinced by your argument. So based on:

Your observations...
...at a certain time of day...
...in one store...
...in one town...
...in one country...
...means you are able to deduce with certainty whether or not Blu-Ray is growing.

Wow - Nielsen and the other market research firms should be afraid. Small town observation guy is coming to get them!

Seriously - do you not consider that maybe, just maybe, your observations don't tell the whole story?
 
stujmac26 said:
Wow - I'm convinced by your argument. So based on:

Your observations...
...at a certain time of day...
...in one store...
...in one town...
...in one country...
...means you are able to deduce with certainty whether or not Blu-Ray is growing.

Wow - Nielsen and the other market research firms should be afraid. Small town observation guy is coming to get them!

Seriously - do you not consider that maybe, just maybe, your observations don't tell the whole story?
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Haha well said. I work for Nielsen, and yeah we're definitely gonna have a good laugh reading this tomorrow. ;)
 
sammy2066 said:
Haha well said. I work for Nielsen, and yeah we're definitely gonna have a good laugh reading this tomorrow. ;)
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Hey, even isolated observations mean something!

I think, as it has been so often in the past with things like Firewire. the CD-ROM, and a GUI, once Apple supports Blu Ray it will get big.
 
As has been said before (, probably):

  • Proprietary new filesystem (more efficient Time Machine)
  • Expanded Quicktime X (plug-ins, blu-ray playback)
  • Resolution independence (possibly new UI, but probably no profound differences)
  • Tablet support :]
  • Mocking-little-spinning-beach-ball-of-total-annihilation-of-the-multi-/universe farewell party
  • A consumer-aimed feature that will be the theme of the product (Spotlight, Time Machine). I'm afraid we're heading towards a time in which the line between online and offline is vague and clouds are abundant. Lots of ads also. Hope not, though. Definitely not. But then again, it's also a bit of a guess so I probably should lighten up.
  • Return of point-and-click adventure games.

How daring these predictions are. :cool: Je m'appelle Nostredame.
 
artguy10 said:
Hey, even isolated observations mean something!

I think, as it has been so often in the past with things like Firewire. the CD-ROM, and a GUI, once Apple supports Blu Ray it will get big.
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I don't see hell freezing over any time soon...

Truth is Apple don't want to support BR as they are looking to distribute content via iTunes.

We have 720p movies now via iTunes and a new iMac that supports better than 1080p screen resolution. Guess what is going to be announced next year?? Could it be 1080p movies via iTunes??

As for 10.7 I'm thinking 10.7 Lolcat which will be sold at McDonalds or BK with something called a cheezburger :p
 
Mac OSx 10.7 Predictions Thread

What do you predict the upcoming OSx will feature? Post your predictions here.

I predict:
A new UI "theme", so to say, taking from the blue and black interface from iTunes.
A redesigned iCalendar to match that of MobileMe and iPad.

That's all I have for now. Anyways, I was more curious about what you guys expect to see.
 
Duff-Man says...as I have said before - a feature that auto-searches the forum for topics that have been done a few times (at least) already...oh yeah!
 
Yeah, to be honest, if I could stick a large hard drive into my ps3 (which I can) and only download real games (not the mini games they like) rather than buy them on optical media, I would.

I don't like optical media. It has had its time for me, I don't want to deal with it any longer.

Apple will start selling 1080p content at some point. I reckon next year.

Blu-Ray won't be a factor for Apple users.

I think 10.7 will still be OSX. Maybe the last one. It would be nice to see a disk format better than HFS+, I doubt ZFS will be it because of Oracle, maybe BtrFS but only because it's GPL'd. Maybe Apple is working on a fork of it, like with WebKit/konquerer. I'd like to see the server release have a better 'groupware' application. Having a corporate version of MobileMe as part of the server license would make companies seriously wonder what value there is in sticking with Exchange.
 
What a lot of Americans seem to forget, is that although apple Inc is based in the us, it is an international company that has to produce products and services for markets outside the us. Therefor integrating things like hulu into front row would be pointless, as it's only available in the us. The same goes with the downoadable only software/media. Although cable is prevalent in the us and high speed dsl usually fills the gaps in the cable coverage, here in the uk cable is quite rare and dsl is the main provider of Internet, and descent speeds are only available within about 3-4miles of the telephone exchange. I live 8 miles from the nearest telephone exchange and only get 512kbps. It takes me about 5-6 mins to download a song off of iTunes so downloading a 1080p ~15Mbps mpeg 4 video file would take days (blu Ray bit rate). And I for one like the high bit rates in physical media, I run a 1080p projector for my blu-rays, and at 720p and the bit rates iTunes encodes use apples current downloads just looks crap
 
I don't think that is quite right for the uk. I live about 3 miles from my exchange and get 18/2 on my dsl connection with bethere.

If and when your exchange gets unbundled, you'll see faster speeds from another provider.
 
Salacion said:
What do you predict the upcoming OSx will feature? Post your predictions here.
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Apple will stop the further development of 32-Bit APIs. 32-Bit software will still run, but new APIs or features will be 64-Bit only. In 10.8, 32-Bit support will completely disappear.

There will be more corporate features, as for example a better integration with Microsoft Active Directory.

There will be more support for multi-touch screens or other input devices.

Maybe there will be an iOS-compatibility layer in OS X, but that could signal something very dangerously: The phasing-out of Mac OS X in favor of iOS for desktop computers. On the other hand, I think that this is where Apple is headed anyway. The Mac as we know it doesn't have much space left in the Apple ecosystem -- the Mac is not restricted enough for them.

I could imagine that Apple will release a new TV system, something that merges an 42" iMac with a TV tuner and Apple TV functionality which can be remote controlled by an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. It would make sense for them - especially if 10.7 really gets an iOS compatibility layer or a user interface with an iOS-look-and-feel.

Maybe it will also be the other way around? Maybe there won't be a new OS X, but instead we will get a version of iOS 5 that will run on Intel chips and that can launch a virtual machine with Snow Leopard for backwards compatibility (similar to the "XP-Mode" in Windows 7)?
 
Hopefully they completely rewrite the networking software in Finder and rethink how network shares/mounts works. It should be transparent, it is not currently.

I'd like to see some file comparison software at the OS level, so if you go to overwrite a file you can see the differences, rather than being told one is older/newer. This could work for images, but not all file types. And it would be nice to see that one failure doesn't cause the entire copy/move operation to fail.
 
Winni said:
There will be more support for multi-touch screens or other input devices.

Maybe there will be an iOS-compatibility layer in OS X, but that could signal something very dangerously: The phasing-out of Mac OS X in favor of iOS for desktop computers. On the other hand, I think that this is where Apple is headed anyway. The Mac as we know it doesn't have much space left in the Apple ecosystem -- the Mac is not restricted enough for them.

I could imagine that Apple will release a new TV system, something that merges an 42" iMac with a TV tuner and Apple TV functionality which can be remote controlled by an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. It would make sense for them - especially if 10.7 really gets an iOS compatibility layer or a user interface with an iOS-look-and-feel.

Maybe it will also be the other way around? Maybe there won't be a new OS X, but instead we will get a version of iOS 5 that will run on Intel chips and that can launch a virtual machine with Snow Leopard for backwards compatibility (similar to the "XP-Mode" in Windows 7)?
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If any of that happens, I will never buy another Apple product.
 
It's OS X, not OSx.

My prediction: nothing to get excited about. All the focus is on iOS; they're really losing their edge with OS X.
 
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