I like your drop down menu design. I don't like the bare bones Safari (just an address bar) or the block dock though.
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OS X 10.10 to Feature 'Flatter' Look, but Not as Stark as iOS 7
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I like your drop down menu design. I don't like the bare bones Safari (just an address bar) or the block dock though.
Can we at least get a better spotlight? It's useful, but hot damn, that mds process eats up far more resources than it should.
Same with RAM management. They assume because most people have 16g's of RAM that it's okay to have all that stay wired or inactive. All that swap used really slows things down on one my laptop. Admittedly, I should upgrade from 4GB on my one laptop, but why is 4GB too small for light web use? It's a tad ridiculous when almost everything stays wired and inactive even after closing everything and starting up different applications.
Bringing Rosetta back would be nice as well... but that ship has sailed, sadly.
Fat chance we'll get a new FS or current OpenGL either.
Same with RAM management. They assume because most people have 16g's of RAM that it's okay to have all that stay wired or inactive. All that swap used really slows things down on one my laptop. Admittedly, I should upgrade from 4GB on my one laptop, but why is 4GB too small for light web use? It's a tad ridiculous when almost everything stays wired and inactive even after closing everything and starting up different applications.
Bringing Rosetta back would be nice as well... but that ship has sailed, sadly.
Fat chance we'll get a new FS or current OpenGL either.
Isn't this Mark Gurman's logical conclusion on what 10.10 will be, rather than inside information?
I'm not sure why MR posted this.
I'm not sure why MR posted this.
As strange as it may sound to some (especially since OS X is free now): I wish Apple would slow down with the OS X release cycles going forward.
An iOS release every 12 months makes sense (because the iPads and iPhones are also updated every year), but I don't see the need on the Mac side.
I would prefer a more meaningful OS X release every 2 years. It would also make things easier for developers and deployments in larger companies (less configurations and testing/updating).
An iOS release every 12 months makes sense (because the iPads and iPhones are also updated every year), but I don't see the need on the Mac side.
I would prefer a more meaningful OS X release every 2 years. It would also make things easier for developers and deployments in larger companies (less configurations and testing/updating).
10.9 is plenty flat enough, thank you.
OSX has been getting flatter and grayer for years. 10.9 is quite flat enough, thank you. Pretty soon OSX may look strikingly similar to the original Mac system -- just black and white.
OSX has been getting flatter and grayer for years. 10.9 is quite flat enough, thank you. Pretty soon OSX may look strikingly similar to the original Mac system -- just black and white.
lol.. that thing reminds me of the exposé blob in panther(?) ..what ever happened to that thing anyway? maybe it just oozed it's way out of my computer.
I really love the direction Apple goes with flatness, but they need to take it further. Removing boarders from buttons and just leaving text is a good start, but this should be applied to every aspect of the phone. The icons got simpler, so to make them as simple as possible, remove them completely. The entire GUI should be stripped, leaving something like this:
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Ahhh, the epitome of flatness.
Little to far should at least stick with 80 column "retina" display.
With OS X we went from:
to:
OS X is definitely "flatter" than it used to be, but was the original released really that better?
Why stop there.
New File System, new finder , new desktop.
Yes it looks pretty to have a pristine desktop for marketing material but beyond that it's just a big dumb featureless space where we dump stuff. Surely someone smart at Apple could look at how and why finder are the way they are and give us something better.
The older generations of OSX looked so friendly and cute while being unobtrusive. It's so sterile now, and very slow compared to the old versions. The new OSX looks like its suffering from crippling depression.
Yes, I was a fan of brushed metal and pinstriping.
Yes, I was a fan of brushed metal and pinstriping.
Why not OS XI? 10.10 just seems bizarre.
Also, while the "flat" craze looks nice, there will come a time sooner or later that designers say "Wow, that shape would look even better with a drop shadow and lighting gradient." Design is cyclical.
Why not OS XX ?
Again, that is both skeuomorphic. One a little more detailed, one a little more abstracted. But the trash basket is still a basket, standing on a three-dimensional dock. And a folder still represents a folded cardboard containing papers. Everything works exactly as introduced with the Macintosh 30 years ago. None of the previous OS X redesigns included a religious war on the concept of skeuomorphism itself. Buttons are getting flatter, but they still have boarders and when you "push" them, they change their appearance to a "pressed" state, simulating real world objects.
OS X today is arguable the best user interface design in the world and iOS 7 is probably the worst. And I don't mean pretty versus ugly, but real functional user interface elements versus mere hypertext. And hypertext is good, it has its use case. A perfect example is one of John Sirracusa's OSX reviews, where Hypertext is used to provide further reading information on a mentioned topic, without hindering the reading flow of the text at hand. But a toolbar isn't a continuous text, its a selection of frequently used commands to important to bury them deep down in a menu.
The whole point of having a user interface is not having to read so much and being able to just click on what looks like what I wanted to do.
Yeah I'm pretty sure it was in Panther. I used it for a while but I don't know where it's gone either.
ZFS, from the sound of it, is dead. But I agree 100% that HFS+ needs to go away. Of course, that won't happen until Apple can build an installer that seamlessly transitions everything on the local drives, since Apple (and pretty much everyone) builds their products for technology illiterate people now.
That's a great site; I wasn't around during the "early years" but I still enjoyed reading the stories. I have no idea whether the source was released though.
You really think so....I don't. It is Apple management who decides were money is invested and apparently they have decided to spend money on useless crap instead of focusing on what users need. All the cosmetic nonsense is nice for 14 year old schoolgirls, but I couldn't care less. If Apple continues like this, they become more and more like MS (the king of shiny *****) lacking any good foundation.
Because people are goofy.
For the sake of argument, why don't we just call it the 'New OS X' and be done with this.
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I already abandoned iOS, please don't force me to leave OSX behind as well
I don't think anyone is forcing you to do anything. Seems more like your own personal choices.