OS X 10.10 to Feature 'Flatter' Look, but Not as Stark as iOS 7

[Traverse]

what about mavericks? not exciting anymore?

Of course not, statue of limitations for anything new is one month, tops.
People will soon tire of their iPad Airs and iPhone 5S's. Time for the 6.

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Again, it's not. Now if you stated that in regards to decimal fractions or decimal numerical notation then you would be correct as that is a very specific statement that would mean 10.1 = 10.10 = 010.10000 in terms of its value but Apple's versioning is still mathematical in that it increments values systematically.

I suppose you are correct. As an account I always view decimals as an expression of fractions. But if differentiated between that use and the tech world's than 10.10 doesn't mean 10.1

 

[solipsism]

I suppose you are correct. As an account I always view decimals as an expression of fractions. But if differentiated between that use and the tech world's than 10.10 doesn't mean 10.1

We use the point for a great many things in the US. In regards to numbers I'm sure you've seen it used with phone numbers before but I doubt anyone has looked at the number 555.1212 and thought, "How do I dial five-hundred and fifty-five point one-thousand-two-hundred-and-twelve?".

You could also look at most of the world that uses a comma for the decimal mark and a period for for the thousand separator (e.g: 3.769.123,00).

If you really want a model to use use the phone number since it's the functionally the same thing. The country code is equivalent to root OS number (in this case X or 10), the area code is the major version number, the prefix (local exchange) number is what we call the point update, and the line number (0000 to 9999) is the build number (quaternary value that you see in some apps).

They could have used any symbol to separate them out but they choose the point. Probably because it looks nicer. Imagine if we had to write 10_9_2, 10%9%2 or 10#9#2. I think those look fugly.

 

[Traverse]

We use the point for a great many things in the US. In regards to numbers I'm sure you've seen it used with phone numbers before but I don't anyone has looked at the number 555.1212 and thought, "How do I dial five-hundred and fifty-five point one-thousand-two-hundred-and-twelve?".

You could also look at most of the world that uses a comma for the decimal mark and a period for for the thousand separator (e.g: 3.769.123,00).

If you really want a model to use use the phone number since it's the functionally the same thing. The country code is equivalent to root OS number (in this case X or 10), the area code is the major version number, the prefix (local exchange) number is what we call the point update, and the line number (0000 to 9999) is the build number (quaternary value that you see in some apps).

They could have used any symbol to separate them out but they choose the point. Probably because it looks nicer. Imagine if we had to write 10_9_2, 10%9%2 or 10#9#2. I think those look fugly.

Very good point with the foreign currency. I wasn't thinking of that.

 

[solipsism]

Very good point with the foreign currency. I wasn't thinking of that.

Note that Apple uses the comma to separate HW revisions. For example, my machines iMacBookPro11,3. I'm not sure how common this is, how long it's been in use, or even if they specifically choose the comma separator for HW specifically to be distant from the period separator for SW.

 

[iMacmatician]

Again, it's not. Now if you stated that in regards to decimal fractions or decimal numerical notation then you would be correct as that is a very specific statement that would mean 10.1 = 10.10 = 010.10000 in terms of its value but Apple's versioning is still mathematical in that it increments values systematically.

If one actually wants to view a software version mathematically, one can use an ordered pair (or triple or n-tuple depending on how many dots), instead of a decimal. So we represent the version number (not decimal) 10.0 as (10, 0), 10.1 = (10, 1), …, 10.2 = (10, 2), and 10.10 = (10, 10). Note that 10.1 ≠ 10.10 because (10, 1) ≠ (10, 10). Then we place an ordering "<" of these pairs by the lexicographical order. Thus

(10, 0) < (10, 1) < (10, 2) < … < (10, 9) < (10, 10) < (10, 11) < … < (10, 9801), … < (11, 0),

which means that

10.0 < 10.1 < 10.2 < … < 10.9 < 10.10 < 10.11 < … < 10.9801 < … < 11.0.

[Remark: We run into a slight problem when comparing 10.0 = (10, 0) to 10.0.4 = (10, 0, 4), which can be solved by modifying (10, 0) to (10, 0, 0). Also the above may need to be modified for other types of versioning systems.]

 

[petvas]

If one actually wants to view a software version mathematically, one can use an ordered pair (or triple or n-tuple depending on how many dots), instead of a decimal. So we represent the version number (not decimal) 10.0 as (10, 0), 10.1 = (10, 1), …, 10.2 = (10, 2), and 10.10 = (10, 10). Note that 10.1 ≠ 10.10 because (10, 1) ≠ (10, 10). Then we place an ordering "<" of these pairs by the lexicographical order. Thus



(10, 0) < (10, 1) < (10, 2) < … < (10, 9) < (10, 10) < (10, 11) < … < (10, 9801), … < (11, 0),



which means that



10.0 < 10.1 < 10.2 < … < 10.9 < 10.10 < 10.11 < … < 10.9801 < … < 11.0.



[Remark: We run into a slight problem when comparing 10.0 = (10, 0) to 10.0.4 = (10, 0, 4), which can be solved by modifying (10, 0) to (10, 0, 0). Also the above may need to be modified for other types of versioning systems.]

Great, but somehow I hope we won't get OS X 10.9801

 

[Traverse]

Prepare for this
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It's like toddler's first tablet! Ugh...

 

[batmanofzurenar]

If there's any hint at what the OS X 10.10 UI would look like, I'd probably say the updated version of iMovie would be a good place to look. (Imagining it with a lighter color scheme helps).

 

[576316]

If there's any hint at what the OS X 10.10 UI would look like, I'd probably say the updated version of iMovie would be a good place to look. (Imagining it with a lighter color scheme helps).

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Is there a possibility that Apple will jump straight to OSX 11 with this rumoured redesign of OSX? Rather than sticking it onto the end of OSX 10, they may want to turn it into a whole new release.

 

[Sky Blue]

Is there a possibility that Apple will jump straight to OSX 11.

No.

 

[tevion5]

Bring it on.

Now how about a new file system? HFS+ is long in the tooth compared to newer ones being developed.

What's wrong with HFS+?

 

[dec.]

Wow, after reading the comments I expected the worst, but after looking up those previews, I think it could end up looking very sleek and nice.

 

[milo]

This headline pretty much summed it up. Flatter, but much closer to previous OSX versions than anything in iOS.

What's wrong with HFS+?

It lacks features like checksumming and error correction that other modern FS have, among other things.

 

[Carl Sagan]

I really do think it looks great...!

 

[BillyMatt87]

Wow, after reading the comments I expected the worst, but after looking up those previews, I think it could end up looking very sleek and nice.

Even though it's designed to resemble iOS 7/8, it looks a helluva lot better IMO and I hope iOS 9 or 10 looks more like Yosemite.

 

[Tech198]

Is there any truth to this that Siri actually uses Bing ? Not Google...

Same with the back end Cloud drive would use Azure from Microsoft ?


http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/is-apple-really-using-windows-azure-to-power-icloud/9687

The same kind of thing, weather true or otherwise, have also mentioned Apple and Amazon too for data servers..

Is is all hype ?

Regarding the flat look, it looks like we have see iOS7 flat icons and all come to the Mac.... Not yet, but it'll get there..

I can already see it coming in 10.10. After all why else would Apple have announced all the Continuity features to bring the Mac and iOS work better hand in hand including placing calls from the Mac.

This is the the only thing they boasted on, and made to also mention .."so it works pick up calls from an iOS device... shae stuff easier with an iOS device plus flat icons." all of this must point to something other than just to make it "easier"

This tells me, more iOS-ey on the desktop, even visually.

 

[iMacBooked]

OS X 10.10 to Feature 'Flatter' Look, but Not as Stark as iOS 7

Looks great too according to me.