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OS X 10.10 to Feature 'Flatter' Look, but Not as Stark as iOS 7
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Most people will not see the version number at all Apple doesn't really use it in mainstream marketing. Look at the Apple.com page and Mac App Store. It's only OS X Mavericks. The version number 10.9 and 10.9.1 is only shown in the sidebar, in footnotes, release notes, tech specs and in other places people don't look.
And in software versions, 10.10, 10.11 can come after 10.9 too.
Tenth release of OS10.
I don't understand why people keep on having problems with this after they have been informed that the '.' is not a decimal point.
Look at the versioning of 1Password 3.
The last was 3.8.21.
https://agilebits.com/onepassword/mac/release_notes
Yeah, that really seems like a no-brainer, and if part of Apples strategy is the hardware ecosystem, give us another reason to own a Mac with an iOS device.
Well, if they read this whole thread, theyll get like 100+ posts clarifying how it works
Places in California, not necessarily beaches. But yes, I agree. It should be OS11.
Most people who don't understand computers, don't know what version of OS X they have, so I don't see a problem here.
Apple advertises 'OS X Lion', 'OS X Mountain Lion', 'OS X Mavericks', but really doesn't specify the sub-version that prominently. Most people who don't understand computers will never look in system settings to see what their computer has anyways.
Yes but software version aren't the same as real numbers! It doesn't have to go 10.7, 10.8, 10.9, 11. It can run for as many 10.x versions as they want.
I personally give users a bit more credit than that. If a user cares enough about the OS X version number, they will probably be fully aware that 10.1 is not 10.10. And those who don't have the wherewithal to know this, probably don't know or care what version they're using anyway.
And if there are truly, truly clueless people out there, who not only don't know the difference but are unable to comprehend what every article and web page result tells them about 10.1 (namely: it's old and not available anymore) the good news is, 10.1 isn't available on the App store, isn't available on media that will load on most currently-sold Macs without additional hardware, and even if they did
obtain a 10.1 CD and bought an external optical drive to install it (all without asking anyone why this process is so darned hard for a machine that "just works"), it won't boot or install on any Mac made in the last 8 years anyway.
And then at that point, they might get really frustrated and return the Mac and go back to a windows computer... and if such a truly clueless person actually, really exists, then maybe it's a good thing that they do exactly that.
Which isn't going to happen. Ask an Apple store rep what current Macs use, and they will say "OS Ten," or "OS Ten Mavericks" or "Mavericks." They aren't going to complicate things, because they are trained not to.
If someone at the Apple store actually says "ten point ten" to a user, their poor little head isn't going to explode. And I doubt a number scheme that isn't perfectly mathematically grammatical to them is going to cause their poor boggled minds to reject this topsy-turvy Apple wonderland where up is down, and not get a Mac because of a number scheme. It's not the fiasco you're making it out to be.
Your argument is a lot like saying people will reject Android because they name their releases according to dessert treats. "What?! You mean my Samsung Galaxy S4 doesn't come with a lifetime supply of Jelly Beans, even though the Operating System version is called 'Jelly Bean?' Balderdash! I'm going to get a Blackberry!"
In no universe is this going to happen.
they are different environments.. in osx, you'll have windows on top of windows etc so they can't just flatten out the look without keeping some sort of visual cue as to the separation of different layers.. they could change the look, sure, but can't just make everything on a users screen appear as if it's one window.
XCode 4 looks better and is better. XCode 5 has really poor visual hierarchy and poor affordance. Really unfortunate path apple is walking.
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You can say it either way. It's still not a decimal.
I still can't believe this stupid argument about decimals still comes up all the time here.
iOS7 made the iPhone look fresh again*.
If the same could be done to OS X, I'd like it. But please go all the way.
(*Yes, some of the functionality got worse, but let's save that for a different thread and hope the same won't happen to OS X).
If the same could be done to OS X, I'd like it. But please go all the way.
(*Yes, some of the functionality got worse, but let's save that for a different thread and hope the same won't happen to OS X).
Maybe it's time to petition the mods to start deleting "10.10=10.1" posts, along with the other annoying ones they already take the axe to.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1426652/