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OS X 10.11 Could Feature Control Center, 'Rootless' Security and More, iOS 9 to Support A5-Based Devices
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I have two Apple IDs (which I'd love to merge but no can do) and one of them has a completely hosed iCloud Drive. Can't see the drive, can't reset it, can't do anything with it. Something went wrong in its initial conversion, I think. And there seems to be no place to ask Apple to reset the thing to make it usable. Here's hoping that the OS upgrade will somehow fix it.
It's beginning to sound like iOS 9 won't offer nearly as many new features as iOS 7/8. Some people have speculated, myself included, that iOS and OSX will merge someday. It's possible that any major change like that to iOS will require a device with 2GB of RAM to handle the new OS. So for now, A5 devices can still go along for the ride since "optimization" will the primary focus of the update with just a few minor new features/changes.
Why do you spread this crap?? Reminders and Calendar are based on CalDAV or ActiveSync, which uses HTTP and not IMAP. Only Notes use IMAP (or ActiveSync). And I hope this will stay forever. Because it's an easy way to sync with own Server or NAS systems. IMAP with TLS is also a secured transport.
Faster graphics performance
Give us Vulkan support in OS X, Apple! ”All graphics in OS X 10.11 is using this new modern graphics API instead of OpenGL”.
That would be awesome news. One can always wish/hope, right?
The Apple logos seen on the page below give a little boost to my hope.
https://www.khronos.org/vulkan
Give us Vulkan support in OS X, Apple! ”All graphics in OS X 10.11 is using this new modern graphics API instead of OpenGL”.
That would be awesome news. One can always wish/hope, right?
The Apple logos seen on the page below give a little boost to my hope.
https://www.khronos.org/vulkan
They still are, I went into the Apple Store last week and had a look at the new enormous iPhone 6 - I don't have a pocket that it will fit into, and as for the 6+ I really don't get it.
I realise I'm a minority, but I won't be buying a phone any bigger than my beautiful, elegant 4s. I have no intention of buying a Creepy Eric phone, so I'm going to struggle, just wish Tim/Jony would make a phone sized phone instead of the monstrosities they have now.
From IMAP to iCloud Drive
This is going to be a nightmare for those of us who are not completely embedded in the Apple ecosystem, using our iCloud accounts across multiple platforms.
This is going to be a nightmare for those of us who are not completely embedded in the Apple ecosystem, using our iCloud accounts across multiple platforms.
Is there hope for my iPad 2?
Does this mean my iPad 2 might work one day again? Currently, it's so slow on iOS 8, it's dropping out of my use habits.
Does this mean my iPad 2 might work one day again? Currently, it's so slow on iOS 8, it's dropping out of my use habits.
The difference between 8 and 7 aren't that big, there probably is a chance. Seeing what they did with the iPhone 4 and iOS 7.1 in half a year.
Why not take 5 whole minutes to turn off the notification center gesture? It sounds like that's how you're popping it out, because I can tell you that I haven't seen it since the day that I disabled mine.
Even the 7.1 update was a downgrade to the iPhone 4. That's why I avoided it. Well, that and the fact that it's hideous. I am unimpressed that the talk is on optimization. The goal should ALWAYS be to optimize performance. We've been missing a Snow Leopard-quality Mac OS for years now, and iOS has stopped being compelling or special (quite the opposite, in fact). Fixing this mess of bloat and hideous GUI is not a wow factor.
What WOULD wow me was if Apple admitted the flat look was never a good idea, reversed course on it, AND optimized iOS so much that it ran on an iPhone 4 (as well as iOS 6 does, which is marginal anymore with all the bloat on websites today).
Never happen.
What WOULD wow me was if Apple admitted the flat look was never a good idea, reversed course on it, AND optimized iOS so much that it ran on an iPhone 4 (as well as iOS 6 does, which is marginal anymore with all the bloat on websites today).
Never happen.
No
No, I don't think you do.
It's basically the same thing as SELinux, except it's XNU.
Quote from Wikipedia on SELinux:
"A Linux kernel integrating SELinux enforces mandatory access-control policies that confine user programs and system servers access to files and network resources. Limiting privilege to the minimum required to work reduces or eliminates the ability of these programs and daemons to cause harm if faulty or compromised (via buffer overflows or misconfigurations, for example). This confinement mechanism operates independently of the traditional Linux (discretionary) access control mechanisms. It has no concept of a "root" super-user, and does not share the well-known shortcomings of the traditional Linux security mechanisms (such as a dependence on setuid/setgid binaries)."
As for the Jailbreaking: On Android, you can still root with SELinux "enforcing". The jailbreaking era may be drawing to a close, but not this year.
No, I don't think you do.
It's basically the same thing as SELinux, except it's XNU.
Quote from Wikipedia on SELinux:
"A Linux kernel integrating SELinux enforces mandatory access-control policies that confine user programs and system servers access to files and network resources. Limiting privilege to the minimum required to work reduces or eliminates the ability of these programs and daemons to cause harm if faulty or compromised (via buffer overflows or misconfigurations, for example). This confinement mechanism operates independently of the traditional Linux (discretionary) access control mechanisms. It has no concept of a "root" super-user, and does not share the well-known shortcomings of the traditional Linux security mechanisms (such as a dependence on setuid/setgid binaries)."
As for the Jailbreaking: On Android, you can still root with SELinux "enforcing". The jailbreaking era may be drawing to a close, but not this year.
After the Yosemite Beta screw ups - no thanks
After the Yosemite public beta wrecked one of my Macs to the extent that I had to do a hard disc wipe and reinstall the OS and the later versions of 10.10 had major wifi and connection to internet problems, here is one mac user that will not be stupid enough this time to be an early adopter. 10.11.2 is probably about the right time to change. Mac OS upgrades used to be pretty bug free back about 8 years ago but no longer. I would rather pay again and get a decent product.
After the Yosemite public beta wrecked one of my Macs to the extent that I had to do a hard disc wipe and reinstall the OS and the later versions of 10.10 had major wifi and connection to internet problems, here is one mac user that will not be stupid enough this time to be an early adopter. 10.11.2 is probably about the right time to change. Mac OS upgrades used to be pretty bug free back about 8 years ago but no longer. I would rather pay again and get a decent product.
iPads better be included in this "optimization and performance improvement" update. I'm sick of iOS for iPad feeling like an afterthought. It shows in the horrible performance of A7 iPads, anything translucent stutters so badly. The UI is also very quirky, and doing just minor things can make things really act funny. Don't get me started on the RAM issues.
Honestly, because I didn't know what the bloody thing was called. Now that I have a name I'll be doing that tonight.
Some impact is probable. It will probably require more gyrations, but still be possible in the end on a narrower set of hardware components. It is probably going to be harder to get in and operate as root (and get access to root controlled resources/files/etc.). The boot process is probably going to have more restrictions at least on the files that Apple provides.
This is likely another layer of malware protection on top of kext signing. From Apple's perspective the distinction between malware and Hackintosh isn't very much. Files aren't just signed, there would be more restrictions on modifying/mutating/deleting some of them also.
More ram and increased battery life is the only thing I can think of that would provide a meaningful benefit to more discriminating users.
For the average user we're at the point where there's not a compelling reason to upgrade from a functionality standpoint. I imagine that any additional features they could add might be nice but non-essential.
"rootless" concerns me a bit. One of the key things that makes a Mac a Mac is that you have full control over it. You can do anything on your Mac and there are no restrictions.
I accept restrictions on iOS because iOS devices are more like appliances than full computers. However, making us have to jailbreak our desktops/laptops as well is going way too far.
Also, how is this going to affect sysadmins that have Macs on a corporate/educational network? We use root to do various things like mass-join systems to Active Directory, install updates, and so on.
This sounds like a cluster**** waiting to happen. Apple's OS X security model is fine as it is. If it weren't, we would have heard about Macs being mass-compromised by now.
I accept restrictions on iOS because iOS devices are more like appliances than full computers. However, making us have to jailbreak our desktops/laptops as well is going way too far.
Also, how is this going to affect sysadmins that have Macs on a corporate/educational network? We use root to do various things like mass-join systems to Active Directory, install updates, and so on.
This sounds like a cluster**** waiting to happen. Apple's OS X security model is fine as it is. If it weren't, we would have heard about Macs being mass-compromised by now.