OS X 10.9 Build Number Suggests Extensive Internal Development

[Hunabku]

Cats getting more wimpy

Let's see we went from a lion to a more wimpier mountain lion. So it makes sense the next OS will be something like a lynx or a bob cat.

Good thing after 10.9 we are going to 11 and probably go to a whole new animal. Otherwise if this trend continues we're gonna end up with one of these:

meerkat!

 

[thejadedmonkey]

Impress me Apple. The ball's in your court.

 

[a0me]

Personally, I consider full-screen apps and Mission Control to be a huge difference in the way my computer works. Just because you don't use these features doesn't mean lots of others don't. For me, it's completely changed the way I use OS X.

I used to find full-screen apps and Mission Control useless until I switched from a 24 inch iMac to a 15 inch MBP. Now I can't do without these features and I wish that my Windows based PC had the same function built in...

 

[DavidMarks]

I've heard some say it'll be called OS X Lynx

Lynx [...] derived from the Indo-European root "*leuk-", meaning "light, brightness" - Wikipedia

it actually has a connection with Ive's design leaks. Can't really think of another big cat name! They've almost run out!

 

[Yamcha]

I always get super excited about OSX releases. But I do hope to see truly useful features, not some of the ones we have in 10.8.. And what I'd love to see is a significant performance boost in every area if possible..

 

[aggri1]

In addition to some of the other good ideas here, I want 'focus follows mouse', finally. Anyone know of a 3rd party way of doing that yet, I haven't found one.

 

[hleewell]

Snow Mountain Lion

In all seriousness, I can think of a few features that would be great:
- Undo Mission Control and Launchpad. Honestly, that was the biggest heap of crap ever. They took all the awesome features of Snow Leopard, then scrambled them little enough that you could still see the resemblance, but they weren't actually useful anymore.
- Resolution Independence.
- A decent file sharing system, modeled after Dropbox.
- Making Notes less like the iOS version and more like Stickies (which I still use because Notes is too bulky.) And why is Reminders a seperate app?

Absolutely love this idea! Why can' t they do this? Some limitation in the codes?

As far as file sharing is concerned, I use Messages for smaller files, and it actually work quite well. But I agree the current AirDrop is a hit or miss.

Actually the real work needs to be on the Finder, file management, file viewing, searching functions etc. I can't understand why they add the rather redundant "Arrange" function

 

[CodeBreaker]

The way that image loaded... I thought 10.9 had a Craig wallpaper set as default.

 

[MattInOz]

Everyone seems to be asking for tiny incremental changes. I'd like to see some much bigger changes:

1) A new file system that implements "copy on write"

2) With the above: Allow near real time file syncing between any two Macs or between a Mac and Time machine, not one an hour but continuously.

3) multi-user concurrency built into every app. This why two people can use the same iPhone or Aperture library. Three people can edit the same Pages document at once (like you can with Google Docs)

4) a local "iCloud" so you documents can folow you with out having to make a trip to the Internet and back withits time deleay and space limit. If I could have a local cloud then my 300GB Aperture library can follow me from my iMac to my Macbook

Yes, Yes, Yes to all these, and most the others.
On local iCloud...

I'd also like to see the option to connect to any server (or at least some connection types) in a similar manor to iCloud. In that it local caches the file to the Library any local Apps work on the local cache file and a background process take care of writing to the server. The Background process would keep it locked while I've got it open. While I'm not working on the file the background process would watch for changes.

If I'm using big files I don't want the system to lock up on save. Using big files and saving every 5-10mins you can still lose a few minutes a day.

In an office all those harddrives in machines could be made highly useful.

 

[ALange]

OS X 10.9 Catnip

all cats cant resist it ;P

 

[treichert]

Good thing after 10.9 we are going to 11

And why would that happen? After 10.9 comes 10.10, 10.11 and so on. It's a version number, not math.

 

[bumblebritches5]

I think the dock is gonna go away, just launchpad, and I'd fine with it. finally get it out of my way when i'm working on photoshop

Or you can go to Preferences and enable dock hiding...

 

[verniesgarden]

Or you can go to Preferences and enable dock hiding...

it still pops up when you are at the bottom of the screen though.


I just added a delay to my dock so it takes a long time for it to a appear via mouse over. much happier now.

 

[MIDI_EVIL]

Please Apple, just 'optimise'! Don't keep adding novelty features and watering it down. Just optimise the damn thing!

 

[Ddyracer]

Please Apple, just 'optimise'! Don't keep adding novelty features and watering it down. Just optimise the damn thing!

This. make it fast and less crashy and buggy.

 

[verniesgarden]

Why is everyone so hung up on 10.6? I've seen side by speed test and other performance displays between it and mLion, and mLion blows it away every time.

is it launchpad? personally I love launchpad, its a cleaner easier to see but out of the way of my work version of the Dock.

is it mission control? still another great feature combining spaces with expose. (you can set a hotkey for show desktop from expose btw)

the only thing that i don't like from lion/nLion is the lack of multi screen support for fullscreen apps.

 

[szw-mapple fan]

I hope it's more like Snow Leopard..

Does anyone have any idea what it will be named?

Yeah. Snow Lion

 

[Mike MA]

It's quite a high build number, true. But with some 13 builds for 10.8.3 and 8 before 10.8.4 was released, Apple seems to have changed its developing strategy.

 

[Lancer]

One thing I'd like in OS X is gesture control using the camera, also when you log-in (or wakeup) use visual recognition so the user doesn't have to use a password. This could also would on iOS devices to unlock them.

 

[AnonMac50]

I don't even know WHY I'm excited. I'm 99% sure it won't work on my MacBook Pro and there's a good chance I'll be away from my Mac Pro (which might also get dropped) for some time.

 

[M-O]

Release it at WWDC. Screw the developers!

lol. screw the developers, who you will be complaining to when your software doesn't work in 10.9.

 

[808?]

I just hope Apple opens WWDC with a bang.

I would prefer a

 

[benthewraith]

OS X 10.9:

We at Apple take security very seriously. Dangerous hackers and terrorists could be stealing your information. Someone could be using an Apple iMac to develop a nuclear bomb right now. Therefore, we will be releasing a slew of national security OS updates. A secure OS is a secure nation.

/sarcasm, but I'm not sure how much.

 

[ResPublica]

Believe it or not, there was a more or less straight forward way of doing full screen since 10.0. It was not difficult to do while allowing a programmer to use any screen setup he liked. It was not declared as a system-wide feature to the end-user thought. Which was good, because not every application makes sense to run in full screen. So the answer is: Yes


Yes, that's exactly what I expect a computer to do. He has to do as I command. And if the computer sees that I forgot to save something which I might want to save, then he must ask. Not assume something. At least not with something as important as saving files.


The answer is not completely but almost vanishingly close to a 100% NO. I have more problems now with lost data because the system does not tell me that it did overwrite contents which might have been correct versions of something I did not intend to change in the first place.

There's an option in System Preferences so you can always be asked to save your document before quitting an app.

 

[xVeinx]

question:

If i prefer much more stock android that iphone any day, I use no tablet, retina macbooks are expensive and not upgradable and rely only in ssd (seems like having a hdd nowadays is a kick ass feature), and osx is worse each year...

Microsoft has never ever been in their history as closed as apple is right now... Apple is really microsofting itself, just a decade later...

WHERE AND WHO IS THE NEXT APPLE???

So, we need a company that produces computers using cheaper, outdated technology that we are all used to. And since OS X gets worse every year,maybe Apple should re-introduce snow leopard. In fact, maybe they should just keep the same hardware and software for the next 3 years so nothing changes and is exactly the way everyone "likes" it. Like the Mac Pro.

Oh wait...

They need to produce two hardware/software tracks: The slow track for the people who want to buy a computer and not change anything on it for the next 10 years, and then the fast track for the people that need something new every ten seconds or they get bored.