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OS X 10.9 to Bring Enhancements to Finder, Safari, Multiple Monitor Support, and Multitasking
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Sure there are issues to iron out, however you can't dismiss multi monitor support as a power user issue. It is a "feature" many of us have been frustrated with for some time.
Which of course has nothing to do with multi monitor support. It always amazes me that people will dismiss a feature they don't use or need as a "power user" feature even though it may not be power users using it most of the time. Multi monitor support is very much a mainstream feature valuable to many.
For energy efficiency purposes on portable devices. This wouldn't impact a system with a direct power connect to a non-battery solution. For instance, if you have a system with a DVD drive that is running an app in the background and you aren't viewing it the power is slowly drawing down the system. Suspend that application's energy draw until its direct use on apps that require playback is one example.
Obviously, if you're doing a DVD burn it doesn't make sense for the system to suspend the process in the background. The system has to determine what types of processes are being used in the background and change their priority states. Within certain priority states they will have to categorize them as a suspend to protect power draw or not.
You should really go back and watch the iOS 4 intro. You're right, all app info stays in memory but it is all frozen until you switch back to the app. In other words, they don't "stay running." Only 7 services stay running. In general, most apps don't use those 7 in the background.
For the love of god, I hope they improve "Mission Control."
"Mission Control" is a joke compared to Exposé.
"Mission Control" is a joke compared to Exposé.
You're wrong. The dock APPEARS when you open Launchpad. Even if the dock is set to hidden, it pops up with Launchpad and you see duplicates of all your apps. Poor design IMO.
While I can see this being helpful to some users it would be a disaster for my MBP usage. In fact when I reach for my MBP it is to leverage its multitasking abilities over my iPad.
Frankly I don't think Apple would be so stupid as to implement this in a way that the user didn't have control. When you have apps running in background for hours at a time the last thing you want is for the system to suspend them.
It doesn't bother me to much at the OS level. What I'd rather see though is far more work gone into unified apps such as iWork and others. We need iWork versions that use exactly the same files as stored on the cloud. Solve that problem and other I could problems and we will move beyond the era of iCloud being useful "only if" it was usable.
As to iOS and Mac OS, people still don't grasp that they are the same OS underneath the GUI. However features that make iOS a rest mobile solution are really the opposite of what you would want on Mac OS.
That should be an issue of syncing. I'm actually rather please considering how well the two work together now. Future improvements are likely to be incremental.
As a side note I can see IOS becoming far more powerful in the future as hardware improves to support more advanced features. I suspect it ip will be far more likely that iOS will get major updates in the coming years.
can (finally) get that working, I believe it when I see it 
Duplicates? All you see are the icons. It isn't hard to understand that the dock is a place for apps or folders that you want to have quick access to. The Launchpad is the place for all of your apps including ones in the dock. One a mobile device, that's too many UI layers to have duplicates. But on a laptop/desktop, more UI layers are welcome and make more sense. Let's not forget that on Windows and Linux, you see duplicate icons of the same app in many places. It's more flexible and provide multiple ways to accomplish the same goal. On a mobile device, too many ways to do the same thing is confusing and not at all efficient due to screen size, fewer navigation methods, etc.
Rather than dumping a laundry list of everything that you can possibly think of that you dislike about OS X, you might actually provide feedback directly to Apple. Apple is, similar to Snow Leopard, producing a release that improves on the core OS, at least it would appear. CAN WE CHEER APPLE ON FOR ONCE IN A LIFETIME? This could be a great thing...
PS: I'm a pragmatist, and I'm not suggesting that people fawn over something they shouldn't. Yet Apple would appear to actually be giving people what they would seem to be begging for: Power User TM features. Since apparently everyone is now an expert and a Power User TM. Maybe we can cut them just a little slack for once...
PS: I'm a pragmatist, and I'm not suggesting that people fawn over something they shouldn't. Yet Apple would appear to actually be giving people what they would seem to be begging for: Power User TM features. Since apparently everyone is now an expert and a Power User TM. Maybe we can cut them just a little slack for once...
Yeah me too. I mean my 2007 Mac mini is already stuck at Lion, hopefully my only other mac isn't dropped of support too.
Pardon my ignorance, but Cabernet is not a big cat
It's a code name. I believe Apple has been code naming their OS's from wine recently. Not the actual public name.
I've had multiple monitors in 10.5, 10.6, 10.7, and now 10.8. Works perfectly for me and always has. I never understood why people claim it doesn't work.
Hit the green plus to maximize it to the screen. Easy.
Well the dock itself is in fact a "launchpad". If anything, Launchpad feels like a forced way to bring an iOS feel to OS X. If you wanted a launcher of all apps you could always just add your Applications folder to Stacks and voila. If they really want to keep Launchpad, I don't think I should see two icons for Safari, two for iPhoto, etc etc. Just seems unnecessary.
If you say it's a good thing, why not toss some app icons on the desktop and status bar. That would provide even more ways to open Safari
Yes they do stay in memory but they use basically the minimum amount of memory needed. They are "frozen" in memory. Unless they are using one of the background services they can not run in any operation, request more memory or anything. They're just there. Yes they are in memory though they use the least amount of memory needed. So yes they are still in RAM though the OS can at will get rid of them if it wants too.
Same apps actually don't even really do that. They have their own way of doing it sort of. When an app is closed they do like a "quick" save sort of thing which saves the state you were currently at in the game/app. That way when you restart it, no matter when you do, you can continue where you left of. They only have to reload the resources since those won't be in memory anymore. A lot of games do this. I know a game I play uses this. It acts like it is reloading from the very start, and it is, but is finding your last save and resources to reload. Then it starts back up basically where you were at.
Hah!
Look at iOS. The lack of multitsking is one of the main complaints from anyone who has ever used anything other than an iOS device, but Apple is too cheap and too lazy to rewrite the code written close to a decade ago, so they keep spinning the tale how they do it for the good of the consumers. BS.
Apple may not be so stupid, but they sure think iOS users are.
I miss being able to bring up the app switcher (cmd tab) with gestures. Gone since Lion I think.
Which is great for a memory and processor constrained system. Often it is not what you want to happen on a desktop system.
I'd have to think about this one. Most of the time on Mac OS when I try to quit an app I want it to do so right then and there.
This is a huge problem. For example how do you know when something shouldn't happen. One item already mentioned is slide shows in iPhoto. Maybe the user wants a slide show going on in the corner of a screen even if iPhoto isn't the foreground app. It might not make sense to stop an app that isn't visible either as that introduces significant app start up delays and lag when it does come into view. To put it simply people have different expectations.
Baloney. It isn't a matter of what programmers want but rather what users want. To that end iOS multitasking is far from perfect. The best option that I can see is for Apple to offer users a way to designate the operation of an app in background so that the user can choose to do so when needed. One example would be a market watching app that is always in background updating portfolio information and is always ready to regain the foreground. In a nut shell something that is allowed the same functionality as that of the E-Mail app. Another example would be an app collecting data from laboratory instruments over a period of time. Such an app need to be able to run in background with no interference from the OS over a long period of time.
Somewhere in between all of this Apple needs to expand the ability of iCal to run apps on a regular schedule. For example start up a "newspaper" app at 5:00 am to have it downloaded for breakfast. In effect give iCal some of the capabilities that is common to cron on unix systems. Obviously iCal can multitask to do this but a use could have multiple jobs to prep for the start of a work day. I use the word newspaper above because it is a simple concept for people to understand even if newspapers are a dying breed. The concept though is applicable to any number of data transfer issues, be it sales reports, the latest pics from Hubble, a magazine subscription, production reports, or anything that needs to be downloaded and prepped on a regular schedule. The point is these are apps that would need to multitask to complete their jobs due to the asynchronous nature of their operation.
This iCal as Cron feature is something I do hope that Apple is working on along with robust scripting. Being able to wake up in the morning and grab an iPad off the charger ready for the day would be a huge sales advantage. The reality is network lag still sucks and that isn't likely to change soon. If the first hour of your day off the charger doesn't significantly decrease battery life then iPad will find even more usefulness than it already has.
In a nut shell iOS needs improvements to the way it multitasks and the way the users can interact with that capability. It is all about the user.
And those little things are?
Besides the flashlight one the others will be saved in memory so what? what exactly are you losing by it?
the developer can request up to 10 minutes of run time after a user takes that app from foreground to background to finish what its doing, so if they implement it you won't lose anything from your training app,again its a matter of the developer doing it(see the difference?)
oh really? the same Apple that is selling more and more every year? lost marketshare due to the crazy amounts of low-end androids. Apple is still at the top of profitability and its brand is very powerful,especially the iPhone and iPad brands.
you already have touch but really touching your screen? imagine you have a 27'' iMac,are you really going to stand close enough to it to touch all of the screen? unless you have large arms i don't thinks its a very good idea,especially if people have to use it an entire day it will probably make your arm very tired and you require a redesign of OSX to something with large icons as your fingers just don't have that great of accuracy for the small icons now used.
what such innovation is that? hybrid devices? that already existed,only now windows has been redesigned to use it properly. Chrome? really? should apple be worried about the ChromeBook too? as long as Chrome requires an internet connection and uses the internet for basically anything it won't have that great of a success.
People have been doomsday'ing apple since the iPhone 4S release although i believe they'll go through a rough patch in 2/3 years that will be due their astronomical growth from 2009 to 2012 which is something that no company could maintain indefinitely
What decade old code are you talking about?
iOS is fully multi-threade multi-tasking. The OS enforces suspension and termination of background apps (configurable) in order to preserve battery life.
If you've ever done any iOS development you'd know that an app can request to be kept alive *in the background* up to 10 minutes after the user has switched away from the app. Also apps such as audio players are permitted to do pretty much anything whilst they're running in the background (as long as they continue to play music).
The funny thing here is that I own both products and frankly the limitations seen on iOS aren't a huge problem on my iOS devices. Yes there needs to be improvements with multitasking under iOS, I'm not saying iOS doesn't need such improvements. Rather the problem is that these features on Mac OS would be far more problematic and not in the users best interests.
It comes down to the way I use the two different systems. For me iOS like multitasking, without user control, would be a complete disaster on Mac OS. IOS is a completely different platform that I use in completely different ways. So while multitasking isn't perfect there ( it does exist) it isn't the big problem it is on Mac OS.