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Roundup of OS X Mountain Lion Reviews: 'Faster and Smoother', 'Incremental', 'Bargain at Twice the Price'
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Gizmodo is a pathetic joke, and is so your attempt to look like you understand and agree with their fake sentiment.
At some point there is nothing else to improve and you add features that make the system worse. Everything about iOS is great, just think about how ubiquitous its setup is on every smartphone on the market and how anyone can pick it up and use it on the first day. Making things simpler has always been the goal of every engineer out there. Complexity isn't a good thing for a OS, we add enough of that ourselves with all the programs we run.
If you have stolen merchandise in your house (that you paid $5000 for knowing it was stolen), don't be surprised if the police come knocking at your door.
I agree with you Mac OSX is great. Mountian Lion makes it even a little better. But I think overall, they are out of groundbreaking ideas like Dashboard and Expose ect.
The ironic thing is Gizmodo is spot on; for example, look at their criticism of fullscreen apps. I enjoy my Mac, but I feel that Apple doesn't 'wow' us anymore (but maybe my expectations are too high).
And John Gruber is very bias towards Apple. In his eyes, Apple can do no wrong (not literally, but you'll never see him call out Apple on anything that isn't a software bug).
Gizmodo shouldn't even be allowed to review anything made by Apple. Don't you remember the iPhone 4 prototype getting out in the open the other year? Gizmodo had something to do with it. Apple got them in rather serious trouble with the law and didn't houses get searched and computers seized? Although if I remember in the end Gizmodo were cleared, but its blatantly obvious they are slandering the product on purpose.
Exactly, I mean WTF, does he think he can break the law just because he is a journalist? Freedom of speech doesn't mean you can buy stolen property, LOL.
Only takes a few minutes to get yourself used to Windows 8. Once I found the hidden menu bar on the right side (just hit side with pointer). Thing went smoothy from there.
They have a desktop panel so you can get the use and feel of the win7, but once you start using window8, the panels start to becoming useful.
MS did a good job with this upgrade.
Okay, thanks for throwing that in so we can know you're trying to troll.
Lol...Dashboard being called "groundbreaking". Good one...
We'll see new groundbreaking ideas when a new form factor dictates it. I.E. the iOS was groundbreaking because of the touch interface.
Perhaps the iTV (or whatever) would allow for that. As long as we're stuck to a keyboard and mouse, there's inherent limitations outside of, perhaps, voice control (which isn't all that new).
Perhaps the iTV (or whatever) would allow for that. As long as we're stuck to a keyboard and mouse, there's inherent limitations outside of, perhaps, voice control (which isn't all that new).
Dude I don't know about you but I am all over full-screen apps. Example:
I run two 'desktops' with EVE Online, one with my e-mail client, one with Writer, another with Safari, and another with calendar. With a flick of my finger I can switch between EVE clients or shoot out an e-mail. Very cool stuff.
Typical JizzModo.... Unless its a comment from them that's posted on a different site, I wouldn't even know the comment exist. I NEVER even look at their page.
Okay, thanks for throwing that in so we can know you're trying to troll.
Lol...Dashboard being called "groundbreaking". Good one...
Dashboard is more groundbreaking than Mission Control. And in Mountian Lion they add a search bar!!! Sigh... For real though stuff like Expose and Stacks that really changed how we use our computers. Apple is focusing on taking the only thing they do know now (iOS) and bring it to Mac. Other than that they have no ideas.
Excited to read Siracusa's epic review. I look forward to them almost as much as the OS releases themselves.
Pretty sure he is not the Macalope. There was a Macworld predictions article that featured them both. (Unless he purposely came up with two completely different set of predictions in order to mislead people, which I suppose is possible.)
And as much as Diaz is clearly still bitter about the iPhone 4 fiasco, he is right that Apple's Skeuomorphism has gotten a bit ridiculous lately. Fullscreen Notepad is particularly hideous, IMO.
Pretty sure he is not the Macalope. There was a Macworld predictions article that featured them both. (Unless he purposely came up with two completely different set of predictions in order to mislead people, which I suppose is possible.)
And as much as Diaz is clearly still bitter about the iPhone 4 fiasco, he is right that Apple's Skeuomorphism has gotten a bit ridiculous lately. Fullscreen Notepad is particularly hideous, IMO.
I basically agree with you, but for a somewhat more nuanced reason. IMO, 10.7 lion did add a few features that I want, such as full screen apps, built in autosave with versioning, session resume after shutdown, and full disk encryption http://lifehacker.com/5770609/screenshot-and-feature-tour-of-mac-os-107-lion . but along with those features I like I would also get saddled with a LOSS OF features from 10.6 replaced by new features that I DON'T like, such as mission control replacing expose, loss of the Save As function, etc. so overall it would be 2 steps forward and 2 steps back. And now 10.8 isn't adding a single new feature that I care about, so for me the best choice is probably to stick with 10.6 snow leopard.
News for Mr. Diaz- I went OS X BECAUSE of what I saw in Windows 8. That's one butt ugly interface.
Until my computer can talk back to me like Tony Stark's computer, I rather not talk to it...
I guess we can agree to disagree.
If there's ONE tech company with any new ideas, it's Apple. Their track record has proven as much.
You can almost feel the bitterness from Giz's article!
What do we think Apple will call the next major revision anyway? OS XI or 11 or something else entirely? Probably still over 2 years away though I guess.
What do we think Apple will call the next major revision anyway? OS XI or 11 or something else entirely? Probably still over 2 years away though I guess.