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Steve Jobs to Kick Off WWDC with Preview of Mac OS X "Tiger"
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You haven't attended many conferences then? I've never been to any IT related ones but I can assure you that big conferences in the US for medicinal chemistry or pharmaceuticals are in a similar ballpark for price. In the case of those your employer usually pays...radhak said:
caveman_uk said:
Exactly! It seems very odd to see people complaining about the price. This is not for Joe Macuser. Just a quick look at the conference schedule and you will realize that most users even powerusers don't need to attend things like Creating Application Clusters for Apache and MySQL or How to Test and Debug Your Cross-Platform Java Application on Mac OS X. This conference if for people developing Mac software not using it.
New Universal Access Feature
Jobs will have a special guest with him on stage. None other than that Roy, or was it Sigfried, guy who almost got his head ripped off by one of his "pet" tigers. He will be demo-ing a new access feature allowing users to operate OS 10.4 when they have no face.
Jobs will have a special guest with him on stage. None other than that Roy, or was it Sigfried, guy who almost got his head ripped off by one of his "pet" tigers. He will be demo-ing a new access feature allowing users to operate OS 10.4 when they have no face.
I think that by Panther, Mac OS X is finally a great 'regular' user OS. I think that the biggest improvements of Tiger will not be as WOW for the average user (nothing new like Exposé) but it will have a bunch of awesome new features that will blow away the professional users.
Still, Apple may continue to kick everyone's ass again!
Still, Apple may continue to kick everyone's ass again!
twinturbo said:
It would be killer if Apple could get the queried file system thing that Longhorn is/was featuring before Microsoft gets it developed.
Tiger
I've heard a rumour that Apple have done a sponsering deal with Siegfried and Roy for the use of the name Tiger, and that during the WWDC, via a live video link (probably iChat), Steve Jobs will remotely cut off Roys life support system.
I've heard a rumour that Apple have done a sponsering deal with Siegfried and Roy for the use of the name Tiger, and that during the WWDC, via a live video link (probably iChat), Steve Jobs will remotely cut off Roys life support system.
stoid said:
I disagree. Apple's out to make money. This means getting 'the average user' to want to buy 10.4. If they're smart, they'll make Tiger every bit as cool as Panther was to us a year ago.
That being said, they often have other ways of getting people to upgrade than a truly "wow" upgrade. For example, make all newly-updated Apple software require the new OS.
We know how it is. Safari, iTunes, iLife, etc...
virividox said:
the smart thing would be to make the finder customizable - that way since every user likes things different, they wouldn't have to worry about all the complaints with the new changes....you make it what you want.
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azdude said:I disagree. Apple's out to make money. This means getting 'the average user' to want to buy 10.4. If they're smart, they'll make Tiger every bit as cool as Panther was to us a year ago.
That being said, they often have other ways of getting people to upgrade than a truly "wow" upgrade. For example, make all newly-updated Apple software require the new OS.
More importantly if it is not a cool/powerful as Panther was in comparison to Jaguar, they have to convince that it is.
Veldek said:
I think it's really because tigers (as well as lions) are quite common, found in practically every zoo and are not as "exotic" as cheetahs, pumas, jaguars, and panthers. We Mac users like to see our OS as being exotic and not common, unlike Windows.
The only thing that REALLY continues to bug me (even in Panther!) is SMB sharing. I'm still having difficulties. It got much better in Panther, and a tiny bit better in each 10.3.x release, but it's still horribly unreliable. Even now, at 10.3.3, I'm still finding myself using CMD-K because it works much better.
Aside from them improving SMB shares, there's nothing I really ask for in Tiger. However, I expect Apple to do what they always do, and show me things I never knew I needed. I'll be getting Tiger ASAP, I'm sure.
Aside from them improving SMB shares, there's nothing I really ask for in Tiger. However, I expect Apple to do what they always do, and show me things I never knew I needed. I'll be getting Tiger ASAP, I'm sure.
Well, I'm hoping for the befs-like filesystem.. Smart folders in the finder, own definable meta-data. And I hope they integrate it with the other applications.
I also hope they announce XCode 2.0, with some of the features Eclipse has. Refactoring tools, quick-fix, organise imports, maybe even an UML program that can generate/reverse engineer objectiveC/cocoa source code.
I also hope they announce XCode 2.0, with some of the features Eclipse has. Refactoring tools, quick-fix, organise imports, maybe even an UML program that can generate/reverse engineer objectiveC/cocoa source code.
any ideas on new features ?
Panther seems quite perfect for me
especially compared to Jaguar and its earlier cousins.
Of course there are loose ends here and there,
but I can't imagine a Mac OS X qualitatively more perfect than this !
Do you have any ideas for great new features ?
Yes, Be-like filesystem will be huge...
Panther seems quite perfect for me
especially compared to Jaguar and its earlier cousins.
Of course there are loose ends here and there,
but I can't imagine a Mac OS X qualitatively more perfect than this !
Do you have any ideas for great new features ?
Yes, Be-like filesystem will be huge...
Thanks pjkelnhofer!
I wasn't digging "Tiger", until I saw that white (Siberian?) tiger.
The number one feature for me will be, "DON'T BREAK MY PROGRAMS!" Panther is the best MacOS ever, but it killed a lot of software I need for work.
The number two feature, and you may think this is lame -- but it would sell a poopload of copies, "MAKE IT WORK ON MY 603e"!
And last but not least, do for WINE what they did for KHTML with Safari -- I would love to ditch VPC and my Windows EULA.
Just my 2 cents.
I wasn't digging "Tiger", until I saw that white (Siberian?) tiger.
The number one feature for me will be, "DON'T BREAK MY PROGRAMS!" Panther is the best MacOS ever, but it killed a lot of software I need for work.
The number two feature, and you may think this is lame -- but it would sell a poopload of copies, "MAKE IT WORK ON MY 603e"!
And last but not least, do for WINE what they did for KHTML with Safari -- I would love to ditch VPC and my Windows EULA.
Just my 2 cents.