The future of mac os....

The most likely scenario is that we will have MacOS X 10.4 through MacOS X 10.9. At one new version per year, we will likely see MacOS X 10.9 released in 2009. Apple may release MacOS X 11.0 in 20010. It may hold off and release MacOS X 11 in 20011. You can bet the farm that MacOS X 12.0 will not be release anytime near 20012.

 

And I though M$ was bad

I wouldn't bet on Apple making another PDA, I don't think the PDA market is a place they want to be in

 

It's good to have dreams.


I personally hope 10.4 will be 3-D, but that might confuse switchers/nwebies/old people. Micro$oft already has a 3-D os, but the name of it escapes me.

 

not to mention that there are already hacks to make osx 3d.

All I hope for is Apple supported OSX themes. I've never been up to hacking my system just to make it look different, so more themes would be nice.

 

you'll probably see apple split away from depending on the freebsd project (probably due to a difference of opinions) and implementing a sysv-style clean kernel. sort of like what sun did.

you'll then have classic, and classic x emulation =)

they'll also probably not call this new system MacOS.. it'll have it's own name. Apple's X2 or something.

 

I would imagine that we are getting closer to an OS that uses spoken commands. And not like the cruddy implementation we have had since the pre-OS X days...

USER: Computer, tell me a joke.
MAC: (in droning voice) It is 4:00 pee emm.
USER: I said tell me a joke.
MAC: Knock knock.
USER: Who's there?
MAC: It is 4:00 pee emm.

Yes, I imagine a much sexier implementation that actually serves a purpose beyond stupid computer tricks...

USER: Hey, open that file I was working on last night.
MAC: Haven't you done enough damage already?
USER: You think you could do better.
MAC: I already did.
USER: Oh, yeah? (pause) Nice gaussian blur.

Ah, yes. That will be the day.

 

I think they will drop support for classic very soon. Maybe not 10.4, but 10.5

Classic is still the old way, and pretty soon there won't be any non-native apps that need it.

 

Actually, I don't think it iwll be that soon. What will happen first is that new machines won't come with classic. Sometime after that happens, (Like a couple of years at least probably) Apple will drop classic support in Mac OS X (or whatever they are up to.)

Also, machines that are released and shipped without classic may not be able to run Classic at all. (Even if you had a Classic environment to copy over from another Mac.)

I base this on the way they dropped 9.2.2 boot support on machines, but still shipp Classic.

Remember this is only my speculations, but they sound reasonable.

 

Touch screen is perhaps a few more years off when prices drop enough...maybe 5 years... maybe longer

I think the iPod will morph into a pda option at the high end

 

Theres no way I'm waiting that long!.... perhaps you needed one less 0 in some of those