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Watch Apple's Two-Hour 2016 WWDC Keynote in 7 Minutes
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I remember the days when Apple used to make big announcements at Macworld Expo and NAB. They were first in the market with many of the new technologies; firewire, DVD-RAM and dual processors for the masses, just to name a few. They used to have a huge presence at NAB with a gigantic booth, a large stage and racks of Mac Servers and extensive line of professional products. Those days are gone. Thunderbolt 3 has been supported on HP and Dell laptops for a while but we are still waiting for it on the Mac. You can order a HP Z workstation with 22 Core Xeon processors and multiple 12GB Nvidia cards. That’s what I call a real professional workstation.
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Actually, it looks like that's exactly what it is, disable and hide.
I'm OK with that, it's just one more folder that can go away. But until it really deletes them and allows me to replace them with a 3rd party app, it's pretty useless.
[doublepost=1465932255][/doublepost]I can't help but have flashback to another company that single handedly created a new type of mobile phone market. That became leader in the field. That everyone had to have. That had so much cash in hand it could not possibly fail. Then they started losing market share, yet the faithful kept saying, it's not about market share, it's about making money. They rename the OS, they renamed themselves, they even introduced stickers for their proprietary messaging platform.
And where are they now?
Flying on planes also used to be a thrill at one point.
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Where?
Yeah!
These four HARDWARE announcements somehow got skipped over at the SOFTWARE conference!!
What gives???????!
I'm going to go post snarky & pointless remarks derailing the conversation people are having about, you know, the actual software announcements.
But then it would be too easy to grab someone's iPhone and unlock his computer along the way; it relies on the watch because it uses biometric info to certify it's "you".
Yeah, sure. How many decades ago was the last time that you've used Windows? I have two company notebooks with similar technical specs, a 13" Retina MacBook Pro with El Capitan and a Dell XPS 13 with Windows 10.
The Mac definitely performs slower and generally more unreliable than the Dell. Apparently, the Mac was a "Monday" machine - its mainboard has been replaced twice already by Apple and I've learned from the shop that there was a general recall here in Europe for all of those MacBook models. But even after the last official repair and I don't know how many OS X re-installations later, El Capitan itself remains a slow and buggy mess with a lot of weird behaviors, annoying glitches and malfunctions -- too many to list them here, but let's just say that Apple's USB stack and Thunderbolt/Displayport-Adapters keep things quite "interesting".
The general state of software - and by that I mean the stock software and third party software - in Apple's ecosystem is a rather sad story: Everything just feels slower, buggier and less reliable and stable than the siblings on Windows and Linux. Macs are just plain and simple horrible tools when you work in a data center environment. (Just compare simple vCenter operation on OS X and Windows. I can stop right there and rest my case.) We support Mac users, so I need a Mac for testing purposes, but as a work horse, the Dell and Windows 10 mop the floor with OS X and the MacBook.
I run an IT department at a satellite communication teleport and have been in the IT business full time for over 25 years now. I'm platform agnostic and have been around the block several times. Where, please, is a proper Windows 10 or Windows Server 2012 R2 installation "unsafe"? And, yes, that question also extends to current Linux server distributions, not just Apple's consumer platform OS X. Microsoft have significantly stepped up their game in the last ten to fifteen years and in my daily work with a highly heterogeneous environment, I see absolutely no evidence that OS X or Linux systems are safer or more reliable than Windows systems. Frankly speaking, on the desktop I rather see more evidence that suggest that OS X and Linux are poor choices as desktop platforms for many reasons.
It is mainly software. However, there are expectation to have hardware to let the software to run on.
Apple does some innovative stuff, but in too many ways they are just flagrently following the market on clever features in other apps and operating systems. The ratio of clever/copy is getting worrisome. My next computer will be a PC (*sad face*) if I can transition my iPhoto database.
Everyone does this a lot of the time. What is new or surprising about any of that?
Where is who? Apple?
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That's the summary, I want the detail.
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Blackberry.
While not there yet, let's not forget that they are far behind Android in market share. So far, it's still worth it for developers to write for both OS. But at what % of market share is the developing and supporting not worth it anymore?
Thanks, the condensed video is really helpful.
Glancing at features of iOS 10 … does iOS 9 not have the ability to clear all notifications with a single gesture?
(Just curious. I don't use any version of iOS.)
Nice parable. Similar to the three bears and goldilocks except it won't end like that.
Yeah but I never wear watches... it feels like a one sided hand cuff... so then what is a solution for the rest of us who A.) don't believe in the watch, and B.) the touch ID on the phone should allow you to unlock the laptop as most likely you'll have the phone near your laptop...