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Wave-Themed OS X Banner Goes Up at Moscone West for WWDC 2013
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Who said it above that the wave is the radio wave? I like that explanation best. The banner is beyond hideous to me (unlike the iOS 7 one, which is quite OK) the ugly green with that white X over it... It also looks amateurish.
OS 10.9 "Schrödinger's Cat"
Is it dead or alive?
You collapsed the wave-function!
I don't think that it's that important that "X" was meant to be a Roman numeral. It has become a brand on its own, regardless what it once stood for. It makes sense from many perspectives to go with the letter as the name. Especially as "Z" would be (not only for marketing) eventually a great name for the last and definitive OS for a product category Apple will have created ... and concluded.
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you are correct. "i dun goofed"
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your analogy makes no sense as a phone number MUST be a certain length so why would I dismiss the last few 0s? a version number does NOT have to be a certain length.
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yup. 'twas my error
These murals really tell you nothing.
However, from what I've seen in all the mock-ups. I will be holding off on installing iOS7, I have grown to love the look of the icons in iOS6...if there just going to make them flatter looking than I'm gonna pass.
However, from what I've seen in all the mock-ups. I will be holding off on installing iOS7, I have grown to love the look of the icons in iOS6...if there just going to make them flatter looking than I'm gonna pass.
iOS to X
COME ON guys... it's EASY. the WAVE is an indication of ios (ios had always some kind of aquatic background. Even from the start with the nemo fish.). and steve said "bring it all back to the Mac. well, now their doing it!
the wallpaper is an indication of iOS taking Over the mac. that was easy to figure out...
COME ON guys... it's EASY. the WAVE is an indication of ios (ios had always some kind of aquatic background. Even from the start with the nemo fish.). and steve said "bring it all back to the Mac. well, now their doing it!
the wallpaper is an indication of iOS taking Over the mac. that was easy to figure out...
Finally, after 31 pages I found someone who's thinking something similar to me.
It's a wave (Aqua) about to crush "X" (OSX). OS 11 is on the horizon and, they want to talk about it/preview it at the keynote.
COME ON guys... it's EASY. the WAVE is an indication of ios (ios had always some kind of aquatic background. Even from the start with the nemo fish.). and steve said "bring it all back to the Mac. well, now their doing it!
the wallpaper is an indication of iOS taking Over the mac. that was easy to figure out...
If this happens, there'll be a good deal of old school Mac users being very pissed off on Monday.
Scott Forstalls involvement in OS X
I am currently not an OS X user, but based on what I know about Forstall he has been responsible for OS X before it was even called OS X. He was hired straight out of college to work at NeXT. So he has been a big part of its development for a long time.
Those photo realistic icons, the pinstripe that first appeared in 10.0 and the evolution of the OS X since, yep, all Forstall.
You have to give him his props, he raised the bar for what an OS can be, look like and caused a major influence on the industry. Microsoft eventually adopted photo realistic icons with Vista too. Now, if OS X did not come in existence the way it did, we would still be seeing these cartoony looking 16 bit icons from XP and OS 9.
Back in 2001 when Apple launched OS X and I saw Aqua and the icons, I said wow, why can't my Windows look like that? (I was using Windows 2000 Professional at the time). As Steve Jobs said, OS X made you want to lick it. Down to the packaging was sexy with the blue hard candy X.
Its ironic because the design of OS X was based on the look of the iMac G3, so Scott was trying to bring some synergy to Jony's design. There of course came some fall out along the way. If you do look at the evolution of the UI over the years, it has been to align to the hardware.
iMac pin stripe - 10.0 - 10.2 (this is when the iMac was flagship hardware).
PowerMac G5 brush metal - 10.3 - 10.4 (I think this is where Jony got upset, because the brush metal was cheesy).
10.5 - 10.8 the UI was just out of whack with the hardware.
Now based on what we are seeing across Apples product lines is a 'wave' of synergy.
Thin iMacs, thin iPhones, thin MacBook Air, think MacBook with Retina Display, thin iPad devices.
A key theme of these devices are the clean design, OS X in Jony's eyes need to reflect that too.
Now, this can be good and bad. He might end up hiding and removing things to dumb down to a degree where a lot of power user features suffer at the cost of design and aesthetics. Just like the iMac and MacBook with Retina have sacrificed function over form.
On the other hand, it could be a case of less gimmicky, beautiful hardware, powerful OS, less dumbed down with a clean design.
Either way, Monday, we will find out. Lets not forget though, just like Forstall, Ive has had his share of weaknesses too even in current products. It took Steve Jobs a walk through his wife's Sun Flower garden to really get an idea of what he wanted in the successor to the G3.
Hopefully 14 years of working with Steve along with his own taste for design has really matured where he can really do this on his own.
I am currently not an OS X user, but based on what I know about Forstall he has been responsible for OS X before it was even called OS X. He was hired straight out of college to work at NeXT. So he has been a big part of its development for a long time.
Those photo realistic icons, the pinstripe that first appeared in 10.0 and the evolution of the OS X since, yep, all Forstall.
You have to give him his props, he raised the bar for what an OS can be, look like and caused a major influence on the industry. Microsoft eventually adopted photo realistic icons with Vista too. Now, if OS X did not come in existence the way it did, we would still be seeing these cartoony looking 16 bit icons from XP and OS 9.
Back in 2001 when Apple launched OS X and I saw Aqua and the icons, I said wow, why can't my Windows look like that? (I was using Windows 2000 Professional at the time). As Steve Jobs said, OS X made you want to lick it. Down to the packaging was sexy with the blue hard candy X.
Its ironic because the design of OS X was based on the look of the iMac G3, so Scott was trying to bring some synergy to Jony's design. There of course came some fall out along the way. If you do look at the evolution of the UI over the years, it has been to align to the hardware.
iMac pin stripe - 10.0 - 10.2 (this is when the iMac was flagship hardware).
PowerMac G5 brush metal - 10.3 - 10.4 (I think this is where Jony got upset, because the brush metal was cheesy).
10.5 - 10.8 the UI was just out of whack with the hardware.
Now based on what we are seeing across Apples product lines is a 'wave' of synergy.
Thin iMacs, thin iPhones, thin MacBook Air, think MacBook with Retina Display, thin iPad devices.
A key theme of these devices are the clean design, OS X in Jony's eyes need to reflect that too.
Now, this can be good and bad. He might end up hiding and removing things to dumb down to a degree where a lot of power user features suffer at the cost of design and aesthetics. Just like the iMac and MacBook with Retina have sacrificed function over form.
On the other hand, it could be a case of less gimmicky, beautiful hardware, powerful OS, less dumbed down with a clean design.
Either way, Monday, we will find out. Lets not forget though, just like Forstall, Ive has had his share of weaknesses too even in current products. It took Steve Jobs a walk through his wife's Sun Flower garden to really get an idea of what he wanted in the successor to the G3.
Hopefully 14 years of working with Steve along with his own taste for design has really matured where he can really do this on his own.
It would be called Liger
And unfortunately, unable to reproduce.
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Actually, they dropped the Mac part, the official name is OS X.