Goodbye to IOS and OSX......welcome to 7X , a dual operating system for iPhone/iPad and Macbooks/iMac
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Wave-Themed OS X Banner Goes Up at Moscone West for WWDC 2013
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That would be a cougar. And yes in human years OS X is entering her cougar years. And with that wave coming in, she's gonna get all wet. Reoww.
sorry couldn't help it
Old Cat, New tricks.
Apple is running out of OS 10.x numbers. Will the release next year be 10.10... Seems a little inelegant for Apple. I am predicting this is the last year for OS X... What are the chances that iOS branding will be universally for mobile and desktops?
It's just a banner
A banner implying a significant change in design. No cats. Different font to previous versions.
Good points.
Yet Forstall's influence increased substantially. Before iOS, Jobs favored shrinking down the Mac, but he pitted the Macintosh and iPod teams, led by Forstall and Tony Fadell respectively. Forstall won that competition to create iOS, strengthening his position in the company since all hardware executives required the support of Forstall's software engineers in order to add features. Forstall was also responsible for creating a software developer’s kit for programmers to build iPhone apps as well as an App Store within iTunes.
Jobs gave Forstall carte blanche, allowing him greater OS X influence as iOS became the predominant Apple system. With 10.7 and Bertrand Sertlet's department (announced 2009, made public in 2011), Craig Federighi took over OS X development internally in 2009 and Jobs had OS X engineering at Forstall's command, thus the increased skeuomorphism and iOS integration in OS X.
As Forstall's creative control grew so did the frustrations from engineers and a good deal of Apple employees, thus creating a divide in Cupertino that is widely known. Forstall took advantage of his position, especially after Jobs' passing. However tensions increased, Cook needed to reign in the great divide. With Jobs gone, Forstall's reign came to and end.
There will still be iOS influence in OS X, but I'm betting much will be removed with more simplicity, increased engineering focus on stability and support for improved/current gen tech. with nuanced iOS integration and improving already in place features.
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To be honest I think it means nothing more than
"Something fresh"
That or a cheap waterproof iPhone
"Something fresh"
That or a cheap waterproof iPhone
Quality contribution
The banners and PR material are always extremely indicative of things to come. Extremely.
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Until the release of 10.9, you mean. Watch it change.
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Yea because that kind of move works out well for other companies that have tried to shoe-horn a desktop OS onto mobile and Mobile OS onto desktop.
Always a brilliant and successful move. Just look at all the winners.
I predict there won't be any lion, or any animals name. The naming scheme doesn't make sense any more now that iOS is taking over.
Perhaps the 'X' in the middle of the wave is telling us that this is the end of 'Aqua'
That's actually a pretty solid idea. I can't imagine Apple dropping the "cat/German Tank" names. A clever "X" over a wave, that makes sense, especially Ive's rumored flattening of iOS (and OS X).
What does a wave do? It washes away the old and starts a new clean beginning. When an ocean wave arrives, it consumes all that is there, taking it away and leaving nothing but the sand to remain. The wave takes all the clutter and replaces it with simplicity.
Actually this makes some sense. This year will probably be the first time the two operating systems truly begin to be unified. Not just copying apps over to OS X from iOS