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What Will macOS 10.15 Be Called: Mammoth, Monterey, Rincon, Skyline, or Something Else?
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3 of my 4 Macs remain at Stoner Sierra. Just one is on Mojave. Not sure if it will go to macOS Yucca Valley.
I have no idea what the next generation macOS will be named, but I am certain it will further increase security, further decrease flexibility and power, and further undermine elegance and the user experience. I've passed on Mojave, and most likely will have to pass on the next gen macOS too. Just like I pass on Apple's hardware these days. Apple no longer reaches for the stars, struggles hard to deliver excellence for a modest premium. Worse than that even is how it has become the very corporate entity it once railed against in 1984. Such is life. Maybe Apple 4.0 will return to its roots. Time will tell. It depends on who is steering the ship. Hopefully I will not watch it sail off into the sunset.
Blu-ray...seriously? Remember when Steve said that Blu-ray drives would never come to the Macintosh? Were you not listening? Have you actually been holding out, not just buying a freakin' external unit?????
Jeez, I guess when I finally dumped all my beige ADB stuff, I must have forgotten to take Suttree to the recycling center, as well.
However, Suttree has a good point about the lack of I/O ports and Ive's obsession with "thin/light" form-over-function. I'm not giving up my 2014 MacBook Pro for any of the crap that comes out of Jony Ive's dumpster studio.
Same thing here. I have too many pieces of hardware music gear with related software that won't be developed further so Mojave is where I stick unless that music gear dies.
How are thin and light not correlated with mobility, fat and heavy surely aren't. I don't find my current mac less usable for no optical drive. They served a purposed, but there are now better media options available. Also what wireless nonsense ?
I have spent a lot on DVDs also, but I don't want an optical drive in any laptop. Unfortunately downloads/streaming is the future.
Supposedly the next version kills any 32 bit software. That is what could obsolete software.
This guy get's it!
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Totally! They should do something gimmicky there like putting a bunch of restaurants and worthless junk for sale inside of a train car... nah... that'd never work.
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I see what you did there...
I'm guessing you "invested" a lot of money into clothing in your early Teens and 20's as well. Still wear that?
It has nothing to do with "Thin", it's the progressive march of technology. Physical media is on its way out. We went from AM radio to FM radio then on to records to 8-track to tapes, CD's, MP3's and just kept marching forward. Same for video. Broadcast to VHS (or Beta Max if you prefer), Laserdisc (if you bought into that) to DVD then HD DVD and Blu-Ray...
Do you lament your parallel port, VGA connection, cartridge slots and and cassette interfaces as well? I'm guessing not.
As far as usability, I'm sorry you can't record a mix CD for your pals... but I'm sure they probably don't use the CD player in their car anyway. You can create a playlist in Apple Music and share it. Exactly what usability are you missing out on? Sharing files, try a thumb drive if you need physical tho cloud based works just as well.
But hey! everyone needs a reason to complain right? Lucky you, they make external Blu-ray drives. Oh and some of them are also quite thin...
MacOS 10.15 NeverLand ... at least for me ... assuming Apple follow through on their 64-bit only threats and it'll be incompatible with dozens of 32 bit apps I've spent money on and either can't afford to replace or else can't replace because they're longer being developed.
