Apple Announces iOS 10, watchOS 3, and new features for tvOS 86
Also at its annual developer conference, Apple announced major updates to its other platforms: Apple TV, iPhone and iPad, and Apple Watch. Starting with the Apple TV, the company announced that tvOS is getting a new feature called Live-Tune-In which uses Siri to allow users to simply state aloud what channel they want to watch. The company also announced a feature called Single sign-on, a cable networks feature which will let users sign-in to all their Apple TV accounts more efficiently and easily. There's a new TV Remote app for iPhone as well.
watchOS 3 comes with a range of new capabilities as well. Most importantly, it offers much faster app performance, thanks to something Apple calls Instant Launch. It does the job seven times faster than its counterpart in watchOS 2. The Verge reports about other changes: The updated interface includes Control Center, which is accessed via a swipe up from the bottom of the display. The side button has been remapped to launch the dock of recent and running apps instead of the contacts menu. Apple has also added a few new watch faces, including a Minnie Mouse version and new one that more prominently shows activity progress. Watch faces can be changed by swiping across the display. The Reminders and Find Friends apps have been redesigned, and third party apps can also now run in the dock area. The new Scribble feature lets you draw letters on the screen to type out words. It's similar to a feature recently announced for Android Wear.Coming to iPhone and iPad, they will be getting iOS 10 update later this year. One of its coolest feature lets one automatically download apps across all your devices. Apple has also improved its Continuity effort, allowing users to utilize Universal Clipboard. "Basically, snippets of text, hyperlinks, and the like that you copy on one iOS or macOS device will be available on all the others." There is another new feature called Raise to Wake, which wakes up your iPhone when it is lifted. 3D Touch feature has received some improvements, too. Siri now offers more contextual feedback, and it is likely to get even better as Apple has provided developers with SDK for Siri for the first time. The Verge reports: It makes intelligent suggestions based on your current location, calendar availability, contact information, recent addresses, and more. It's Siri growing more and more into the role of an AI or a bot. And yes, it's based on deep learning just like Google's rival system is.Apple Music has been redesigned from scratch, and Apple Maps and Messages are getting some nifty features, and they are also being opened to developers.
watchOS 3 comes with a range of new capabilities as well. Most importantly, it offers much faster app performance, thanks to something Apple calls Instant Launch. It does the job seven times faster than its counterpart in watchOS 2. The Verge reports about other changes: The updated interface includes Control Center, which is accessed via a swipe up from the bottom of the display. The side button has been remapped to launch the dock of recent and running apps instead of the contacts menu. Apple has also added a few new watch faces, including a Minnie Mouse version and new one that more prominently shows activity progress. Watch faces can be changed by swiping across the display. The Reminders and Find Friends apps have been redesigned, and third party apps can also now run in the dock area. The new Scribble feature lets you draw letters on the screen to type out words. It's similar to a feature recently announced for Android Wear.Coming to iPhone and iPad, they will be getting iOS 10 update later this year. One of its coolest feature lets one automatically download apps across all your devices. Apple has also improved its Continuity effort, allowing users to utilize Universal Clipboard. "Basically, snippets of text, hyperlinks, and the like that you copy on one iOS or macOS device will be available on all the others." There is another new feature called Raise to Wake, which wakes up your iPhone when it is lifted. 3D Touch feature has received some improvements, too. Siri now offers more contextual feedback, and it is likely to get even better as Apple has provided developers with SDK for Siri for the first time. The Verge reports: It makes intelligent suggestions based on your current location, calendar availability, contact information, recent addresses, and more. It's Siri growing more and more into the role of an AI or a bot. And yes, it's based on deep learning just like Google's rival system is.Apple Music has been redesigned from scratch, and Apple Maps and Messages are getting some nifty features, and they are also being opened to developers.
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Ooo-la-la!
iOS now 10? (Score:2)
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It's not called "10" it's "iOS (version) 10".
But yeah, I thought about this too. Mac OS X (which some people call "Mac OS TEN") vs "iOS TEN" could have been confusing. But I do agree on them renaming it to macOS to be in line with iOS, watchOS and tvOS.
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Everyone knows Superman would beat them all.
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Haha. Despite the misinformation, one pronounces OS/X as "Oh, sex".
This from a company that had to re-badge their 68k era computer as SE/30 because the existing naming convention of appending X to everything was considered too raunchy.
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OS X to macOS? What's next, system10 [wikipedia.org]?
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they'd require a Chrome-like numbering scheme to catch up to 500 in roman numerals and even then, Lennart would probably sue.
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(which some people call "Mac OS TEN")
That's how it is supposed to be pronounced.
OS X followed MacOS (notice the Capital "M") 9.x, so it was logical to call it "OS 10". They just made it a Roman Numeral "10" because it looks cooler.
But it became more and more of a marketing liability, and as they pointed out, looked incongruous next to the other 3 Apple OSes.
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This little name change is more significant than you might think. "OS X" was always a pain in the butt to use in search requests. It was like trying to find reviews of a movie called Relentless. "MacOS" will be a breeze.
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This little name change is more significant than you might think. "OS X" was always a pain in the butt to use in search requests. It was like trying to find reviews of a movie called Relentless. "MacOS" will be a breeze.
I agree.
I used to have to put "OS X" in double-quotes to make sure Google didn't parse it as two separate "words". They fixed that after awhile, fortunately.
But now, we're all going to have to endure getting lots of results for "MacOS" (note the Capitalization) "Classic".
Still think the name change was a good idea, though. "OS X" was getting to be a marketing issue, as the minor version number started to make the major verson number look puny.
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It was odd that the most significant part of the software announcement was not part of the announcement at all, because it was the new filesystem announced afterward. This will have the largest effect on how all Apple software runs.
iTunes? (Score:4, Funny)
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They didn't talk about it. They did talk about the Apple Music app on the iPhone. 15 million subscribers. MAny improvements.
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Sure would be nice if Apple gave users a choice between paying a subscription for music and buying songs outright that weren't DRM encumbered. I'm sure Apple has something like that in the works.....
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They also need to add a way for you to access music files purchased from other sources (drm-free), ripped from CD or even pirated. That would be super sweet.
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They also need to add a way for you to access music files purchased from other sources (drm-free), ripped from CD or even pirated. That would be super sweet.
...or some way to launder your pirated music so that you convert it to high-quality DRM-free LEGAL copies that you could access from anywhere with an internet connection, and on any of your computers and mobile devices.
Wouldn't that be nice?
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Sure would be nice if Apple gave users a choice between paying a subscription for music and buying songs outright that weren't DRM encumbered. I'm sure Apple has something like that in the works.....
I assume that was sarcasm, right?
Re: iTunes? (Score:2)
Yes. I would hope that anyone posting on Slashdot would have heard of the iTunes Store that's been around since 2003. Worse case someone may be under a misconception that the music that you buy from iTunes has any type of DRM -- which it hasn't had since 2008.
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Nice! I prefer to pay a fee to a mega corporation every month instead of managing my music library. As an added bonus Apple can hike to fee every month in perpetuity whenever they need to bump their quarterly income. All hail Apple!
WTF are you talking about???
Apple Music and iTunes Match are two separate things. I subscribe to Apple Music, because I like to be able to stream pretty much the entire iTunes catalog on demand for $10 a month.
It's like the ultimate "Trial Size". Just search for whatever, more than likely iTunes will have it (and I like fairly obscure music), and hit "Play". I can even stream stuff over Cellular to listen to while driving.
Then, if I find that I really like something and keep coming back to it, e.g. St
Re:iTunes? (Score:4, Funny)
The way I understood the Keynote, in a few generations Messages will be the one to absorb systemD.
You forgot the most important part: Emojis! (Score:5, Funny)
Barf, what a fucking terrible keynote.
Bleeding-edge tech! (Score:4, Funny)
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Re: Bleeding-edge tech! (Score:2)
That's more than Android can do.
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Supposedly unless you have the Nexus 5X or 6P. (Also 6?)
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Pan & zoom WHILE navigating? Hey, I'm doing it now! This is pretty coo
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Definitely a few big improvements .... (Score:1)
I'm sure many people will whine about being underwhelmed by this year's WWDC and the lack of any new hardware announcements, etc. But IMO, there were some really solid improvements shown. The "universal clipboard" is a HUGE improvement, IMO. That's something you can't really do on any other platform today and works especially well for Apple since so many Mac users also own an iPhone and/or iPad. When Apple first released "Continuity" - I found it an interesting concept, but lacking in many ways. (Heck, it w
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You are right. Many times I wish I could copy some text on my iPhone and paste it on my laptop. Christ. Apple fanboys are something else...
You can do pretty much the same thing with Notes.app, anyway.
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I don't know. I have tons of emails that I have sent myself with content that I wanted to share from one device to another. Anything that cuts down on that is good IMHO.
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I don't know. I have tons of emails that I have sent myself with content that I wanted to share from one device to another. Anything that cuts down on that is good IMHO.
And how often has that been something out of a PDF or photo and you just didn't have a useful file manager (read any file manager) on iOS?
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I'm not sure I'm following you. What do you mean by taking something out of a PDF or photo? I'm just talking about having writing something on my desktop and wanting to get some text that I have saved on my phone. I could put the text into a google doc or into a file and save it to dropbox, but usually it is just easier to email it to myself.
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I'm not sure I'm following you. What do you mean by taking something out of a PDF or photo? I'm just talking about having writing something on my desktop and wanting to get some text that I have saved on my phone. I could put the text into a google doc or into a file and save it to dropbox, but usually it is just easier to email it to myself.
I'm saying it's far more convenient to be able to transfer PDFs, photos, and other files rather than copy and paste. There are very few times that copy/paste between a phone/iPad and a computer is useful. Most of the time I want to send concert tickets, a boarding pass, train ticket or whatever to my phone. Right now the only way to do that on the iPhone is email, webdav, dropbox, or airdrop.
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I'm still not following you. It's easy to send files to a computer from an iPhone via AirDrop. I do it all the time. It's only when I want to send some text that I cannot do so easily.
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I'm still not following you. It's easy to send files to a computer from an iPhone via AirDrop. I do it all the time. It's only when I want to send some text that I cannot do so easily.
Only if you have a Mac. And only if you have a recent enough Mac, at that.
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Well, that pretty much describes me so it works great for me. This is really one of the first world problems where if it doesn't work for other people I'm not going to spend any time worrying about it.
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I'm not sure I'm following you. What do you mean by taking something out of a PDF or photo? I'm just talking about having writing something on my desktop and wanting to get some text that I have saved on my phone. I could put the text into a google doc or into a file and save it to dropbox, but usually it is just easier to email it to myself.
I'm saying it's far more convenient to be able to transfer PDFs, photos, and other files rather than copy and paste. There are very few times that copy/paste between a phone/iPad and a computer is useful. Most of the time I want to send concert tickets, a boarding pass, train ticket or whatever to my phone. Right now the only way to do that on the iPhone is email, webdav, dropbox, or airdrop.
So, IOW, there are already at least FOUR methods you mentioned to do that. So you want a FIFTH?
This is a unique feature, and one of those you'll end up using almost without thinking about how much convenience it adds.
Typical Apple.
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I'm not sure I'm following you. What do you mean by taking something out of a PDF or photo? I'm just talking about having writing something on my desktop and wanting to get some text that I have saved on my phone. I could put the text into a google doc or into a file and save it to dropbox, but usually it is just easier to email it to myself.
I'm saying it's far more convenient to be able to transfer PDFs, photos, and other files rather than copy and paste. There are very few times that copy/paste between a phone/iPad and a computer is useful. Most of the time I want to send concert tickets, a boarding pass, train ticket or whatever to my phone. Right now the only way to do that on the iPhone is email, webdav, dropbox, or airdrop.
So, IOW, there are already at least FOUR methods you mentioned to do that. So you want a FIFTH? This is a unique feature, and one of those you'll end up using almost without thinking about how much convenience it adds. Typical Apple.
With the exception of AirDrop, none of those are native and ALL of them require me sending the data through a server or owning a Mac computer. Webdav requires me to purchase or create my own webdav client. And what if the file is too big for email and I am on a network that blocks dropbox? Then all of the sudden I have exactly 0 ways to transfer the data. I travel to client sites all of the time where they all have Windows based machines and I am not allowed on their network (they're all financial insti
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Wow.... I'm an "Apple fanboy" now, because I post an honest opinion about the pros and cons of the WWDC event? Sorry I didn't just bash on the entire thing as pointless so it might please you, Mr. "binary numbers for a Slashdot nick".
As a matter of fact, yes.... I'm often using my iPhone to read email and linked articles people send me when I'm on public transportation, riding to/from work. Once I'm at my computer, I sometimes wish I had the ability to paste quotes from what I read (such as if I want to s
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hat requires the extra steps of pulling the original content back up on the PC or Mac in a browser and finding the info of interest again, just to do the copy/paste on it. Usually, that's not even worth the effort.
I just had to do exactly that when I looked up something on my iPad and then wanted to pull it up for further study on my Mac.
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This actually sounds like a really good feature. There are times when I'm twiddling with my iPad, only to realizing I could be doing it much more easily on Mac. Being able to easily move data from one to the other would be very valuable.
I'd like to complain about how Apple should have supported Bluetooth OBEX right from the beginning, but considering almost every single vendor that provides Bluetooth functionality somehow botches up OBEX, I guess I shouldn't be surprised that Apple didn't even bother tryi
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You are right. Many times I wish I could copy some text on my iPhone and paste it on my laptop. Christ. Apple fanboys are something else...
Sounds like somebody is jeal-ous...
Re:Definitely a few big improvements .... (Score:4, Funny)
The Pro version of Photos is Adobe Lightroom.
My favorite of the new features win this announcement was Single Sign-On. You log onto your iPhone with the fingerprint reader, and have it become an amulet that you can wave to log on to websites, apps and Apple TV channels on your local network.
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I'm sure many people will whine about being underwhelmed by this year's WWDC and the lack of any new hardware announcements, etc. But IMO, there were some really solid improvements shown. The "universal clipboard" is a HUGE improvement, IMO.
How often are you switching between devices like this? In a meaningful and useful way? I don't want to accidentally copy/paste some code snipped on my iPhone. I can tell you the number of times I want to actually do this: Once per iPhone connected to my WiFi network at home. That's it. I don't like having to copy/paste my WiFi key. But guess what, I can just sync that already with notes. So I guess really my count goes down to 0. Now you want to talk about a meaningful way to transfer documents betwe
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I'm sure many people will whine about being underwhelmed by this year's WWDC and the lack of any new hardware announcements, etc. But IMO, there were some really solid improvements shown. The "universal clipboard" is a HUGE improvement, IMO.
How often are you switching between devices like this? In a meaningful and useful way? I don't want to accidentally copy/paste some code snipped on my iPhone. I can tell you the number of times I want to actually do this: Once per iPhone connected to my WiFi network at home. That's it. I don't like having to copy/paste my WiFi key. But guess what, I can just sync that already with notes. So I guess really my count goes down to 0. Now you want to talk about a meaningful way to transfer documents between my phone and my computer? That is a different story. Right now I have to fire up webdav or use email to copy a picture or a PDF from my computer to phone or vice versa. I'm far more likely to want to print something to PDF on my computer and haul it with me on my phone than I am going to want to copy and paste from my computer to my phone.
Oh and that's something you can easily do with Android but can't so conveniently do on an iPhone.
You apparently have never heard of GoodReader. Best $5 you will ever spend.
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I'm sure many people will whine about being underwhelmed by this year's WWDC and the lack of any new hardware announcements, etc. But IMO, there were some really solid improvements shown. The "universal clipboard" is a HUGE improvement, IMO.
How often are you switching between devices like this? In a meaningful and useful way? I don't want to accidentally copy/paste some code snipped on my iPhone. I can tell you the number of times I want to actually do this: Once per iPhone connected to my WiFi network at home. That's it. I don't like having to copy/paste my WiFi key. But guess what, I can just sync that already with notes. So I guess really my count goes down to 0. Now you want to talk about a meaningful way to transfer documents between my phone and my computer? That is a different story. Right now I have to fire up webdav or use email to copy a picture or a PDF from my computer to phone or vice versa. I'm far more likely to want to print something to PDF on my computer and haul it with me on my phone than I am going to want to copy and paste from my computer to my phone.
Oh and that's something you can easily do with Android but can't so conveniently do on an iPhone.
You apparently have never heard of GoodReader. Best $5 you will ever spend.
I have heard of GoodReader. But like I said it is not a native file manager. I obviously know that there are other ways to manage files with iOS or I wouldn't have mentioned webdav. And guess what? You could use that to copy/paste text between your phone and your computer via text files. So why does Apple need to add native copy/paste 'continuity' between machines? I mean that's basically what you've said in your last two replies to me.
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I'm sure many people will whine about being underwhelmed by this year's WWDC and the lack of any new hardware announcements, etc. But IMO, there were some really solid improvements shown. The "universal clipboard" is a HUGE improvement, IMO.
How often are you switching between devices like this? In a meaningful and useful way? I don't want to accidentally copy/paste some code snipped on my iPhone. I can tell you the number of times I want to actually do this: Once per iPhone connected to my WiFi network at home. That's it. I don't like having to copy/paste my WiFi key. But guess what, I can just sync that already with notes. So I guess really my count goes down to 0. Now you want to talk about a meaningful way to transfer documents between my phone and my computer? That is a different story. Right now I have to fire up webdav or use email to copy a picture or a PDF from my computer to phone or vice versa. I'm far more likely to want to print something to PDF on my computer and haul it with me on my phone than I am going to want to copy and paste from my computer to my phone.
Oh and that's something you can easily do with Android but can't so conveniently do on an iPhone.
You apparently have never heard of GoodReader. Best $5 you will ever spend.
I have heard of GoodReader. But like I said it is not a native file manager. I obviously know that there are other ways to manage files with iOS or I wouldn't have mentioned webdav. And guess what? You could use that to copy/paste text between your phone and your computer via text files. So why does Apple need to add native copy/paste 'continuity' between machines? I mean that's basically what you've said in your last two replies to me.
End to end encryption. That's why.
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by this year's WWDC and the lack of any new hardware announcements, etc.
The WWDC is the WorldWide Developers Conference. They usually don't announce new hardware in the WWDC because the audience of the conference are developers, and they're announcing the new features in their operating systems because they're about to release new developer previews and SDKs, so that developers can start working on supporting the new OS. They then often announce a bunch of new hardware in October that will actually run the new OS.
Siri, your creepy friend... (Score:4, Funny)
Siri, your creepy, obsessive friend who is always listening, digs through your stuff, and shares it all with anyone who asks.
Just what I always wanted.
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Yes; add Siri to the Mac and there better be a way to disable it, or I guess I'm sticking with OS X.
Damn, and I just escaped from Microsoft's evil spying, too.
From what I saw, you have to "Invoke" it with a click (probably a keyboard shortcut, too).
Apple is VERY Privacy-Conscious, and has done a LOT to keep this stuff from leaking your private data.
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Siri, your creepy, obsessive friend who is always listening, digs through your stuff, and shares it all with anyone who asks.
Just what I always wanted.
Um, they made kind of a big point of the fact that this stuff is being done ON THE PHONE, rather than on Apple's (or anyone else's) Servers.
So sorry. You lose.
Universal Clipboard - security issue? (Score:2)
Scenario:
I have multiple accounts for an iOS app that I use which I store on 1Password app.
Right now I just switch to 1P, copy pwd for relevant account, then switch back and paste.
(yes, for websites, I use the 1P safari extension).
Will this password be exposed to all my other devices (many of which are mostly used by my wife/kids)? Can I expect I'll have to a) stop copy/pasting passwords or b) disable Universal Clipboard?
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At least that choice is up to the user. I'm less worried about other devices on my own account than about how the data gets to those devices. Who can see my paste buffer in transit? Otherwise, I can see the convenience.
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At least that choice is up to the user. I'm less worried about other devices on my own account than about how the data gets to those devices. Who can see my paste buffer in transit? Otherwise, I can see the convenience.
They mentioned the clipboard xfers are end-to-end encrypted.
Apple isn't stupid.
I have to speak?! (Score:2)
First I had to get up and cross the room to change the channel.
Then I had to push a button on the remote to change the channel.
Now I have to speak to change the channel!?
What version of tvOS will allow me to think to change the channel?
Though, now that I think about it that might not be such a good thing.
Wife: "What is wrong with the TV? Why does it keep flipping to the Playboy channel?"
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The machine was rather difficult to operate. For years radios had been operated by means of pressing buttons and turning dials; then as the technology became more sophisticated the controls were made touch-sensitive--you merely had to brush the panels with your fingers; now all you had to do was wave your hand in the general direction of the components and hope. It saved a lot of muscular expenditure, of course, but meant that you had to sit infuriatingly still if you wanted to keep listening to the same program.
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it is xiamii for me (Score:1)
New file system (Score:1)
The really big under-the-hood change in macOS appears to be a completely new file system. There was a mention on MacNN but not a lot of details yet.
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I think I'll wait a year or so to upgrade. Just to let them get all the kinks out of upgrading the entire file system on my Mac. And my Time Machine backup. And my external HD....
They haven't even finalized the specs yet. It isn't in the OS, nor will it be for at least a couple more years.
Siri on the Desktop? (Score:2)
I know... Let's put a mac with the new OSX^H^H^H MacOS side by side with a Windows 10 machine. That way Siri and Cortana can commiserate about how nobody actually wants them.
Seriously, the last thing I need is to have half the office staring at me worriedly because I'm screaming at Siri because it made a reminder for me to "Eat Up Martha" instead of what I actually wanted.
Yay? (Score:1)
Good job Apple. You had me worried. Now, go forward and be a leader again. Make Americ... er rather - Make the company great again.