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"Tony", "Tigger", "Sylvester"...
Garfield
Cheshire
Grumpy
Nashville...
"Tony", "Tigger", "Sylvester"...
If Apple decided...let's really do some fantastic things with the Mac OS. And to do this (for example) the perfomance of a GPU in 2011 or newer Mac's is required. Then Apple would have more freedom to do some cool stuff...whatever that might be.
You don't need fancy 3D desktops to take skeuomorphism to new levels.I've seen a handful of other 3D GUIs like this over the years and they all suck. Some take skeumorphism to extreme levels, like putting your photos in a virtual album sitting on a virtual shelf, and documents sitting in a stack on a virtual desktop (that looks like a desk). Insanity!
I think the key thing to know, which we can't, is what the thought process is at Apple. If Apple is self-imposing hardware requirement limits on their design from the outset, that could be restraining what they're willing to explore. If, however, they aren't doing that and implementing what they want before optimizing it, then it might note be such an issue. The key issue, therefore, is at what stage of planning and development are they ensuring compatibility with older hardware.I don't think Apple should hold back OS X to support older hardware, but change for change's sake isn't going to score them brownie points either. It's certainly a good thing that people can get more use out of their Macs and not get left behind after 5 years.
Ah yes, that last part is the key... "whatever that might be". If you don't have any ideas, then maybe they too are out of ideas for how to push the limits of what the hardware can do.
This is 3D for 3D's sake. It's not going to be more productive than the existing GUI and will unnecessarily tax the hardware. I've seen a handful of other 3D GUIs like this over the years and they all suck. Some take skeumorphism to extreme levels, like putting your photos in a virtual album sitting on a virtual shelf, and documents sitting in a stack on a virtual desktop (that looks like a desk). Insanity!
I don't think Apple should hold back OS X to support older hardware, but change for change's sake isn't going to score them brownie points either. It's certainly a good thing that people can get more use out of their Macs and not get left behind after 5 years.
Just to add to the meaningless drivel! I think it's a great photograph - so that's a good thing. I can't stop saying "O Capitan! My Capitan!" which has nothing whatsoever to do with W. Whitman's poem meant to parallel Lincoln and the Civil War.
The best part is my psychosocial/cultural knowledge experiment (n=~20 times I've said "O Capitan... instead of El Capitan). Times I've received the "Huh?" look = 10, times I've received no comment ~10
Insights:
1. Either my friends don't listen to what I say or care what I say
2. Get that it is Walt Whitman but it is a tool comment
3. I have friends who aren't versed in the classics
Most likely... All three.
Nobody wants a dog of an operating system...
This is why they get paid the big bucks!
.........
- Smartphones
- iPad's
- iWatch
- backlit keyboards
- Intel based Macintosh computers
- SSD storage devices
- download only OS's
- free OS releases
- Recovery Partitions on storage devices
- etc. etc.
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- Nick
O lordy Nick,
I had a phone that actually worked as a phone..
Tablets were already out..
James Bond had a better watches..
I have owned many backlit keyboard before then..
Nothing wrong with PPC cpus..
Apple had nothing to do with SSD's...
I run LINUX it was free and downloadable..
Recovery partitions were called a bootable CD.. (remember Apple quit giving those away, right before they quit putting DVD drives in their systems..)
Only thing you can really give Apple credit for is one **** of a marketing team..
Cheers, Joe :-D