For a "cynic" you sure sound like the marketing department at Apple. I do want to ask you one question:
Just how many Computer Science Departments at US universities (or reputable international ones) will actually offer accredited classes in Swift as part of a CS or Engineering degree curriculum? Yeah, I seriously doubt it.
thats one of the dumbest things ive ever read on AI. as if university courses were the metric of platform worth! dunno about you but my com sci dept didnt teach C#, they taught C++. because the basic ideas of computer science are what you learn, not the implementation of a new language on the market. it takes years to change curriculums...
Apple does not use Mail internally, they use Outlook, which means they use Outlook Exchange running on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2.
I joked with an Apple Store employee that Apple uses PCs with Windows in Cupertino. I expected her to laugh dismissively. Instead, she looked worried and said, quietly, "I hope not."
...that is the second dumbest thing ive ever read on AI. so because you asked a retail employee what corporate uses, and she answered in a flat tone because she was undoubtedly tired of your conversation and wanted to end it sooner than later, you presumed that to be...worry? and then surmised they run windows/outlook? yyyyeah.....
Despite the recent release of the MacPro, OS X continues to be subsumed by iOS in many (every?) way(s). iCloud will replace local storage, eventually, and the Mac will devolve to just another iDevice if these trends continue.
newsflash -- apple makes the vast majority of their income from ios and idevices, not os x and macs. of course they focus on it.
and no, icloud will not replace local storage. storage gets cheaper and faster all the time. please see history.
Why? Because Jony Ive felt like it. F**K users. They get whatever he gives them.
In fact, given his minimal tendencies of late, I'm surprised he actually left any colors, or any icons. At some point, it will just be a blank white screen. Users will have to guess where to mouse over to do something and then items will appear. Don't you know, it's all about simplicity and cleanliness. You can't have objects dirtying things up.
Ugh.
Perhaps the real reason is that relatively few people actually dislike it.
"I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT STEVE JOBS WOULD DO."
"I NEVER EVEN MET THE MAN, AND I DON'T KNOW HIM AT ALL."
"I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT STEVE JOBS WOULD DO...."
seriously. get over yourself, youre not a ghost talker.
I wish people would show a little more consideration and put the tired "Steve wouldn't have done this" meme at the start of the post. Then folk would know straight away that everything that follows is drivel.
One day (one day) we'll get a new Finder. It's good to see Apple paying attention to window dressings though.
likely not as important to customers as you think it is. im a software dev, im often running VMs of my dev environments, and ive spent zero time thinking about the finder. my work is my work. not worrying about the finder, or the file system, or icons. i imagine it's even less important to the average people who comprise the paying mac customer base. they arent computer scientists and they dont care either.
<span style="line-height:1.4em;">Well, they do their job - spend "millions of dollars" to make whatever they did.</span>
I make my job - just ignore their job if I don't like it.
And please take care of yourself - Internet forums may affect your health if you easily feel sick when reading what you don't like...
I don't understand what you're saying in relation to what your job has to do with 'their' job.
I didn't say I felt sick because I didn't like it. I felt sick because it wasn't logical. And I didn't feel sick physically. I felt sick mentally, as in repulsed.
To reiterate, what kind of a spastic question is 'Do you think they REALLY liked the new look?' If you want to have an opinion, at least put it into a cohesive argument instead of writing random words down and hoping they'll end up meaning something.
...that is the second dumbest thing ive ever read on AI. so because you asked a retail employee what corporate uses, and she answered in a flat tone because she was undoubtedly tired of your conversation and wanted to end it sooner than later, you presumed that to be...worry? and then surmised they run windows/outlook? yyyyeah.....
Since you were there, you can tell that she was tired of the conversation because she continued it for quite some time after that joke. Whatever corporate uses, the stores use. There are several ways to verify that they use Outlook. First, there was an optical disk on the genius bar labeled "Store Use Only" that was not supposed to be out of the back room. Second, an Apple employee strongly implied it when we were talking on the phone. Third, there are little problems in Mail that wouldn't exist if Apple were using it. It doesn't surprise me, because Apple's web site isn't even running on OS X.
One day (one day) we'll get a new Finder. It's good to see Apple paying attention to window dressings though.
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likely not as important to customers as you think it is. im a software dev, im often running VMs of my dev environments, and ive spent zero time thinking about the finder. my work is my work. not worrying about the finder, or the file system, or icons. i imagine it's even less important to the average people who comprise the paying mac customer base. they arent computer scientists and they dont care either.
I think you're second sentence nullified your first sentence. End users are different from developers, even though devs will swear they know how customers use software. Developers also believe they know what features and UI enhancements customers want, over and above what the rest of R&D understands. I run VMs with dev environments too.
All users can benefit from a more modern Finder, not just "computer scientists".
Bad UI? Click an app in the dock. It opens in the centre of the screen. Click the notification centre icon. It opens a panel to the left. Everything does what it's designed to do. Having the new Spotlight interface open in the top right would be worse UI. Its not just a menu anymore. It's almost an app. Yet it's not. It's completely new. Just something to get used to. Certainly not 'bad UI'.
I don't really agree that Spotlight is an app, it's a function that you dip quickly into and then close straight away when you're done. It's more widget-like than app-like. Even if you were right, if Spotlight is an app proper then it should be in the dock, not the menu bar. Menu bar items by and large open up menus where you click them.
Notification Centre opens a panel on the right, close to where you click.
I don't really agree that Spotlight is an app, it's a function that you dip quickly into and then close straight away when you're done. It's more widget-like than app-like. Even if you were right, if Spotlight is an app proper then it should be in the dock, not the menu bar. Menu bar items by and large open up menus where you click them.
Notification Centre opens a panel on the right, close to where you click.
Based your definition Time Machine also isn't an app because it's in the Menu Bar but not in the Dock. The .app file is under Applications but that doesn't ever propagate in the Dock; when it's called it does something unique, like Spotlight. Alfred, the app that looks very much like the new Spotlight, also gets called the same way and doesn't live in your Dock and yet it's very much an app.
Furthermore, you can go into /System/Library/CoreServices/ to find Spotlight.app.
Personally, I would refer Spotlight as a systemwide service but that's just a specific way or referring to that app.
I wish Apple would finally end this Sturm und Drang aesthetic metamorphosis and get on with revamping major parts of the OS. What I keep hoping for is another Leopard- Snow Leopard release cycle, catching - and surpassing - competing operating systems in core technologies. Instead, Apple seems to be focussing on window dressing and extensions, and less on major components that need updating or overhaul, like the woeful file system, kludgy Finder, and awkward networking. Losing focus, Apple.
Mavericks had huge under-the-hood changes, and they are set to continue in Yosemite. Apple are set to enrich the coding language of the entire operating system, and have added a raft of new API's. The UI changes are the least of what they are doing.
More ad Hominum attacks. Still no answer to the question...
ad hominem. Third declension noun, accusative case, singular (number).
I was responding to the personal attacks against me, which you are only interested in making.
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He has no interest in engaging in a real conversation.
No chance of catching up to your 16,804 nuggets of wisdom any time soon. How actually did you make an average of 542 posts to one website per day in 31months?
Yes, and your other comments were so insightful as well.
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For a "cynic" you sure sound like the marketing department at Apple. I do want to ask you one question:
Just how many Computer Science Departments at US universities (or reputable international ones) will actually offer accredited classes in Swift as part of a CS or Engineering degree curriculum? Yeah, I seriously doubt it.
thats one of the dumbest things ive ever read on AI. as if university courses were the metric of platform worth! dunno about you but my com sci dept didnt teach C#, they taught C++. because the basic ideas of computer science are what you learn, not the implementation of a new language on the market. it takes years to change curriculums...
Let's read what John Siracusa writes about Yosemite in a few months - then we'll have the final verdict.
yes, because forming your own opinions is hard.
Apple does not use Mail internally, they use Outlook, which means they use Outlook Exchange running on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2.
...that is the second dumbest thing ive ever read on AI. so because you asked a retail employee what corporate uses, and she answered in a flat tone because she was undoubtedly tired of your conversation and wanted to end it sooner than later, you presumed that to be...worry? and then surmised they run windows/outlook? yyyyeah.....
Despite the recent release of the MacPro, OS X continues to be subsumed by iOS in many (every?) way(s). iCloud will replace local storage, eventually, and the Mac will devolve to just another iDevice if these trends continue.
newsflash -- apple makes the vast majority of their income from ios and idevices, not os x and macs. of course they focus on it.
and no, icloud will not replace local storage. storage gets cheaper and faster all the time. please see history.
This is something that Steve Jobs would NOT have done,
oh lord, still? repeat after me:
"I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT STEVE JOBS WOULD DO."
"I NEVER EVEN MET THE MAN, AND I DON'T KNOW HIM AT ALL."
"I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT STEVE JOBS WOULD DO...."
seriously. get over yourself, youre not a ghost talker.
Perhaps the real reason is that relatively few people actually dislike it.
I wish people would show a little more consideration and put the tired "Steve wouldn't have done this" meme at the start of the post. Then folk would know straight away that everything that follows is drivel.
One day (one day) we'll get a new Finder. It's good to see Apple paying attention to window dressings though.
likely not as important to customers as you think it is. im a software dev, im often running VMs of my dev environments, and ive spent zero time thinking about the finder. my work is my work. not worrying about the finder, or the file system, or icons. i imagine it's even less important to the average people who comprise the paying mac customer base. they arent computer scientists and they dont care either.
I didn't say I felt sick because I didn't like it. I felt sick because it wasn't logical. And I didn't feel sick physically. I felt sick mentally, as in repulsed.
To reiterate, what kind of a spastic question is 'Do you think they REALLY liked the new look?' If you want to have an opinion, at least put it into a cohesive argument instead of writing random words down and hoping they'll end up meaning something.
...that is the second dumbest thing ive ever read on AI. so because you asked a retail employee what corporate uses, and she answered in a flat tone because she was undoubtedly tired of your conversation and wanted to end it sooner than later, you presumed that to be...worry? and then surmised they run windows/outlook? yyyyeah.....
Since you were there, you can tell that she was tired of the conversation because she continued it for quite some time after that joke. Whatever corporate uses, the stores use. There are several ways to verify that they use Outlook. First, there was an optical disk on the genius bar labeled "Store Use Only" that was not supposed to be out of the back room. Second, an Apple employee strongly implied it when we were talking on the phone. Third, there are little problems in Mail that wouldn't exist if Apple were using it. It doesn't surprise me, because Apple's web site isn't even running on OS X.
One day (one day) we'll get a new Finder. It's good to see Apple paying attention to window dressings though.
likely not as important to customers as you think it is. im a software dev, im often running VMs of my dev environments, and ive spent zero time thinking about the finder. my work is my work. not worrying about the finder, or the file system, or icons. i imagine it's even less important to the average people who comprise the paying mac customer base. they arent computer scientists and they dont care either.
I think you're second sentence nullified your first sentence. End users are different from developers, even though devs will swear they know how customers use software. Developers also believe they know what features and UI enhancements customers want, over and above what the rest of R&D understands. I run VMs with dev environments too.
All users can benefit from a more modern Finder, not just "computer scientists".
Notification Centre opens a panel on the right, close to where you click.
Based your definition Time Machine also isn't an app because it's in the Menu Bar but not in the Dock. The .app file is under Applications but that doesn't ever propagate in the Dock; when it's called it does something unique, like Spotlight. Alfred, the app that looks very much like the new Spotlight, also gets called the same way and doesn't live in your Dock and yet it's very much an app.
Furthermore, you can go into /System/Library/CoreServices/ to find Spotlight.app.
Personally, I would refer Spotlight as a systemwide service but that's just a specific way or referring to that app.
More ad Hominum attacks. Still no answer to the question...
He has no interest in engaging in a real conversation.
yes, because forming your own opinions is hard.
Apparently, as you seem to have nothing to contribute except attacks on me personally. Are logic courses offered at your high school?
I wish Apple would finally end this Sturm und Drang aesthetic metamorphosis and get on with revamping major parts of the OS. What I keep hoping for is another Leopard- Snow Leopard release cycle, catching - and surpassing - competing operating systems in core technologies. Instead, Apple seems to be focussing on window dressing and extensions, and less on major components that need updating or overhaul, like the woeful file system, kludgy Finder, and awkward networking. Losing focus, Apple.
Mavericks had huge under-the-hood changes, and they are set to continue in Yosemite. Apple are set to enrich the coding language of the entire operating system, and have added a raft of new API's. The UI changes are the least of what they are doing.
Hey!!! I resemble that remark
More ad Hominum attacks. Still no answer to the question...
ad hominem. Third declension noun, accusative case, singular (number).
I was responding to the personal attacks against me, which you are only interested in making.
He has no interest in engaging in a real conversation.
No chance of catching up to your 16,804 nuggets of wisdom any time soon. How actually did you make an average of 542 posts to one website per day in 31 months?
Yes, and your other comments were so insightful as well.