With the turgid water backdrop, I suspect Apple will be getting into the Swimming apps category, helping people maximize their swimming workouts and also providing a social component to communicate lap speeds with friends and family.
It's hard to tell with eights of course but, yeah either this is "turgid" cloud cover or it's upside down. ( If it is upside down they shudda hired someone a bit more clued in than louis. He's funny but not really handy. )
I'm not suggesting any "theme", simply stating that the banner is clearly an underwater picture of the surface of the water with light shining down through it.
If Apple specifically made a new UI and for the iPad's version of iOS instead of literally making a larger iPhone OS then I don't think you'll see a unification of Mac OS and iOS apps. I could see them merging even more underlying elements to make it easier for developers which could help attract more Mac buyers but there is no reason to think there all be unified apps. You can look at the MS Surface to see how that isn't exactly a winning formula. I think Cook has even made statements about making the best OS for a particular UI instead of making an "all compromise" solution.
Take a look at that 8 again.
I don't think the poster is necessarily all that far off the mark.
FYI, MS just did this same thing and introduced it at their build conference - the ability to write one app and target everything from windows phone to Windows 8.1 on a PC. And speaking as a developer, I can tell you that this is a very appealing thing.
In reality, Apple already does something like this with universal binaries. It's already possible to target a single binary at iPhone - iPad, regardless of size. And the bottom line is that for many applications, the nuances of what customize the experience for a given context have more to do with interaction than with presentation. I know that I am simplifying somewhat in saying that, but speaking from experience, it is absolutely possible to create single code bases with differing expressions based on the properties of the target device.
As with all things, the issues with universal apps and divergent platforms are not impossibilities, but reflect details of implementation. What MS did with surface and Window 8 (which you point out) doesn't make the idea flawed, it makes the implementation flawed. Just as Apple perfected the implementation of a tablet device, I see no reason why Apple or any other company cannot architect and design carefully enough to make it work, and well. People reacted to the idea of a tablet based on the flawed implementations they had seen... and they assumed the devices were a practical impossibility. But of course the failures of the past were not failures of a fundamental nature, but rather were failures of nuance. This is exactly the same.
Frankly I would not be at all surprised if what the poster indicated comes to pass.
I'm not suggesting any "theme", simply stating that the banner is clearly an underwater picture of the surface of the water with light shining down through it.
Apple hasn't started naming iOS after CA locations yet. Do you suppose they will start now to match OS X?
Apple hasn't started naming iOS after CA locations yet. Do you suppose they will start now to match OS X?
Last year iOS and OSX banners were completely different. This year the iOS 8 banner is a lot similar to OSX banner. I'm sure there is some significance there.
Looks like Mac OS X, not XI, will get a demo and beta again this year.
Is that El Capitan in Yosemite National Park? I guess El Capitan, Yosemite or Sierras would all be viable names. I'm hoping it's El Capitan as opposed to using the National Park name.
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Water not so much.
Samsung, start your copiers.
What a horrible idea! :-)
Mac OS X.X
It's hard to tell with eights of course but, yeah either this is "turgid" cloud cover or it's upside down. ( If it is upside down they shudda hired someone a bit more clued in than louis. He's funny but not really handy. )
@solipismX I was joking about acqua on iOS
It's neither clouds or upside down. The camera is underwater looking up through the waters surface.
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I'm not buying underwater as a theme either.
I'm not suggesting any "theme", simply stating that the banner is clearly an underwater picture of the surface of the water with light shining down through it.
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"turgid" or "turbid" blue water?
Neither one makes sense.
The better adjective would be turbulent.
If I had to choose one with a 't' I'd choose turbulent but even that isn't accurate for what I'm seeing.
blue is a chilly color... frigid, if you will
the water pictured is moving, it's in turmoil.
turmoil + frigid = turgid. (which is better than frimoil)
OSX San Andreas
I'm surprised that nobody has noted that the 8 used here is not in fact an 8 at all, but a very subtle infinity sign.
What do you suppose that means in the context of an operating system?
Note: One esoteric meaning of this symbol is 'unity'.
Just food for thought.
Ah yes, Monastery Beach. Or, as us locals call it, Mortuary Beach.
If Apple specifically made a new UI and for the iPad's version of iOS instead of literally making a larger iPhone OS then I don't think you'll see a unification of Mac OS and iOS apps. I could see them merging even more underlying elements to make it easier for developers which could help attract more Mac buyers but there is no reason to think there all be unified apps. You can look at the MS Surface to see how that isn't exactly a winning formula. I think Cook has even made statements about making the best OS for a particular UI instead of making an "all compromise" solution.
Take a look at that 8 again.
I don't think the poster is necessarily all that far off the mark.
FYI, MS just did this same thing and introduced it at their build conference - the ability to write one app and target everything from windows phone to Windows 8.1 on a PC. And speaking as a developer, I can tell you that this is a very appealing thing.
In reality, Apple already does something like this with universal binaries. It's already possible to target a single binary at iPhone - iPad, regardless of size. And the bottom line is that for many applications, the nuances of what customize the experience for a given context have more to do with interaction than with presentation. I know that I am simplifying somewhat in saying that, but speaking from experience, it is absolutely possible to create single code bases with differing expressions based on the properties of the target device.
As with all things, the issues with universal apps and divergent platforms are not impossibilities, but reflect details of implementation. What MS did with surface and Window 8 (which you point out) doesn't make the idea flawed, it makes the implementation flawed. Just as Apple perfected the implementation of a tablet device, I see no reason why Apple or any other company cannot architect and design carefully enough to make it work, and well. People reacted to the idea of a tablet based on the flawed implementations they had seen... and they assumed the devices were a practical impossibility. But of course the failures of the past were not failures of a fundamental nature, but rather were failures of nuance. This is exactly the same.
Frankly I would not be at all surprised if what the poster indicated comes to pass.
Yeah locals only hang out like Trestles, which is a cool name but some other good surf spots are River Mouth, Killer Dana, Old Man's, Trail 6
Still with the too-thin fonts, then...
I noticed that too.
I'm not buying underwater as a theme either.
I'm not suggesting any "theme", simply stating that the banner is clearly an underwater picture of the surface of the water with light shining down through it.
Apple hasn't started naming iOS after CA locations yet. Do you suppose they will start now to match OS X?
I got it!
iOS 8 Martins Beach!
Looks like Mac OS X, not XI, will get a demo and beta again this year.
Is that El Capitan in Yosemite National Park? I guess El Capitan, Yosemite or Sierras would all be viable names. I'm hoping it's El Capitan as opposed to using the National Park name.
It doesn't look like Half Dome, so it must be El Capitan.