mike eggleston

A quick question though: Where do we see our achievements and overall scores? This really seems like a step backwards since we apparently will no longer have achievements.

I love my Airport Extreme. It is reliable to a fault, and if I wanted to I could attach storage to it to be available to anyone on my network. And my network is a complex jumble of devices, (One Airport Extreme (ac) bridging to a Airport Extreme (n), an Airport Express (n), and , an Airport Express (g)). My network is very solid with that lineup.

sog35 said:

canukstorm said:

Three if you count the iMac

The iMac is not a big innovation. It did not change the world of computing at all.

it was just a computer/monitor in a nice package.

Hold your horses right there, buddy. The iMac was a HUGE game changer! Your typical PC/Mac had many cords, involved multiple cards, and devices running on legacy (even at that time) technology. The iMac brought about a form factor that involved a three step process to get it up and running: Plug the machine into the wall, plug in the keyboard and mouse with a simple plug (USB), and plug in your phone line into the machine. It was so stupidly simple, and it was so very colorful. It included a CD-ROM, and a large (at the time) hard drive. It was something that changed the consumer electronics market as a whole. From radios, to telephones (wireless and wall), to calculators; the design patterns shifted almost over night. That is something that defines a "revolutionary" product.

The iPod was another revolutionary product, as was the iPhone. Again, these changed the world of consumer electronics as a whole! The iPod became the defacto standard as to what a music player is. Almost to the point people mention Kleenex as the general product to tissue paper, that is what the iPod became. And the iPhone is the same thing when it comes to the cell phone. It was the first to offer the actual Internet in your pocket, and the moment that happened, everyone and their brother scrambled to get their phones to act and behave that way.

Now, as for Tim Cook, he has been doing great. Yes, the Apple Watch is revolutionary, but I think that is in the operating system mores than the technology (although having ApplePay on your wrist is cool). I think the Apple TV has the potential to be that revolutionary product. I think that if the Apple Car is a reality, and depending on what it does well, could also be revolutionary.

What the problem here is that Wall Street has no desire to listen or to look at reality at all. They like to manipulate the market to further their own ends. That is why they are down on Apple, they are hoping to help themselves out (make Apple price soft so they can buy it all up). This last bit does seem very "tin foil hat"-ish, but if you look at the past recession and the DotCom burst, and really look at the reality of what happened, it followed this pattern: Wall Street declared it feared it was going to happen, then a bunch of people starting spreading a bunch of FUD that it would happen any day now, and then it DID happen when the only real evidence of it possibly happening was Wall Street's guidance.

mdriftmeyer said:

The MacOS references have been around since the creation of OS X out of NeXTSTEP/OpenStep. It's developer nomenclature that has hung around. The company and all its development was adamant [I was there] that MacOS is dead and the future in all incarnations is OS X.

It really stands for Operating System Ex, not Operating System 10. It's the reason they have OS X 10.x.x instead of OS 10.10.x.x.

MacOS Is dead.

Mac OS X did not stand for "Operating System Ex" as you like to say it. It was originally just Mac OS 10. They used the "X" as a marketing gimmick to make it seem so much bigger than just a version change (from Mac OS 9 to Mac OS 10). They knew they were putting Unix in it, a complete overhaul of the system itself. So, they went with the Roman numeral for 10 which is X. Then people started referring to it as Mac OX "Ex" (myself included), even though Steve kept referring to it as Mac OS 10.

Now, should they go away from the "X" that is there? I have no idea; I am a developer not a marketing person [in my best McCoy voice]! But it may be time to retire the 10-series and move forward with 11. My thinking is that it will not be this upcoming version, but the next one when they release iOS 11 (assuming in 2017), they may release MacOS 11 then as well. Just a thought. 

Rayz2016 said:

Mmmmm…

Not sure the FBI is being truthful here. If they had broken into the phone then it would make more sense to keep it quiet. Bragging about it will simply make Apple look into fixing it which will make the FBI's job much harder in the future. 

Anyone with an itch of common sense would keep such a breakthrough a secret. 

The only reason why they had to say they got into it is because they have to give cause when they stopped the whole lawsuit. Remember, this really was never about this phone, but about setting the precedence to get into future phones.