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"What Apple is good at is refining the experience of existing ideas. Tagging in an OS has been around since at least the early 2000s with Gnome and Emblems etc.... Apple has taken the idea and executed it well."
My main take away from WWDC, is not surprising iOS 7.Even after watching the entire event, before you mentioned the "tagging" feature. I completely forgot that they had other announcements than iOS 7.I do recall liking the tagging feature, didn't pay much attention to the iWorks in iCloud.I was hoping to get simple Dropbox like program for iCloud (guess I'll continue waiting)
I love what I saw of iOS 7, they had me from 10 seconds into the introduction video. Hard to explain, just it's clear to me, there nothing out there like Apple. I was very close to getting an Android, (Nexus 4 in cart on launch date and trying to buy one close).
However after seeing iOS 7, the look and attention to detail just looks amazing. 5 years and running for me.
On Monday, June 10, 2013 5:30:42 PM UTC-5, marcgayle wrote:http://www.apple.com/apple-events/june-2013/They baked 'tagging' into the OS - which I think could be huge.
It could be the first step to removing the "file structure feel" that comes with using a file system.Lots of wonderful stuff here - I think Steve Jobs would be proud.The Mac Pro images look like nothing I have seen before. I haven't even gotten to that section of the Keynote yet and am very excited!
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It's interesting to watch a lot of this. What Apple is good at is refining the experience of existing ideas. Tagging in an OS has been around since at least the early 2000s with Gnome and Emblems etc.... Apple has taken the idea and executed it well.
It seems to me that price sensitive buyers need a reason to spend more on an iOS device. Apple is working hard to deliver that reason but I really think that iOS has a battle ahead. It needs to be overwhelmingly better than the less pricey alternatives, that's the reason that will keep people going for iOS. The sales of iOS 7 devices will help to answer the question of whether they are better enough to keep pulling. My instinct is that iOS is heading for a firmly solidified number 2 in the market (which might be perfectly acceptable situation).
Full Disclosure: I use OS X (not iOS) and it works well for me (better than Windows at least up to Windows 7), but I am definitively not a "mac devotee".
> They baked 'tagging' into the OS - which I think could be huge.
>Tagging in an OS has been around since at least the early 2000s with Gnome and Emblems etc.
Funny that's the first thing I thought of when I saw the preview in the email. Oh nice Tagging. Somethign else Linux has had for years that's a major advancement once someone announces it on a stage.
Pretty sure Apple will do well. They have always held the important Number one position and that's for margins per sale. They had a nice run when they were both the number uno on units sold as well which is bound to generate a lot of hate. I'd suspect even if they were 5th over all in the list of companies they would still be remarkably profitable and happy.
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Android has had the "App Nap" feature for quite some time, no? I think Apple just made a bigger deal of it than Google did
That's why old processes are removed from the 'memory stack' but are still visible in the multitasking window
It is DEFINITELY required in Windows XP and 7 though
You said the problem was OS-agnostic and 'everyone will try to copy '
Google solved this already. Apple just does a WAY better job when marketing their copied concepts
Now now.....skeumorphism still has a place in design and only the fad-followers are outright denouncing it
That's not the widespread notion though. Check out design forums like dribbble for instance. Flat design is amazing and has its use-cases but skeumorph was not the devil's backside as some are trying to make it seem.
I mean....iOS' skeumorph was once called the pinnacle of design!
Apple will be fine. They're still making quality products
Look how long RIM has survived making outdated hardware for the last 5 years.... Apple has the resources to sustain itself even if iOS7 were to flop....but that won't happen. It'll sell just like how the iPhone 4S sold out
>By Desktop, I also mean Notebook, etc.
>i.e. Linux (Ubuntu, etc.), Windows & Mac.
I guess I should note that Linux already does this and has since before Linux 3.0 came out. Works really well with most display drivers.
Apple of the early 90s is nowhere to be found today.They can't ship a groundbreaking new product, in a brand new category every single show.I understand why you would expect them too...it's a result of their own success.But there were so many incremental innovations - many that were small and easily glossed over.For instance, they solved a problem that most (if not all) power users face on a regular basis.Resource management. As someone that has used both OS X & Windows over the years, that problem is OS-agnostic.If you open a browser window that has a lot of Flash in it - and your CPU usage spikes to say 70%.......dog nyam your supper if you want to say jump into Photoshop or your IDE.They figured out a way to keep the CPU-intensive process running in the background (or suspended) while another process is in use, and then allow you to easily bring it back up.I can assure you that many people will copy that functionality - if they can even do that - and everybody will benefit in a few years.Until then, I can't wait to get that in my OS X.
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 8:56 AM, rodney browne <rodney...@gmail.com> wrote:
Apple seems to be moving in the right-ish direction, I believe it was the right decision to take Forestall out after the Maps debacle and put Johnny Ive in charge of hardware and software. If Steve Jobs was the heart of Apple, Ive became the soul...been a fan of the dude since he first joined(I'm a product/industrial design freak)...granted I have only bought 2 Apple products...EVER, one of which is an 8 year old iPod(which i still use :). They are certainly quite a dominant force, I'm still not quite head over heels with what they're putting out.Apple's major issue is that they lack a true visionary, Ive will deliver on the clean innovative design(coupled with a stable OS) that will move products off the shelf. Ground breaking though, I don't know..I give the "we will create things that will change the world" mantle to Google at this point. They are willing to take the real risks to break new ground. At some point making an OS..20%+ more efficient every new model every 12-14 months will hit a plateau (it makes for great power point slides, but really..). If Apple continues to be more concerned about the product cycle to milk profits..the so called only number that matters will evaporate at some point..they should head these words of wisdom:
"What ruined Apple was not growth … They got very greedy … Instead of following the original trajectory of the original vision, which was to make the thing an appliance and get this out there to as many people as possible … they went for profits. They made outlandish profits for about four years. What this cost them was their future. What they should have been doing is making rational profits and going for market share.”
- Steve Jobs, 1995
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 4:35 AM, Roger Pixley <skre...@gmail.com> wrote:
> They baked 'tagging' into the OS - which I think could be huge.
>Tagging in an OS has been around since at least the early 2000s with Gnome and Emblems etc.
Funny that's the first thing I thought of when I saw the preview in the email. Oh nice Tagging. Somethign else Linux has had for years that's a major advancement once someone announces it on a stage.
Pretty sure Apple will do well. They have always held the important Number one position and that's for margins per sale. They had a nice run when they were both the number uno on units sold as well which is bound to generate a lot of hate. I'd suspect even if they were 5th over all in the list of companies they would still be remarkably profitable and happy.
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Has there been any explanation of if you can elect to have CPU intensive processes hogg the computer when they are inactive? The point of computers after all is for it to do things in a quick manner while you do other stuff.