OS X Mountain Lion

http://www.apple.com/mountain-lion/

that came outta nowhere...

I quite like it. I wonder if the dev version is already stable

Airplay mirroring finally makes me want to get an Apple TV.

Uuuh... Time to update.

Sweet stuff - I think they're really wanting one OS across all platforms, and this is the way they're slowly merging them, getting everyone used to the idea that the OS on a device doesn't matter - it's the connectivity between the devices, the homogeneity of your content across those devices, is what's important.

looks pretty good!

  On 2/16/2012 at 3:18 PM, Joyrex said:

Sweet stuff - I think they're really wanting one OS across all platforms, and this is the way they're slowly merging them, getting everyone used to the idea that the OS on a device doesn't matter - it's the connectivity between the devices, the homogeneity of your content across those devices, is what's important.

they do what steve jobs said in the first iphone keynote:

(@ 8:30 )

looks kind of cool. underwhelmed by the notes and reminder apps, and it looks like apple is finally making a move toward gaming. i've yet to find a decently fun, free game in the apple store though.

on the backend, i can't wait to uncover all the issues with 10.8 in an enterprise AD environment. so far lion has been sort of a dick (crossing my fingers with 10.7.3) and we've only upgraded half our machines to lion so far.

  On 2/16/2012 at 4:29 PM, theSun said:

looks kind of cool. underwhelmed by the notes and reminder apps, and it looks like apple is finally making a move toward gaming. i've yet to find a decently fun, free game in the apple store though.

 

on the backend, i can't wait to uncover all the issues with 10.8 in an enterprise AD environment. so far lion has been sort of a dick (crossing my fingers with 10.7.3) and we've only upgraded half our machines to lion so far.

I am really happy with lion so far. I was expecting something totally dashed off after reading the reviews on the store

they are moving too fast

I quite like this, the beta of iMessages is nice. Don't have to text on my phone and switch back to my comp, that's neat. Airplay mirroring will be nice with my Apple TV, I've been using Stickies on my Mac to take notes so I like that I will have Reminders and stuff

Also this seems like an incremental upgrade and nothing major like Lion was, so I'm hoping it will be free or cost very little, not $30

new wallpaper if anyone cares: http://9to5mac.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/galaxy.jpg

  On 2/16/2012 at 5:07 PM, jules said:

they are moving too fast

The main reason I jumped off the Apple ship.

it's really frustrating

Doesn't seem terribly different, really. It's just a few new apps/features.

edit: as long is it's priced appropriately and doesn't drop a ton of support for older machines, I don't have any complaints.

Gatekeeper looks like a pretty good compromise for providing geek-level application openness and Your Aunt-level hand-holding, with the user being allowed to select easily for hand-holding or total openness. I hope that sticks! Seems like a deliberate attempt to say "hey, we're not locking down OSX."

  On 2/16/2012 at 6:04 PM, baph said:

Gatekeeper looks like a pretty good compromise for providing geek-level application openness and Your Aunt-level hand-holding, with the user being allowed to select easily for hand-holding or total openness. I hope that sticks! Seems like a deliberate attempt to say "hey, we're not locking down OSX."

give it time.

  On 2/16/2012 at 6:10 PM, oscillik said:

  On 2/16/2012 at 6:04 PM, baph said:

Gatekeeper looks like a pretty good compromise for providing geek-level application openness and Your Aunt-level hand-holding, with the user being allowed to select easily for hand-holding or total openness. I hope that sticks! Seems like a deliberate attempt to say "hey, we're not locking down OSX."

 

give it time.

to be honest, I think the way Gatekeeper sets it up would probably be the best strategic decision for Apple. By default now, every noob with a mac will be going through the app store. Considering that most of these folks can't even navigate system prefs enough to relocate the dock, Apple's effective locking them in by virtue of their own ignorance/Choice Anxiety.

Meanwhile, everyone who would get pissed off and migrate away from Apple if locked in can just do the same thing they'd do with a linux repository and just allow applications to open regardless of source (also, it looks like Gatekeeper is just finder-level; so you could theoretically open anything with the terminal regardless of what setting you're on).

Obviously, I have no clue what Apple will do in 5 years, but this implementation seems not particularly nefarious.

  On 2/16/2012 at 6:23 PM, baph said:

  On 2/16/2012 at 6:10 PM, oscillik said:

  On 2/16/2012 at 6:04 PM, baph said:

Gatekeeper looks like a pretty good compromise for providing geek-level application openness and Your Aunt-level hand-holding, with the user being allowed to select easily for hand-holding or total openness. I hope that sticks! Seems like a deliberate attempt to say "hey, we're not locking down OSX."

 

give it time.

 

to be honest, I think the way Gatekeeper sets it up would probably be the best strategic decision for Apple. By default now, every noob with a mac will be going through the app store. Considering that most of these folks can't even navigate system prefs enough to relocate the dock, Apple's effective locking them in by virtue of their own ignorance/Choice Anxiety.

 

Meanwhile, everyone who would get pissed off and migrate away from Apple if locked in can just do the same thing they'd do with a linux repository and just allow applications to open regardless of source (also, it looks like Gatekeeper is just finder-level; so you could theoretically open anything with the terminal regardless of what setting you're on).

 

Obviously, I have no clue what Apple will do in 5 years, but this implementation seems not particularly nefarious.

See, that would work but only if the theoretical 'geeks' you're talking about knew where the option is in the first place, or even knew that you could turn it off.

I know plenty of geeks who are still running Windows XP, simply because they don't like the way that things are changed around and rearranged in Vista / 7.

It just seems like a slippery slope to me. But it's all good, I'll never touch another Apple computer / device again, not after they've fucked me over more times than I can count on one hand.

Since iOS got download manager apps I never felt a need to jailbreak again. maybe I will now for siri but its not really worth it

I get the impression this fast release of a new OS has much to do with the to be released TV apple. Smells like there had to be some technological changes in order to create an integrated system with the TV.

Haven't even had time to update to Lion Server at work yet, lol...

The really troubling thing is this is the third time Apple have named an OS release after Puma concolor.

they are starting to make me feel very far behind. I'm not on lion yet and I still have a 3GS.

posting in another watmm apple thread before it gets ugly

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