Mountain Lion

<http://www.apple.com/macosx/mountain-lion/>

<http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2400311,00.asp>

 

From the classic Mac OS to OS X and now from OS X to iOS for Macs. May
not be a jump I will be willing to make, we'll have to see how it pans
out as more information becomes available. Playing around with my
wife's iPad and iPhone, iOS is just too limited and toy-like for it to
be the OS on my main computer.

 

Sheesh. Leave it alone already!

While Apple seem to be making the wrapper do more and more I don't think
they've done much under the hood of real interest since GCD in Leopard -
other than stripping out Rosetta - and that was not a good thing.

 

It's just wrapper and connection/integration. The OS doesn't change.

 

Hm, I wonder how much trouble it'd be to go back to Snow Leopard.

 

Since, Leopard to Snow~ was 22 months (Wikipedia), is the approximately
1 year (we don't know the actual release date yet) between Lion and
Mountain~ a tacit admission that Lion was half-baked?

 

....which is now on life support.

OS X is dead. iOS for Mac is its successor.

 

Apparently, Mountain Lion is merely an addition of various apps and
interfaces, and not an overhaul of the OS itself, the development time
wouldn't be as long as for the past few generations of OS upgrades.

BTW, notice that there's no number associated with it? It's not being
called Mac OS X 10.8.

Also, a beta version of Messages is available for downloading.

 

Tim McNamara:

That's not an OS jump, it's a leap of your imagination. The Mac OS
remains the Mac OS. That it is getting a few applications to better
enable it to interact with IOS devices doesn't change it into IOS. IOS
will *not* be coming to the Mac.

Are you really that confused, or is that cynical hyperbole? Once again,
IOS isn't going to the OS on anyone's Mac.

Secondly, as commercial and military pilots, scientists, engineers,
photographers, and people in many other disciplines perform serious,
important work on iPads, I know that they don't consider IOS to be
toy-like at all. And I think that they will welcome the broadened and
improved communications between IOS and Mac OS.

 

Howard S Shubs:

After years on Usenet I should not be amazed to see people condemning
products they have not seen and know practically nothing about, yet
sometimes I just can't help being amazed.

The answer to your question is, no trouble at all. The same goes for
System 7, Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows 98, Wonderful Windows
Vista, Linux, and CP/M. You can buy a computer with any of those
pre-installed for under $100. Have at it.

 

We'll see if it's half priced.

 

Horseshit.

 

I suspect that ML will have some behind the scenes connection to the new
Apple television

Thx.

 

Enlighten me. And don't bother mentioning the cloud.

 

Funny how that contradicts your reply to Tim.

 

Well FWIW, CNET claims it's 10.8.
<http://news.cnet.com/8301-27076_3-57378751-248/apple-mac-os-x-mountain-l
ion-takes-more-bites-out-of-ios/>
(caption under first picture: Apple's upcoming Mac OS X 10.8, dubbed
Mountain Lion is coming this summer.)

 

Reading the ML page it is all wrapper. Yes the underpinnings are there
in the required _apps_ to do so, but there is no evidence of big changes
to the OS proper - unlike Leopard when grand changes such as GCD came
out or the (completed) evolution to 64 bit. I read this as increased
inter-app connectivity/coordination and such done in apps.

 

Your insistence without basis is pathetic.

 

Pretty easy since I never left it. Experimented with a copy on a
second partition of my MacBook Pro, but didn't like it and decided I'd
probably skip Lion, even though I fairly quickly jumped on all the
earlier versions. From a quick skim, looks like Mountain Lion has more
of some of the kinds of things I didn't like about Lion.

I already didn't like what appeared to be the iOS-inspired parts. Now
Apple makes the iOS influence quite explicit, highlighting it as a
"feature".

Fortunately this relatively new iMac will probably last me quite a few
more years before I have to think too hard about my next main desktop
and decide whether it will be a Mac at all.

 

Twitter, iCould, Messages, Game Center... WTF?

How about fixing Frankenstein's GUI, broken Spaces, auto-save
destruction, memory bloat, and virtual memory thrashing?

10.6 was the OS that helped many Silicon Valley offices adopt
Macintoshes as a standard computer configuration. It was easy to use,
integrated well with other systems, and a great performer on laptops.
New computers with 10.7 are despised because they're slow, clumsy, and
buggy. Another round of dumbing-down will force a switch to Windows and
Linux.