Apple plays catch-up, after 25 years.

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Well, there's a turnup for the books: Apple has just innovated!

The new OS - Lion, available Summer 2011 - will have better support for full screen apps. And multiple apps can be running that have a screen all to themselves. And you can switch between them.

Only took them 25 years: well done chaps!

(Admittedly, the Mission Control mechanism for switching looks cool, and it appears that there's no menu bar on the apps: they ought to have innovated menus that only appear when you need them
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There were some damn good ideas in Workbench...
 
I like workbench a lot, it only confuses me somethimes, switching is somethimes hard - all my other os's don't do that.. But when workbench was created with low resolutions that was great
 
I'm actually confused by this.

Why?

Because there's been absolutely nothing stopping this before. Ever played a full screen game on OSX?
 
Oh 'teh lulz'.....

We've been using CF cards as solid state hard drives on Amigas for ages, yet Apple has only now just cottoned onto solid state devices....:roll: yet Apple are like "WOW!! we now have SSD hard drives!!" as if they have just split the atom, or something.....Meh, on so many levels, with a touch of fail thrown into the mix...

They still have much to learn from us....:nod:
 
/sarcasm on

WOW! Just how does Steve Jobs and the backroom boys come up with all these innovative idea's ???

/sarcasm pause

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/sarcasm off
 
Pardon me and if someone will feel ofended by it you can edit this.

But is it just coinsidence that Steve Jobs announced the "new" Os X the same day that is the anti LGTB bullying day?:P

(yesterday also was the Statistics day)
 
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Steve Jobs, pictured recently in his office... at least that's how I view Apple, who try to tie you to their empire for everything.....and "That's no moon...."
 
There are still options if you want to break out of the empire: I really do like OSX, especially as it's built on a unix subsystem. It is easy to understand, work with, and it is getting more Amiga like in its approach.

It does make it easy to do things, but the ability to go under the hood is there if you want it: it's very much like workbench and CLI on steroids :D

I also like the fact you can have apps within any directory you like, etc...

The iPhone, iPad, AppleTV etc can all be jailbroken.
 
chiark said:
The iPhone, iPad, AppleTV etc can all be jailbroken.
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That's all well and good, but should they be in 'jail' in the first place?

Remember, this is the business model that other manufacturers are picking up on, with features like CPU cores etc. being disabled until you cough up to their particular dark empire.
 
Merlin said:
Oh 'teh lulz'.....

We've been using CF cards as solid state hard drives on Amigas for ages, yet Apple has only now just cottoned onto solid state devices....:roll: yet Apple are like "WOW!! we now have SSD hard drives!!" as if they have just split the atom, or something.....Meh, on so many levels, with a touch of fail thrown into the mix...

They still have much to learn from us....:nod:
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Except we use crap and slow IDE CF cards that nothing supports anymore (seriously), they use purpose built and integrated flash chips right there on the motherboard. I know which one I'd prefer in a "real" computer.
 
Merlin said:
That's all well and good, but should they be in 'jail' in the first place?
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That's arguably why they give such a superb user experience, so for some people: yes.

Remember, this is the business model that other manufacturers are picking up on, with features like CPU cores etc. being disabled until you cough up to their particular dark empire.
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I used to work for Unisys, and they've been doing this for years... As have IBM...

Even Motorola used to badge faster chips as slower just so they could meet market demand: the facilities are there, but just labelled as they're not...
 
I could argue that Apple is one step away from closed-source software; any closer to it and they'd have to come around to your house to switch your Mac or iPad on for you.....
 
The App Store sounds good *if* it remains optional. And I certainly agree with their model of per-user licensing that they insist on instead of per-machine.

So long as they never lock the Mac down that way. I agree with it on the phone and even the iPad as it keeps it a very tidy and sort of managed system. It doesn't belong on a "real" computer though.

I love OSX and I love the portable stuff and even the Mini as a media centre. For my main machine though, let's just say I am planning a hackintosh.
 
Hell_Labs said:
Except we use crap and slow IDE CF cards that nothing supports anymore (seriously), they use purpose built and integrated flash chips right there on the motherboard. I know which one I'd prefer in a "real" computer.
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I guess the analogy was kind of lost on you, then? I wasn't comparing them on a like-for-like basis as that's clearly unfair; I was merely drawing a parallel, in that Amiga was there before Apple.... an SSD is just a CF card's much bigger, better, faster descendant.
 
I try to install OSX on my lappy, but something went wrong...
 

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