Since nobody has mentioned it yet here, I'm really glad to see AirDrop will finally work between OSX and iOS. It's bothered me for awhile that they have these two different things called "AirDrop" which were not compatible with one another.
The lack of AirDrop integration before is probably one of the obnoxious things Apple has done recently. I'm really excited for this simple new feature.
HandOff is the kind of thing I'm surprised took so long. Honestly, I was expecting MS to get something like it first. After all, your Windows Phone already runs Windows, right?
It's like Pushbullet built into both OSes with the polish that entails. Absolutely genius. I hope Google builds Pushbullet or something very similar into Chrome and Android, that integration is awesome.
They kind of already have something like it with the roaming storage on 8.1, there's just not enough crazy interested developers on the platform trying to push the limits of the sdk, and MS hasn't really advertised all the neat stuff well.
> With this new design, OS X...now looks a bit more like iOS 7, but
> there is still quite a bit of depth. Indeed, more than flat, the
> design almost seems to focus more on translucency than anything else.
The above is an incomprehensible collection of words to me. I am not sure if this is because of my lack of an intimate connection to Apple products, terrible writing or some combination of the two.
When design of an _Operation System_ boils down to just how "truculent" and "flat" (but with "a bit of depth") it is, you know we are talking less about the Operating System and more about the GUI/Window Manager.
That does seem to be a bit of a jumble. I think what they're trying to convey is that although it uses flat design like iOS 7, on the desktop it has a feeling of depth due to the layering of translucent UI elements.
I'm running Yosemite now. The same feel you get from iOS 7 UI is prevalent in the OS. They flattened the window headers. They flattened the toolbar on the bottom. They flattened the status bar on top. It makes for more of a content-focused approach.
The translucency they speak of is in regards to the side menus in apps. In order to give a dynamic feel to the UI, they added some translucency like they have in some iOS 7 apps.
Which parts of the front window in this screenshot[0] are draggable? Maybe this is just me, but I don't like how the titlebar and window contents are visually merged.
I'm really looking forward to this. Unlike iOS7, the flatter design here doesn't make me feel like a bunch of amateur artists got a hold of a free copy of Adobe Illustrator. I actually like the new look quite a bit. Now, to pray that they've made some under the hood progress on multi-monitor support.
Moving work back and forth from desktop to mobile also sounds really amazing. I get a hint of it when working with gmail or drive, but this sounds much more deeply integrated. Google will have to respond, and this makes me happy.
I honestly don't understand this design direction. I know it's nice to have a change but from the few screens I have seen on the Verge it looks like something that came from one of those "I redesigned OS X" blog posts.
The upgrades to Safari look amazing! [0] Less chrome, Javascript benchmarks (impressive), and the spotlight search in the url...nice! I hope Apple changes the zoom button to maximize the screen.
There was a "defaults" option for a flat dock in 10.7 and 10.8... one wonders why they removed it for 10.9, only to change the default back to flat in 10.10.
I'm not a fan of the flat design personally, but the redesign is pretty sharp. I like the minimal safari UI; its nice when the browser lets the webpage be main focus and I think it is something Safari does best.
As seen on a the screenshot for the new notification center calendar, the Life of an Apple user begins at 10:00 with a crossfit session. After that it is not that you go to work then. Relaxing talk with Anne on the phone, maybe talking a little business on the side, but not to rough. After Lunch you do not start to work either. Just let out all those wise thoughts gathered while living your apple lifestyle in a fresh stream, like you do.
Agreed. The UI design isn't even worth mentioning if they really make it seamless to go from device to device. I'd love to leave my phone in another room and just use my tablet/computer while at home.
Not a great article: new features trumpeted include Spotlight's ability to search for mail messages and contacts, and a Private Browsing mode for Spotlight - both of which are pretty long-standing features.
These things tend to get rushed out, but maybe TC could have waited just a few more minutes to weed out the obvious stinkers.
Was this originally a TC link? Because it now points to the Apple.com page for OS X Yosemite, and some of the comments elsewhere in this thread no longer make sense. I didn't know it was possible for mods to change the link associated with a story, and now that I know I wish they wouldn't do it.
If possible, could someone from the Apple community please tell me if Yosemite will be faster / lighter than snow leopard? I don't want an OS that requires 8 gigs of ram to run "fast" like Mavericks requires.
I hope that they finally fix groupchats across devices. Always have about 5 different conversations with the same 2 people and each message goes seemingly randomly in one conversation.
[+] [-] bratsche|11 years ago|reply
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Windows has had a "Use this computer as a Bluetooth Headset" option buried in the Bluetooth preferences for a long time now.
The Address Book in Mac OS 10.0 and 10.1 would also let you send and receive SMSes with compatible phones (no joke):
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/wireless/2002/11/27/sms.html
And Linux has had a few projects (like nohands) which do the same thing.
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http://community.kde.org/KDEConnect
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[+] [-] badman_ting|11 years ago|reply
A very philosophical question indeed.
[+] [-] morbius|11 years ago|reply
So... OS X 10.10 is... Windows Vista with Aero Glass?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a3/Windows_Vista....
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[+] [-] Gracana|11 years ago|reply
Maybe.
[+] [-] jamra|11 years ago|reply
The translucency they speak of is in regards to the side menus in apps. In order to give a dynamic feel to the UI, they added some translucency like they have in some iOS 7 apps.
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[0] https://www.apple.com/osx/preview/images/overview_design_her...
[+] [-] bane|11 years ago|reply
Moving work back and forth from desktop to mobile also sounds really amazing. I get a hint of it when working with gmail or drive, but this sounds much more deeply integrated. Google will have to respond, and this makes me happy.
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[+] [-] currysausage|11 years ago|reply
Eager to see how it looks on non-retina displays.
[+] [-] quackerhacker|11 years ago|reply
[0] https://www.apple.com/osx/preview/apps/
[+] [-] hadrien01|11 years ago|reply
Actually, a lot of OS X Yosemite borrows from Gnome's Gtk+, like headerbars [1]
[0] http://i.imgur.com/xBof95c.png [1] https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/3.10/GtkHeaderBar.html
[+] [-] buckbova|11 years ago|reply
I like the faux 3d dock . . . it'd be nice if this was configurable.
[+] [-] Joeri|11 years ago|reply
I like how apple is slowly reversing their design decisions. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for the return of the spatial finder ;)
[+] [-] Gracana|11 years ago|reply
[edit] That's not a rhetorical question; I'm not at home with my mac so I don't know for sure.
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[1]: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Web
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_%28software%29
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These things tend to get rushed out, but maybe TC could have waited just a few more minutes to weed out the obvious stinkers.
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I hope that they finally fix groupchats across devices. Always have about 5 different conversations with the same 2 people and each message goes seemingly randomly in one conversation.
[+] [-] X-Istence|11 years ago|reply