“Apple hasn’t officially named the next major version of macOS just yet, but we’ll likely see it debut at WWDC 2017 on June 5 in San Jose,” Zac Hall reports for 9to5Mac.
“While Apple could take this year as the opportunity to jump to macOS 11 and start a new era, one sign discovered by the always detailed blog Pike’s Universum suggests Apple will continue with macOS 10.13 instead,” Hall reports. “The reference was apparently discovered as part of a CatalogURL.”
“It’s not the juiciest development, but it does suggest we may see macOS 10.13 and not macOS 11 in June,” Hall reports. “Apple could always change the version number at any time, of course, and the opportunity to have both macOS 11 and iOS 11 at the same time only happens once.”
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MacDailyNews Take: We guess we’ll have to settle for “Lucky 13” if we can’t have “These go to 11.”
Years ago Steve Jobs described OS X as Apple’s OS “for the next 15 years” and that was more than 15 years ago.
Maybe Apple needs to get on with the next big thing.
Cook and company are patting themselves on the back for renaming OS X to macOS.
EXACTLY!!!
Pondering Elevenses
Here is what I would like to see: (Post 1 of 2)
First Entry:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/number-one-request.1987152/#post-23219737
Optional larger font size for the App Stores.
A clip book that lists the last 5 items copied to the clipboard.
When you select Edit Paste the last item is pasted in. When you select Edit Clip Book you have the option to select which item is pasted in. You should also have the option to paste multiple items in.
A clock app with with Alarm, Stopwatch and Timer functionality.
Custom fields and larger font option in Contacts.
Ability to leave a FaceTime voice mail.
Finder improvements:
A Cut function
Assign a specific color to a folder
Show Hidden Files in the View menu. This should apply only to the Finder Window.
Grab needs a Share function:
– Send to Photos
– Send to Email
– Send to Messages
– Send to Preview
Image Capture needs a share function.
– Share to Photos
– Share to Messages
– Share to E-Mail
– Share to Preview
Mail:
Default viewing Scale (Zoom) – 125, 150%. Twelve point fonts are difficult for many to comfortably read. Microsoft Word or Pages solves this problem with a Zoom setting.
Highlight text in different colors like iBooks. Highlighting text is a great way of focusing on crucial issues.
Tables to allow comparison and contrasts.
Maps:
Download maps for specific regions for offline use. For example, Windows 10 allows you to download maps for the United States, Canada, Mexico etc.)
Messages:
An insert button (like iOS) to insert photos or videos into a text message without having to leave messages.
An option to configure Messages on the Mac to work like iOS Messages.
In iOS – Pressing enter moves to the next line of the message. Click Send when you want to send the message.
In OSX – The enter key sends the message. If you want to type multiple lines in a message you have to press control enter for each line and then press enter at the end of the message.
Notes:
Highlight words and sentences like iBooks.
Font and font size selection as pull down menus, not a large separate window just to change a font size.
Insert tables like Microsoft OneNote.
Insert Arrows, lines etc with the text visible. (In iOS you can’t see the text when inserting an arrow.)
Photos:
Clone Tool
Selective adjustment for certain areas of the photo.
Improved printing function – ability to move and resize photos on a sheet of paper.
– Insert Title at the top of the page
– Insert Captions below each photo.
Uninstall:
When you trash an App it be helpful if it would find and trash all the files related with the App, like App Cleaner does.
Window Management:
Green button = Maximize window to largest possible size with Dock and Menu Bar visible
Separate Full Screen Button
Double click on Title Bar to maximize to content.
Window Snapping like Windows 10 (Aero Snap)
A setting to request that Apps remember Window position and size.
Window preview functionality similar to HyperDock or Windows 10.
I bet they will call it 11 once iOS and macOS fuse together.
Then they can just call it os11
If Apple makes the dumb idea to fuse iOS and macOS, they could call it Windows 11.
This cannot be. The Internet says Apple doesn’t care about macOS anymore.
Buy all accounts, they don’t.
Limited to 96 GB by macOS. (It’s not a hardware limitation as Windows can do 128 GB in a Mac Pro 2012.)
No new file system in 18 years. (A new one is supposedly coming this year, but I’ve been hearing that for the last 7+ years.)
Bundled apps are moving backward or are stagnant in functionality. (Just as one example, think of all the functionality we’ve lost over the years in QuickTime.)
True screen resolution independence has been “coming” for over 15 years, but never seems to show up.
Single file or single folder encryption in Finder has never materialized.
The list goes on and on and on.
That is not a wish list. My wish list is even more vast than the list of “what has been promised and never materialized” plus “what should be in any modern, Pro OS”.
What I would like in macOS:
When you open a folder with Column View, the column would automatically stretch out to see all the file names no matter what the title length is. Re stretching window column in/out all the time is a nuisance need “auto size to fit” at column view width.
ALSO renaming a folder name should be a “right click mouse on screen option”. Currently if you click on title you have to wait & see if is going to highlight title or not & then if you click again it opens the folder instead of renaming it. FIX THIS.
But you forget, everyone in Cupertino thinks that mice and trackballs are soooooooo old school. They don’t actually want you to have one- or two-click access to anything. You must learn that the future is hidden panels that require swiping and force clicking on the one mega trackpad that you do not have on any desktop Mac that Apple sells. The marketeers at Apple will force you into submission eventually.
Formerly simple commands like “Save As” on a Mac has become as ridiculous and unintuitive as “Ctrl-Alt-Del” on a Windows box.