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“Lion is going to bring a lot of iOS back to the Mac. We’re going to see revamped user interfaces for Mail, iCal, borrowing from those icon metaphors and UI styles,” Alvares writes. “Everything is going to look much cleaner than before, much like QuickTime X did with its previous version (though I hope not at the cost of power and functionality). But where iOS segregates its functionality into ‘apps’, the Mac will feature a more integrated workflow of its different services. Imagine the Mail app featuring the Address Book and iCal interfaces in one single glorified window. The same addressbook showing up in iChat, ready for FaceTime.”
Alvares writes, “The thought of running iOS apps on a mouse/keyboard environment is sour at best, and Apple would never go for it. Those are touch based user interfaces, depending on a lot of functionality inherent on those devices, that would not work on any Mac as we know it. They just wouldn’t work. But what if Apple introduces a new way of writing Mac specific applications that are kind of like iOS apps?”
Read more speculation in the full article – recommended – here.
Hopefully improve OpenGL support with 10.7. Improve support to 3.0 eventually get over that hump and move towards 4.0.
Hopefully improve OpenGL support with 10.7. Improve support to 3.0 eventually get over that hump and move towards 4.0.
@My Weird Theory:
Soon, Windows compatibility will be a no-issue.
Windows days are counted
@My Weird Theory:
Soon, Windows compatibility will be a no-issue.
Windows days are counted
NTFS read/write support would be a nice feature.
It’s not a big deal, but it is kind of annoying when I’m using someone else’s external hard drive, and I have to explain what a file system is, and why my computer can read but can’t write to the file system on their hard drive. It disrupts that whole flow of plug-and-play and it-just-works I’m so accustomed to.
There is an open source NTFS file system driver, and some proprietary ones sold with external hard drives, but I would have much better peace of mind if it Apple added it to the kernel for me.
NTFS read/write support would be a nice feature.
It’s not a big deal, but it is kind of annoying when I’m using someone else’s external hard drive, and I have to explain what a file system is, and why my computer can read but can’t write to the file system on their hard drive. It disrupts that whole flow of plug-and-play and it-just-works I’m so accustomed to.
There is an open source NTFS file system driver, and some proprietary ones sold with external hard drives, but I would have much better peace of mind if it Apple added it to the kernel for me.
@MacDoc
If you are saying MS DFS then you are already behind in technology…
@MacDoc
If you are saying MS DFS then you are already behind in technology…
I’d like to see full read-write support for ZFS from the Finder. Now that Steve’s good buddy, Larry Ellison, controls ZFS through his purchase of Sun, maybe Apple will make the transition to the file system of the future.
I’d like to see full read-write support for ZFS from the Finder. Now that Steve’s good buddy, Larry Ellison, controls ZFS through his purchase of Sun, maybe Apple will make the transition to the file system of the future.
@Ralph
I was thinking the same thing.
@Ralph
I was thinking the same thing.
“The thought of running iOS apps on a mouse/keyboard environment is sour at best, and Apple would never go for it.”
Easily dealt with. All Macbooks include a touch interface via the mousepad. And other Macs (like my ’08 iMac) will support the optional Touchpad.
“The thought of running iOS apps on a mouse/keyboard environment is sour at best, and Apple would never go for it.”
Easily dealt with. All Macbooks include a touch interface via the mousepad. And other Macs (like my ’08 iMac) will support the optional Touchpad.
Mister Snitch: “What will Mac OS X Lion deliver?” Pizza?
Nah. Blonde antelope.
Mister Snitch: “What will Mac OS X Lion deliver?” Pizza?
Nah. Blonde antelope.
@ Ralph M and G4Dualie
ZFS has had some serious “patent issues” with NetApp suing Sun. But now tat there appears to be a <a href=”http://www.sunhelp.org/2010/09/10/oracle-netapp-settle-zfs-patent-lawsuit/”>settlement<a>, maybe it can happen.
@ Ralph M and G4Dualie
ZFS has had some serious “patent issues” with NetApp suing Sun. But now tat there appears to be a <a href=”http://www.sunhelp.org/2010/09/10/oracle-netapp-settle-zfs-patent-lawsuit/”>settlement<a>, maybe it can happen.
I don’t know what OS X Lion will be like, but I do know that OS X Leopard is 2 years old and Snow Leopard is little more than a Leopard update. Snow Leopard is also buggier than Leopard ever was. So like many others, I’m waiting patiently and hoping to be impressed.
I don’t know what OS X Lion will be like, but I do know that OS X Leopard is 2 years old and Snow Leopard is little more than a Leopard update. Snow Leopard is also buggier than Leopard ever was. So like many others, I’m waiting patiently and hoping to be impressed.
Please, NO not like iTunes!
It looks and operates like something Microsoft would have done on a severe ADHD day!
Go back to simplicity, like when you plug in something like an iPhone, a camera, etc
It opens up you drag a file from the device to where you want it on your Mac.
Don’t want to have a personal relationship with it. If I put 75 cents in a Coke machine, I want a Coke to come out, not also a guy asking me if I want fries with that, where would I like to sit to drink my Coke, do I want to change the color of my Coke can!!!!!! …………….give me a break, just want it kept simple.
Please, NO not like iTunes!
It looks and operates like something Microsoft would have done on a severe ADHD day!
Go back to simplicity, like when you plug in something like an iPhone, a camera, etc
It opens up you drag a file from the device to where you want it on your Mac.
Don’t want to have a personal relationship with it. If I put 75 cents in a Coke machine, I want a Coke to come out, not also a guy asking me if I want fries with that, where would I like to sit to drink my Coke, do I want to change the color of my Coke can!!!!!! …………….give me a break, just want it kept simple.
So, if the next OS was called Cougar, what sort of features would she offer, and what sort of accessories would she wear?
So, if the next OS was called Cougar, what sort of features would she offer, and what sort of accessories would she wear?
@Nomoremsbs We have already had a cougar os 10.1 was puma. And like most cougars its really throwing some makeup on something that is really nasty.
Cougar, puma, and mountain lions are all the same cat, After lion Jobs has run out of big cats except for the Cloud Leopard, I guess we have to look forward to MacOS Lynx or Bobcat, Maybe Maine Coon, they are pretty big too.