“OS X Yosemite will make the Mac sexy all over again,” Jonny Evans writes for Computerworld. “It will be the most rapid OS migration yet seen on a PC, driving yet more Mac market share gains. We’ll see more Mac software releases than ever before, as developers and users climb aboard.”
“Based on Web usage data, Chitika claims developers are actively using the unreleased OS almost four times as much as they used the then unreleased OS X Mavericks following WWDC last year,” Evans writes. “There’s lots of reasons for this, of course: not only has Apple made OS X available to iOS developers for the first time, but it also seems more inclined to put the release into a wider community, and will make the release available to a million Mac users during summer.”
“What we are seeing is that developers are very, very interested in using the new OS,” Evans writes. “Yosemite refreshes the developer toolkit, enabling devs to add exciting new features to existing apps and to build new solutions we’ve never seen on Mac or iOS device until now.”
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OS X Yosemite developer activity nearly 4x that of OS X Mavericks – July 9, 2014
Bring it on BABY!!!
Meanwhile back at the Rusting Redmond Ranch another tumbleweed blows across the lonely field of good ideas and real innovation.
I can’t believe I’m writing this, but I miss Ballmer. Microsoft bashing just isn’t the same without him in the saddle. (Looking just like Mongo in “Blazing Saddles”.)
He’s totally there ruining things in spirit though and a thorn in the current CEO’s side. His damning influence will be felt for years to come. Heh, heh. But you’re right it was more fun when he was there with his gigantic tongue hanging out so attractively and channeling Uncle Fester.
I miss the sweaty, shouting, leaping old baboon. Indeed, Microsoft bashing is no fun without uncle fester.
“Devil lepers! Devil lepers! Devil lepers!!!”
Sometimes I’m grateful you’re around to at least make us smile. 😉
Satya Nadella, with his company-wide memo yesterday, seems to be taking on the role of corporate-speak hand-waver:
http://verynicewebsite.net/2014/07/satya-nadellas-email-to-employees/
All Macs are sexy. It’s just that some are more sexy than others…
Let’s make Yosemite Sexy & Stable!
Let’s make Yosemite Stable first!
Developers smelling the odor of impeding death in Windows. Therefore, they are looking at putting their skills into the likely successor to Windows.
I had not thought of that. An excellent insight! 😀
Unfortunately for Microsoft, impending death cannot be impeded. ;>)
This is what happens when you type with one hand and drink coffee with the other. Impending becomes impeding.
I suppose as long as people are aware of the risks, it being a free update, it’s not as if they are losing money by people using a beta.
It’s always fun when a major update of OSX occurs. This one is receiving a lot of praise from pundits. The fact that developers appear to be getting their teeth into Swift is also encouraging.
I’m tempted to download the beta now just like the old days when OSX first came out.
More so than anywhere else, even HuffPost, the videos on MDN assault the senses, running all at once- forcing you to scroll up and down the page trying to turn them all off. I suppose you can just turn off the sound, but I don’t like the idea of 4 videos running all at once every time I open a topic.
“Based on Web usage data, Chitika claims developers are actively using the unreleased OS almost four times as much as they used the then unreleased OS X Mavericks following WWDC last year,”
Couldn’t it also be because there are 1,000,000 non-developer beta testers?
Hey Chrish
The million non developer beta testers haven’t been hooked-up just yet!
Use a Mac and you’re automatically Sexy Foxy with overflowing Sex Appeal! 😉
PRO: High adoption rate among developers integrating iOS and cloud tech is compelling.
CON: Visual navigation design is important and bland flat, sometimes confusing icons defeats the purpose.
And flat as a highway frog is never SEXY. :~)
Oh come on now. ‘Sexy’? Let’s desperately grovel at Apple’s feet much?
Around here, I’ve already ranted my annoyance with the kindergarten quality flat, flatter, flattest changes in Yosemite as well as expressed my outrage regarding Apple killing the Safari title bar, (which has to rate among the STUPIDEST functionality blunders Apple could perpetrate ANYWHERE in OS X, I don’t care if you kill me for saying so).
What’s actually brilliant about Yosemite is the new underlying technologies. It’s going to make Mac hardware sing. It’s going to herald in efficient 3D GUI elements. It’s already making Mac developers sing. It’s at least as profound a step forward in superior OS technology as 10.9 Mavericks. Bravo Apple! (Ha-Ha Microsoft and Google!)
Now, returning to those DULL and UGLY GUI changes and that STUPID Safari title bar blunder… [Self-imposed censorship in effect].
Obsessing further:
Suppose your girlfriend decided to change her lip gloss from an alluring red with shimmer and glistening sparkles to using a RED CRAYON.
That’s NOT sexy. No way is that sexy. You’ll never convince me that’s sexy.
Balanced constructive critique, Derek.
Well done.
Clearly, that was not my intention.