On Mar 24, 2011, at 11:43 AM, Matt Penna wrote:
> On Mar 24, 2011, at 11:57 AM, objectwerks inc wrote:
>> http://www.reghardware.com/2011/03/24/apple_mac_os_x_ten_years_old/
>
> And it's been a pretty good ride, so far! OS X is what prompted me to switch
> platforms after almost 12 years on DOS and Windows. I've been at this party
> since 10.1.0 and I have no desire to switch back yet.
>
> I've found myself wondering exactly where Mac OS X is going, as I don't see
> OS X as we know it lasting for too many more releases.
It really mean by 'as we know it.' As *I* know it, I think OS X is going to be
around a very long time. But I see OS X as a candy shell over a Unix command
line. Not that I mean candy shell in any sort of disparaging way, I like candy.
I spend most my time in OS X in that candy shell, but the real work for me gets
done down in the hard center.
> It seems pretty obvious that iOS and OS X are going to merge at some point
> down the line,
Er, I don't know about 'merge' but certainly 10.7 has some dramatic visual
changes that bring some of the iOS mentality to the Mac.
Heck, I even think for most people this is going to be a good thing. I don't
see myself using LaunchPad. Ever. But I think for a lot of users, it will be a
brilliant UI that will mean their computer is much easier to use.
> We used to have tongue-in-cheek discussions about what Apple would call the
> release that comes after 10.9 ("OS Ten 11? OS Ten, Ten point Ten? Yikes!"),
> but now it seems we may never actually reach that point. I recall Steve Jobs
> saying in 2001 that Mac OS X was the system for the next 15 years, and I find
> myself chuckling at the possibility that he really was prescient enough to
> predict its eventual retirement, as opposed to merely trying to convince
> everyone that Apple was not going to return eventually to OS 9 if OS X
> failed. It seems crazy to think back on how many die-hards hated OS X,
> claimed nearly all the changes were purely cosmetic, and hoped for Apple to
> go back and further develop OS 9. (No offense intended to anyone on the list!
> :)
>
> Also, with no OS X Lion Server release, and with the XServe and XServe RAID
> long dead, Apple's focus on any sort of business market seems to have gone
> out the window (not that they ever really had much of one to begin with...)
> though there could always be some surprises with Apple cloud services in the
> future. The times, they are a changing'.
Well, OS X Lion includes all the nummy server goodness. They've eliminated a
separate cost version, but they have not eliminated Server. It's not clear (to
some) if Server will be free with 10.7, but it seems pretty clear to me it will
be.
Aple says, "Lion Server is now part of Mac OS X Lion. It’s easy to set up your
Mac as a server and take advantage of the many services Lion Server has to
offer. "
Does that leave it open to Lion costing extra? Well, yeah, I guess. Doesn't
seem that likely to me though.
Apple's Server and business strategy is focusing on smaller companies that
don't already have millions of dollars and dozens of personnel invested in
Windows crap because that turned out to be an impossible nut to crack. Now the
focus will be on companies that do not have hundreds of Us of rack space and
more on companies of 10-50 people where you can't justify having a full-time IT
person.
In short, they are looking to make the Mac the business computer it was 25
years ago.
Good plan, to my mind. There's more money to be made there.
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