I'll definitely agree with Simon on the note that touch navigation on Apple
products is steller! compared to anything on Windows. I'm not saying it
can't be done on Windows with leading screen readers, so don't get that
impression. It's just very very difficult, at best.
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From: "Simon Fogarty" <si...@blinky-net.com>
To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2016 6:13 AM
Subject: RE: any thoughts on Mac OS Sierra?
Hi that's what I thought you'd be using.
As for a touch screan mac,
Hell already the iPad and IOS are better than the windows equiv which would
be the surface or surface pro,
At least the IOS operating system is accessible out of the box
The surface is a slab with stuff all accessibility
Good rant, and I don't use a bag, I just throw up out the window.
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From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
[mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sabahattin Gucukoglu
Sent: Wednesday, 15 June 2016 10:01 PM
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: any thoughts on Mac OS Sierra?
Rant ahead; get your sick bags handy. :)
Honestly, I’d be fine with trying out a giant iPad for my daily work, if
Apple were honest in acknowledging their estrangement from the Mac as a
proper workstation OS with proper character and robustness, and were instead
committed to fully transitioning to iOS for everything, because a
workstation OS is something I believe a certain class of computer users
(including me and probably you, Scott, as well) really need. A commenter on
OSXDaily ( obsolete name as of now :) ) by the name of Steve Steele (
awesome name :) ) sums it up very well:
I hate that Apple has taken OS X from being a super cool and modern UNIX
workstation that started life powering Job’s NeXT Cubes, and turned it
into a candy colored silly sidekick to iOS.
For a few glorious years we had Steve Jobs wanting revenge on the tech
world, and OS X was his centerpiece.
Now we have Tim Cook’s macOS.
I say off with his head and the rest of the focus groups inside of Apple
that have neutered our once lean and mean workstation OS. I seriously now
hope there is a coup happening inside of Apple.
Woz, where are you?
Stay strong osxdaily.
Yeah. This. A thousand times this.
I started seriously with OS X—sorry, macOS—in Leopard, on my own MacBook, in
2008 when Vista was the final straw for me and the iPhone was booming.
Others here will have used Tiger and maybe even the classic Macintosh.
Things have changed a very great deal since Jobs fell in love with his
newest iCreations and Apple became a consumer electronics company. The
neglect of the Mac has gone from being a minor but understandable irritant
to a full-scale domestic assault. Lion was the start of it, you’re right.
I should have seen that. But it did offer exciting new features, and at
least one of them, Resume, is noticeably absent on Snow Leopard and Windows.
I won’t rehash my views about the systemic degradation of OS X since Snow
since I’ve flogged it to death on here before ( and you know how it is with
people who think Apple is perfect no matter what they do :) ), but suffice
it to say that I (and, it would appear, many others) thought I was getting
something better at the time Lion came out: an operating system that
combined the robustness of the Mac with some of that rare, task-oriented
simplicity and beauty of iOS. But instead of a pair of operating systems
each suited ideally to its tasks, with its own personality and paradigm, and
perhaps with the ambition to benefit from the others’ virtues, or an
inevitable transition to a lean, mean, mobile platform that’s open enough to
be used as a proper computer all by itself, we get a locked-down toy OS that
struggles to be taken seriously as a proper computer OS, despite the fact
that it’s competition is succeeding it in Business (Microsoft Surface), and
an increasingly useless and trivialised desktop OS with nothing to recommend
it over the laughingstock that was its former competition, and whose
usefulness is severely being compromised by its need to lock you in to Apple’s
services, the lack of upgradability of hardware, and the need for Apple’s
other ecosystem devices. Oh my, how things have changed …
Still I hold out hope that the transition will eventually be completed. The
Mac will die (sorry fanboys, but it’s true) and iOS, while it will be
inferior because of its close ties to Apple, will be one platform for doing
your computing. Maybe that’s a version of reality I could cope with. Apple
would cater to the demands of the market, either destroying the Mac’s
advantages (say, by hosting services for you) or improving the hardware.
The form factor that the Mac represents, especially the keyboard-and-mouse
interface, or maybe even the keyboard-and-touchscreen, will be catered for,
as will the necessary peripherals.
Please dispose of your sick bags in the receptacles provided. :)
I’m using VMWare Fusion to run the Mac VM. It’s imperfect (sound a bit
stuttery), but it works well enough.
You can learn more about “Apple File System” (APFS) here:
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc/schedule/#/details/701
Per-object and metadata encryption, sparse files, de-duplication on copy,
low-overhead crash safety, snapshots, atomic directory renames … good show.
And yes, a very big improvement over HFS+, indeed. :)
Just now, using APFS (on disk images and external devices) is a dangerous
and advanced business, fit only for people who have good backups and
command-line foo. If you follow that link, you’ll find documentation. If
you Google it, you’ll find lots of geeky insights, which will really work
for you if you like that kind of depth of understanding. Testing is limited
to data files; Time Machine isn’t supported yet, you can’t export to AFP
(HFS legacy, that) and you can’t actually boot the system from an APFS
volume group. But Apple says that stuff is coming.
Object recognition in photos, like grouping pictures based on related
objects, and identifying particular objects. I’d be interested to see how
this manifests itself in VoiceOver: whether, for instance, we will hear
descriptions of positively-identified objects.
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