Comments on: OS X Lion: Lessons Learned From iOS

By: Ed

Ed — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 18:52:39 +0000

So Far BORING.The only thing here that would use is autosave, and that isn’t worth $.25. It looks Apple is going to use a pile of eye candy to persuade people to upgrade.

That’s a Microsoft trick,but Apple’s has been going that route lately, so no big surprise.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 18:03:26 +0000

To the haters: How can you people say things like “unimpressive, I won’t get Lion?” You may not need of be impressed by the features that have been made public but, as has been pointed out repeatedly, Steve Jobs has said at least 3 times that there will be more features. Maybe they will be the best features. Shouldn’t you wait until they make public all the features and specs before making up your mind? Oh, by the way, who do you think cares whether or not you upgrade to Lion? Upgrades aren’t mandatory and not for everybody. I know people running Tiger and Panther who are quite satisfied with it because it does what they need it to do. Why are you so egotistical and negative. You don’t have to like it but do you have to be a downer and a hater when expressing your opinions? What a rude society we are devolving into.

By: francisg

francisg — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 15:48:38 +0000

So far unimpressed. Launch pad might be great if you have 20 or 30 apps. Full screen? No, thank you. I continually use multiple programs together for each what they do best.
App store downloads? I wonder how long it might take to download Logic Pro with it’s many DVDs full of apple loops and sample files?
The only thing that I like so far is that my APPLE stock will continue to go up.

By: Ames Tiedeman

Ames Tiedeman — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 23:40:22 +0000

I am tired of downloading new software that only makes my MacBok Pro slower. I am going to wait and see if this thing roars like a Lion or runs like a snail. Also, is this really necessary? I need to research what capabilities I will gain and if I will ever utilize them..

By: Rodney Garcia

Rodney Garcia — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 15:54:04 +0000

With the release of Lion in Summer 2011, that might stop me from upgrading to Snow Leopard right now. Should I be upgrading to Snow, one of the few reasons would be because of iLife 11. Other than that, I’d probably wait for Lion.

By: Hamranhansenhansen

Hamranhansenhansen — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 07:57:34 +0000

Automatic app installs and updates and syncing between multiple Macs is eye candy? Autosave and auto resume are eye candy? More multitouch gestures is eye candy? Enhanced app and window switching is eye candy? A standard way to trigger full screen (which many apps already have, but they all get in and out in their own way) is eye candy?

If you were distracted by the way things look and failed to grasp the amount of I-T overhead and busywork that was reduced by this short list of preview features, maybe you should read about the features or get someone to explain them to you instead of watching the video demo.

By: Hamranhansenhansen

Hamranhansenhansen — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 07:48:16 +0000

Mac App Store is the thing that revolutionizes your computing experience. It is an Exposé or Time Machine level feature. No more CD/DVD, no more apps telling you “update me” when you launch them, no more serial numbers, no more authorizations, no more disk images, no more helping your friend install Photoshop, no more suites of apps you don’t want filling out a CD/DVD (e.g. iWork is split up in Mac App Store, you can buy Keynote alone for $19.99), no more crapware installing along with the app you bought (hello Adobe you poor confused bastards), no more patchers, no more patchers that don’t work (Adobe again) and even with all that I-T work removed, we will all use more apps than we do today.

Yes, there is more to come. Jobs said so at least 3 times.

By: Hamranhansenhansen

Hamranhansenhansen — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 07:36:11 +0000

That is ridiculous. Making it easier to install and launch Mac OS apps does not turn Mac OS into iOS. Full screen apps are already a growing trend on the Mac … some apps with full-screen modes include TextMate, Scrivener, Aperture, and Photoshop. Making a standard way to get into full-screen and switch between multiple full-screen apps does not turn Mac OS into iOS. Auto Save is also a trend on the Mac … the whole iLife suite does it for about a decade now, Aperture does it. Mac OS already does instant-on for a decade now … flash storage just makes it more instant.

All we saw here is Mac OS continuing to evolve. A Mac OS Lion user running Photoshop and Illustrator and AppleScript Editor and BBEdit and Apache and PHP and Safari with a dozen Extensions is not running iOS.

By: Hamranhansenhansen

Hamranhansenhansen — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 07:20:20 +0000

There was an update to iWork: the iPad versions. There are iPhone versions coming soon. iWork is moving faster and making much more progress than MS Office and is a quarter of the price.

By: Hamranhansenhansen

Hamranhansenhansen — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 07:15:12 +0000

No translation is required. The Mac also has apps … they’re the original. The filename extension of every Mac app is “.app”. But there are many problems with the Mac app platform that are fixed on iOS. Apps on iOS don’t tell you they need to be updated when you run them, they don’t have a variety of convoluted installation procedures, they don’t require optical discs, you don’t have to type in a 16 character hex code to get them to run. The idea that Apple wouldn’t fix those problems on the Mac makes no sense at all. If you want to use Photoshop, why should you have to do a ton of I-T work? Why not just click “INSTALL” and your credit card is charged and Photoshop appears in your Dock? Me, I’m still using CS3 because Adobe’s installers and process is so awful I stopped upgrading just for that reason. They install folders, a bunch of crapware, it is a disaster. You can’t move the apps out of the folders or they fail, the updaters sometimes take an hour to run.

This is the best thing to happen to the Mac app platform since Mac OS X. People who have never installed a 3rd party Mac app will now buy and use 10 or more in the first few months of Mac App Store. And there will be less I-T work for everyone, more just using the apps.