Posted on 03/23/2011 11:40:42 AM PDT by Swordmaker
Apple just announced Bertrand Serlet, who ran the Mac software business, is leaving the company. He worked with Steve Jobs for 22 years, joining him at NeXT in 1989. When Apple bought NeXT, Serlet helped develop OSX, which is the software that runs all Macs. With Serlet's deep experience at Apple, he was mentioned as a possible CEO successor to Jobs a few years back. In a release announcing the move, Serlet says he wants "to focus less on products and more on science." Craig Federighi will be taking over for Serlet. He also worked at NeXT, and was in charge of developing Lion, Apple's latest Mac update. Apple's Mac software is less and less important to the company. It's going all in with with iOS, its mobile operating system on iPhones and iPads. For that reason, losing Serlet doesn't seem like a massive blow. Also, Federighi seems to be a competent exec.
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That's Adobe's job since they bought Macromedia and gained that monstrosity.
KRB fixed me right up.
Whenever my Mac is running sluggishly, 100% of the time it is the kids running Flash in a browser over in their accounts, and they didn’t log off or close the browser before leaving.
I’m going to have to remember that one.
People complained that the Chrome browser used a lot of resources, but it’s for exactly this reason, every tab runs in a separate sandboxed process, so stuff like this doesn’t happen.
The author speaks as if iOS is a different OS. It isn’t, really. It’s just OS X for mobile devices.
Indeed, there is hope...
Figures. I don’t have problems with YouTube.
Awesome, glad to hear it!
The kernel is the same, but the interface is completely different. That was Apple's innovation in the mobile market -- a new ground-up interface designed for touch screens instead of some hacked-together version of a mouse-and-keyboard OS.
Saying that iOS is just OS X for mobile devices is like saying that Android is just Linux for mobile devices -- there's an element of truth to it, but they have different interfaces and they're not binary-compatible.
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4thatmatter, I’ve already seen this used here on FR, by FR mgmt. :’)
There was a recent upgrade to Flash...
I have that problem on my PC with my wife. When I clean up the crashing PC it takes forever to clear the cache and history. The Mac is easier to maintain.
“Saying that iOS is just OS X for mobile devices is like saying that Android is just Linux for mobile devices — there’s an element of truth to it, but they have different interfaces and they’re not binary-compatible.”
There’s quite a lot more commonality than there are differences. There could be binary compatibility via fat binaries if Apple wanted to do it.
For that matter, future Mac desktops could possibly run Arm chips also, since NVIDIA is developing same.
“Saying that iOS is just OS X for mobile devices is like saying that Android is just Linux for mobile devices — there’s an element of truth to it, but they have different interfaces and they’re not binary-compatible.”
There’s quite a lot more commonality than there are differences. There could be binary compatibility via fat binaries if Apple wanted to do it.
For that matter, future Mac desktops could possibly run Arm chips also, since NVIDIA is developing same.
I suppose it would be possible to make fat binaries that run on both Mac OS and iOS, but with space at a premium on mobile devices, I can’t imagine why they’d want to. They could, however, integrate the two App Stores so you can get the Mac and iOS versions with one purchase.
I really don’t see ARM chips in desktops, but maybe in the Macbook Air — if it would let Apple drop the price significantly. Unless there would be a big cost savings at near-equivalent performance, I don’t see it being worth the effort to switch from Intel.
“I suppose it would be possible to make fat binaries that run on both Mac OS and iOS, but with space at a premium on mobile devices, I can’t imagine why they’d want to. They could, however, integrate the two App Stores so you can get the Mac and iOS versions with one purchase.”
I was referring to fat binaries for MacOS, the (for the moment) different UIs mean different binaries are needed.
“I really don’t see ARM chips in desktops, but maybe in the Macbook Air — if it would let Apple drop the price significantly. Unless there would be a big cost savings at near-equivalent performance, I don’t see it being worth the effort to switch from Intel.”
NVIDIA has announced Project Denver, which is positioning new, higher performance ARM chips for desktop, workstation, server and supercomputer use. It will provide another interesting option, we’ll see if Apple bites since its already supporting ARM on the iOS devices. Might be a great, power saving, laptop option at a minimum.
http://blogs.nvidia.com/2011/01/project-denver-processor-to-usher-in-new-era-of-computing/
Interesting times... ;-)
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