Apple OSX.10 Yosemite Review Ping!
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Posted on 10/21/2014 11:35:18 PM PDT by Swordmaker
“Yosemite and iOS 8 are the first great victories for the newly collaborative Apple,” John Siracusa writes for Ars Technica. “The visual coherence between the products blessedly obsoletes the former one-way mimicry and reflects a deeper technological unity. Features like Handoff that require cooperation in all stages of development, from conceptualization to execution, are evidence of an Apple that puts the needs of its customers ahead of departmental divisions.”
“The political and technical battles inherent in the former two-track development strategy for OS X and iOS left both products with uncomfortable feature disparities. Apple now correctly views this as damage and has set forth to repair it,” Siracusa writes. “Viewed in isolation, Yosemite provides a graphical refresh accompanied by a few interesting features and several new technologies whose benefits are mostly speculative, depending heavily on how eagerly they’re adopted by third-party developers. But Apple no longer views the Mac in isolation, and neither should you. OS X is finally a full-fledged peer to iOS; all aspects of sibling rivalry have been banished.”
“The Mac today is just one part of a conceptually, organizationally, and (increasingly) technologically unified platform that spans from wrist to workstation. The hardware-based platforms of the past remain relevant to developers, but Apple seems determined to make them much less important to its customers,” Siracusa writes. “With Yosemite, the Mac has taken its first step into a larger world.”
Massive amounts more in the full, extremely comprehensive 25-page review – recommended – here.
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Link at the end of your post does not work.
Thanks for the ping!
I was surprised last week to be able to take an incoming call to my iPhone 5 — from my iPad 3. Call was forwarded!
My understanding is that the same call forwarding will now also happen between the iPhone and MAC desktops/laptops.
Odd, it did when I tested it before posting the article.
It does so long as your devices share the same Apple ID and are on the same WIFI network. Worked for me yesterday. My iPhone was in the bedroom on the charger and I answered two calls, one on my MacBook Air, and one on my iPad Air. Cool.
Thanks for fixing it.
“Link at the end of your post does not work.
Thanks for fixing it.”
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Sorry, I get this message when I hit that link:
“The requested document does not exist on this server.”
Maybe it’s sporadic or just my set up.
Yosemite includes a new “reduce transparency” option in its Accessibility preference pane, aimed at addressing possible usability problems created by the OS’s new look.I don’t have a disability, but I encountered those “possible" usability problems from the word go.
Enabling this option removes transparency nearly everywhere. The Dock, menu bar, toolbars, sidebars, context menus, sheets, Notification Center—all completely opaque.I’m gonna try it . . .Opaque Yosemite doesn’t look bad at all. It’s a little boring, perhaps, especially the Dock, but I can imagine almost anyone using it and being satisfied.
I think I like the “reduce transparency” effect.
Private browsing is no longer a mode in Safari. Apple has adopted Google’s approach to this feature, right down to the keyboard shortcut (command-shift-n), by adding a “New Private Window” option to the File menu. Private windows are distinguished by the dark gray background in their address fields.
Sadly some DAW & plug-in developers aren’t giving the go ahead to install Yosemite. Think I will wait till 10.10.5 is out.
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