No, there will not be an OS X.12,
Apple announces macOS Sierra
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Posted on 06/13/2016 7:38:56 PM PDT by Swordmaker
Apple’s brand new operating system for its laptops and desktop computers, macOS, will ship in the fall for all customers. A beta for developers will be released later today. There’s a host of new features, including Auto Unlock, Continuity Clipboard, Apple Pay, Siri for Mac and more. A public beta will be offered in July.
Apple® today previewed macOS Sierra™, a major update to the world’s most advanced desktop operating system, with new features that make the Mac® smarter and more helpful than ever. Siri® is now on the Mac with brand-new capabilities to help with the things users do every day on their desktop. With Siri, users can look up information, find documents, pin or drag and drop search results, and even adjust system preferences. Seamless integration with iCloud® makes everything from your Desktop and Documents folder available on your iPhone® and iPad® so you always have access to the files you need. Universal Clipboard allows you to copy content, including text, images, photos and video from one Apple device and paste it in another. Apple Pay® comes to the Mac in Sierra so it is even easier to shop securely and privately online. And Photos now helps you rediscover your meaningful memories, organize your library and perfect shots like a pro.
“macOS Sierra is a major update that makes your Mac smarter and more helpful than ever with improvements to the apps you know and love and great new features throughout,” said Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of Software Engineering. “With macOS Sierra, you can get information, find files and multitask using Siri, access your Desktop and Documents from anywhere, copy and paste between Macs and iOS devices, and rediscover precious memories in Photos.”
What new features at you most looking forward to, SwordMsker? Auto unlock sounds interesting.
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It could. In an office environment, not so much. Siri on the Mac sound's interesting. Although I already have a clipboard app that crosses between differing devices for copying and pasting, a system native version that does the same thing would be welcome for all Apple devices and quite useful.
Probably just me, but each new iteration seems worse than the last.
That’s Mt. Whitney in the southern Sierra Nevada range near Lone Pine, Calif. in your picture. At 14,505’ highest mountain in the lower 48 states.
Hope it’s better than El Capitan, which sucks ...
Pretty much what I expected 10.12 to be—10.11 + Siri. Ugly new designation as well, ‘macOS’.
Boring.
It’s too bad there are no worthwhile desktop OSs anymore. Win10 sucks, MacOS stagnant, Linux is still clunky.
Will this new operating system work on my mac mini?
Yes if it's a newer one, no if it's an older one.
How old is too old?
I actually am not thrilled with the return to “macOS” as a naming scenario.
With the closer relationship between OS X and iOS, I sort of thought the logical step would be to move their naming conventions closer - with the 10/X being the common thread...
But what I’m really curious about is exactly how different macOS will be from the current-shipping OS X.
I was surprised to see that it goes all the way back to 2010 for the Mini.
I like the double pun of OS X and also the complete divorce it had from the old MacOS. . . but it may be time to go to something new after 18 years of OS X.
As to the changes, it will be an improvement of additions to the currently shipping version of OS X with not too many major alterations. Mostly extensions of the OS.
It could. In an office environment, not so much. Siri on the Mac sound's interesting. Although I already have a clipboard app that crosses between differing devices for copying and pasting, a system native version that does the same thing would be welcome for all Apple devices and quite useful.That makes sense. Microsoft has an auto-login feature called "Windows Hello", but they had to add special hardware (basically 3D infrared camera) to the device to make it secure. Maybe the next generation of Macs will have something similar.
Siri on the Mac sounds like another response to Microsoft, which has Cortana in Windows 10. However, Siri is badly behind Cortana at this point, and I don't see Apple being able to grow a division like Bing to compete in the short term.
I think the new file system is the most interesting. The clipboard thing sounds great, too. I would love to have that feature.
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