If not for the SIRI icon on the Dock, there would be no evidence Mac OS Sierra is running and I haven't started SIRI because it really doesn't matter what she says, does it. Maybe there will be a viddie sometime asking her ridiculous questions but it's not that interesting.
There is one actual change to the OS and that's an extension to the file system but it's not a user change and not particularly interesting. There may be some improvement to management of flash drives but that's still not a user tool, it's something to tune performance.
Almost all of the changes were to try to make the OS X Desktop function like iOS but there's not the faintest basis of a reason for it. The hardware just isn't good enough on handheld devices and, due to size, there's little chance it ever will be. For example, will you take a thousand iPhones to the high Atacama Desert in Chile to get better photographs of the Milky Way than the La Silla Observatory. We doubt it.
Big photography needs big lenses and big digital photography needs big sensor plates, neither of which are available or can ever be available in handheld devices. There just isn't the acreage inside them to support the size of such things.
Apple's myopic focus on handheld devices hasn't left the Desktop machines orphans and the high-end Desktop Pro is an exceptional machine but the idea of doing iPhone things on it is just laughable. People use such systems to edit full-size feature Hollywood films and do you seriously think someone will be using a system like that for Pokemon Go or asking it how to find the closest Starbucks?
After about thirty years using Apple systems almost exclusively in the home / studio environment for music and video, Mac OS Sierra is easily the most lackluster operating system release I've ever seen.
Windows was consistent in the workplace during most of that time but it moved at the speed of the business which was no speed at all so it usually wasn't a problem. It also wasn't even close to interesting. Amdahl and IBM mainframes were the big cheeses and they were as unstable as my team could make them.
Through all those environments, Apple was always the vitality of it ... but now they make iPhones.
Well ... that's exciting, isn't it. Wanna play Pokemon?
There is one actual change to the OS and that's an extension to the file system but it's not a user change and not particularly interesting. There may be some improvement to management of flash drives but that's still not a user tool, it's something to tune performance.
Almost all of the changes were to try to make the OS X Desktop function like iOS but there's not the faintest basis of a reason for it. The hardware just isn't good enough on handheld devices and, due to size, there's little chance it ever will be. For example, will you take a thousand iPhones to the high Atacama Desert in Chile to get better photographs of the Milky Way than the La Silla Observatory. We doubt it.
Big photography needs big lenses and big digital photography needs big sensor plates, neither of which are available or can ever be available in handheld devices. There just isn't the acreage inside them to support the size of such things.
Apple's myopic focus on handheld devices hasn't left the Desktop machines orphans and the high-end Desktop Pro is an exceptional machine but the idea of doing iPhone things on it is just laughable. People use such systems to edit full-size feature Hollywood films and do you seriously think someone will be using a system like that for Pokemon Go or asking it how to find the closest Starbucks?
After about thirty years using Apple systems almost exclusively in the home / studio environment for music and video, Mac OS Sierra is easily the most lackluster operating system release I've ever seen.
Windows was consistent in the workplace during most of that time but it moved at the speed of the business which was no speed at all so it usually wasn't a problem. It also wasn't even close to interesting. Amdahl and IBM mainframes were the big cheeses and they were as unstable as my team could make them.
Through all those environments, Apple was always the vitality of it ... but now they make iPhones.
Well ... that's exciting, isn't it. Wanna play Pokemon?
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