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No more Oh Es Ecks! :p

 

Source: Apple (via Ars Technica)

 

As has become tradition at WWDC, Apple has announced the next version of its Mac operating system: Sierra. Of course, the real change is that, after fifteen years, Apple has finally ditched the "OS X" moniker. All things old are new again, and the new operating system will simply be called "macOS." We don't yet know if Sierra carries a "10.12" version number, but with developers getting their hands on the OS later today, we should soon have that question answered.

 

Apple's Craig Federighi ran through a whole bunch of new features to be included in the revised operating system. He started by mentioning Continuity and Auto-Unlock, which now combine to let you seamlessly unlock a desktop or laptop Mac merely by bringing your Apple Watch close, using what Federighi described as "time-of-flight networking" to detect the watch's proximity. It was unclear from the presentation whether or not this feature is an Apple Watch exclusive; Federighi did not explicitly say that Auto-Unlock would work with iOS devices.

 

Another Continuity-based feature showing up in Sierra is Universal Clipboard, which answers a longstanding complaint of Mac and iOS users. Copying and pasting now works automatically between an iOS device and a desktop Mac device. This appears to be a bidirectional service; you can copy an item to your iOS clipboard and see it on the desktop, and vice versa.

 

iCloud now plays an expanded sync role, too, letting you move files and folders from Mac to Mac or from Mac to iOS. Another new feature called Optimized Storage can sweep through old files and push them to iCloud, clearing up local disk space for other uses. It also can automatically dump your trash, clear your Web history, and do other behind-the-scenes sweeps. Federighi noted that in one test situation, Apple used Optimized Storage to free up 130GB of local storage.

 

After making their appearance in the Finder with the last big OS X (ahem, macOS) revision, tabs are now coming to more applications. Federighi said that Apple wants tabs on all multi-window applications, and he added that getting them there can be done without developer modification. We're not sure exactly how this works, but we're eager to see it demonstrated.

 

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There was not really anything big.

Definitely a bit underwhelming in terms of new features, although Apple's new file-system sounds interesting.

 

Digging into APFS, Apple’s new file system

 

Though the feature wasn’t mentioned in Apple’s WWDC 2016 keynote, I’m most excited about the introduction of the Apple File System, or APFS. The preliminary version of the developer documentation is online now, and it looks like the new file system introduces a whole boat-load of solid features—including a few out of the ZFS playbook.

 

APFS looks to be a major update over Apple’s old and creaky HFS+ file system, which has been around in one form or another for decades. It has been the subject of expansions and additions over the years, but HFS+ never approached the extensibility and flexibility of current next-generation file systems. Rather than continuing to bolt stuff onto the old code, we now (finally!) get a new file system that has some truly compelling features.

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I have been disappointed with Apple in recent years. They have hardly done anything new that made me say wow. Applies to the iOS range. :(
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I have been disappointed with Apple in recent years. They have hardly done anything new that made me say wow. Applies to the iOS range. :(

 

Completely Agree, if you think back to when OS X Launched a whopping 15 years ago, it was groundbreaking, unbelievably better both performance wise and graphically compared to OS 9, however since OS X Leopard and to a lesser extent OS X Mavericks, it's just been tweeks here and there.

 

The good point has been that upgrades are now free, which may be the problem itself probably. If we were paying for an updated OS and what we got was a font change there'd be outrage. So until there's financial incentive to overhaul the OS it looks like we're stuck with minor changes every year :( *Groan

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There was not really anything big. I thought the changes to message for example make iOS very cluttered.

Some of those features came across as though they had been built by a developer who was at a loose end on a weekend and wanted to pass some time!

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Anyone else think of the Ford Sierra when mentioned?

 

A few of those 'new' features on IOS and MacOS have been about for a while on products made by Google.

 

Rumour has it, the next version will be the MacOS Sierra Cosworth

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Anyone else think of the Ford Sierra when mentioned?

 

A few of those 'new' features on IOS and MacOS have been about for a while on products made by Google.

what apple nicking other companies ideas what a shocker

can anyone actually remember the last time apple came up with something that wasnt just a refinement of someone elses stuff

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what apple nicking other companies ideas what a shocker

can anyone actually remember the last time apple came up with something that wasnt just a refinement of someone elses stuff

 

......No,

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Minor point but do people say Mac-Oh-Es or Mac-OSS?

 

Caught myself murmuring Mac-Oh-Ess earlier, although due to majority of my acquaintances being Windows users, i'll probably never get the chance to say it out loud

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I popped it on my spare Mac yesterday, very much feels like a refinement release , but the copy and paste between devices is really cool. Very much the right device for the right moment thinking. When they are releasing an OS annually you cannot expect massive things every 12 months in a mature market.
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Apple to block Flash, Java, QuickTime and Silverlight by default in Safari 10

 

Apple will start to block Adobe Flash by default on its desktop Safari browser. The change will come with Safari 10 which will be released part of the upcoming macOS Sierra update. The browser will always prefer HTML5 over Flash.

 

Some sites don’t work without Flash and on those sites Safari will ask for permission to enable Flash. Users can select to allow Flash for once or forever. Currently Google and Mozilla do or plan to do the same in their respectively Chrome and Firefox browser.

 

Flash isn’t the only plugin that will be banned by Apple. Java, Quicktime and Silverlight will get the same treatment.

 

Apple will release Safari 10 coming autumn together with the latest version of OS X that is now rebranded to macOS.

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Actually, it never was "Oh Es Ecks"... It was always "Oh Es Ten" :p

I know. It was a joke. ;)

 

Now that Apple have renamed OS X to macOS it should hopefully stop people calling it "Oh Es Ecks". That's what I was trying to get across in as few words as possible. :)

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