

Apple's latest PC OS gets even more iOS-like


I. Mountain Lion Prepares to Roam the Neighborhood






II. I'm Bringing Apps Back (Yea!)




OS X Mountain Lion Messages







III. Security and Notifications







IV. Share Sheets, Chinese, AirPlay Mirroring



OS X Share Sheet
The new "Share Sheet" [Image Source: Engadget]




AirPlay Mirroring


V. Why OS X Still Matters







We shall see which road Apple takes.


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By Motoman on 2/16/2012 3:50:39 PM , Rating: 2
95% of the people who use computers don't care.

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By messele on 2/16/2012 4:06:17 PM , Rating: 1
Absolutely, however 5% of that 95% just can't help themselves but leave a comment that they don't care. Nigh on 100% of the other 5% just do not care that they do not care but are curious as to why they bothered to tell us that.

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By Pirks on 2/16/2012 4:27:01 PM , Rating: 2
The media in general gives Apple infinitely more airtime than it deserves, based on it's marketshare
You base it on market share but everyone else is basing it on the company size, market cap, revenues and profits. Time to blend with the people, don't be such a freaky loner :P

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By Motoman on 2/16/2012 5:56:56 PM , Rating: 2
No, very few people base anything on market cap or any other quantifiable measure. The vast majority of people base everything on what the TV/etc. tells them. would be hard for me to be a "freaky loner" when it's rather obvious that I'm not part of the *freaky* 5% - like you are.

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By Pirks on 2/16/2012 5:56:53 PM , Rating: 1
And TV tells them about Apple because Apple is so huge and so profitable these days. Got it?

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By Motoman on 2/17/2012 12:53:13 AM , Rating: 3
The TV tells them about Apple because Apple's legendary propaganda machine has the media sucking at their teat - just like they do with you. Which is actually the same reason why their profit margins are so high, along with their market cap. If Apple had to compete based on the merits of it's products, it'd died probably in the late 80s.

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By Pirks on 2/17/12, Rating: 0
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By Motoman on 2/17/2012 9:31:10 AM , Rating: 2
As always Pirks you just continue rocking that reality distortion field. We're all aware that you're utterly unconcerned with reality.

The fact that you perpetually insist on ignoring all the vast amounts of information on the internet about how bad Apple designs are, how poor their quality is, and how wildly overpriced they are is YOUR problem. Not mine...not ours...yours.

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By hexxthalion on 2/17/2012 10:43:18 AM , Rating: 2
do you actually go out and try products or you rely on forums and internet?

I prefer to decide what I buy based on my own experience, don't need some fandroid to tell me what to get

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By TakinYourPoints on 2/17/12, Rating: 0
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excellent or superior products because of your silly moral high ground
In your mind...

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Speaking of customer service:



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By TakinYourPoints on 2/17/2012 7:13:19 PM , Rating: 2
You braindead idiots that buy Macs don't actually really need to do anything on a computer...or else you'd actually buy a computer, not a toy.

Actually, I do use my Mac for work, OS X and Linux are standard in the film industry. NONE of my friends at Google use Windows, they all work in OS X. All of my web developer friends develop on OS X (nearly all of their tools like Apache/PHP/Rails/etc are built into the OS already), and they run Windows in a VM when they need to test on other browsers. One of my best friends is an ex-IBMer who is now a lead engineer at a big security firm. Again, OS X development platform.

There is a massive advantage to having a UNIX based operating system that has centralized support. A lot of real work is done on it, believe it or not.

My DIY Windows machine is a hobby and a "toy", basically a launcher for Steam and my games. It is cool though, I love both, it's just that I use one platform for work and and one for play.

If by "real jobs" though you mean data entry 101 and Visual Basic, then yes, you'll be on Windows. You'll also be crying yourself to sleep every night.

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By Motoman on 2/18/2012 9:59:28 AM , Rating: 1
Oh right - because you and your idiot friends managed to struggle by on Macs for work, that means the other 99.99% of business computers don't matter. Because they're all Windows.

Self-righteous douchebags like you love to trot out the "content creation is better on a Mac" line of BS. Which is, well, BS. There is nothing that can be done on a Mac that can't be done better, and cheaper, on a PC. This is an irrefutable fact.

...which, like all facts, is unimportant to you. You are invalid.

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By TakinYourPoints on 2/18/2012 11:28:39 PM , Rating: 2
Ah yes, my "idiot friends" who work at Google, who do back end web dev work, who do security work for major corporations, all this before we even get to content creation.

Yup, what a bunch of morons.

You are hilarious. Keep pushing second rate products to your second rate customers at whatever backwater shop you work at.

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By maven81 on 2/18/2012 11:49:55 PM , Rating: 2
Anecdotal evidence works both ways. I've worked for large production companies and none of the developers used a mac. This should be a no brainer considering that while a lot of the tools are available, most of the testing still needs to be done on PCs. Virtual machines? Have you actually tried testing things that way?! Granted as a designer I'm forced to work on a mac, but all the software I use is also available on PCs and in fact some works better and appears sooner (photoshop 64bit came out for PC before it came out for Mac).

I may not not know people at Google, but I do know people at ILM and Digital Domain and while they use linux, they don't use OSX that much. But why stop there, PIXAR itself is not a mac shop. What does that say?! Jobs was in charge of Pixar for crying out loud.

But regardless, look at the stuff you're talking about, websites, games, animations? I'll be impressed when banks rely on macs for their transactions. When scientists use macs for their research, or when engineers at mission control use them to launch rockets. When macs run things like traffic lights, power plants, air traffic control... Some of these are linux, some are unix, some are mainframes! And far more then any apple troll like you will admit are PCs. Those are the systems that make the world go round. And your attempt to claim that OSX is unix based therefore it's the same as any other unix variant is ridiculous.

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By TakinYourPoints on 2/20/2012 4:51:27 AM , Rating: 2

Also, it seems silly to marginalize a platform based on this. Media and technology are huge reasons why California generates so much GDP. Just because medicine, research, air traffic control, banking, etc, runs on Linux doesn't automatically mean that other platforms are not important or that they aren't responsible for aiding real work in other fields. Games are the #1 reason I and many people on tech forums run Windows, and I wouldn't dare say that Windows is a poor platform just because of that.

Where are we drawing a line on "real work"?

Either way, I completely agree that the world runs on unix derivations. If you go back it is one of the first points I made, and I really don't understand the angry tone of your post.

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By TakinYourPoints on 2/20/2012 5:01:14 AM , Rating: 2
I need to condense these into one post before hitting "post comment". :)


I've built my own PCs since Windows 95 days. My current gaming machine is an i7 860 with SLI GTX 460 cards running a 256GB Intel SSD inside a Corsair 800D. I've been using MSDOS and Windows for over twice as long as I've been familiar with Macs.

The last thing I am is an Apple fanboy, I'm pretty platform agnostic. I just use what works, and both platforms have their own strengths and weaknesses. I also know how Macs are used in the real world, and when I see FUD from mental midgets like Motoman being posted as fact, I respond. That's it.

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By TakinYourPoints on 2/17/2012 7:44:47 PM , Rating: 2
A $300 PC is a better purchase in all regards than a $1,000 Mac

PC makers can't even match Macbook Air specs or quality for the same price, what makes you think that a piece of trash $300 netbook can measure up in any way?

Do you have zero standards for performance, display quality, keyboard/trackpad quality, or battery life?

Oh, right, "performance doesn't matter" is your usual defense of AMD vs Intel. Now you're going to say that good keyboards, good battery life, good displays, good durability, and good resale value don't matter either.

You do have low standards. It is the typical thinking of people who defend netbook trash, you know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

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By Motoman on 2/18/2012 9:56:31 AM , Rating: 1
Except that you're wrong in every way. Every. Way.

A Mac is not better quality. It isn't better in specs...certainly not by price comparison. Battery life varies by what you buy and what batteries you put in it. Apple products are famous for design defects, poor quality, and being ridiculously overpriced. If a $1,000 Mac performs better than a $300 PC...well, firstly it should - but the mouth-breathing dipsh1ts that buy Macs clearly don't actually need to do anything on a computer anyway, so their subjective user experience would be the same from that standpoint. And if comparing at the same pricepoint, a PC will run circles around a Mac.

You might need to change the batteries in your reality distortion field - it's been working over time. Oh's an Apple product. Battery can't be replaced. Oops.

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By Pirks on 2/18/2012 2:37:18 PM , Rating: 2
So Google engineers who mostly use Macs to do their web and server side coding - they don't actually need to do anything on their computers anyway? Wow Moto, you are going more and more crazy every day. Wooow.

I read recently that first Doom was designed on Macs, I LOLed when I remembered your "Mac users don't do shit on their computers" insanity.

Carmack on one side and Motoman on the other. Who to trust? A REALLY HARD question LOOOL :))))) heheheee

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By TakinYourPoints on 2/18/2012 11:35:33 PM , Rating: 2
John Carmack created DOOM and Quake on NEXTSTEP, and Tim Bierners-Lee did the same with the web browser and the web protocol. NEXTSTEP of course became Mac OS X when Apple bought NEXT and got Steve Jobs back in the process.

So yes, developers do major major work using that platform, and have before it even rolled back into Apple. A huge part of the world runs on UNIX, and OS X is on of the largest supported variants in the world. It is no wonder why developers who do "real work" use that platform.

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By Pirks on 2/18/2012 2:41:20 PM , Rating: 2
oops sorry for double post! hit post button too quick

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By TakinYourPoints on 2/18/2012 11:51:13 PM , Rating: 2

Actually, once you get an ultraslim PC up to the physical and internal specs of a Macbook Air, surprise, it costs more! On top of this they have worse displays, worse keyboards, and far worse trackpads. Even the best ones by Lenovo (which I do like) have worse displays unless you spend another $200 on a display upgrade.

The price argument doesn't work with laptops unless you seriously drop down in quality, and by dropping the price you are even further compromising the display/keyboard/trackpad, and this is before we get to performance.

Again, you're comparing cheap garbage with a device that has better internal and physical specs. What is wrong with you?

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By hexxthalion on 2/17/2012 10:40:03 AM , Rating: 2
"You're intentionally missing the point...which is that DT needn't waste it's electronic bits on information that only the bottom 5% of the population cares about."

- nope, you're completely missing the point, anything related to Apple generates revenues from Ads for DT

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By retrospooty on 2/16/2012 5:51:48 PM , Rating: 2
"95% of the people who use computers don't care."

Hey now, lets be fair. Mac is 6 % of the global computer market, not 5%. LOL.

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