Remember, MacOS is on the slow-kill list. It's been slowly merging with iOS and Apple doesn't want to develop two OS's. If 'Mac' still exists in 10 years, it might be the iPhone having a 'Mac Mode' where to goes full-screen to a wirelessly-connected K/V/M. But for 'pros' who need more CPU, rather than building it into the phone (where it will eat power and transistor budget) they might offer the option to buy compute power from the cloud (with Apple taking 30% of whatever anybody makes on it).
In fact, if a $50 Dell dongle has the CPU power to do a 'Mac Mode', we could even see this launching in June on the next iPhone from Apple. Sure, they make a good profit on every hardware Mac they sell, but if they can make the same profit by renting the hardware time and expand their userbase to every iPhone user (with seamless data sync, naturally) then they'll go for the better revenue stream. That will make the phase-out of the Mac that much easier.
Apple dropped "computer" from its name in 2007, when the iPhone was just starting its upward trajectory and the iPod was on fire. A lot changed that year, as the company changed its primary focus to mobile and outlined a long-term plan to leave the desktop market.
and have you been actually following the direction the osx has been taking?
they haven't focused on it at all for the last decade and when they have focused on it it has been to remove stuff, add apple dependencies(appstore, limiting app access so that it becomes irrelevant if it's unix underneath) and iosification(unless you're into ios the new fullscreen mode stuff is just horrible). yet they haven't tackled any of the hard stuff like dpi independence(doubling pixels for retina doesn't count) and don't eve
Instead of running around with your hair on fire, just stop and think about this for a minute: OS X is finished. It's done. The only thing left to do now is to slowly prune away the shit, refine things a hair, and so forth. Sure, there are things to do, UI scaling being among them, but unlike with Gnome and Windows, we will not see OS X just throw itself out off a cliff and get totally redesigned just for kicks. It will pretty much look the same as it does now, 5 versions up.
So what you're saying is that Apple will in your eyes, essentially, be abandoning the 'maker' market completely.
You know, the people who need things like these capabilities: * photo editing * media management * rendering of any sort * video production * audio production * publishing
Sorry, the ability to run these kinds of applications (and probably more I'm not aware of) over the Internet is just not there yet. We're probably a good decade away, on the inside, before it becomes even remotely practical to do so.
So what you're saying is that Apple will in your eyes, essentially, be abandoning the 'maker' market completely.
No, that's the opposite of what I said. Go read the comment again.
Apple will make more profit by renting the service 'in the cloud' and people will get faster video renders than they could ever afford, and maybe all the software Adobe produces will come included in the $30/mo base rental fee. Your iPhone will be the 'dongle' and include the ability to connect to your clients' system for demos, e
Mac OS my a$$ (Score:5, Insightful)
Not.
Gonna.
Happen.
Re:Mac OS my a$$ (Score:5, Informative)
Remember, MacOS is on the slow-kill list. It's been slowly merging with iOS and Apple doesn't want to develop two OS's. If 'Mac' still exists in 10 years, it might be the iPhone having a 'Mac Mode' where to goes full-screen to a wirelessly-connected K/V/M. But for 'pros' who need more CPU, rather than building it into the phone (where it will eat power and transistor budget) they might offer the option to buy compute power from the cloud (with Apple taking 30% of whatever anybody makes on it).
In fact, if a $50 Dell dongle has the CPU power to do a 'Mac Mode', we could even see this launching in June on the next iPhone from Apple. Sure, they make a good profit on every hardware Mac they sell, but if they can make the same profit by renting the hardware time and expand their userbase to every iPhone user (with seamless data sync, naturally) then they'll go for the better revenue stream. That will make the phase-out of the Mac that much easier.
Apple dropped "computer" from its name in 2007, when the iPhone was just starting its upward trajectory and the iPod was on fire. A lot changed that year, as the company changed its primary focus to mobile and outlined a long-term plan to leave the desktop market.
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and have you been actually following the direction the osx has been taking?
they haven't focused on it at all for the last decade and when they have focused on it it has been to remove stuff, add apple dependencies(appstore, limiting app access so that it becomes irrelevant if it's unix underneath) and iosification(unless you're into ios the new fullscreen mode stuff is just horrible). yet they haven't tackled any of the hard stuff like dpi independence(doubling pixels for retina doesn't count) and don't eve
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Instead of running around with your hair on fire, just stop and think about this for a minute: OS X is finished. It's done. The only thing left to do now is to slowly prune away the shit, refine things a hair, and so forth. Sure, there are things to do, UI scaling being among them, but unlike with Gnome and Windows, we will not see OS X just throw itself out off a cliff and get totally redesigned just for kicks. It will pretty much look the same as it does now, 5 versions up.
And I would counter our cla
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So what you're saying is that Apple will in your eyes, essentially, be abandoning the 'maker' market completely.
You know, the people who need things like these capabilities:
* photo editing
* media management
* rendering of any sort
* video production
* audio production
* publishing
Sorry, the ability to run these kinds of applications (and probably more I'm not aware of) over the Internet is just not there yet. We're probably a good decade away, on the inside, before it becomes even remotely practical to do so.
Gr
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So what you're saying is that Apple will in your eyes, essentially, be abandoning the 'maker' market completely.
No, that's the opposite of what I said. Go read the comment again.
Apple will make more profit by renting the service 'in the cloud' and people will get faster video renders than they could ever afford, and maybe all the software Adobe produces will come included in the $30/mo base rental fee. Your iPhone will be the 'dongle' and include the ability to connect to your clients' system for demos, e
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I did read what you said. I said what you're proposing is idiotic and impossible.