OS X Yosemite (10.10) - News and Discussion

FourFourRED

Here it is. iOS 7 icons make it to the Mac

evilivor

Continuity looks very good as does full SMS integration.

challengemaster

http://lifehacker.com/all-the-new-stuff-in-os-x-10-10-yosemite-1584870045

Nyum Nyum

Lucida Grande finally gone!

Zapp Brannigan

What's different about Spotlight? I've been using it like that for years now!

5uspect

Zapp Brannigan wrote: »

What's different about Spotlight? I've been using it like that for years now!

Yeah I don't get it either. CMD + space, type.

MillField

evilivor wrote: »

Continuity looks very good as does full SMS integration.

Agreed. Looks really nice.

jack presley

Will being able to answer calls on your mac only work on recent macs or will my early 2009 iMac be able to use this feature?

miralize

it looks like it uses bluetooth LE so perhaps only newer macs

Zcott

There's no official word on how that works yet but it's probably a mixture of using Bluetooth LE to detect whether it's nearby and using wifi direct as a transport.

miralize

Either way, it'll probably require newer machines

Sad Professor

It says WiFi on the Apple site.

MillField

Sad Professor wrote: »

It says WiFi on the Apple site.

I hope it isn't reliant fully on a clear WiFi connections. Bluetooth LE would be a nice option.

Zcott

colmulhall wrote: »

I hope it isn't reliant fully on a clear WiFi connections. Bluetooth LE would be a nice option.

Except for those of us on older Macs which don't support bluetooth LE. All my iOS devices have LE because I'm more likely to upgrade them regularly. I know that only the newer Macs support PowerNap, but I'd love it if Mac-calling was available for all Macs.

Sad Professor

As much as I like the new UI, it's still very rough. The feeling of multiple layers that they created in iOS 7 hasn't fully translated to the Mac with a lot of leftover elements conflicting with the new design. The big drop shadow under the menu bar, for example, looks very out of place. In fact, all the drop shadows, while reduced, just don't look right.

miralize

The context menus are especially difficult to read I think, a good (or bad) example is visible especially when right clicking dock icons with a neutral photo desktop background.

Not entirely sure about Helvetica Neue either, especially on non-retina Displays.

Sad Professor

It's also very hard to tell if WiFi is on or not by glancing at the menu bar.

Zcott

How's the stability? Worth partitioning a drive to try it out on?

FourFourRED

Zcott wrote: »

How's the stability? Worth partitioning a drive to try it out on?

Haven't tried myself but from what I've read, it might need a couple more DP's before it's worth installing.

miralize

I'm using it. Right now the only issue that I'm having is that my dev environments are all messed up after the update (although the system PHP version is at 5.5 now!). Its stable otherwise. Chrome looks a little weird at the top but functionally its fine.

Sad Professor

Zcott wrote: »

How's the stability? Worth partitioning a drive to try it out on?

It seems okay. But I have it on a second partition on a second Mac.

Sad Professor

Any thoughts on the new Photos app? It seems to spell the end for iPhoto. I can’t see Apple maintaining 3 separate photo applications on 2 platforms. I’m guessing a future release of Aperture will make it more user-friendly thereby eliminating the need for iPhoto. Seems like that’s where they are probably headed with iMovie as well, and - who knows - maybe iTunes one day as well.

Zcott

Sad Professor wrote: »

Any thoughts on the new Photos app? It seems to spell the end for iPhoto. I can’t see Apple maintaining 3 separate photo applications on 2 platforms. I’m guessing a future release of Aperture will make it more user-friendly thereby eliminating the need for iPhoto. Seems like that’s where they are probably headed with iMovie as well, and - who knows - maybe iTunes one day as well.

Yeah, having three photos apps does seem like overkill. I imagine the features that iPhoto offers will gradually be baked into the OS photos app, whether it's on Mac or iOS. I suspect they'll keep Aperture as their pro software like Final Cut.

And you could be right on iMovie but I think there's more involvement with projects with imovie that you don't get with iPhoto, so there's a good incentive to keep it there.

miralize

Next year will definitely be the year of iTunes & music in general for Apple. Beats will have been bedded in, Apple devs will have the time due to not redesigning entire UI kits & paradigms, new programming languages.

I think next year might be the year that they start to break apart iTunes into more siloed apps - Music/Movie stores, a device manager app (if that's even necessary anymore) & itunes to purely play music .

FourFourRED

Yeah they are going to need to rival Spotify and either turn iTunes into something similar or keep Beats music seperate and launch a desktop version of that (which is less likely). I don't even use iTunes for music anymore, just for syncing my devices.

MillField

Has anyone used Beats music much? Didn't it just launch this year?

FourFourRED

colmulhall wrote: »

Has anyone used Beats music much? Didn't it just launch this year?

Well technically it's restricted to the US but yeah I've seen one of the lads on here saying they've used it and like it. I'm on the Spotify as it comes with my Vodafone price plan.

MillField

Aodhagan wrote: »

Well technically it's restricted to the US but yeah I've seen one of the lads on here saying they've used it and like it. I'm on the Spotify as it comes with my Vodafone price plan.

I use Spotify as well. It's very good in my experience. I see why Apple need to branch into music streaming..downloads are dying slowly. It will be interesting to see how Apple develop this as well as how the whole headphone aspect comes into things.

metrosity

I'd like at least one new color for widgets buttons and windows etc.. Tired of my choices - blue and .. eh ..gray Stunning!

Zcott

Anyone that's been running the DP for a few days...how's it holding up?