#Macos 10.9 pdf#
#Macos 10.9 mac#

Nevertheless, Apple does try to give each new OS some sort of theme. There are exceptions, like Fusion Drive, which didn’t quite make it into Mountain Lion but also couldn’t wait for the next major OS release because it was a prerequisite for some new hardware products. To some degree, the content of any OS release is determined by what did and didn’t make the deadline for the previous release. Mavericks is also not an internals-only release like Snow Leopard, which famously promised “ no new features.” There are new features in Mavericks, even new bundled applications. An interface overhaul in Mavericks was clearly out of the question. After all, Apple didn’t even have the iPad version of iOS 7 ready in time for WWDC this year. Time and resource constraints alone could explain this choice. I’ll spoil it for you: Apple hasn’t chosen this path-not yet, anyway.

One option would be to continue to follow iOS’s lead, switching gears from rich textures and simulations of analogous physical products and setting off in pursuit of the new, spare iOS 7 aesthetic. To what end? Aside from undoing the most egregious peer-pressure-motivated interface changes, what should this first non-cat release of OS X do differently from its predecessors? Advertisement Let’s say we accept that this is not the end of history and that OS X will continue to evolve. Jony Ive's iOS 7 strikes off in a bold new direction based on a philosophy that Apple is eager to generalize to the company as a whole-leaving OS X holding the stitched-leather bag. By all accounts, Forstall was one of the driving forces behind the iOS aesthetic that Lion and Mountain Lion so enthusiastically embraced. Accordingly, OS X’s last two releases included several naked attempts to ape the look and feel of its more successful sibling, iOS.īut that was all before last year’s ouster of Scott Forstall, senior vice president of iOS Software.

#Macos 10.9 mac#

With Lion, the Mac entered an awkward adolescence, acquiring a newfound concern about what the other kids were doing. Perhaps the first seven big-cat releases were OS X’s early childhood: birth, potty training, learning to walk and talk, and so on, culminating in some form of self-actualization. When it comes to OS X, many people are suffering from the end-of-history illusion: the belief that while the Mac platform has consistently experienced significant enhancements in the past, it will somehow not continue to grow and mature in the future. Non-subscribers can buy the e-book from the iBookstore or the Amazon Kindle store.

#Macos 10.9 pdf#

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