Looking at how Apple priced the latest OS X updates and their general approach to pricing, I would say it's highly unlikely that the price will be anything but USD 29, and if it's not, it will more likely be lower than higher. Do you have another opinion, please do share.
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Looking at how Apple priced the latest OS X updates and their general approach to pricing, I would say it's highly unlikely that the price will be anything but USD 29, and if it's not, it will more likely be lower than higher. Do you have another opinion, please do share.
Apple is fairly spontaneous. I wouldn't want to get my hopes up for anything. With Apple, nothing is definite, until they get onstage. I do think we'll know sometime during WWDC though.
Do you have any examples of Apple raising the price of their products during a yearly update?
No, but Apple does strange things. I'm not saying your wrong, but we need to make sure we remember what we know, and what is speculation.
When closing an unsaved document, the "Don't Save" button has been renamed to "Delete." (Which I think makes more sense.)
http://cl.ly/3T2t0m2E0S1S3Q2k271R
Automator has a tweaked icon.
http://cl.ly/3G0h3y2R321Y0w3I0S2q
New build of Safari 5.2. Has some minor UI/icon tweaks. Example:
http://cl.ly/1j0f371t1K0I023F1Q0i
Doesn't look like you can change the Launchpad spacing anymore, at least with pinching on a trackpad.
Nice new Alerts panel in Calendar preferences. You can set default alerts for each calendar account, each event type (all day vs. timed events vs. birthdays), and set whether you want those alert settings only for the Mac you're on or all your devices.
http://cl.ly/2w18110o0B1A1i0F0J1u
Here's one a lot of people will probably enjoy. You can do folders inside folders in iCloud. But subfolders only show in the new list view. Icon view only shows the top level.
http://cl.ly/102w1u2A0G1o1e2Q0U1y
http://cl.ly/381b3J0e2R1T1M2r1S0O
K, I'm not sure if this is new or not, but it being checked by default is definitely new and annoys me quite a bit. Option in General pane of System Preferences to close all windows when apps are quit. Reverses Option-Quit to be "Quit and Keep Windows" instead of "Quit and Close All Windows" like I've been used to now.
http://cl.ly/0r2H271I343I1p260112
Security pane in System Preferences now has an Advanced button under the General tab where a bunch of stuff has been moved to (nothing new, just moved).
http://cl.ly/2O2l3u0L2W3X2K1d3441
Also, Gatekeeper seems to be working now (I think apps just crashed before). Right-clicking and choosing Open gives a different pop up that allows you to make an exception.
Might be kind of hard to see in this image, but the Notification Center banners have been tweaked a bit. Fonts have slightly different color, size, and shading.
http://cl.ly/352C182W3B0p1Z0r1R1x
New Screen Sharing menu icon, i.e. this is what shows when you're controlling another Mac remotely with normal Screen Sharing not ARD (which has the same icons).
http://cl.ly/0i3o0G2J2c0r0r152W2t
New Contacts access security dialog. No more ugly and uninformative stop sign with a bang. I feel like people will have a greater chance of understanding what's going on with this new icon.
http://cl.ly/2w2S371T3L3f1o2c0f1t
http://cl.ly/3T2t0m2E0S1S3Q2k271R
Automator has a tweaked icon.
http://cl.ly/3G0h3y2R321Y0w3I0S2q
New build of Safari 5.2. Has some minor UI/icon tweaks. Example:
http://cl.ly/1j0f371t1K0I023F1Q0i
Doesn't look like you can change the Launchpad spacing anymore, at least with pinching on a trackpad.
Nice new Alerts panel in Calendar preferences. You can set default alerts for each calendar account, each event type (all day vs. timed events vs. birthdays), and set whether you want those alert settings only for the Mac you're on or all your devices.
http://cl.ly/2w18110o0B1A1i0F0J1u
Here's one a lot of people will probably enjoy. You can do folders inside folders in iCloud. But subfolders only show in the new list view. Icon view only shows the top level.
http://cl.ly/102w1u2A0G1o1e2Q0U1y
http://cl.ly/381b3J0e2R1T1M2r1S0O
K, I'm not sure if this is new or not, but it being checked by default is definitely new and annoys me quite a bit. Option in General pane of System Preferences to close all windows when apps are quit. Reverses Option-Quit to be "Quit and Keep Windows" instead of "Quit and Close All Windows" like I've been used to now.
http://cl.ly/0r2H271I343I1p260112
Security pane in System Preferences now has an Advanced button under the General tab where a bunch of stuff has been moved to (nothing new, just moved).
http://cl.ly/2O2l3u0L2W3X2K1d3441
Also, Gatekeeper seems to be working now (I think apps just crashed before). Right-clicking and choosing Open gives a different pop up that allows you to make an exception.
Might be kind of hard to see in this image, but the Notification Center banners have been tweaked a bit. Fonts have slightly different color, size, and shading.
http://cl.ly/352C182W3B0p1Z0r1R1x
New Screen Sharing menu icon, i.e. this is what shows when you're controlling another Mac remotely with normal Screen Sharing not ARD (which has the same icons).
http://cl.ly/0i3o0G2J2c0r0r152W2t
New Contacts access security dialog. No more ugly and uninformative stop sign with a bang. I feel like people will have a greater chance of understanding what's going on with this new icon.
http://cl.ly/2w2S371T3L3f1o2c0f1t
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If anyone cares, iStat Pro widget works (mostly) again in DP3. Wouldn't even load before, but now it'll load but with a few things are broken (like the Processes section).
For those of you running Mountain Lion, a quick question about saving documents to iCloud. It sounds like a great feature, but are those same documents also stored locally? And just as important, will they be backed up by Time Capsule in case your iCloud storage somehow gets corrupted/goes down/Apple goes out of business? 
For those of you running Mountain Lion, a quick question about saving documents to iCloud. It sounds like a great feature, but are those same documents also stored locally? And just as important, will they be backed up by Time Capsule in case your iCloud storage somehow gets corrupted/goes down/Apple goes out of business?
Yes to all the above. They are stored locally in ~/Library/Mobile Documents/ and are organized by app with your folder organization inside.
http://cl.ly/3N0L16252R1q3C1c123s
Consequently, I notice a nice little thing that's new. Finder displays the Mobile Documents folder as iCloud now, complete with the iCloud icon.
This ask to keep changes when closing documents option seems to be also new, doesnt it?
This ask to keep changes when closing documents option seems to be also new, doesnt it?
I wasn't sure on that one. It could be. Looks like without that option checked, changes are automatically saved when a document is closed (if the document exists).
Yeah I don't have that option on Lion. It seems like a pretty useful option actually. I don't always want to save the document if I did some small changes and accidentally close the app. Yes, I could go to versions and revert, but the versions/time machine UI is pretty slow on my old mbp and to me, this would be a nice time saver.
I'm sure this has been answered and I apologize, but the general impression I'm getting from DP users is that this is the equivalent of Snow Leopard's under the hood changes for Lion. Is that correct? Honestly I would find that fantastic, as I loved what Snow Leopard did.
Yeah it feels like that. Overall it feels much smoother. The only 'problem' for me is Mission control. I never really liked that and want an option to change that back to the old Expose.
Don't know if this is new, but in earlier DP's I had to quit Safari with ⌥+⌘+Q to close all opened tabs permanently (without opening them when I launch the app again). In DP3 that action is the opposite: when I close Safari normally (⌘+Q) I close my tabs permanently, and when I do it with ⌥+⌘+Q the opened tabs will open again.
I think this is nice.
I think this is nice.
