I've been thinking about the OS X rebranding, and imho it fairly stinks. I know it's only a few letters, but it's just disrepectful to the operating system, and indicative of the financial decisions driving Apple now.
Everyone knows that Apple makes so much more money from it's phone business, so naturally the technological focus is on iOS. But such a silly rebrand, along with a pile of nasty bugs/regressions solely associated with backend rewrites, you'd think they couldn't afford an extra engineer or two for the world's best home computer operating system. It's hard not to see it as a real freudian slap-in-the-face, cart-before-the-horse sort of thing.
And the company's legal battle with Android is ugly too. OS X has benefited so much from the "free" technologies of the Unix era. Not just the FreeBSD core, but the hardware and mach-derived kernel too. Suing Andoid for billions of dollars because they reproduce slide-to-unlock ? Please. Have some shame; or at least knowledge about your origins.
While they focus on suing Google, and cutting corners in maintaining their dual operating systems, Google are the only ones making useful new technologies. Perhaps it's just because i am a Unix CS graduate that it annoys me so much... but i can't bring myself to upgrade from El Capitan.
Everyone knows that Apple makes so much more money from it's phone business, so naturally the technological focus is on iOS. But such a silly rebrand, along with a pile of nasty bugs/regressions solely associated with backend rewrites, you'd think they couldn't afford an extra engineer or two for the world's best home computer operating system. It's hard not to see it as a real freudian slap-in-the-face, cart-before-the-horse sort of thing.
And the company's legal battle with Android is ugly too. OS X has benefited so much from the "free" technologies of the Unix era. Not just the FreeBSD core, but the hardware and mach-derived kernel too. Suing Andoid for billions of dollars because they reproduce slide-to-unlock ? Please. Have some shame; or at least knowledge about your origins.
While they focus on suing Google, and cutting corners in maintaining their dual operating systems, Google are the only ones making useful new technologies. Perhaps it's just because i am a Unix CS graduate that it annoys me so much... but i can't bring myself to upgrade from El Capitan.
