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What is the point of Sierra?

OP: I agree, given the preliminary feature list Sierra seems to contain very little beneficial improvements.

I don't use iOS devices nor iCloud so I have very little interest in Sierra.

APFS is only interesting news but since it is stated for release in 2017 I think its much more likely to be one of the features in Sierras successor rather than Sierra.
 
grahamperrin said:
It will be part of Sierra.
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You cannot say the beta code that will stay in Sierra after its released to the public makes Sierra a major update.

The features Apple is promising for the release version of Sierra, while nice and helpful do not constitute a major version imo. Having APF remain as a developer preview in the gold copy of Sierra does not alter that.
 
It's simple: The more frequent the OS X releases become, the shorter the new feature list is. Because of the yearly cycle the OS X team can only focus on a handful of major new features they know for sure will be done on time. Every major feature that won't make it is shifted to the next release.

It has to be hard to continuously come up with new features on a platform (the desktop) this mature.
 
n-evo said:
It's simple: The more frequent the OS X releases become, the shorter the new feature list is. Because of the yearly cycle the OS X team can only focus on a handful of major new features they know for sure will be done on time. Every major feature that won't make it is shifted to the next release.

It has to be hard to continuously come up with new features on a platform (the desktop) this mature.
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Sorry, but I have to disagree. What seems to be happening is that the more frequent the OS X releases become, the lower the quality they are. This makes perfect sense, as every company operates with three basic factors to project management which they have to prioritise: time, money, and scope. This is known as the project management triangle. When managing a project, one of these areas takes priority. In Apple's case, the scope used to take the highest priority, and they would bring out infrequent releases with significant advances in features and with great quality control. The time factor didn't used to be as important. Now is is all about producing upgrades on a yearly basis. They could do this, and still keep the quality high, but only by spending significant amounts on development. Given their recent actions it is clear that they are a greedy company, so I would imagine that they are simply too cheap to hire enough staff to keep the standards high. Money is almost definitely their second priority, with the scope coming in last.
They seem far more interested at this stage in paying billions of dollars for a totally impractical donut shaped headquarters made of glass in an earthquake zone (also the shape of a giant numeral zero, or a disused tire) than spending their money where it would REALLY count.

Maybe their new headquarters should be called "The Big Zero in Cupertino".
 
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Freida said:
Hello guys,

I think I'm missing something here because I don't see Sierra as a next version of OS. Can someone tell me what do we really get?
So far its

1. Siri
2. Cleaning disk tool
3. Opening the system with iWatch
4. Apple Pay in Safari

Am I missing something?...
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Yes! macOS 10.12 uses Metal not OpenGL for the GUI.
 
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