TECH: Still Playing Catch-Up

[dewline]

And now Tim Cook's saying that Apple's moving on from OSX.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/live/2020/jun/22/apple-expected-to-reveal-new-macs-iphone-updates-and-more-live

I'm not done with that OS yet, Mr. Cook!

Comments

[autopope]

Big Sur is still macOS: it's just a branding change.

(Catalina was macOS 10.15; the minor version numbering was getting beyond silly, because OS X -- X as a Latin numeral, not a letter -- was originally MacOS 10, so Catalina should be MacOS 25 or something. Dropping the X just means they can start changing major numbers again. Kinda like the Perl 6 to Rakudo renaming which unblocked the path forward for Perl 5.20 or so -- Perl 5 being a different language from Perl 6, and still under active development.)

[dewline]

Noted, Charlie. Psychology matters, of course, in matters of marketing and branding.

[elainegrey]

Hmm. Looks like more iOS-ificstion. I couldn’t get emacs running on Catalina ... this looks like trends continuing....

[thewayne]

Yep. He's been trying to herd people into a hybrid iOS/MacOS environment for years, wanting to get more revenue from their App Store.

Me, I've got apps that are not 64-bit that I'm not willing to give up, so I will not be going to MacOS 11 for some time yet. I'm still running Sierra.

[dewline]

And trying to bind developers to that App Store. Which can be useful, but I resist being compelled to depend upon it for all things of importance to me.