Probably apple's next move is not to add touch to os x but to release an iOS laptop to replace the MacBook air, they could call it an iBook. It's pretty clear OS X is legacy tech and on the roadmap for being phased out.
Re:New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft
by sz4kerto on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @12:38PM
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The big step for that would be XCode for iOS. Currently, iOS is one of the few platforms where the platform does not let you develop for itself.
Re:New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft
by mikestew on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @02:18PM
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I'd buy an iPad Pro tomorrow...if only it ran Xcode. But I can't justify $1200 or more if I doesn't help me to get my work done. At that price, and admittedly for my purposes, the iPad Pro is just a very large and very expensive gadget.
The really annoying thing is that these days a late-model iPad probably has most of the horsepower needed to pull it off.
For me it's "I'd buy an iPad Pro tomorrow...if only it ran Xcode [and had a terminal]." It can be heavily sandboxed as far as I care, I just need a proper Unix terminal. The trouble with Xcode is that it just needs so much screen real estate, I just can't see it working very well on iOS.
Re:New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft
by mikestew on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @02:54PM
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I assume you mean a terminal for the local machine, not an SSH session to another machine, in which case Panic's Prompt is what you want for SSH.
I'm with you in that I'd like a local terminal, but I could live without if I had Xcode on the box and some sort of full-screen editing mode. Working with storyboards would indeed suck, though.
Re:New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft
by masklinn on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @02:54PM
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There are terminal emulators on iOS already, that's not the issue, but not having a local filesystem means it's only useful for remoting, there's nothing a terminal will let you do on the device (unless it's jailbroken)
Re:New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft
by masklinn on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @02:52PM
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The MBA is already replaced, that's what the "new Macbook" is, an MBA replacement. The iBook brand was replaced by the Macbook brand and isn't going to come back (the name would collide with ibooks anyway).
Re:New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft
by engi_nerd on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @12:21PM
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The whole discoveryd fiasco was the final straw for me with regards to having a Mac. Having such serious networking issues in your primary OS and not fixing them for almost a year after release tells me something is rotten in the Kingdom of Apple.
Yes, the issue was eventually fixed, but I'm done with Apple. They have lost my trust.
My girlfriend is still having networking issues on her MBP. I asked about the problems on IRC and was told that it was a regression that should be fixed in El Capitan, after updating to El Capitan the issue still persists.
I was considering buying an MBP myself but after seeing the issues she is having I am changing my mind, especially after this reveal from Microsoft.
I'm amused to see the 'OS/X' typo still lives on, more than a decade since OS/2's been relevant :)
On topic, I've just upgraded to the latest version of OS X and it really seems rock solid. Fastest, most stable, and most secure version yet. Still a bit of an evolutionary dead end though, in that there have been no moves to add touch support beyond multitouch trackpads. I admire their vision with keeping iOS and OS X separate, but given touch is so ubiquitous elsewhere, I can't imagine it'll be long before Windows users are genuinely surprised and baffled by the lack of touch screens in Apple laptops...