What happened to regular updates?

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Re: What happened to regular updates?

Post by monkeyfoahead » Fri Jun 07, 2013 3:48 pm

Apple has ceased giving a sh*t about their power-user base (us). Every update is just little UI tweaks and frivolous garbage I don't care about. Depending on the direction they go with OS 11, I may just fall back to linux.
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Re: What happened to regular updates?

Post by ilovezfs » Fri Jun 07, 2013 4:41 pm

monkeyfoahead wrote:Apple has ceased giving a sh*t about their power-user base (us). Every update is just little UI tweaks and frivolous garbage I don't care about. Depending on the direction they go with OS 11, I may just fall back to linux.

This. For me it's become more about the hardware's quality and features, such as the backlit keyboard, the huge multitouch trackpad with proper browser integration, the dual Thunderbolt ports, and the MageSafe adapter. Linux actually runs well on the MacBook Pro 15" with Retina display, but the lack of some apps I like still makes Linux less useful. For example, I love 1Password and I find Microsoft Excel to be significantly less obtuse than any of the alternatives. Running Excel in a virtual machine on Linux wastes battery life like crazy compared to running it natively on OS X. Also, Thunderbolt hot-plugging still doesn't work on Linux. That said I may still switch to Linux if I can find a way to not care about these issues.

The fact that Apple has completely given up on the enterprise server market, the office productivity market, and the hardcore gaming market nearly guarantees that for the foreseeable future OS X will fail to have feature parity with Windows and Linux with respect to current technologies. For instance, when will Apple offer native support for iSCSI? Never? This is the sort of omission that is completely unacceptable for people who actually care about computing.
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Re: What happened to regular updates?

Post by monkeyfoahead » Fri Jun 07, 2013 10:37 pm

ilovezfs wrote: For This is the sort of omission that is completely unacceptable for people who actually care about computing.

It warms my heart to have found a kindred spirit. Very rarely am I able to find people that empathize with me, in this regard.
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Re: What happened to regular updates?

Post by ilovezfs » Fri Jun 07, 2013 11:51 pm

monkeyfoahead wrote:
ilovezfs wrote: This is the sort of omission that is completely unacceptable for people who actually care about computing.

It warms my heart to have found a kindred spirit. Very rarely am I able to find people that empathize with me, in this regard.

Yes, I understand. It would be so much easier if you could choose to care about Dancing with the Stars instead.
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Re: What happened to regular updates?

Post by NakkiNyan » Tue Jun 11, 2013 7:16 am

Well, Zevo is broken in Mavericks so plan for the worst or stick with 10.8. Green bytes does not care and from their tweet saying they would give Apple the source code, they gave up on it. Don must have left GB considering he does not respond to anything ever, he didn't even seem to test zero against the 10.8.4 beta and give us a green light, we had to. If he did I missed it somewhere (not on this site).
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Re: What happened to regular updates?

Post by ilovezfs » Tue Jun 11, 2013 7:28 am

NakkiNyan wrote:Well, Zevo is broken in Mavericks so plan for the worst or stick with 10.8. Green bytes does not care and from their tweet saying they would give Apple the source code, they gave up on it. Don must have left GB considering he does not respond to anything ever, he didn't even seem to test zero against the 10.8.4 beta and give us a green light, we had to. If he did I missed it somewhere (not on this site).

What tweet?
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Re: What happened to regular updates?

Post by shuman » Tue Jun 11, 2013 7:29 am

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Re: What happened to regular updates?

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Re: What happened to regular updates?

Post by monkeyfoahead » Tue Jun 11, 2013 9:57 am

NakkiNyan wrote:Well, Zevo is broken in Mavericks so plan for the worst or stick with 10.8. Green bytes does not care and from their tweet saying they would give Apple the source code, they gave up on it. Don must have left GB considering he does not respond to anything ever, he didn't even seem to test zero against the 10.8.4 beta and give us a green light, we had to. If he did I missed it somewhere (not on this site).

RIP Zevo, FreeBSD here I come!
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Re: What happened to regular updates?

Post by NakkiNyan » Tue Jun 11, 2013 5:49 pm

monkeyfoahead wrote:
NakkiNyan wrote:Well, Zevo is broken in Mavericks so plan for the worst or stick with 10.8. Green bytes does not care and from their tweet saying they would give Apple the source code, they gave up on it. Don must have left GB considering he does not respond to anything ever, he didn't even seem to test zero against the 10.8.4 beta and give us a green light, we had to. If he did I missed it somewhere (not on this site).

RIP Zevo, FreeBSD here I come!

Pretty much what I am thinking except I will just live with HFS+.

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This is very bad.

And that would be the tweet, disappointing. If they are giving it away free then Don must be AWOL/fired/quit.
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