Doesn't seem to be much of interest there if you're a Mac user without an interest in iOS devices. Of the WSJ's "Top 5" features [1]: - Universal Clipboard:

Doesn't seem to be much of interest there if you're a Mac user without an interest in iOS devices. Of the WSJ's "Top 5" features [1]: - Universal Clipboard: Neat, but iOS only. Doesn't appear there's an open API for it that would make it useful elsewhere, which is too bad, because it could be rather neat. - iCloud Drive: Cloud sync of your document folders. Free space (5GB) is surprisingly limited and the upgrade pricing isn't any better than Dropbox, so not a lot of motivation to switch from Dropbox/Onedrive/Google Drive -- except for the iOS integration. It'll be interesting to see if they end up making any of the filesystem or sync logic that they're using public, so that Dropbox et al could use them (instead of Dropbox's bolt-on hack), but I'm not holding my breath. - Optimized Storage: Basically a 'feature' that automatically deletes stuff off of local storage when your disk gets full, leaving it on iCloud Drive. This basically makes my skin crawl and I can't imagine ever using it; it seems like a conceptually bad idea. Anyone want to place a bet on how long before the first article in a major news outlet about some poor soul losing everything they've ever created since the age of 5 due to this thing uploading it to the cloud, and then deleting their iCloud Drive account? I'm giving it six months on the outside. - Apple Pay: Conceptually interesting, and I'm certainly interested in anything that shakes up electronic payments, but there's no way to use it from the desktop (AFAICT) without an iOS device, because that's how you authorize payments. Unfortunate. - Apple Watch Unlock: Obviously only of interest if you have an Apple Watch. Again, a quick search doesn't seem to reveal any sort of API for other hardware, so it's a dead end unless you're interested in the Apple Watch. Looking through more feature lists, the only thing I can come up with that seems remotely interesting is the picture-in-picture video, although I don't know why it's better than QuickTime Player's relatively-ancient "stay on top" mode (unless they removed that when I haven't been looking). But hey, I can at least see that getting some use on my workstation. All in all, it seems like a representative sampling of what Apple has become: a bunch of neat ideas (well, except for the 'Optimized Storage' thing), but they've basically crippled them for business reasons in order to prop up their walled garden hardware ecosystem. It's exactly the sort of behavior people used to lament Microsoft for: coming up with great ideas, but then kneecapping them on the way out the door to make sure nothing threatened the golden goose. [1]: http://www.wsj.com/articles/apples-macos-sierra-five-top-features-1474391116 http://www.wsj.com/articles/apples-macos-sierra-five-top-fea... or if that's paywalled, Google for "Apple’s MacOS Sierra: Five Top Features"