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>> The new "features" every cycle are more "lets put this phone feature on the desktop" What is it missing? It's been a while since I really wanted a feature i

>> The new "features" every cycle are more "lets put this phone feature on the desktop" What is it missing? It's been a while since I really wanted a feature in the desktop OS. All of the 'phone' features (besides launchpad) have made my life a lot easier (continuity, handoff, notification centre, even Siri from time to time).

ThomPete 10y ago
I don't miss features I just miss refinement. As a app developer who wanted to build an app which challenged what a mac can do with regards to productivity I had to basically leave the mac app store because they made it impossible for me to make it work in Sandbox mode.
Lio 10y ago
It's missing high performance graphics drivers in the form of either openGL or Metal. It's missing proper support for eGPU cards, which is currently the only way to add a high performance GPU to any currently produced Mac. Blender, for instance, can't even make use of th GPU in my MacBook Pro because the openCL support in macOS is not good enough.
- eanzenberg 10y ago
  Mac laptops never had that.
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lokedhs 10y ago
Shipping Unix tools (like Bash) from this decade would be a start. Trying to get modern Unix software to run on OSX is getting more and more painful. Since development is the main activity I do on a laptop, this is quite important.
- pjmlp 10y ago
  UNIX being part of OS X is a historical accident, Apple just wanted to save themselves from Copland's failure.
  - lokedhs 10y ago
    It was the main reason a lot of people (myself included) moved to OSX from Linux. I honestly believe that its Unix compatibility was one of the main reasons Macs got popular with developers in the first place.
    - pjmlp 10y ago
      Macs were already popular with developers. Apparently as someone that favors Xerox PARC way of thinking, I am not a developer, as I don't embrace the UNIX religion.
      - lokedhs 10y ago
        That's not what I said. I never meant to give the impression that “developers” necessarily means Unix users. A lot of them are though, definitely enough to be a noticeable fraction. The number of people in this very thread proclaiming the greatness of the Linux subsystem in Windows 10 should confirm this. You have to admit that around 2003 or so there was a huge influx of technical users to the Mac. My proposition is that a lot of those users were developers moving from Linux (or from an unhappy Windows life, wishing they were using a Unix-based operating system). I base this on the general sentiment at the time, and I was one of the people who made the switch. I'm sure you can find old posts from me on Slashdot talking about how great the switch was. Now I'm on Hacker News, talking about doing the exact opposite. I'm moving away from OSX because the Unix experience has become really bad.
        pjmlp 10y ago
        I agree, but on these discussions, that subset of developers just gets packaged into developers as whole, as if there wasn't anything else. Personally I know UNIX since Xenix days, do have a vast experience across UNIX variants, use it in some form in many projects, but rather use OS X and Windows environment. For strange as it may seem, some of us are actually happier with the GUI developer tooling culture of OS X, Windows, Android, iOS.

ThomPete 10y ago

I don't miss features I just miss refinement. As a app developer who wanted to build an app which challenged what a mac can do with regards to productivity I had to basically leave the mac app store because they made it impossible for me to make it work in Sandbox mode.

Lio 10y ago

It's missing high performance graphics drivers in the form of either openGL or Metal. It's missing proper support for eGPU cards, which is currently the only way to add a high performance GPU to any currently produced Mac. Blender, for instance, can't even make use of th GPU in my MacBook Pro because the openCL support in macOS is not good enough.

eanzenberg 10y ago
Mac laptops never had that.

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lokedhs 10y ago

Shipping Unix tools (like Bash) from this decade would be a start. Trying to get modern Unix software to run on OSX is getting more and more painful. Since development is the main activity I do on a laptop, this is quite important.

pjmlp 10y ago
UNIX being part of OS X is a historical accident, Apple just wanted to save themselves from Copland's failure.
- lokedhs 10y ago
  It was the main reason a lot of people (myself included) moved to OSX from Linux. I honestly believe that its Unix compatibility was one of the main reasons Macs got popular with developers in the first place.
  - pjmlp 10y ago
    Macs were already popular with developers. Apparently as someone that favors Xerox PARC way of thinking, I am not a developer, as I don't embrace the UNIX religion.
    - lokedhs 10y ago
      That's not what I said. I never meant to give the impression that “developers” necessarily means Unix users. A lot of them are though, definitely enough to be a noticeable fraction. The number of people in this very thread proclaiming the greatness of the Linux subsystem in Windows 10 should confirm this. You have to admit that around 2003 or so there was a huge influx of technical users to the Mac. My proposition is that a lot of those users were developers moving from Linux (or from an unhappy Windows life, wishing they were using a Unix-based operating system). I base this on the general sentiment at the time, and I was one of the people who made the switch. I'm sure you can find old posts from me on Slashdot talking about how great the switch was. Now I'm on Hacker News, talking about doing the exact opposite. I'm moving away from OSX because the Unix experience has become really bad.
      - pjmlp 10y ago
        I agree, but on these discussions, that subset of developers just gets packaged into developers as whole, as if there wasn't anything else. Personally I know UNIX since Xenix days, do have a vast experience across UNIX variants, use it in some form in many projects, but rather use OS X and Windows environment. For strange as it may seem, some of us are actually happier with the GUI developer tooling culture of OS X, Windows, Android, iOS.