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"The engineers on the Mac OS and iOS teams move back and forth between the two projects based on release cycles and what's needs to ship next." As somebody who
by commandar 16y ago
"The engineers on the Mac OS and iOS teams move back and forth between the two projects based on release cycles and what's needs to ship next."
As somebody who has been rather dismayed with the way the Macintosh platform has started to stagnate in the past couple of years, I don't really view this as a good thing.
- wriq 16y agoStagnate? Snow Leopard is just under a year old. I wouldn't expect a desktop OS to have a same release frequency as a mobile os.
- klauer 16y agoI would agree with the general point, but if we're talking about end-user features, even Apple admits 10.6 was under-the-hood, so we haven't seen any UI enhancements since 2007 (10.5's release).
- protomyth 16y ago10.6 was the setup that is needed for the future. All the under-the-hood stuff is going to make a huge difference once developers focus on it and start ignoring <= 10.5.
- _delirium 16y agoOddly, Debian has about the same release cycle (once per 12-18 months), and ends up being the butt of lots of jokes about how they rarely ever release anything.
- cmelbye 16y agoFrom looking at this, it looks like it's something more like 2 years (24 months), and as long as 3 years: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian
- commandar 16y agoDebian has only recently settled on a 2 year feature freeze cycle. In the past, Debian has suffered from releases being pushed back due to constant feature creep in the name of stability -- that's much of the reason why Ubuntu was forked from Debian in 2004. So the jokes may be dated in 2010, but there's a reason they came about in the first place.
- commandar 16y agoJust over a year old, and just past two years since Apple first showed it at WWDC 2008. Snow Leopard was a relatively minor upgrade even by Apple's admission (hence the price tag $100 lower than for previous iterations), yet it still suffered delays because of work on iOS. Meanwhile, there was zero mention of anything Macintosh at WWDC this year, meaning we're probably at least a year off from any real news at 10.7, which would put us at 4 years since OS X has had any significant user facing updates.
- megablast 16y agoTo be honest, what more do you want to see in it? Perhaps Apple should go down Microsoft's route, and add more and more stuff until it looks and acts ridiculously. I hope it does not.
- cemregr 16y agoResolution-independent UI. They've postponed it for years.
- torpor 16y ago>To be honest, what more do you want to see in it? An App Store for OSX would be nice. Or even just a repository mechanism - I am so sick of updating the apps on my Mac systems when my multiple Linux boxes are always up-to-date with the latest stable releases. Its 2010, can we please have an OSX repo mechanism, Apple?
- bruceboughton 16y agoMost OS X apps seem to have this built in. The donkey is somewhat out of the stable with auto-update on OS X, no?
- commandar 16y agoSome apps use third-party libraries like Sparkle to provide this. But it's inconsistent between applications with no guarantee that any given app is updated without user intervention.
- cookiecaper 16y agoStagnation doesn't necessarily refer to the frequency of release.