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OS X is a solved problem. I think all of Apple's R&D efforts are now focused squarely on iOS and mobile. So when Apple reached into their bag of tricks for th
by thought_alarm 16y ago
OS X is a solved problem.
I think all of Apple's R&D efforts are now focused squarely on iOS and mobile. So when Apple reached into their bag of tricks for the next version of OS X and the next Mac hardware, all they had was iOS stuff. That's the new MacBook Air, that's OS X Lion.
It's convergence, but only on a purely superficial level. A Mac is still Mac, OS X is still OS X. I don't see Apple wasting engineering resources on changing the Mac into something it's not.
Real convergence will come from iOS working its way up, not OS X slimming its way down.
- wvenable 16y agoActually, the Mac app store is demonstrating Apple slimming OS X down. The OS X had had a ton of compromises in it's design including the Mac-like UI (rather than a NeXT-like UI), the Carbon API, and a Java API. These are being stripped away.
- thought_alarm 16y agoI don't understand how the deprecation of some old, unpopular, unused APIs has anything to do with the Mac App Store.
- wvenable 16y agoDeprecation of old APIs doesn't have anything to do with the app store -- but you can't get your app in the store if you use a deprecated API. There are plenty of apps that exist and run right now (Minecraft, for example) that can't go into the app store. So you can think of the app store as sort of a platform "ideal" for Apple even while they leave the old APIs around.