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The iOS-ification of Mac OS continues apace. A good thing, in my opinion.

by dfine 12y ago

oneeyedpigeon 12y ago
Can you elaborate? What about this new app is more 'iOS'y than 'OSX'y, and why is it a good thing?
- dfine 12y ago
  The reason why I think it's iOS-ification rather than an OSX-ification is because "Photos" seems less like a standalone app and more like a necessary utility to manage content created by the Apple ecosystem. iPhoto never really felt like that. iPhoto was part of the iLife suite that were standalone apps to manage the different multimedia demands of your life, mostly from non-Apple digital cameras. It was optimized around editing and organizing your photos. "Photos" on iOS was a barebones app required by a device where camera functionality is built in, intended primarily to manage photos created by the iOS device. Over time both of the apps have borrowed features from each other and grown together until it made sense to converge into one app.
fit2rule 12y ago
I disagree with you, I think its a terrible path to be going down. I do not agree with anyone who thinks that Cloud'ifying everything serves the needs of the end user better. But I guess I'm alone in this - it sure seems Apple is hell bent on removing the filesystem and other traditional paradigms upon which computers have been built for decades, and replacing them with .. other things .. that only they control.
- CraigRood 12y ago
  >I do not agree with anyone who thinks that Cloud'ifying everything serves the needs of the end user better. It's easy for use to forget what actually happens in the 'real world' when we spend so much time in the 'tech world'. The cloud is extremely powerful in that it bridges the gap between devices, and users. if I have a photo on my phone then why cant I view it on my computer without hooking up and importing. Or if I have photos taken on my DSLR, why then cant I share them remotely from my phone to others whilst I'm out and about.
  - fit2rule 12y ago
    Thats fine - but build the sharing features into the operating systems of the computer, not into some remote uncontrollable (by the user) data center, which is being used to process the data for purposes other than those the user specify .. any modern desktop computer is capable of representing itself in a fashion that the sharing occurs, sans cloud.
- 72deluxe 12y ago
  I hope they introduce these cloud systems in parallel and do not force it for those who don't want/need/use it. I certainly don't. I can see it being useful for my mum, but not for me.

The iOS-ification of Mac OS continues apace. A good thing, in my opinion.

by dfine 12y ago

The iOS-ification of Mac OS continues apace. A good thing, in my opinion.

oneeyedpigeon 12y ago

Can you elaborate? What about this new app is more 'iOS'y than 'OSX'y, and why is it a good thing?

dfine 12y ago
The reason why I think it's iOS-ification rather than an OSX-ification is because "Photos" seems less like a standalone app and more like a necessary utility to manage content created by the Apple ecosystem. iPhoto never really felt like that. iPhoto was part of the iLife suite that were standalone apps to manage the different multimedia demands of your life, mostly from non-Apple digital cameras. It was optimized around editing and organizing your photos. "Photos" on iOS was a barebones app required by a device where camera functionality is built in, intended primarily to manage photos created by the iOS device. Over time both of the apps have borrowed features from each other and grown together until it made sense to converge into one app.

fit2rule 12y ago

I disagree with you, I think its a terrible path to be going down. I do not agree with anyone who thinks that Cloud'ifying everything serves the needs of the end user better. But I guess I'm alone in this - it sure seems Apple is hell bent on removing the filesystem and other traditional paradigms upon which computers have been built for decades, and replacing them with .. other things .. that only they control.

CraigRood 12y ago
>I do not agree with anyone who thinks that Cloud'ifying everything serves the needs of the end user better. It's easy for use to forget what actually happens in the 'real world' when we spend so much time in the 'tech world'. The cloud is extremely powerful in that it bridges the gap between devices, and users. if I have a photo on my phone then why cant I view it on my computer without hooking up and importing. Or if I have photos taken on my DSLR, why then cant I share them remotely from my phone to others whilst I'm out and about.
- fit2rule 12y ago
  Thats fine - but build the sharing features into the operating systems of the computer, not into some remote uncontrollable (by the user) data center, which is being used to process the data for purposes other than those the user specify .. any modern desktop computer is capable of representing itself in a fashion that the sharing occurs, sans cloud.
72deluxe 12y ago
I hope they introduce these cloud systems in parallel and do not force it for those who don't want/need/use it. I certainly don't. I can see it being useful for my mum, but not for me.