Tomas Chlebek The name of the new version of Apple's desktop operating system follows the trend of naming after important places in the United States established in 2013 with OS X Mavericks. However, for the first time since 2001, the name of the entire system is changing – OS X becomes macOS. Welcome to macOS Sierra. The new name is a convergence with other Apple operating systems, which is confirmed by the news itself.
For quite some time now was speculated, that this change could come, and it was also associated with estimates of what it could bring in terms of system functionality. In the end, it turns out that the current system is either already too advanced for a really fundamental change, or, on the contrary, there are no technologies yet that would significantly advance it. However, this does not mean that macOS Sierra is just a new name.
Probably the most significant innovation actually refers to the first presentation of the Macintosh in 1984. At that time, the small computer introduced itself to the audience by voice. This is what macOS Sierra did too, through the voice of Siri, which thus appears for the first time on the desktop.
Its place is mainly in the upper system bar next to the Spotlight icon, but it can also be launched from the dock or Launcher (of course, it can also be activated by voice or keyboard shortcut). As for the functionality itself, Siri is very close to Spotlight, actually it differs only in that the user interacts with it by voice instead of the keyboard. In practice, however, this means that you don't have to take your eyes off what you're doing when, for example, you need to quickly find a file, send a message, book a place at a restaurant, call someone, or want to play an album or playlist. It's just as easy to find out how much space is left on your computer's disk or what time it is on the other side of the globe from Siri.
As soon as Siri displays the results of his work in the clear bar on the right side of the display, the user can quickly pull out what he needs again (for example, drag and drop an image from the Internet, a location into a calendar, a document into an e-mail, etc.) and concentrate on the original activity it is therefore only minimally disturbed. In addition, the results of the most frequent Siri searches can be quickly accessed in the macOS Notification Center. Unfortunately, even in the case of macOS, Siri does not understand Czech.
The second major new feature in macOS Sierra concerns a set of features called Continuity that improve collaboration between devices running different Apple operating systems. Apple Watch owners can get rid of the need to type a password every time they leave their computer or wake it up without sacrificing security. If they have an Apple Watch on their wrist, macOS Sierra will unlock itself. For iOS and Mac users, the universal mailbox is a significant novelty. If you copy something on a Mac, you can paste it in iOS and vice versa, and the same is true between Macs and iOS devices.
Furthermore, the panels known from web browsers, outside of Safari on the Mac, first appeared in the Finder in OS X Mavericks, and with macOS Sierra they are also coming to other system applications. These include Maps, Mail, Pages, Numbers, Keynote, TextEdit, and will also appear in third-party applications. The arrival of the "Picture in Picture" feature from iOS 9 on Mac also includes better organization of screen space. Some video playback applications have been able to run minimized in the foreground on Mac for a long time, but "Picture in Picture" will also allow videos from the Internet or iTunes to do the same.
Better organization of disk space will be helped by expanding the capabilities of iCloud Drive. The latter not only copies the "Documents" folder and desktop contents to the cloud for easy access from all devices, but also frees up disk space when it runs low. This means that infrequently used files can be automatically saved to iCloud Drive, or macOS Sierra will find files on the drive that have not been used for a long time and offer to delete them permanently.
Rather than user-created files, the permanent deletion offer will cover unnecessary app installers, temporary files, logs, duplicate files, etc. Sierra will also offer to automatically delete files from the recycle bin if they have been there for more than 30 days.
Straight from the new iOS 10 macOS Sierra will also feature a new way of automatically grouping photos and videos in the Photos app into so-called "Memories" and many new iMessage effects. The revamped user experience of the Apple Music streaming service was also introduced as part of iOS 10, but it also applies to Mac.
Finally, the arrival of Apple Pay on Mac is not very interesting news for the Czech Republic and Slovakia. When choosing to pay via Apple Pay on a computer, it will be enough to place your finger on the iPhone's Touch ID or press the side button of the Apple Watch on your hand for confirmation.
macOS Sierra is quite a long way from being a big event, and the transition from OS X El Capitan probably won't be accompanied by a major change in the way you use your computer for most users. However, it brings a non-negligible number of less prominent, but potentially very useful functions that contribute to the continued development of the operating system, which is probably not the main one for Apple at the moment, but still important.
A developer trial of macOS Sierra is available today, a public trial will be for program participants available from July and the public version will be released in the fall.
And the new iTunes and AppStore nowhere :/
In the case of the Macapp store, it's really on the edge...
Was it really necessary to pass off these cosmetic changes as a new axis? The most boring WWDC keynote for me in recent years, boring, features for who? They should focus on last year's and the year before last's promise when osx was supposed to be faster, more nimble... unfortunately, I can practically "always" see the rainbow wheel on Capitan, the applications start up very long, even the Apple ones... well, useless complaining...
And isn't it because you have little memory and an old slow HDD? Because I have no problem on my MacMini Mid 2010 with 12 GB RAM, SSD disk.
yes, I also have a macbook pro with ssd and 4GB of ram, unfortunately the ram is not expandable, so I have to take another 40 thousand and buy another laptop to have more ram and less rainbow wheels .. that really sucks...
I have 16GB of ram, but my iMac won't take it, and the disk has 7200 revolutions, isn't SSD perhaps a condition for the bezel system to be at least as fast as the previous one, as they promised? I can understand modern data-demanding games, but I play the same thing on a low-level system that was beating itself up about how to run applications faster, etc... the opposite is true
It is always enough for them to rename the system to macOS so that the whole hall applauds and cheers, why they should try harder.
I agree, I didn't understand the thunderous applause and standing ovations of the whole hall and the epic introduction of features that are nothing new in the world.
I have to agree, I also couldn't understand why there was such hysteria about the name, I'm still in cats after mine, even that they left the natural monuments of California.
Yes, I have, and it pisses me off... or i had ... i did a clean install and it didn't help ... the problem was that i just had too many e-mails ... over 4k e-mails that apple automatically downloaded and indexed ... i deleted all the e-mails (despite everything i believed) and suddenly everything runs without a problem. I can't function without e-mail and I don't need the old one. It is not very possible to back it up and other than the default mail application on osx are not worth much (or they do not suit me). After I learned not to archive the crap, but to delete it, everything is faster. :)
So was mail to blame? Do you have any specific information please? I also had problems with email before. I didn't think of this.
I don't know the specifics, after deleting all the emails everything started working quickly. I was looking for it for a really long time and I was already so pissed off that I had money aside for a new macbook... luckily, it was enough to delete the emails...
And I assume that the problem will mainly be in the NON-EXTENDABLE 4GB ram.
macOS…. Ha, ha, ha, ... Apple sheep will get used to this name as well. - just as the developers got used to the unflattering golden thing called Swift... But Cook is looking forward to it - it has garish colors, thin unreadable writing, a flood of white color, indistinguishable form from content, terrible surface design and mainly rainbow marches... I wonder how long it will last for him will the shareholders tolerate…
And hey?
Another funny fishtron :p
So if I summarize it somehow with the meaning for an ordinary Czech.
1. Changing the name - fine, but I don't know how I could live without it. But I understand from a marketing point of view that a Big Show has to be made around it.
2. Siri – well, given that she doesn't speak Czech, I think that 90% of users won't use it, so it's as if they didn't make the functionality. But even if it could, I still don't know how much I will use it on the desktop. "Hey Siri, find me a picture with a goat, not the white one, the spotted one...not with the beard, but with the horns...but not the picture with Rose, but with the goat". … so I really don't know. But maybe I'm a canner. And the fact that I can reserve a table in a cafe at work... well, if someone does it 5 times a day, then probably yes, but given that they generally do it 2 times a week (when they are very busy), I can really do it with my mobile phone.
3. Cloud Drive - the Apple Cloud is such a strange thing that I really have no idea why I should use it. And therefore, that I would need the amazing system to organize my data on top of everything else, that's really not the case.
4. Automatic grouping of photos into so-called "Memories" - so he really had to work on this for a long time, you can see that people really need very little to be happy.
5. iMessage - these days I have almost all apps around me. And strangely enough, most of them use another messaging app - I don't even prefer to text on Facetime anymore. Unless the boys in Redmont made a mistake somewhere.
6. 3D Touch Locking - ok, I'm not saying it's not nice to simplify this thing, but I guess I'm a dinosaur by now, because in the 20+ years I've been around computers, I've never been extremely bothered by having to type in a password. And I'm still among those who use passwords and computer locks.
7. And I can't rate the other "improvements" because they weren't talked about much.
So the sum total is practically nothing. It's probably very difficult to come up with new things, but as already said here, if they did just one thing and that was to dig up the App Store to make it worthwhile, they'd get a standing ovation. This is the kind of news for Novinky that they have been paying off for less than a year, now they will tune it for a while (1/2 year) and then they will make a new bucket of Classic sx crap again. And so I really don't understand why this "new version" shouldn't work on all computers on which ElCapitan worked, it really doesn't bother me anymore.
E2E encryption and a new modern file system, replacing the 30-year-old HFS+, seem to me to be quite significant improvements. Unfortunately, at the keynote, attention was paid more to nonsense, due to which the important things fell into place.
I don't understand your summary… 3D locking? I don't even know that they talked about something like that, I can't even imagine how it would work. Didn't you watch another presentation? Otherwise, I used to actively use iCloud every day, for example for studying - things that I always need to have on hand. I use iMessage for 80% of all communication, and so do the people around me.
Uff minor modification of Unlocking / Locking - well, if I'm not mistaken, connecting a computer with an iPhone that has 3D Touch and using it to unlock the computer should work. And I suppose if I walk away with that iPhone or click on 3D Touch then maybe the option to lock.
Due to the fact that iCloud does not have the possibility of sharing, it is practically useless for me, and therefore I will not use 2 different clouds. And I don't think I'm solving this problem alone.
And iMessage, here I described my experience and considering how Messenger from FCB rolls everything around, it is not surprising. Although I'm still on Skype (dinosaur). But even so, I don't really consider the improvement of iMessage in the form of new emoji and various pseudo-effects as an improvement. But it will probably be an age that I don't need to have 10 different moving icons for the message.
However, we are happy for the response, I am generally interested in how people view these news, although I really do not consider them something that a new version of OSX must be spit out for, they are defacto minor updates in contrast to the new FS.
iMessage and FaceTime are mainly used by people in the US, although cross-platform Skype or FB Messenger are also available.
Unlocking the computer is mainly with the Apple Watch (however, it is not yet functional in the current build) – how it will be with the iPhone is not yet completely clear from the release notes. (I don't know anything about 3D touch in particular - I'd be thinking about TouchID - but that's more for Apple Pay, maybe you're confusing it a bit :) )
Of course, iCloud Drive has a sharing option - and especially if you have Family Sharing, everything is just easier.
Again, iMessage is all about who you have around you. If you open Applisty like me – messenger once a day. Why? Because of consumption, because of the need to have the application running, for example on a Mac, because of the not-so-simple integration into iOS.
In most of the US, no one runs Skype - because why should they run the app when they can use the built-in one that works as a phone. So iMessage and FaceTime/Phone are still the most used apps on iPhone :)