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Sounds good to me. Would be happy to see a more polished OS on my iPhone 6. Also excited to see Swift reaching ABI stability. Makes it a lot more valuable language to learn instead of Obj-C (which I shudder each time I try to even read)...

Good, it's just what iOS and OS X need.

 

I hope "smaller apps" translates to a complete rebuild of iTunes. Strip it down to music playback only. Move podcast support, video support and app support into either new apps or other existing apps. I also still have terrible luck with iTunes in the Cloud, it's still almost completely broken for me (and many others). If there truly is a focus on stability in iOS 9/OS X 10.11, this would be a great time to really fix all the annoyances that presently exist with Apple products.

OSX really needs this.  After trying a new MBP 13" Retina, and seeing the huge amounts of UI lag and such from the i7 ver with 16GB ram, I ended up returning it.  

 

With so many developers dropping Snow Leopard support I finally moved to Mavericks a few months back. Despite having fairly beefy hardware it doesn't run anywhere near as smoothly as Snow Leopard did. So I'd really like to see them work on the performance.

OSX really needs this.  After trying a new MBP 13" Retina, and seeing the huge amounts of UI lag and such from the i7 ver with 16GB ram, I ended up returning it.  

 

Really !!! because I run on a 4 year old with 4GB and never noticed UI lag ever. Maybe you were using it wrong.

Good.

I've been using an iPhone for about two weeks in "phone mode": no apps, 1 hour of 2G calls, some SMS texting, contact handling and that's it.

There some crashes already due to exceptions, and the battery lasts about 2 days and 10--17 hours. I don't find this acceptable.

"Rootless" sounds a lot like UAC in some ways.  Very interested to hear more about how it works under the hood!

Except OS X (and most if not all Unixes) by design had UAC before windows had UAC (all it is, is elevating to Root privileges).

 

Hence why when you try to edit a system file it requires your initial user's password on Mac OS X.

Except OS X (and most if not all Unixes) by design had UAC before windows had UAC (all it is, is elevating to Root privileges).

 

Hence why when you try to edit a system file it requires your initial user's password on Mac OS X.

Which is why I always found it amusing when people used to (and may still) say they were going to OS X and GNU/Linux because of UAC disrupting their computer usage.

It's admitted less invasive on Unixes, on windows UAC blocks you from doing anything else, while a good thing (the window doesn't get lost to the fodder) it's annoying as hell.

 

Also you really don't see/notice the Elevation prompt much on OS X.

It's admitted less invasive on Unixes, on windows UAC blocks you from doing anything else, while a good thing (the window doesn't get lost to the fodder) it's annoying as hell.

 

Also you really don't see/notice the Elevation prompt much on OS X.

I see it about as often as I see UAC on Windows.

You don't get the prompts much on OS X because they weaken the security to let average users install applications (Something that normally require root on *NIX installations)

For a home computer that's fine, for a corporate install they'd want that locked down.

Not sure if dumb or sarcastic.  Its a known issue though with the Retina macs.  My Air works flawlessly right now..

Really? Are you sure it affects the 15" rMBP?? I gave my old 2012 to my wife and it's still running great (no lag at all) and I'm typing this from a late 2013 15" rMBP which also has absolutely no lag running at the highest possible resolution (while my wife runs it at the default resolution)

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Which is why I always found it amusing when people used to (and may still) say they were going to OS X and GNU/Linux because of UAC disrupting their computer usage.

 

The problem is that these end users blame Microsoft when what they should be doing is blaming lazy developers who wrote their software assuming that it was running in administrator mode all the time resulting in the mess that exists today. Unfortunately that is due in part with Microsoft failing to enforce good security standards 20 years ago all for the sake of 'ease of use' and 'backwards compatibility'.

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