The two mammoth events last week were the Apple developers conference keynote and ex-FBI chief James Comey’s appearance at a Senate committee hearing. Now I’m sure a lot of folks didn’t have the time to watch both events — and particularly for the Comey event, I’m sure the coverage has the right and the left believing very different realities. Apple is becoming more and more like a typical tech firm — that is, long on technology and short on magic. This year, its initial big focus was on how fast the Apple Watch can launch apps.
Quote: "Speaking of missing a meeting, Apple has renamed its PC operating system "macOS," which is what it was called between 1996 and 2012, when is when Apple trimmed it from "Mac OS X" to "OS X." "
I think you missed a WWDC, never mind a meeting; the name for Apple's desktop/laptop operating system was changed from OS X to macOS last year, to fit in with iOS, watchOS and tvOS.
Quote: "Remember when Apple used cool code names of big cats like "Tiger" and "Jaguar"? "
Yeah and after Cheetah, Puma, Jaguar, Panther, Tiger, Leopard, Snow Leopard, Lion and Mountain Lion, pretty much all the "cool" names were taken so "hello, new naming convention!" They even joked on stage last year that they'd run out of cat names. But, you knew that because you're stupid but you're not, you know, *stupid*.
And unlike Whistler, Blackcomb etc. Tiger et all weren't just code names, they were used in the marketing for the OS.
And, as I'm sure you know, MS has already moved away from location code names; Windows 10's code name was Redstone, after a mineral in Minecraft.
Quote: "Oh, and Siri is coming to the Mac, years after Microsoft launched Cortana on Windows."
Again, I worry you're stuck in some kind of time loop, as Siri was introduced to macOS *last* year with Sierra. And it's laughable that the article you linked to - demonstrating Cortana on a Mac - demonstrates its possibility by installing Windows on a Mac (via Parallels).
I mean... really?
These are all minor niggles I concur but when they're used as the basis for suggesting a company is dull they demonstrate either a lack of evidence or a lack of knowledge on the part of the author. Quite how you continue to work as a writer and analyst with such basic gaps in knowledge is, frankly, beyond me.
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Hearing Crickets at Apple’s WWDC and a Pin Drop in the Senate
Posted by: Rob Enderle June 12, 2017 10:11 AMThe two mammoth events last week were the Apple developers conference keynote and ex-FBI chief James Comey’s appearance at a Senate committee hearing. Now I’m sure a lot of folks didn’t have the time to watch both events — and particularly for the Comey event, I’m sure the coverage has the right and the left believing very different realities. Apple is becoming more and more like a typical tech firm — that is, long on technology and short on magic. This year, its initial big focus was on how fast the Apple Watch can launch apps.
I think you missed a WWDC, never mind a meeting; the name for Apple's desktop/laptop operating system was changed from OS X to macOS last year, to fit in with iOS, watchOS and tvOS.
Quote: "Remember when Apple used cool code names of big cats like "Tiger" and "Jaguar"? "
Yeah and after Cheetah, Puma, Jaguar, Panther, Tiger, Leopard, Snow Leopard, Lion and Mountain Lion, pretty much all the "cool" names were taken so "hello, new naming convention!" They even joked on stage last year that they'd run out of cat names. But, you knew that because you're stupid but you're not, you know, *stupid*.
And unlike Whistler, Blackcomb etc. Tiger et all weren't just code names, they were used in the marketing for the OS.
And, as I'm sure you know, MS has already moved away from location code names; Windows 10's code name was Redstone, after a mineral in Minecraft.
Quote: "Oh, and Siri is coming to the Mac, years after Microsoft launched Cortana on Windows."
Again, I worry you're stuck in some kind of time loop, as Siri was introduced to macOS *last* year with Sierra. And it's laughable that the article you linked to - demonstrating Cortana on a Mac - demonstrates its possibility by installing Windows on a Mac (via Parallels).
I mean... really?
These are all minor niggles I concur but when they're used as the basis for suggesting a company is dull they demonstrate either a lack of evidence or a lack of knowledge on the part of the author. Quite how you continue to work as a writer and analyst with such basic gaps in knowledge is, frankly, beyond me.