With Sierra, Apple lets the Mac be the Mac

Dan Moren, writing for Macworld:

To me, the big message to take away from Monday’s presentation is that Apple is all too happy for the Mac to share features and technologies where it makes sense, but to still let it stand on its own two legs and be the best version of itself.

And:

Given the rapid success of iOS in the last almost decade, more than a few folks were worried that Apple might decide to shift the Mac towards a stronger resemblance to its mobile sibling. The company’s fall 2010 event was even described as “Back to the Mac,” the main thrust of which was bringing features from iOS to OS X, most notably a new Mac App Store and the changing of the scroll direction. That spurred fears of forced convergence among Mac fans, who didn’t want the peanut butter of iOS infesting the chocolate of their Mac experience.

This is a good thing. And a terrific read.



5 thoughts on “With Sierra, Apple lets the Mac be the Mac”

  1. Turning Mac OS X into iOS was never a rational concern to begin with, only an irrational fear by people who should have damn well known better.

  2. “He got a bigger piece than me” is an argument that should be forgotten some time in primary school.

    macOS Sierra will be better than OS X El Capitan, which was better than OS X Yosemite, which was better (once discoveryd was fixed) than Mavericks.

  3. this list is nonsense. iOS drives Apple’s busines, macOS does not. it’s no surprise then that in the real world resources go toward iOS first, macOS second.

    additionally, some things on your list are iOS-device hardware features, such as TouchID-powered things like Apple Pay and Unlock.

    as for Clipboard, this is hard to say — can two mac devices share a clipboard? i dont see why not but we’re require the final release to know.

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