They aren't turning it into an iPhone, they're taking some technologies and making the Mac better.
If bettering the Mac platform means turning it into some horrible sludge to make it more appealing to people who can't type in full sentences and still use MySpace and to get those people to part with £800~ of their money then yes, it's massively better.
A Mac App Store is a brilliant idea.
It's a brilliant idea for Apple who can impose a commission fee to sell applications, yeah - as well as charging people to put their apps on the store in the first place. Yes sir, the free and open source community are going to
love that, so will Versiontracker and MacUpdate, who will probably just go out of business.
Of course you'll still be able to get apps the old fashioned way by downloading.
Wishful thinking? If you can't get applications the old fashioned way on the iPad or the iPhone, what makes you think they won't apply the same policy to 10.7? Afterall, it means they get to route all of the applications through the App Store.
Wait, did I just hear a kerching?
Yes, it is a big change. It is not comparable to the 9/X transition, however. It's the same OS under the hood, just with a different interface with lots of little buttons that extract money from your bank account. It's just a shame that their new totally-closed direction makes me sick instead of making me want to pull out my wallet and spend lots of money. I could get the same stability with Linux and there's more than likely an Aqua clone that can sit on top of it on a decent x86 box instead of buying a new Intel Mac to run 10.7 with. Sure, could use my Intel box right here, but I don't want to ruin it.
This could be a computer revolution.
Sorry to do this
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