Re: [Fed-Talk] "Lion" preview notes
Re: [Fed-Talk] "Lion" preview notes
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] "Lion" preview notes
- From: "Pike, Michael (IHS/HQ)" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 11:17:57 -0500
- Acceptlanguage: en-US
- Thread-topic: [Fed-Talk] "Lion" preview notes
It really is too bad... Out of all the server Os's I have ever maintained,
OS X was the most reliable and the easiest to manage.
In my opinion Apple is catering only to the "common" user, someone who
doesn¹t care what a terminal window is or want to run their own servers.
In fact, it is almost as if they want users with no brains that make
FaceBook entries.
They get more controlling with every release, and I honestly believe it is
going to get to the point where EVERYTHING must go through them, whether
it be on iOS devices or their computing platform.
People like Adobe are not going to want to give 30% of a $5000 suite to
them... Apple's equivalent apps are not being updated (look at the old
interface with Final Cut vs. CS5).
FaceTime, which was free is now $1.00 - Apple has said FaceTime is an open
standard yet I cannot find a single spec on it.
Windows sucks, OS X is going the way "we decide everything for you",
Linux, while stable doesn't offer the refined UI.
I've loved Apple, so much in fact I put my career on the lines many times
for them in the past (which I will never do again)... Apple has been great
for me, in fact I'm so loyal (or was), that every automobile I own has
customized license plates (Apple, iPad, iPhone)... The iPhone changed my
life.
Within the last 4 months I've been touting Android devices... My Nexus S I
love more than any iPhone when it's a pure google OS.
It feels like I am losing a long time friend, but I cannot stick by
something that continues to get more controlling, less open, etc...
Google's desktop OS is lacking right now, but then again so was Android
1.0 - look at Android 2.3 GingerBread, it runs rings around iOS (not by
fault of iOS or the iOS hardware, but by fault of Apple not letting
developers do anything outside of the box).
I am hoping that Google's Desktop OS advances to the point that the mobile
platform has.
I used to push people to iPhone, now when they ask I hand them a Nexus S
and say "This will do WHATEVER you want."
Come on, iOS you cannot even delete a single (one at a time) entry in your
call log, it's all or nothing! Write an app to try and fix that, Apple
won't let you.
I know this is an Apple mailing list... And I had a thread of hope Lion
would not cripple the user even more so than iOS... I guess I am saying
this because it truly is time for me to let go, to quit trying to get
Apple in our agency, and now I get to go eat a hot steamy pile of dung as
I tell them I need a Dell Blade with Ubuntu.
Mike
On 2/24/11 8:10 AM, "Dave Schroeder" <email@hidden> wrote:
>Unless of course server components are de-emphasiszed and/or
>discontinued, which is likely to be the case. Maybe this strategy and
>with the product provides will be great for SOHO and small departmental
>type customers, but bad for enterprise-wide applications. Of course,
>Apple's move away from that space is clear, and with the Xserve
>discontinued, we had no choice but to end-of-life Mac OS X Server as a
>supported OS in our datacenters.
>
>- Dave
>
>On Feb 24, 2011, at 9:00 AM, Joel Esler wrote:
>
>> Sounds like a consolidation move to me. Simplicity in product line.
>>
>> I see no ill effects here.
>>
>> --
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> Forgive my misspellings and briefness
>>
>> On Feb 24, 2011, at 9:57 AM, David Emery <email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm going to be very interested to see what that really means. On the
>>>plus side, I hope it means I don't have to pay $500 each for my 2 Mini
>>>Servers to upgrade. On the minus side, I hope this does not reflect a
>>>move by Apple away from its server product.
>>>
>>> dave
>>>
>>> On Feb 24, 2011, at 9:51 AM, Dave Schroeder wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Feb 24, 2011, at 8:40 AM, David Emery wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>http://news.worldofapple.com/archives/2011/02/24/apple-releases-mac-os
>>>>>-x-lion-preview
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm excited about full-disk encryption, the one practical concern
>>>>>I've heard from my IT people about my Mac-based infrastructure. I
>>>>>hope this is also available for OS X Server. (But recovering a
>>>>>corrupted whole-encrypted disk could be a real challenge, let's hope
>>>>>the Disk Warrior folks step up to this challenge.)
>>>>
>>>> "Lion Server is now a part of Mac OS X Lion"
>>>>
>>>> http://www.apple.com/macosx/lion/
>>>>
>>>> - Dave
>>>
>>> -----
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>>> Supporting PdM Software Integration
>>>
>>>
>>>
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