I can tell you that the speed and power of this machine really stands up. Mari running on this machine out of the box is the fastest I have ever seen it run.
While I know at first appearance and first glance Apple appears to have ripped off Android and Windows 8 Phone, I would have to say though a lot of the features being criticized for appears to originate from the Apple iOS Modding community or even the Apple App Store.
I'm seriously not getting this iOS 7 -> Android thing. Features, easily get. UI? That strikes much more Windows Phone / Metro than android to me (and plenty of others that I've talked with).
My wife is getting one for Christmas this year.The pro does look like it'll be beastly. The 6 Thunderbolt 2 ports will be the big thing for professionals, and I'd imagine we'll see support for 3rd party graphic card/PCI-e caddies and such. It is in a sense a modular mac given that you could (theoretically) plug in not only hard drives but anything that fits into a PCI-E slot (graphics cards, displays, raid cards, fiber cards, etc).
Sadly I cant really justify getting one anymore. Nobody really needs anything more than a MacBook Pro for web dev and app dev, especially now that you can have 4 monitors running off the same laptop with no lag, in addition to other thunderbolt bits and bobs.
^ Some of iOS 7 also came from the 2005 prototype iPhone. It hints at the power struggle between Ive and Forstall (long since fired). Many things in iOS 7 were actually present in Ive's prototype but were removed/changed before the iPhone released in 2007. Now Ive has brought them back.
I think the originators of most of these ideas goes back to before iOS and Android even existed. Windows Vista had Aero with transparency which we see in iOS 7. There have been all sorts of notification systems running back to the late 80's/early 90's (some of the accessories and docks for OS/2 had really cool features, not to mention how folders were handled).
Lots of Palm/WebOS people complain, but WebOS only came out in 2009, so I think they're the ones that copied a lot of things. Has anyone ever looked at album cover flow on an iPod Touch/iPhone or Mac Finder? If you take cover flow and make it vertical suddenly you've got the new Safari tabs. People say Apple copied Safari tabs, but did they copy or take an existing idea of they already used (cover flow) and simply rotate it 90 degrees?
I think a lot of people have a very short memory when it comes to the history of computers. They only look at the major players in the last couple of years and don't realize many of the ideas have been around for a very long time.
Ehh… do you know that this is a Preview?
I'm tired of all the people criticizing iOS 7 when it's not released yet. This is a Developer Preview so they can start making apps for the new OS, but iOS 7 is months away from a release candidate. There will be many changes both to the UI and the functionality.
The current design styles simply bring similar results. You cannot say it is a rip-off, because it has the same optical patterns. XenForo also looks very much like vB4 and others. And you know what happened to the last guys who said it was a rip-off.
I basically agree with you, but in this case there are reports of a later build only two days after the preview release. And there were significant changes already.That's what people were saying about Maps too, and we know how that turned out.
I've owned every iPhone model, and always update to the latest iOS version around the time it drops. In my experience, the full release does not drastically change from the beta (especially UI and functionality). They'll iron out bugs, but don't expect many major changes.
Apple has never had this relentless pursuit of quality that some seem to believe. They ship operating systems fast, and fix problems as they crop up. In time the quirks will get sorted out and if your users don't know when or at what version it became better they will assume that it has always been working well.
Anyone remember the first OS X release? Terrible, barely usable. Current version? It's decent. People assume it has always been decent because they can't distinguish between them. It's still OS X. At best, they may know the code name for the upcoming version. The first iOS release wasn't all that great either, and they refined it over the years. I don't expect iOS 7 to be much different.
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