Apple has updated both of its operating systems today.
Apple has released OS X Yosemite 10.10.2 to the public. This update is meant to fix a number of issues in Yosemite, including an issue that caused Wi-Fi to disconnect.
And iOS wasn’t far behind:
Apple has just released iOS 8.1.3 for iPhone and iPad devices. The over-the-air update has a number of fixes and improvements, including one that should cut down on the amount of storage needed for future software updates.
Still haven’t figured out if the current trend of increasing boot times, increasing app launch times and increasing memory usage is polynomial or exponential.
I suspect if the bloat continues at its current rate, we might just get new OS releases quicker than the OS can actually boot.
Note, I’ve been using MacOS since before it was MacOS, on at Apple ][ e, and I’ve used NeXT Step since version 1.
Every year, just keeps getting slower and slower and slower with more irrelevant BS bloating the system.
But a new PC…
Ooops, it’s a Mac, planned for obsolescence in 18 months.
Its sure starting to seem that way. I’ve always used Macs, and could justify the cost with how much longer they lasted, but with this garbage they keep putting out since Steve Jobs died, just seems to have gone down hill big time.
I’m so fed up with the ugliness of Yosemite, that it is pushing me harder and harder to start to switch to Linux.
I don’t know what you are talking about. My 30 month old Mac Book Pro running Yosemite just booted in 9 seconds. I don’t recall my Mac Book Pro from 2006 ever booting that fast with the OS it came with.
Why are we still talking about boot times? Especially on Macs. Just let it sleep, it actually works. No need to reboot until an update asks you to.
That is NOT an excuse for sloppy garbage code that slows everything down. Just because you have 10 cheeseburgers from Five Guys in front of your does not mean you should eat them all.
I’ve been programming since 1985, and I strive to make each version of my code cleaner, better, faster and more efficient. It seems the latest bunch they have at Apple has the exact opposite philosophy.
My 2010 MBP booted in about 10 seconds with 10.6.
Made the mistake of “upgrading” to 10.9, boot time is 30-50 seconds. Apps take 5 times longer to start.
About the only good thing I have to say about Mavericks is the UI is nice, cleaner than 10.6. But OMG, the UI is hideous is Yosemite. WTF were they thinking???
I adore Yosemite’s look. Then I go to work and have to use the atrocity called Windows 8.
… or perhaps you’re just getting old and the modern world is too dynamic and scary, so you just reinvented an “idilic” past that never existed.
FWIW NextStep used to take a non trivial amount of minutes to boot and was slower than molasses on its original 68K platform, similar story for old Macs. I have windows, mac, and linux machines, all of them take just seconds to boot and zip through applications which offer orders of magnitude more functionality than old software.
If something from the past fit your needs, by all means keep using it. But also be accepting of the fact that the rest of the world will be moving on.
Edited 2015-01-27 23:11 UTC
True, I am getting on and the modern world does seem to suck in so many ways. But, I really like how my Mac randomly crashes and takes two or more goes to reboot and recover. It reminds me so of XP, the good old days.
Edited 2015-01-28 00:13 UTC
I’ll wait a few days before I update to iOS 8.1.3, just to see what kind of hurt people might need to go through, particularly those who do the OTA route. I’ve not connected to iTunes since 8.0.2, and have no intention of connecting to that stinking turd ever again.
With OS X, I’ll probably give it a week or two before I check VMware forums for the green light. I depend to VM sessions (OpenBSD and Debian) to maintain sanity, so the last thing I’d want is for the update to kill Fusion.
VMWare has its own problems
Such as starting a Windows Server 2008R2 VM with a miniscule screen. The only way round it is to login then resize the screen and select revert.
applies to Fusion and OSX 10.6 onwards and Workstation 8/9/10
The problem is that it is seemingly random. sometimes the 5-6 VM’s I run will all start correctly. At other times 1,2 or even 3 of them suffer with this.
Wake on LAN is finally working correctly and I can once again remote into my computer while still having sleep enabled. When they replaced mDNSResponder with discoveryd they broke a bunch of things with the new buggy replacement as highlighted in a Ars Technica article. If they truly fixed it correctly, a lot of the networking stalls I experienced should go away. So far it seems much better.
BTW…. I think that discoveryd had common code (and common flaws) between OSX and IOS. I had similar issues with my Apple TV, Phone and iPad that seems improved with the updates they also got this week.