James Thomson
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@jamesthomson have the apps auto-updatable from the App Store and on a different cycle to OS, perhaps?
There’s absolutely no way Apple would do that kind of thing again for so long. No new customer features in iOS for four years?
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@stroughtonsmith I can see sense in that - might increase organisational complexity rather than decrease though.
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@jamesthomson I take your point. iOS in a very different place than OS X, mind; febrile competitive market vs mature – dying? – space. -
@chrisphin True true. My point was mainly that people forget it wasn't an annual cycle back then. -
@jamesthomson Indeed. In fact, I think I’ve just been That Guy in earnestly telling something you can’t fail to know yourself. Sorry. -
@chrisphin Heh, no apology needed! Conversation here isn't just for our benefit :)
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@jamesthomson You're assuming features need to be shipped as part of major iOS releases. Doesn't have to be the case. -
@milend No, I know - but that was the whole point of the Snow Leopard thing, no new features, fix the underpinnings.
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@jamesthomson But with annual releases, a bugfix upgrade would just mean customers had to wait 2 years for new features. -
@samelawrence Yes, true.
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@jamesthomson So I could definitely see them moving OS X to a 2-3 year release schedule. -
@_adithyas Problem is most new features in OS X tie directly to iOS.
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@ajorama@jamesthomson that’s not even close to true. Multitasking was significant, as were no-iTunes-throughout-the-OS changes with iOS 5 -
@jamesthomson They couldn't do it for iOS because competition is pretty tight but in the desktop space basically no one is even trying. -
@jamesthomson@stroughtonsmith 64-bit is forcing me to refactor a lot of code. I could use an extra year before iOS 9. -
@jamesthomson@stroughtonsmith Plus, what if there were fewer new features? I think we could get buy without there being 100+ new features. -
@jamesthomson@stroughtonsmith It’s not like point releases don’t ever add anything. We didn’t get Continuity until 8.1. -
@jamesthomson can you imagine the Apple isn’t innovating posts if that happened? -
@jamesthomson think different.
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