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Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Feb 8, 2015 at 02:32 PM
(This is off topic, but I at least yanked it out of the Ulysses thread, where it kind of didn’t belong.)
I did, indeed, bite the bullet and have updated both my four-year-old MacBook and my one-year-old MacBook Air to Yosemite and, so far, have not had any nasty surprises. I am prompted to do this in anticipation of the upcoming Ulysses release.
Thanks to you folks who reported that Yosemite was (mostly) working fine.
Steve Z.
Posted by Hugh
Feb 8, 2015 at 08:05 PM
I’m not sure whether to congratulate you or commiserate with you, Steve! Anyway, I very much hope that your experience is free of the problems that you reported with Mavericks a year or so back. Personally, I’m not really convinced of the value of what seems like relentless operating-system upgrading: I dislike the aesthetics of the new version - when I visited Yosemite-the-place, I thought it was one of the most spectacular sites on Earth, but I never saw lurid pinks and reds - the operating system seems to impose additional demands that slow down my two Apple machines, and I’m unlikely to make use of new features such as Handoff (because the applications I use don’t use it.) But I upgraded simply in order to be able to launch the latest versions.
So I hope the next version of OS X is one of those that actually speeds up the system. Like Snow Leopard - or was it Mountain Lion? (Mind you, I also feel the same about Windows - no one seems to argue now that Vista was not a disaster, but in my limited experience, 7 seems to have been a lot preferable to 8. It just goes to show that progress isn’t necessarily always forward.)
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Feb 9, 2015 at 02:45 PM
I couldn’t agree more, Hugh, that these “major” operating system upgrades should not be necessary. Just fix what doesn’t work right, tighten up the code (or whatever it is programmers do) to speed things up. They must have been referring to Yosemite Sam, not the National Park. I suspect all the aesthetic changes are just a smoke screen so that we don’t focus too closely on the fact that Apple continues to tighten the noose around users and developers, making it more and more difficult to run anything on Macs that Apple doesn’t get a piece of the pie from. (Not sure I have a solid footing for making that claim, just a suspicion.)
Rant out of the way, maybe some of the new functions of Yosemite and iOS 8 will become more valuable as apps that take advantage of them work their way into my workflow.
Another question for veteran Yosemite users: Is there any value in using iCloud Drive? I’ve been reading about it, and it doesn’t seem like it is worth activating it, but I’m probably missing something?
Thanks.
Steve Z.
Posted by Hugh
Feb 9, 2015 at 04:15 PM
The little I know about iCloud Drive is that it broadens the functionality of iCloud. In particular, I have read - but this may be incorrect - that whereas files on iCloud can only be read by the application that created them, files on iCloud Drive can be read and manipulated by any application that is equipped to do so - making iCloud Drive more like Dropbox, in other words. And so I suppose that it may be necessary for sync-ing (what we must now call) Ulysses 2 on the Mac and Ulysses 2 on the iPhone and iPad. That at least is my deduction (but I could again be wrong).
A less charitable interpretation would be that iCloud use was losing ground to Dropbox and other rivals in the “cloud”, and needed a marketing boost.
In any case I’ve signed up for it, just to keep an eye on it.
Posted by Franz Grieser
Feb 9, 2015 at 04:25 PM
I don’t use iCloud (nor do I use Onedrive). Sorry, Franz