The name has changed, but otherwise it's business as usual for Mac OS Mac OS X OS X macOS. Add in the Mac’s stale, aging hardware lineup and Apple’s total lack of communication about it, and there seem to be real problems for the Mac as a platform.īut for all the Mac users already out there, Sierra happily trundles along in the operating system’s quiet and reliable groove. It has been a long time since the Mac was Apple's favorite child, and there are places in Sierra (like the Messages app) where it clearly feels like Mac users are getting a second-tier experience compared to people on iOS. That changed with Mac OS X High Sierra, Sierra, Yosemite, and El Capitan, and now Mac users who would rather take a hands-off approach to maintaining their Macs OS X software updates can choose to automatically check for and install core system updates. El Capitan and Sierra both designate one or two big "hero" features for Apple to plan its marketing around (window management in El Capitan, Siri in Sierra), a decent range of medium-sized changes, at least one big under-the-hood addition (System Integrity Protection in 10.11, the Gatekeeper stuff in 10.12, and APFS next year if all goes well), and a smattering of minor improvements to the core apps. Since Yosemite, things have felt more tightly controlled, more planned. ![]() Further Reading OS X 10.11 El Capitan: The Ars Technica Review
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