OSNews > Thread > "RE: Not unexpected" by twenex

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 11th Dec 2006 23:03 UTC

Apple website Apple Gazette is ~~reporting~~ rumouring that Leopard will come with an all-new interface, supposedly with lots of black glossy things (similar to Vista, indeed): "Apple Gazette has received a tip from an apple insider that the Mac OS Aqua User Interface will be replaced with a new UI named Illuminous. The source goes on to say that we will see a demonstration of Illuminous at Macworld 2007." I have never heard of this website, so I cannot make an assessment of its reliability, but suffices to say that it is highly debatable. Interesting nonetheless. Update: More info.

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RE: Not unexpected

by twenex on Mon 11th Dec 2006 23:35 UTC in reply to "Not unexpected"

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2006-04-21

Somehow Apple seems to always be one step (or five) ahead of Microsoft in the usability department.

Apparently not in the design department, though - I mean, Vista's black, so OS X should have been black three years ago!

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RE[2]: Not unexpected

by rferrel on Mon 11th Dec 2006 23:41 in reply to "RE: Not unexpected"

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2006-03-21

vista has the look of the apple dashboard widgets so YES they are always ahead

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RE[3]: Not unexpected

by helio9000 on Tue 12th Dec 2006 03:04 in reply to "RE[2]: Not unexpected"

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2006-05-24

And Apple had the look of Konfabulator widgets and those were similar to...oh christ...don't this arguments ever get old? Anyone who has used more than one OS over a number of years can see that they have all influenced one another. And what they didn't get from each other...they took from BeOS!

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RE[2]: Not unexpected

by eivind on Mon 11th Dec 2006 23:42 in reply to "RE: Not unexpected"

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2005-11-09

Apparently not in the design department, though - I mean, Vista's black, so OS X should have been black three years ago!

That's not right... Black iPods, black MacBooks, now black GUI. It seems that black is the new white.

Colors aside, there's no doubt that the major GUI changes would be more than a re-skin. Anything else seems silly. My guess is - even sleeker, even easier to use and sexier than ever. It will be a Vista killer.

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RE[3]: Not unexpected

by Wintermute on Tue 12th Dec 2006 03:05 in reply to "RE[2]: Not unexpected"

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2005-07-30

It will be a Vista killer.

You're wrong on that one. People still have to make a conscious decision to buy (and spend extra $$$) a Mac. Vista will be comping pre-installed in the vast majority of PC out there...

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