And while Keynote is a killer presentation app, Pages and Numbers aren’t fit to stand in the same boxing ring as their Google or Microsoft equivalents. Only… only I’m totally vested in Google Drive, as is the rest of the Stuff team. Mojave was announced at Apples Worldwide Developers Conference on June 4, 2018, and was released to the public on September 24, 2018. Couple that with the online real-time document collaboration announced by Apple a few weeks back, and there’s just the sniff of a real Google or Microsoft rival. macOS Mojave (/ m o h v i, m -/ mo-HAH-vee version 10.14) is the fifteenth major release of macOS, Apple Inc.s desktop operating system for Macintosh computers. And the result is that I’ll dip into iCloud more often when I’m out and about, and perhaps even start using it as my full-time storage. So when you’re offered an auto-backup of your desktop when you first boot into Sierra, your instinct is to say yes. Further, you’ll also know that organising OneDrive or Google Drive backup of your desktop is actually a bit of a pain (dragging folders within folders etc). If you’re anything like this reviewer, your desktop is a dump bin of recently trawled files, all of which you’ll get around to filing away over the weekend. So to tease you into iCloud a little more often, Sierra comes with automated backup to iCloud of your Documents folder and Desktop.Īnd its the desktop backup that’s the sneaky move. In that sense, the market’s pretty sewn up for automated file backup systems (and that’s before we’ve mentioned the hundreds of other third party backup apps). You see, Apple probably knows that countless Mac users have installed Google Drive or OneDrive. ‘Play Abba’s Greatest Hits’ just isn’t the sort of thing you want to be bellowing at 120db sat in Pret on Waterloo Station at rush hour. Which is all very lovely, except for one thing – most of the people we know (not us, of course – we’re confident and brash) feel silly talking to their computers in public.Īnd in a lot of environments, you’ll need to be shouting quite loud for Siri to register what you’re saying. It’s Siri as you know it from your iPhone, ported to the Mac desktop. And you can tell it to search for things using Bing, then pin the results to your Today panel (not that we can ever imagine a scenario where we’d find that useful). ‘Take a note’ has Siri asking what the note should say, then saving it to Apple Notes. ‘Show me photos taken in the last week’ opens Photos to your last week’s snaps. The same goes for most of your Mac’s popular services. The black Siri panel that slides in from the right of your desktop may ask who the hell David is, but once you’ve told it, it will find all of his emails sent to you in the last week. ‘Show me all the emails from David in the last week’ doesn’t fluster it. Yes, that’s right, you can now talk to your Mac, and it will either answer, do your bidding or both.Īnd from our experience, it does these things very well. Sierra’s most noticeable addition to the Mac desktop is Siri.
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