Being the sensible nerd I am, neither are on my primary devices.
I'm running iOS 9 on my iPad Air 2; which I use for work, but isn't near as essential as my iPhone that I use daily. El Capitan will be running on my MacBook Pro 13" w/ Retina Display. I don't keep anything on stored on my laptop (I used it for work/ personal almost like a cloud machine) so in both cases if anything bad happens it's easy to wipe and restore. If you're not living by the same rules, you're living too close to the edge for me.
It's as early as can be (I'm literally still accepting user agreements on the MacBook) but here are my first impressions.
iOS 9 on iPad Air 2
I really like the new system font, San Francisco. Having seen it only in snippets so far, I didn't fully understand the impact it would have. But immediately it's noticablle and quite pleasent; albeit in a hard to discribe why kind of way.
The multi-tasking is FANTASITC! Super easy, super intuitive. It's great. I really hope developers work to take advantage of it quickly because I already love how it works so much.
The keyboard change is a bit jarring at first. I like the lowercase versus caps, but having lived with this from iOS 7, it's a noticeable and jarring change.
I'm not sure how much I like the new app switcher yet. I feel like it's taking longer to get to apps that I used longer ago. We'll see...
Spotlight is kinda cool. I found that both the swipe over from homescreen AND swipe down on any page work to activate which I like. Very convenient. But with only Apple apps taking advantage of the search API it's hard to judge yet.
I already dig the News app. Easy set-up, nice layout. I think this will be a great app- especially for iPad users.
El Capitan on MacBook Pro w/ Retina Display
I feel like the features here are must less obvious and intuitive.
The mouse shake is really cool. That’s one of those magical “Apple” moments when you just go- “duh."
Pinned tabs are going to be great. I know it’s nothing new to Chrome users, but as someone who cares about his battery, I’ve always been happy to stick with Safari. And the way pinned tabs works is just like you want it to. I’m a fan.
LOVE the 4x4 for app folders. And LOVE the Selfies and Screenshots in Photos!!
LOVE the 4x4 for app folders. And LOVE the Selfies and Screenshots in Photos!!
The new Mission Control view and side-by-side apps are not easy to work. I had to look up how to use them. Might be my “Windows bias” of how snapping works, but having it be specific to the green button wasn’t intuitive for me. Also, it apparently needs some API work on the developer end as some applications can’t take full advantage yet. (Could be a bug as well so we’ll see). For the Apple apps, it works quite well and shows promise, but it’s clearly Beta under-baked.
Since I don’t use Apple Mail or Photos yet, I can’t go much deeper on El Capitan. I am hoping to see the better battery life though; so stay tuned on that.
More to come as I test it out over the next few days/ weeks.
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