The first feature Schiller spoke about was speed, which is one of the biggest knocks against the original version of Mac OS X. He reiterated that Mac OS X was Apple’s platform for the future, and that the company’s embrace of open standards and the Digital Hub were both critical to this future - as were things like the Mac’s graphics and Internet capabilities. Phil Schiller came out to discuss Mac OS X 10.1. Four point updates had been released over the Internet, but 10.1 was something much bigger. Jobs said that the software team didn’t take a vacation after OS X shipped, but kept working to improve the operating system. The first release had been out a mere six months, and there was work to do. Of course, at this point, Mac OS X was still very young. What’s resulted has been the platform we’re going to build on for the next 15-20 years. We have married these two things together no one thought it was possible, even some folks at Apple didn’t think it was possible in the first few years, but we’ve managed to do it. We have married the power and openness of Unix - all open-source - with the elegance and simplicity of the Macintosh and the Macintosh’s extremely powerful and broad applications platform - tens of thousands of applications. “What we have done is with Mac OS X was what everyone said was impossible. Because the changes to Memories aren’t available yet, I have not tested them.Jobs opened his keynote saying that Mac OS X was the most important thing going on Apple, and was the first big overhaul of the company’s operating system since the original Macintosh in 1984: You’ll also be able to change the music and style of Memories. Apple says the music and transitions will adjust on the fly to create a more immersive experience. Memories is a feature that’s slated to get new features later this fall that will let you move around inside the auto-generated memory, skipping around among photos without breaking the feel of the memory. There were a handful of design prototype images that Federico had sent me over the summer and an unappealing picture of a half-eaten sandwich from a couple of years ago, but by and large, the images were of friends and family, which were fun to rediscover without scrolling through Messages. I was surprised to find that the shared images stretched back years, grabbing photos from Messages from long before I installed Monterey, which was nice because those were all photos that would have been difficult to locate in the Messages app. I turned it on to see what would turn up and was generally pleased with the results. Shared with You is also part of Photos in macOS Monterey. I’m sure it will shock no one that my Shared with You photos included this from Federico. The same sort of scenario makes sense for movies and TV shows too. Just as you might be reading a book review on the web and use Visual Look Up to quickly locate it in Apple Books to purchase, I’d like to be able to read a review of an album online and use Visual Look Up to open the album in Music, so I can listen along as I read the review.
Apple has an enormous database of artwork as part of Apple Music and the iTunes Store, which it should make use of like it’s doing with books. The most surprising omission from Visual Look Up are other types of media like TV shows, movies, and music. Results for mixed breed dogs often felt like a random stab in the dark, but the feature identifies pure bred dogs and cats without too much trouble. The least reliable categories included dog breeds, which isn’t too surprising. Landmarks worked well as long as there was GPS data associated with the image, which obviously narrows down the possible choices significantly. In my testing, plants were correctly identified most of the time, and books were spot-on as long as they were available from Apple Books.
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