OSX Rumors ... I hope this is real ... PLEASE

[speedfreak]

http://www.macnet2.com/more.php?id=459_0_1_0

Panther does some of this now but the way the article describes things this would be the real thing. Please Apple Please.

[arnie]

sounds great...but talking to your computer will only be a step forward when you dont have to actually make a sound. Do you really want to be alone in a room talking out loud? Or worse, in an office situation on a FLOOR full of people talking to their computers. And which totally non-personal emails are YOU gonna dictate out loud...

anyway. Great technology leap... but impractical ... I hat etyping... (see?) but unless and until we all radically chamge how we act and work.... Ill opt for the privacy and silence we now enjoy.

[Randman]

Sounds awesome.

[wnowak1]

Microsoft has explorer embedded in the OS right now. Result? a google of security holes.

I hope that doesn't happen w/ safari being embedded in OS X.

[uoba]

Why embed apps such as Mail etc.!? Is this source from MS or something! I understand the need for tighter integration of Address Book, iCal, Mail etc (well, maybe more features than integration), but what's the benefit of embedding such apps?

As for voice recognition, it personally won't excite me.

[fryke]

Article says: "Apple will be bringing powerful new voice commands to OS X. By embedding the apps and making them a part of the OS in a way that’s never been done before, they will be able to be controlled seamlessly through voice commands without having to stop what you are doing. And by having these apps active inside the OS you won’t be waiting for them to launch." --- But that doesn't make much sense for me. We _do_ have speech recognition and commands in Mac OS since, hmm, 1990? It hasn't advanced _that_ much, true, but we got it. And the integration part is already done. Yes it's single apps, but nobody really minds that. Not in a UN*X system. The apps are open and available. Hmm.

Article strikes me as odd...

[rbuenger]

Hmm, if Apple really begins to embed this applications this is my reason number one to leave the MacOS. I hate Safari ans iChat. Just stupid programms for "normal" playing users. I've deleted them after testing a frew days. Ok, they look nice and are working but they didn't offer anything for someone in computer/network security. Even worse, Safari and iChat couldn't be called safe.

And if Apple will force me to use or load them if embeded in the system that it. I don't need any games and there are many other systems available. So Apple, include this applications and this was the last system I bought from you!

Hopefully this never happens. I want a fast and secure system where I can control every option. I want (and the browser I use can) decide witch objects to load on a page and what Scriptcommands be executed. And if a browser send a referer or allow Javascript for manipulation of windowsize, status... without allowing me to disable it's just a unsecure program. And Safari allows a webpage to do all this things without asking me.

And speech recognition would be a funny option but I never would use this while working with my mac. And if it's not possible to remove the software for this option it's even one reson more for deleting MacOS and switch maybe even to windows.

I want a small, secure and fully controlable system. Everything else is not worth buying it like Windows now. And in my opinion Apple is moving fast in the direction every hates when thinking about M$.

[hulkaros]

Not in greek and many other non-english languages for sure