I think the new MacBook is pretty much an iPad with a keyboard: a perfect tool for people on the move who want the full multitasking productivity of OS X, a physical keyboard, and a trackpad.
The whole Apple laptop line-up is now in a messy flux.
• The all new MacBooks (new ports, keyboards, trackpads, etc) that are lighter than the Airs, but with more expensive starting prices.
• The Airs with the old ports, trackpads, and keyboards.
• The 13" rMBPs with the new Force Touch trackpads and SSDs, but old keyboards and ports.
• The 15" rMBPs with old ports, SSDs, trackpads, keyboards, etc.
Think the line-up will only be sorted out when Skylake processors are available. Expect the rMBP line will get a new form factor, keyboards, trackpads, ports, processors, SSDs, RAM modules, etc.
Am torn between wanting the new MB now and waiting to see what Apple does with the rMBPs.
If I did get a new MB, I think it might well replace my iPad completely.
Having both Scrivener and Ulysses on my MBP I can say the two apps tend to suit me well for different kinds of writings. (BTW, why would anyone need to delete an app from a computer? It’s not that it takes huge space on your machine. I got plenty of apps on my MBP that I have entirely forgotten why they are there in the first place, but it would never cross my mind to waste my time deleting them)
And that’ll probably be true when both apps have an iOS version. Which will happen at some point in the near future.
Deleting apps that you no longer use can be useful. An amazing number of crashes are ultimately traced to out of date applications that are no longer being used and which the user forgot were even installed.
Frankly, I don’t recall when was the last time one of my Macs crashed. I am positive my current MBP, which is a first gen 13" retina (so, about three years old?), never crashed
BTW, totally unrelated: Ulysses for iPad works very well. Great handling of pdf attachments, which are really important for the way I work
Crash is less about OS death and more about applications sending up crash reports. my 13 and 7 year old macs have different crash frequencies. The only gen1 MBP17 never crashes. The new MBP13 crashes apps about every 3 days but I know why and can not change it. In my case it is a specific combination of tools that are used. Happens.
Generally it is a good idea to remove things you don’t need. You may or may note see an advantage, but it never hurts.
For what it’s worth, I spent the $20 and purchased and tried Ulysses for iOS. My take… very respectable effort and will presumably resonate with those for whom Ulysses for Mac resonates… but it’s not Scrivener. I wants my dense binder/outlining and scrivenings views… I needs them so bad my precious… So I’m still waiting for Scrivener for iOS. (I use Scrivener for Windows.)
Meanwhile, I have purchased and been trying out Voice Dream Writer (and Voice Dream Reader) for iOS. They strike me as both innovative and useful tools, not only for visually impaired folks but also for writers in general, for speech-to-text dictation (using iOS’s VoiceOver) and text-to-speech proofing, plus an interesting take on outlining, to go in the toolbox along with Scrivener. OmniOutliner is also interesting.
Seems to me the beauty is that there’s room in the market for multiple writing apps that approach the work in different ways.
My standing recommendation is to try as many different apps as possible, in free evaluation form where possible, and see which one(s) resonate. I tried half a dozen or so on Windows, before settling on (be still my heart) Scrivener.
YWVM == “Yo’s Grats” is the reply I used to get from Vinney.
You’re assistance was needed to figure out why you were giving me a hard time. It take several of you to deal with the you that keeps interrupting my train of thought. I’m still trying to figure out how you got into the space above my neck stump…
No one at Literature and Latte has ever claimed that Scrivener will suit everyone.
Ulysses is a masterpiece of development engineering, but I find it unsuitable for longer pieces due to its all-in-one file format. The other problem is that it doesn’t actually allow you to forget about the formatting because you still need to mark things like headings in your text; Scrivener can add numbered headings automatically.
But no one at Soulmen has ever claimed that Ulysses will suit everyone.
Still, I’ve become a lot fussier about the final layout of my work, so I’ll have to bite the bullet and learn how to use a DTP package. I’ve got high hopes for Affinity Publisher when it’s released.
And no one at Serif has ever claimed that … you get the idea.
I’m not an iPad/iPhone owner so I’m not familiar with pricing policies or common usage in that world. The Soulmen’s site claims:
Ulysses is available on both Mac and iPad, and the apps share an almost identical feature set.
Just curious, why the same feature set would sell for US$20 on an iPad if on a Mac it sells for US$45? Could someone enlighten me? Is this some sort of common practice that Scrivener will have to abide by too?
I’m sure that everyone here is disappointed by the delays, but at the same time everyone here has cultivated the ability to adjust their expectations in line with circumstances.
L&L embarked on the iOS version without actually promising a release date. Smart move. Still, some of us regarded this as an indicator that the iOS version was going to be released at some point soon.
Then circumstances changed: the developer working on the iOS version suffered a personal upheaval and was unable to continue. So L&L had to start again. The company explained exactly what had happened, apologised to their customers and said what they would do to ensure that the development would continue. Unfortunately, the new plan meant that they need to find a new developer and start again, which meant that the customers would have to adjust their expectations.
Making such an adjustment does not mean that you’re suffering from ‘Stockholm Syndrome’. It simply means that the change of circumstances doesn’t affect your enjoyment of writing enough to make a big deal out of it. If Scrivener wasn’t here, they would write with something else. If something else wasn’t here then they would write on paper. Many people here are writers who just happen to use Scrivener as their weapon of choice.
Unfortunately, the rise of the internet has given rise to a whole raft of mental conditions and associated behaviours. The most common of these, the inability to adjust expectations and/or adjust behaviour appropriately, is very common in the Mac community.
If a company you have dealt with disappoints you then you have a number of options:
1/. Listen to their reasons and decide whether to accept them or find an alternative.
2/. Lodge a complaint and find an alternative.
3/. Fail to consider number 1 and number 2 then throw a tantrum online and accuse people of suffering from some sort of psychological dependency if they don’t agree with you.
Number three is the most interesting because there’s a medically recognised term for it:
Butthurt
And when you jump into a forum and accuse folk of being nuts because they don’t share your inability to adjust your expectations and/or move on then what you are doing is
spreading your butthurt.
Another interesting facet of this is that those suffering from Butthurt always claim that they won’t be back.
But they will be back. They will hang around the forum (usually under a new id, or the one they used before inventing a new one to hide themselves) to see if their post will cause some damage to the company.
Incidentally, I solved this issue doing this way: work in the MyMac/iCloud section, where there are all the advanced features. Then, from time to time, copy the document to the External Source section, that is any ordinary folder in your Mac disks. And export a draft in the most comprehensive export format allowed (I released a dedicated Manuscript stylesheet for this). The monolithic structure becomes just a workbench, where all the sawdust goes.
I hope Scrivener will never move to the monolithic file structure. In my view, technicalities apart, it’s really a bad idea.
