EDU 653 - Week 6 (Post 1) - OSX Yosemite

The long awaited sucessor to OSX Mavricks approaches, hopefully this time they'll fix connections to Windows servers..but anyway, there's a long slew of promised updates and performance tweaks to make this the best version of OSX ever created. Apple has a great history of producing outstanding updates to it's software that work far better then their Windows counterparts, and as a apple fan (ironic, given my teaching and work usually focuses on Windows Server OS's) I'm really looking forward to kicking the tires on Yosemite, however one feature in pertucular has struck me as blog worthy.

In the new version, Apple promises to tie more mobile devices together so you can text or call from a computer, a iPad or your iPhone. This sounds awesome, but what are the implications for the educational context? Suppose a student accidentally links their phone to the mac in a classroom and displays his or her call and text history for the class to see. Some might think that there would surely be a tool to prevent this, but one of the major deficencenies of the Mac is the management tools that support IT in widespread deployments.

The circumstance I described may be a bit far fetched for now, but with everything moving to a more connected world, where you can access your entire device from any location, how do shared computers in an educational environment respond?

Article Source: http://arstechnica.com/apple/2014/07/psa-download-the-os-x-yosemite-public-beta-now/