It is a gimmick, not anything users as a spectrum might find favorable. And the sad thing is, that Apple is the only one with such a laughing stock of UX/UI.
I am totally annoyed by the animations in Apple Notes. The icons have considerable increased in size and everything screams what a mess to me: the shadow as part of "the experience", partly rounded icons which talk more space than rectangles, hidden functions or multi function menus.
There is absolutely no spirit in this update. The animations show no variations, always the same most boring ones (the s curve in Apple Notes).
Lately I found die settings menu in Safari especially disastrous, the tab menu icons when pressed look so ridiculous, I lost words.
Tahoe is okay to use if you just use the Reduce Transparency accessibility option. The buttons in Finder still look ridiculous though. Fisher-Price tier design.
I'd bet you money within 5 years Apple will continue following Microsoft (after metro) and try "merging" macOS and iOS together into one OS, most likely iOS.
Yeah bro. For the first time I'm seriously considering adopting Linux as my personal desktop OS. I already use it at work for server stuff. So I'll get by. Maybe I'll miss some of the proprietary software, but that list of programs is quickly dwindling every year.
At first I held back because of the ecosystem (i.e. still really liked iOS. But now that iOS is kinda sucking ass too, it makes it a much easier proposition.)
1) The "0 New Features" Mac OS X 10.6.0 came 22 months after 10.5.0, not 12 months
2) 10.6.0 included significant under-the-hood improvements but also brought some truly nasty new bugs and was significantly buggier than 10.5.8, released a few weeks prior
3) 10.6 received 23 months of subsequent minor bug fix updates, up to 10.6.8 v1.1
We'd need two Snow Leopards in a row just to match Snow Leopard purely in development time, but now there's a lot more preexisting technical debt built up after well over a decade of annual major releases.
Fix that freaking keyboard FFS. Seriously. How is it that almost 20 years later it's still one of the worst parts of the iOS experience.
Also, ditch liquid glass on MacOS. That sh t is so Windows 7. It wasn't cool then and it isn't cool now. What the hell are you guys doing? Copying Microsoft now? It so, outdated, slow and twitchy, makes it hard to read. There's literally no upside to it. None. Zip. Nada.
I hope they invest some time in macOS, gosh it's become a right mess over the last 3-5 major releases - Tahoe is the worst of the bunch.
I'm still calling it liquid ass. The glass theme just makes things difficult to read for the sake of fashion.
It is a gimmick, not anything users as a spectrum might find favorable. And the sad thing is, that Apple is the only one with such a laughing stock of UX/UI.
I am totally annoyed by the animations in Apple Notes. The icons have considerable increased in size and everything screams what a mess to me: the shadow as part of "the experience", partly rounded icons which talk more space than rectangles, hidden functions or multi function menus.
There is absolutely no spirit in this update. The animations show no variations, always the same most boring ones (the s curve in Apple Notes).
Lately I found die settings menu in Safari especially disastrous, the tab menu icons when pressed look so ridiculous, I lost words.
Tahoe is okay to use if you just use the Reduce Transparency accessibility option. The buttons in Finder still look ridiculous though. Fisher-Price tier design.
I'd bet you money within 5 years Apple will continue following Microsoft (after metro) and try "merging" macOS and iOS together into one OS, most likely iOS.
They need to fix Mac OS first. It’s one of the worst OS I have ever used - apps keep crashing, random UI/UX glitches and bad decisions overall.
I’ll probably ditch Mac if this degradation continues.
Are you primary using electron-based apps, or true native macOS apps?
Maybe I’m lucky but I run macOS daily without any problems.
(Yes, there’s fit/finish issues in the UI - but no issues with stability)
Good.
Mac OS has become a richly productive bug farm, lately.
I wonder if they'll ever get around to actually reading their bug reports, though...
Yeah bro. For the first time I'm seriously considering adopting Linux as my personal desktop OS. I already use it at work for server stuff. So I'll get by. Maybe I'll miss some of the proprietary software, but that list of programs is quickly dwindling every year.
At first I held back because of the ecosystem (i.e. still really liked iOS. But now that iOS is kinda sucking ass too, it makes it a much easier proposition.)
“Snow Leopard”, the original OSX release that focused under the hood, returns. I’m glad to hear it.
Yup. Many folks think Snow Leopard was the bestest release ever.
1) The "0 New Features" Mac OS X 10.6.0 came 22 months after 10.5.0, not 12 months
2) 10.6.0 included significant under-the-hood improvements but also brought some truly nasty new bugs and was significantly buggier than 10.5.8, released a few weeks prior
3) 10.6 received 23 months of subsequent minor bug fix updates, up to 10.6.8 v1.1
We'd need two Snow Leopards in a row just to match Snow Leopard purely in development time, but now there's a lot more preexisting technical debt built up after well over a decade of annual major releases.
Like every other OS with a billion parts, they fix some moving parts while breaking others.
I was on Ventura until I very recently upgraded to Sequoia. Three little undocumented changes I noticed:
1) My Thunderbolt 4 NVMe enclosure was unusable in Ventura and would cause Finder to hang. It's usable now.
2) I could finally connect to my 6Ghz access point with my M2 MacBook Pro.
3) I think the HDR brightness transition was also tweaked to be a bit less annoying.
I'm skipping Tahoe because it's hot garbage, but I look forward to macOS 27.
I sure hope that is true.
Fix that freaking keyboard FFS. Seriously. How is it that almost 20 years later it's still one of the worst parts of the iOS experience.
Also, ditch liquid glass on MacOS. That sh t is so Windows 7. It wasn't cool then and it isn't cool now. What the hell are you guys doing? Copying Microsoft now? It so, outdated, slow and twitchy, makes it hard to read. There's literally no upside to it. None. Zip. Nada.
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