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Ask HN: Why does Apple refuse to add window snapping to macOS?

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Re: Ask HN: Why does Apple refuse to add window snapping to macOS?

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It's weird that Apple is obsessed with gesture-oriented interfaces—even for things that really don't call for a gesture—but when there's a super intuitive gesture pretty much everyone else has settled on they decided instead to rely on a hidden context menu.

Like scroll direction, having a sim card in your phone, using accepted standard cables, giving users access to their own files, using standardized file formats, etc. These guys abuse their users and somehow they believe Apple cares about them. Not sure when everyone will wake up and realize that arbitrary change isn't better than expected behavior. I guess when the industry points "AI" at generating OSes then Apple w…

> scroll direction

Easily changed with System settings or with an app (ScrollReverser)

> SIM card

Unnecessary in 2023

> cables

True, but MagSafe exists, I never plug in my phone anymore

> file access

macOS and iOS both have access to files, this is outdated

> file formats

Not a real issue, macOS can handle plenty of formats

I think you are just an Apple hater. When’s the last time you used one of their devices? I used a thinkpad t420 running Debian for the last 7 years, and recently got a Mac… blows it out of the water in usability. It LITERALLY ‘just works’. I like Linux and still run an Ubuntu desktop, but I got to a point in life where I didn’t want to have to fiddle with my OS just to get things to work right. macOS is for people like that. I don’t feel like I’m being “treated like crap” .. lol where are you getting that from?

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