MacOS 10.14 Wishlist • Hacker News Board

Re: MacOS 10.14 Wishlist

#31

Post by derefr » Fri, Jun 01, 2018, 9:24 PM UTC

> No More iTunes!

(Desktop) iTunes is the way it is in order to present a unified, familiar experience between the macOS and Windows iTunes desktop apps.

In Windows, iTunes is essentially "just enough macOS to manage an iOS device"—with every disparate responsibility that management entails all smushed together. (It's been this way since it was iPods that were being managed.) And macOS iTunes is the same codebase(!) as Windows iTunes, so it's not like that codebase is somehow going to compile as eight apps with their own UIs on macOS, vs. one on Windows. It's going to look, and work, on macOS as it does on Windows.

Re: MacOS 10.14 Wishlist

#32

Post by rbanffy » Fri, Jun 01, 2018, 9:27 PM UTC

jtbayly wrote: post #28

Lots of people still have macs that have DVD players. Why delete the DVD player app?

Putting it on the App Store could be a good idea though.

Re: MacOS 10.14 Wishlist

#33

Post by kickingvegas » Fri, Jun 01, 2018, 9:28 PM UTC

My developer wish would be a redo of the Keychain Services API. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security/keychain_...

Re: MacOS 10.14 Wishlist

#34

Post by rbanffy » Fri, Jun 01, 2018, 9:28 PM UTC

dawnerd wrote: post #17

> Remove old junk like the Dashboard and DVD Player apps. Should just include those the app store as well. Not mentioned are the many years old bugs with multi displays and networking. I just want Apple to take a year and really fix all the core problems they've introduced. No more new features until the existing stuff works!

The App Store is Apple's package manager. It's not going anywhere.

Re: MacOS 10.14 Wishlist

#35

Post by glhaynes » Fri, Jun 01, 2018, 9:29 PM UTC

EdwardCoffin wrote: post #20

How about APFS on Fusion drives?

Sounds like it's coming soon (or being cancelled soon, of course): https://www.macrumors.com/2018/05/22/craig-federighi-apfs-su...

Re: MacOS 10.14 Wishlist

#36

Post by rbanffy » Fri, Jun 01, 2018, 9:29 PM UTC

EdwardCoffin wrote: post #20

How about APFS on Fusion drives?

How about block checksums on APFS? Block deduplication, even if offline, wouldn't hurt either.

Re: MacOS 10.14 Wishlist

#37

Post by Karliss » Fri, Jun 01, 2018, 9:30 PM UTC

SippinLean wrote: post #18

>Better Window Management YES! Please add native Snap in MacOS (and native Exposé in Windows).

Isn't the second one already available in windows 10?

Re: MacOS 10.14 Wishlist

#38

Post by rbanffy » Fri, Jun 01, 2018, 9:30 PM UTC

My vote is for forcing Microsoft to respect Control-A for beginning of line and Control-E for end within all Office applications.

Re: MacOS 10.14 Wishlist

#39

Post by rbanffy » Fri, Jun 01, 2018, 9:31 PM UTC

justinator wrote: post #23

crsv wrote: post #16

How about an iTunes experience that doesn't make me want to jump off a bridge. I can't name a single more consistently infuriating piece of software to interact with. It's been horrible as long as it has existed, without fail. On second thought, perhaps its stalwart consistency as one of the most unusable applications in the history of consumer software is one of the few constants in this fast changing world. Perhaps…

Version 1 was really good. That's where my frustration over the app comes from. It used to be pretty much perfect.

It's an app to play music. How bad can it be?

Re: MacOS 10.14 Wishlist

#40

Post by dewey » Fri, Jun 01, 2018, 9:32 PM UTC

rbanffy wrote: post #34

dawnerd wrote: post #17

> Remove old junk like the Dashboard and DVD Player apps. Should just include those the app store as well. Not mentioned are the many years old bugs with multi displays and networking. I just want Apple to take a year and really fix all the core problems they've introduced. No more new features until the existing stuff works!

The App Store is Apple's package manager. It's not going anywhere.

They are not saying that the app store should go away, they are saying that the apps should be added to the app store like the other utilities that the blog post mentions.