So the "About this Mac" screen says "Version 11.0" ... A silent farewell to OS X?
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#32The word is out that this is macOS 11. Personally, I can't figure out why they didn't just drop the `10.` part and call it MacOS 16.
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#33Scrolling this site with a mouse is comically bad, this is clearly designed to be used only with a trackpad. I cant read most of the content without very carefully scrolling unnaturally. You also have to pause for the animations to play, but if you scroll one pixel too far they don't play, so its a guessing game of whether you're in the right place or whether you missed some content.
Basically all of macOS is comically bad with a mouse and clearly designed for trackpads. You need to install a third-party tool to even disable mouse acceleration.
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#34The UI and UX seem to be getting worse on macOS with the “iOSification” of the OS. I thought Jony Ive’s exit would stop that trend. It’ll be interesting to read perspectives from John Gruber, M J Tsai, Marco Arment, etc.
I still haven’t upgraded from Mojave to Catalina because of serious bugs reported by other people (including data loss issues in Mail). I’ll see if Big Sur shows improvements (reported by others) and decide when to upgrade. I don’t even run beta versions of macOS point updates, which is in stark contrast to iOS betas, which have been of better quality (comparatively).
Edit: Apple seems to be ignoring long term Mac users (even the vocal ones) for quite sometime. It was poorer hardware quality and lack of hardware updates for several years. Now it’s software, where it’s been going about removing what makes native macOS experiences great. The Catalyst apps are not “native Mac apps” by any stretch of imagination.
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#35I hate that they’re moving to a design where buttons don’t have borders and textures, don’t provide any visual guidances on what’s a button and what’s not. But I absolutely despise them for making iOS apps installable on macOS. That’s... just terrible. This WWDC just felt like that Apple decided that macOS should get merged with iOS and converged them. The Mac doesn’t have a future...
>But I absolutely despise them for making iOS apps installable on macOS. That’s... just terrible.
Can't shake the feeling that a not-insignificant number of people inside Apple now see the future of the Mac just being a place that can run 6 iPhone apps at once and that's it's only strength.
Just from some of the wording in today's keynote.
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#36One of my favorite small things about OS X has been the dock icons and their variety in shapes. Like how TextEdit has the pencil sticking out or Logic looks like a DJ turntable. It feels like that’s gone now.
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#37So the "About this Mac" screen says "Version 11.0" ... A silent farewell to OS X?
Wow, nice catch.
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#38The biggest question I had when I was watching, Why did they not take the chance to rename is as macOS 11? OSX has been through two transition. The NeXT team must be very proud of their foundation they built 2x years ago.
That is just what they did [1].
[1] https://www.macrumors.com/2020/06/22/macos-big-sur-is-versio...
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#39So the "About this Mac" screen says "Version 11.0" ... A silent farewell to OS X?
Probably as they already dropped the X before. It is macOS
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#40The biggest question I had when I was watching, Why did they not take the chance to rename is as macOS 11? OSX has been through two transition. The NeXT team must be very proud of their foundation they built 2x years ago.
They did. In the demo in the About This Mac window it said macOS 11.