I hope, they’ll fix the annoying problem in Safari that when pausing/unpausing a Youtube video it skips half a second or so of audio.
macOS Big Sur Preview
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#242The 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…
my immediate reaction to seeing that ui was
1. playdoh os
2. (more seriously) its pretty obvious they are making it look like ios so that catalyst and pure ios/ipad apps dont look too out of place
personaliy, i think its a bit sad, because it makes the desktop feel less professional and notice the larger fonts, spacing etc... seems like the ui could be used for touchscreens almost, instead of optimized for mouse/keyboard....
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#243Earlier quoted context omitted.
They've said in the past couple years in interviews that this is a bad idea - a bad direction to follow - and they don't intend to do it.
Then why are they doing: * ARM macbooks * iOS Apps on macOS * iOS look-and-feel on macOS * iOS features like Control Center, Widgets on macOS Each one of these might be justifiable in isolation, but viewed as a whole it paints another picture.
> * ARM macbooks
Superior performance characteristics and vertical integration.
> * iOS Apps on macOS
> * iOS look-and-feel on macOS
> * iOS features like Control Center, Widgets on macOS
Because there's changes in how people want their computers to look and be used. New (and old!) users expect their Macs to work in a familiar way. Developers want to share their app infrastructure.
There's absolutely zero reason for Apple to "merge" iOS and macOS together. I don't understand what people think Apple's endgame would be there, what nefarious advantage they would possibly get out of it.
Re: macOS Big Sur Preview
#244Earlier quoted context omitted.
They've said in the past couple years in interviews that this is a bad idea - a bad direction to follow - and they don't intend to do it.
Then why are they doing: * ARM macbooks * iOS Apps on macOS * iOS look-and-feel on macOS * iOS features like Control Center, Widgets on macOS Each one of these might be justifiable in isolation, but viewed as a whole it paints another picture.
* ARM notebooks provide higher performance with less power usage and substantial cost savings.
* This enables easily running iOS apps on MacOS, so why not allow it?
* Control and Widgets are useful UI concepts and Widgets have been around forever.
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#245I’m surprised at all the negative takes. I thought it was refreshing, they’re reintroducing colours and icons, cleaning up and using a consistent design language across platforms, and introducing new, well tested convenience features.
People on this site always comment negatively on literally anything related to UI except if it looks like it was made in the 90s. Absolutely zero sense of perspective or open-mindedness.
That's an indication that change for change's sake is neither needed nor desired.
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#246Apple wants members of their $500 Universal App Quick Start program to send back their Developer Transition Kit (DTK) units after the program automatically expires (!) after one year. [1] Citing directly from this document: > You agree to promptly return the Developer Transition Kit to the Apple address designated by Apple no later than thirty (30) days after the end of the Term, or as otherwise earlier requested by…
$500 to get an early access to an unreleased tech does not sound bad at all.
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#247I was really hoping they'd take some time to address Catalina's glaring issues — its slowness, bugginess, just general sloppiness — and instead they did the opposite. Honestly, every time Apple has done anything with the Mac the past couple of years, they've screwed it up. The infamous keyboards that they doubled-down and then tripled-down upon (I have personally had five keyboard replacements). The way Catalina send…
"The way Catalina sends the hash of every binary you run to Apple."
They truly care about privacy...
Re: macOS Big Sur Preview
#248I’m surprised at all the negative takes. I thought it was refreshing, they’re reintroducing colours and icons, cleaning up and using a consistent design language across platforms, and introducing new, well tested convenience features.
I especially liked the extension of complications in Apple Watch. The ability for developers to define the 'home screen' appearance of the watch is an important advancement that enables users to control their own technological identity. The Watch is the most important place for consumers to define their own 'GUI brand'.
When you put it that way, I want to throw my Apple Watch in a river. Technological identity? Consumer defined 'GUI brand'?
Yikes.
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#249So the "About this Mac" screen says "Version 11.0" ... A silent farewell to OS X?
I'm gonna guess that putting macs on annual major version numbers is just another piece of lining up macOS for an eventual merger with the iPad.
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#250Earlier quoted context omitted.
>Honestly, every time Apple has done anything with the Mac the past couple of years, they've screwed it up. Compared to what OS? The latest Windows 10 update buggers up Storage Spaces and printing, hard on the heels of another Windows 10 Update that deleted the user's files.
Is it uncommon for folks to use a Linux desktop as their primary OS? I've been doing so for about 10 years and I've had no complaints. Whenever I need some specific software I boot to Windows or use Virtualbox. I also have a Macbook Pro 2015
Unified keyboard shortcuts and I'd be all there. I've come kinda close-ish in Elementary, but it's still clunky enough that I can't commit full-time.