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The keyboard isn't that bad. It had reliability issues which suggest a failure of their stress testing, but it wasn't somehow obviously broken when it shipped
It fails within a few months of usage. Even when replaced twice
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I agree completely. The only real gripe I feel is that excessive padding. It is sort of like scrolling through Dribbble app mockups. The layouts look amazing as a mockup, but when you actually go to make or use the app it isn't as practical as you want. On a desktop, with a mouse, I have near-perfect precision. I don't need overly-padded icons and windows because I have the precision of a mouse. The extra padding jus…
> On a desktop, with a mouse, I have near-perfect precision. I don't need overly-padded icons and windows because I have the precision of a mouse. You do, but not everyone does. Consider the accessibility needs of people with motor-degenerative diseases like Parkinson's or Huntington's. Won't they be better-served by larger click-targets?
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I agree, I think the new UI looks great. People are taking the UI / ARM change as apple taking away more control, but macOS is THE development platform of the entire apple ecosystem. So yeah, the ecosystem may be tighter knitted, but they sure as hell will not lock down macOS like they do iOS, they have so many mac users who are developers and apple are absolutely aware of that. People complain about features in cata…
Easy to bypass was also an argument for locked down mobile OS. Software on these platforms is mostly useless aside from 2-3 social apps if you like that. I think locking down features is a mistake and does only draw in certain developers. The reason the pushback might not be as large is that competitors for desktop seem to be sleeping, or worse, try to do the same. I still don't believe Apple on the privacy front. Ye…
Freedom and privacy are at odds. If I give any app the freedom to access my messages or call list, does it increase or decrease privacy?
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The problem is, it seems to be not so much about space efficiency, but about streamlined appearance (e.g., there's now less horizontal space and fewer controls are shown at once), which translates to low semantic contrast, wich again translates to lower work efficiency. And it's the latter, which causes most of the criticism, as not all users want to trade personal time and usability for looks (or prettier printouts…
I'm not going to defend Apple's work on this front, it's just they decided to consolidate the title bar and toolbar to free up some vertical screen real estate pressure and they're leaning hard on these slide animations to hide some of the UI elements so as to not overload the toolbar/titlebar thing. That to me looks like a botched attempt to make it more space efficient, although I do at least like the bit with the…
However, at the same time, this also illustrates, why it may be not that great a choice for a WIMP interface: the kind of "intimacy" related to the specific mode of interaction is essentially different. Where contrast and too much of variety may be irritating for a touch interface, it may be already too low in contrast and information density for a WIMP GUI. On the other hand, visual grouping (and semantic collapsing of groups) is much more important for the more remote WIMP interface, whereas touch already is much more locally focused. Generally, treating them both the same isn't a good idea.
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>I really don't think they're going to put out touch screen Macs. Why not? I think its a distinct possibility.
I think the "you can run iOS apps on your Mac now" announcement basically guaranteed touchscreen Macs. It might be possible to use many iOS apps with a trackpad, but it's not going to be a pleasant experience. Put together a touch-friendly new OS UI with the ability to run a zillion apps designed-for-touch in a context where all your competition has touch-enabled devices and it's hard to believe they'd hold out any l…
most of my time on my Mac is browser (Chrome), terminal, and Electron apps. Even my IDE is just Electron.
The new Finder and menus look ugly, but frankly, in the age of Electron everything, the OS UX doesn't matter that much, as every app has its own one, reimplemented in JavaScript and React.
Slack still looks like Slack in Big Sur, in Catalina, in Windows 10.
- Some of the windows look like they look now (Safari, Maps, ...) [1]
- Settings are skinnier [2]
- Finder is bulkier [2]
I might be a bit autistic in this hurts my eyes.
[1] https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/06/apple-introduces-maco...
[2] https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline...
And making toolbar buttons all monochrome outlines does make toolbars have a more consistent appearance, but that actually makes finding the button you need more difficult. The differences are what we notice, and later what our brains automatically key on when we need to actually use the interface.
Less than half of these changes are arguably worth having. The rest seem like marketing saying, "We need to be fresher, guys!"
Using a new interface can be fun because of the change, but that fun quickly wears off. Then we're left with the realities of the interface. That Finder window is going to be much less useful in the real world with real file/folder names that are longer than 12 characters wide.
This is a UI for casual users. It might be good for grandma, but it's less good for people who need to get work done.
Two observations regarding the former title bar: * Putting the title (folder name) before the controls introduces a fundamental instability, much like OS X did with the menu bar by placing the named app menu before any other menus. Also, the amount of available space for displaying a longer title/file name seems limited. * It seems, the proxy icon is gone. I can't see which element could bear the functionality in pla…
Wish every other OS would replicate it already.
Loss of affordance, density and contrast. Why do designers hate these 3 things? It's pretty, yes.
Apple's original human interface designer says that Apple has "razor-sharp focus on a user many of us often fail to even consider: The potential user, the buyer", ignoring the needs of people who already paid their money. https://asktog.com/atc/the-third-user/