No controversy in your take.
It sucks.
My Controversial Opinion: Ventura Is Apple’s Worst macOS Yet
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Re: My Controversial Opinion: Ventura Is Apple’s Worst macOS Yet
#32Not sure about “worst” but I really hate that they’ve made the menu bar taller than the notch on the MacBook Pro— why on Earth would you do that?!
I also don’t love the new settings app or the trend toward highly graphical, touchscreen style bundled apps, but I can ignore most of them so it’s not a huge deal.
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#33Every tech journalist moans about Macs lacking touch screens, but I really hope it never happens. Touch interfaces and desktop interfaces are fundamentally different and having both just forces a lot of compromise. But it seems like Apple gets that and is just unifying the experience a bit rather than paving the way for touch screen MacBooks, at least I hope.
While I agree with your point, and have never had any use for the touch screen on my work laptops and don't miss it now that I don't have it, some colleagues love it.
They do many manual things, comparing lists and whatnot (yeah, I know) and they absolutely love being able to directly click things, or scrolling the contents on one side without moving the mouse pointer from the other.
I think the point is that this opens new avenues of interaction with the machine. Of course, there is the risk that things would get overly adapted to touch interactions (even more white space, giant buttons, etc), which I'd hate.
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#34Every tech journalist moans about Macs lacking touch screens, but I really hope it never happens. Touch interfaces and desktop interfaces are fundamentally different and having both just forces a lot of compromise. But it seems like Apple gets that and is just unifying the experience a bit rather than paving the way for touch screen MacBooks, at least I hope.
My wife has a Surface laptop and there are a lot of use cases where it's very natural to use touch. Scrolling when reading long documents is one. Looking at maps (e.g Google Maps) is another. Basically anything that has a lot of scrolling, panning, and zooming.
Drawing annotations is another. For example Slack screen share, whiteboard apps, and so on.
Of course there is the touchpad, but in these cases - especially when we are looking at something together - the touch screen makes more sense as an interface.
Gestures on the screen also tend to be 1:1 so there's more precision for these types of gestures.
Re: My Controversial Opinion: Ventura Is Apple’s Worst macOS Yet
#35Hmm, besides the ridiculous settings app, I've found Ventura to be generally a pretty painless update.
Re: My Controversial Opinion: Ventura Is Apple’s Worst macOS Yet
#36Every tech journalist moans about Macs lacking touch screens, but I really hope it never happens. Touch interfaces and desktop interfaces are fundamentally different and having both just forces a lot of compromise. But it seems like Apple gets that and is just unifying the experience a bit rather than paving the way for touch screen MacBooks, at least I hope.
My wife has a Surface laptop and there are a lot of use cases where it's very natural to use touch. Scrolling when reading long documents is one. Looking at maps (e.g Google Maps) is another. Basically anything that has a lot of scrolling, panning, and zooming. Drawing annotations is another. For example Slack screen share, whiteboard apps, and so on. Of course there is the touchpad, but in these cases - especially w…
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#37Hmm, besides the ridiculous settings app, I've found Ventura to be generally a pretty painless update.
...it is quite an achievement to come up with something that's even worse than the previous "icon soup" settings though ;)
(at least the settings search bar still works as expected - which is now more important because discovery definitely has suffered)
Re: My Controversial Opinion: Ventura Is Apple’s Worst macOS Yet
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
This thread clearly shows that even in 2023 people still don't understand USB attack vectors and still think this is some evil move by Apple to degrade the user experience
I understand what's going on but how does asking the user for permission help? They're just going to click accept, ok, whatever to continue working. I doubt the user will even understand what's going on.
> Leaves laptop on desk, goes to bathroom.
> Bad actor plugs in device.
Pwned. This is why asking to allow works as a security measure.
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#39Can you post a reader friendly version of this, medium went from a great platform to painful dirty tricks platform in no time... Thanks
Re: My Controversial Opinion: Ventura Is Apple’s Worst macOS Yet
#40Every tech journalist moans about Macs lacking touch screens, but I really hope it never happens. Touch interfaces and desktop interfaces are fundamentally different and having both just forces a lot of compromise. But it seems like Apple gets that and is just unifying the experience a bit rather than paving the way for touch screen MacBooks, at least I hope.
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