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Apple to focus on 'quality and underlying performance' with iOS 27 next year

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Re: Apple to focus on 'quality and underlying performance' with iOS 27 next year

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

> Apple won’t quite launch ‘zero new features’ like they claimed with OS X Snow Leopard back in 2009, however. According to Gurman, Apple still plans to release a number of new AI features with iOS 27, so the company doesn’t continue to fall behind in the AI race.

Goddamit.

Zero new features is clean. It's communicable. It lets Cook, as he departs, harken back to quintessential Jobs. It will sell phones. It will sell Macs. And it implies perfection in a way only Apple, historically, has been able to nail and sell.

Nobody is buying an incremental iPhone or Mac because Siri recovered from lobotomy. The decision to water down zero new features with a douse of Giannandrea reeks of office politics.

Re: Apple to focus on 'quality and underlying performance' with iOS 27 next year

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Post by piskov »

who-shot-jr wrote: post #18

Would like to switch to Linux but hardware/laptop options are horrible compared to MacBook M series machines.

I installed omarchy, gave it couple of days.

Well, I will stay on windows with wsl and macos in the foreseeable future.

Re: Apple to focus on 'quality and underlying performance' with iOS 27 next year

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Post by wskinner »

krtkush wrote: post #16

They need to fix Mac OS first. It’s one of the worst OS I have ever used - apps keep crashing, random UI/UX glitches and bad decisions overall. I’ll probably ditch Mac if this degradation continues.

Yes. The impossible to disable system services (photoanalysisd and friends) are an abomination of software design.

Re: Apple to focus on 'quality and underlying performance' with iOS 27 next year

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Post by Nextgrid »

thr0waway001 wrote: post #10

Fix that freaking keyboard FFS. Seriously. How is it that almost 20 years later it's still one of the worst parts of the iOS experience. Also, ditch liquid glass on MacOS. That sh t is so Windows 7. It wasn't cool then and it isn't cool now. What the hell are you guys doing? Copying Microsoft now? It so, outdated, slow and twitchy, makes it hard to read. There's literally no upside to it. None. Zip. Nada.

Comparing that abomination to Windows 7 is an insult to Windows 7. Microsoft actually used to have good enough, usable/functional design back then.

Re: Apple to focus on 'quality and underlying performance' with iOS 27 next year

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Post by vunderba »

smcleod wrote: post #6

I hope they invest some time in macOS, gosh it's become a right mess over the last 3-5 major releases - Tahoe is the worst of the bunch.

My Mac M1 is effectively permanently locked to Sonoma, and I have zero intention of upgrading beyond that. I was pretty happy with Monterey, but eventually some apps started requiring Sonoma as the min requirement. :(

Re: Apple to focus on 'quality and underlying performance' with iOS 27 next year

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Post by 1over137 »

candiddevmike wrote: post #9
smcleod wrote: post #6

I hope they invest some time in macOS, gosh it's become a right mess over the last 3-5 major releases - Tahoe is the worst of the bunch.

I'd bet you money within 5 years Apple will continue following Microsoft (after metro) and try "merging" macOS and iOS together into one OS, most likely iOS.

They are already merged really.

Re: Apple to focus on 'quality and underlying performance' with iOS 27 next year

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Post by glitchcrab »

thr0waway001 wrote: post #12
ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #5

Good. Mac OS has become a richly productive bug farm, lately. I wonder if they'll ever get around to actually reading their bug reports, though...

Yeah bro. For the first time I'm seriously considering adopting Linux as my personal desktop OS. I already use it at work for server stuff. So I'll get by. Maybe I'll miss some of the proprietary software, but that list of programs is quickly dwindling every year. At first I held back because of the ecosystem (i.e. still really liked iOS. But now that iOS is kinda sucking ass too, it makes it a much easier propositio…

FWIW, I've been daily driving Linux and an iPhone for almost 13 years now and I've never really had any issues with it. Maybe it's because I've not experienced some of the integration in the ecosystem and so I don't know what I'm missing.

I use Firefox as my browser across all devices so I can just share tabs via my account, and if I want to share text or files then LocalSend works just fine in lieu of Airdrop.

Re: Apple to focus on 'quality and underlying performance' with iOS 27 next year

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Post by emchammer »

_the_inflator wrote: post #15
brikym wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm still calling it liquid ass. The glass theme just makes things difficult to read for the sake of fashion.

It is a gimmick, not anything users as a spectrum might find favorable. And the sad thing is, that Apple is the only one with such a laughing stock of UX/UI. I am totally annoyed by the animations in Apple Notes. The icons have considerable increased in size and everything screams what a mess to me: the shadow as part of "the experience", partly rounded icons which talk more space than rectangles, hidden functions or…

My macOS display system is pushing megapixels and with some good exceptions it feels like many apps have not much more visible information or options than an 80x25 VGA display. This is not to trash VGA displays which were often very well-designed. Some web pages now only show a single paragraph at a time on screen because of cumulative pop-ups, borders, and rounded corners.

Re: Apple to focus on 'quality and underlying performance' with iOS 27 next year

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Post by MyFirstSass »

The number one priority must surely be fixing the keyboard, besides the horrible UX?

Millions are having problems for years so it's not just me, honestly thought i was "getting old" but no incredible amount of threads and now this on YT with 1 mil views:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hksVvXONrIo

Wild typing on a 3210 was less stressful for me.

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