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macOS Tahoe windows have different corner radiuses

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Re: macOS Tahoe windows have different corner radiuses

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Post by nashashmi »

The rounded corners is such a key element of apple design. They patented rounded corners on the iphone for precisely this reason. They wanted to trademark this but got a design patent instead. And then samsung notoriously copied this one almost verbatim same radius which pissed off apple.

Re: macOS Tahoe windows have different corner radiuses

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Post by nashashmi »

stein1946 wrote: post #45

It just seems to me that that Macbook Neo is basically them telling us that come next year they will unify iOS and MacOS and they are testing the waters at the moment. All this version alignment, the blurring of "here is a laptop with A processor and iOS" points to that direction. The errs of Tahoe are basically a result of the rush on that direction

I think they have the pathway to merge it right now. But it will cannibalize their sales so they dont want to do that.

Re: macOS Tahoe windows have different corner radiuses

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Post by Reason077 »

nnwright wrote: post #36

Mac OS's UX design has been in free fall the last 5-10 years (ever since the "iOS-ify everything" zeitgeist took root). Sincerely hope that they one day revert back, because the current UX is just godawful for any usecase I can imagine.

I really hope they roll back some of the more obnoxious and pointless aspects of "Liquid Glass" in macOS 27. And the super-rounded window corners are high up on my list. Looks childish, wastes screen space, causes so many little annoyances...

Re: macOS Tahoe windows have different corner radiuses

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Post by afandian »

duskdozer wrote: post #46
afandian wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Something needed changing! And the radius was something!

What if they randomized the radius on every launch? A fresh, modern experience every time!

Make it “on every corner” and we have a deal.

(EDIT - and Gemini could create a plausible explanation post-hoc each time)

Re: macOS Tahoe windows have different corner radiuses

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Post by Reason077 »

Y-bar wrote: post #39
ulbu wrote: post #25

read somewhere that maybe they’re preparing for OLED screens

All iPhones since the iPhone X (2017), and not the iPhone SE line, has an OLED display. iPad Pro also has OLED.

There's also been rumours of a new high-end OLED MacBook ("Ultra"?) in the works, possibly this year.

Re: macOS Tahoe windows have different corner radiuses

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Post by aucisson_masque »

torben-friis wrote: post #44
postalcoder wrote: post #12

This one really bothers me. Whenever maximizing or tiling my windows (which is all the time), I see multiple layers of oddly rounded corners. I think if there's any upside to Tahoe, the grievances may push me into blogging for the first time ever, because I can't keep these to myself. I actually feel sorry for Apple's developers because there's no way you ship software this bad and inconsistent unless you've been han…

There is so much of that in modern apple. Clear issues caused by a seemingly bright idea, but the idea still pushed forward no matter what. One example that I hate on iOS: the notification/lockscreen curtain is supposed to cover the content as it slides down. That’s what a curtain does, this has been the language for years. Now the curtain is transparent, so it can’t cover the content behind. How does the content dis…

Yeah I found that surprising too and assumed it was a bug.

I see this kind of trend with apple since big sur. It's not new but it's becoming more obvious with every release.

Re: macOS Tahoe windows have different corner radiuses

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Post by donatj »

Containers with different contents look different?

I don't see the big deal. That seems like a reasonable design choice. Make nice rounded corners when content allows, but rectangle them up as needed?

Seems like a nice adaptive design choice.

Honestly making different apps slightly more visually identifiable in a sea of sameness doesn't seem like a big deal.

Re: macOS Tahoe windows have different corner radiuses

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Post by marxisttemp »

nnwright wrote: post #36

Mac OS's UX design has been in free fall the last 5-10 years (ever since the "iOS-ify everything" zeitgeist took root). Sincerely hope that they one day revert back, because the current UX is just godawful for any usecase I can imagine.

What is godawful about it? Tahoe is great. Spotlight shortcuts, LLM actions. “Design is how it works.”

Re: macOS Tahoe windows have different corner radiuses

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Post by aucisson_masque »

Reason077 wrote: post #53
nnwright wrote: post #36

Mac OS's UX design has been in free fall the last 5-10 years (ever since the "iOS-ify everything" zeitgeist took root). Sincerely hope that they one day revert back, because the current UX is just godawful for any usecase I can imagine.

I really hope they roll back some of the more obnoxious and pointless aspects of "Liquid Glass" in macOS 27. And the super-rounded window corners are high up on my list. Looks childish, wastes screen space, causes so many little annoyances...

I wish too but they can't just back up, that would be a very bad sign for investors.
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