In my view the positive direction over 20 years has been how chrome has been receding. With full screen and split screen apps, all you see are the apps. The OS lets you swipe between them. So it would appear to me that the focus should rather be on the app ecosystem and the slow, mild poisoning from electron/web apps.
The Reshaped Mac Experience
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Re: The Reshaped Mac Experience
#12The author makes the assertion that if we are all celebrating Apple's latest hardware, it is because the focus on their user interface has faded into the background and they have lost their way. But reading through the piece the only tangible evidence he provides is more spacing between elements that he is pulling up on 5 year old hardware? Screen density and pixels have improved dramatically in that time frame, we h…
I agree. I don't disagree with the fact that the OS and UI team seem a little less focused on the polish of the entire experience but the leaps in hardware are just too great to be able to keep up appropriately in the UI. They really just need to get back to ironing out the every day things. Case in point - not being able to reply to a Message directly from the notification is a huge regression. Fix stuff like that f…
> the leaps in hardware are just too great to be able to keep up appropriately in the UI
Why would this be the case? Apple's a massive, well-resourced company and it seems like they should be able to walk and chew gum at the same time.
Re: The Reshaped Mac Experience
#13As a Mac cultist and latest iPad Pro owner, it’s pretty obvious the desktop’s time is running out. Most UI innovation is now being poured into how to make iOS a pro-friendly experience. The keyboard/track pad combo was a huge step up, can’t wait to see where it goes from here.
I'm not entirely sure how you expect Apple's "pros" to do their job on an iPad. The majority of Apple's pro market consists of developers and engineers, none of whom will be able to effectively do their job on a CPU that can hardly compile to it's own instruction set. If you do photo retouching or watch Netflix as a "job", then maybe an iPad is usable as a daily driver.
Re: The Reshaped Mac Experience
#14As a Mac cultist and latest iPad Pro owner, it’s pretty obvious the desktop’s time is running out. Most UI innovation is now being poured into how to make iOS a pro-friendly experience. The keyboard/track pad combo was a huge step up, can’t wait to see where it goes from here.
+1 on that, I’m using iPad Pro as my only device for design & code for the last 9 months, and I couldn’t be happier. I moved to it after using over the years different MacBooks Pro and Mini’s. Yet, it’s not for everyone and many will find limitations that are impossible to live with.
I am looking forward to the next version of iPad OS to see what else they will improve. :)
Re: The Reshaped Mac Experience
#15A few days ago Apple pushed an update to my iPad Pro and now I can scribble handwriting into text fields and have it recognize (along with gestures like scribble-out to delete). There was even a nice little tutorial. Delightful. The original vision of the Newton, finally fulfilled!
But yes, it's a pity when mobile designers bring their extreme space stinginess to the desktop. Hamburger menus here, hieroglyphs there, why have buttons with labels when you can have useless empty space? Ugh.
Re: The Reshaped Mac Experience
#16The author makes the assertion that if we are all celebrating Apple's latest hardware, it is because the focus on their user interface has faded into the background and they have lost their way. But reading through the piece the only tangible evidence he provides is more spacing between elements that he is pulling up on 5 year old hardware? Screen density and pixels have improved dramatically in that time frame, we h…
> "that he is pulling up on 5 year old hardware?"
is a 5 year old computer old?
Re: The Reshaped Mac Experience
#17The author makes the assertion that if we are all celebrating Apple's latest hardware, it is because the focus on their user interface has faded into the background and they have lost their way. But reading through the piece the only tangible evidence he provides is more spacing between elements that he is pulling up on 5 year old hardware? Screen density and pixels have improved dramatically in that time frame, we h…
> Screen density and pixels have improved dramatically in that time frame, we have larger screens, more resolution, and retina display I'm typing this on a new 13" MacBook Air, and the screen is pretty small! don't know if BigSur is optimized for a 27" iMac display, but on a small laptop, I certainly feel like the decreased UI density feels like a hindrance.
One of my minor bugbears with macOS since Yosemite has been changing the green button from zoom to full screen.
I just don't use full screen mode much. On my 25" displays the only application that gets kept full screen is my IDE. I don't need a dedicated button that slowly animates the window to fullscreen if I accidentally click it.
Speculating here, but given that most people using a mac are looking at a 13" screen, it seems like this change was made to benefit them. And that's fair enough, but why can't there be a toggle in the system preferences to change it?
macOS has some preferences like this, but they all seem to be things grandfathered in from the old days. Future updates that change things like the green button or Mission Control don't get any preferences to tweak behaviour and it's so frustrating.
Re: The Reshaped Mac Experience
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Screen density and pixels have improved dramatically in that time frame, we have larger screens, more resolution, and retina display I'm typing this on a new 13" MacBook Air, and the screen is pretty small! don't know if BigSur is optimized for a 27" iMac display, but on a small laptop, I certainly feel like the decreased UI density feels like a hindrance.
One of my minor bugbears with macOS since Yosemite has been changing the green button from zoom to full screen. I just don't use full screen mode much. On my 25" displays the only application that gets kept full screen is my IDE. I don't need a dedicated button that slowly animates the window to fullscreen if I accidentally click it. Speculating here, but given that most people using a mac are looking at a 13" screen…
It bugged me too. If you hold down option, you get the old behavior.
Re: The Reshaped Mac Experience
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Screen density and pixels have improved dramatically in that time frame, we have larger screens, more resolution, and retina display I'm typing this on a new 13" MacBook Air, and the screen is pretty small! don't know if BigSur is optimized for a 27" iMac display, but on a small laptop, I certainly feel like the decreased UI density feels like a hindrance.
One of my minor bugbears with macOS since Yosemite has been changing the green button from zoom to full screen. I just don't use full screen mode much. On my 25" displays the only application that gets kept full screen is my IDE. I don't need a dedicated button that slowly animates the window to fullscreen if I accidentally click it. Speculating here, but given that most people using a mac are looking at a 13" screen…
Yeah I feel like I want fullsreen almost never. Even on a 13" laptop, almost all of my workflows involve having at least two applications open and at least occasionally having both of them visible at the same time
Re: The Reshaped Mac Experience
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Screen density and pixels have improved dramatically in that time frame, we have larger screens, more resolution, and retina display I'm typing this on a new 13" MacBook Air, and the screen is pretty small! don't know if BigSur is optimized for a 27" iMac display, but on a small laptop, I certainly feel like the decreased UI density feels like a hindrance.
One of my minor bugbears with macOS since Yosemite has been changing the green button from zoom to full screen. I just don't use full screen mode much. On my 25" displays the only application that gets kept full screen is my IDE. I don't need a dedicated button that slowly animates the window to fullscreen if I accidentally click it. Speculating here, but given that most people using a mac are looking at a 13" screen…
This continually drives me nuts, especially watching people from windows use macs. They want to get normal maximize behavior to not have to manually size a window, and instead get thrown into fullscreen. This causes an immediate wtf moment, asking me how to undo it, and then living with a tiny little window. sigh