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Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief

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Re: Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief

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Post by dgreensp »

foxygen wrote: post #99

My MacOS has this insane bug where the cursor sometimes won't change to a pointer/loading/any other state on my second monitor. This is really bad, but even worse for me who writes websites for a living, and need to check that my CSS cursor pointer class actually worked. I can't count how many minutes I've lost refreshing my browser and double-checking my code. Now I just keep my browser on my primary monitor. I've f…

I ran into this, and there was a bizarre fix—I think having Adobe apps open in the background caused it, or something.

Re: Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief

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Post by xp84 »

mvkel wrote: post #51

One of the most egregious issues with macOS 26 is the accessibility/usability regression. Apple prided itself on making their operating system accessible. Good ux is inherently accessible. There are so many parts of the os that flagrantly ignore well-established accessibility standards, some of which Apple themselves advocated for

It’s what you get when you install a hack print designer who knows nothing about UI as the head of software design and leave him there for a decade. Even Jony Ive, who also had no business designing software, didn’t respect Dye.

Thank goodness Meta has done Apple the biggest favor of the century by poaching him.

Re: Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief

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Post by Groxx »

bigyabai wrote: post #73
rr808 wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think that is what you get used to. I've been using Android for over a decade and my wife's iPhone is super confusing to me.

Yep, my parents are both Android users and have to ask "where is the home button" when someone passes them an iPhone.

iOS UX-affordance has done an incredible reversal from "one of the best" to "unambiguously the worst" over the years :| it's stunningly unapproachable nowadays, and Android seems excited to follow them

Re: Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief

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Post by DonHopkins »

teaearlgraycold wrote: post #79
mort96 wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think parts of Liquid Glass on macOS looks pretty bad. But I don't care that much about how things look, so it doesn't offend me. What does offend me are all the bugs, as you say. It's still utterly broken all these months after the public release. Spotlight is a mess; I've seen it take DAYS before it has made an app in '/Applications' findable through search (even as the app shows up in Spotlight's long scrollable…

This year I've had to perform many hard resets on my MacBook, iPhone and even Apple Watch because they've locked up. And they're all relatively new devices. Apple needs to get its shit together. I already expect to move away from their mobile ecosystem when it comes time to upgrade.

It's Apple itself that needs a hard reset. Maybe if we all at the same time collectively hold our power buttons down for sixty seconds, Apple Park will reboot.

Re: Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief

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Post by bookofjoe »

adolph wrote: post #34
egypturnash wrote: post #10

I just hope that my current Mac keeps being usable long enough that Liquid Glass has been fixed or replaced entirely by the time I'm forced to upgrade to whatever's shipping on my next computer.

Eventually it will go away just like brushed metal, lickable, green felt, and woodgrain. Unfortunately for that to happen they will need to invent something so heinous you will wish for liquid glass.

https://imgur.com/a/5uHuYyV

Re: Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief

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Post by [deleted] »

vegardx wrote: post #41
xqcgrek2 wrote: post #4

Tahoe has to be the worst software Apple has released in three decades. It's unbelievable it got through. If Macs and macOS were not a tiny portion of their revenue I would short the stock.

One thing that made Tahoe even worse is that Apple changed what they considered an update or upgrade, so for Tahoe it was suddenly considered as a update and not an upgrade, in all management solutions. This force-upgraded a lot of Macs at work and we lost days of effective work across many engineers. The machines was practically useless for weeks. They clearly don't care about power users anymore, and haven't for qu…

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Re: Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief

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Post by xp84 »

ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #27
efficax wrote: post #18

liquid glass is a total disaster. what the hell is going on in the ux teams at apple? this is like their windows vista era. i hate it so much

I'm almost positive that it's because they want to make as many apps as possible VisionOS-friendly. I suspect that they were rather shaken at how poorly AVP was received.

It sounds plausible, but only in the shallowest “yeah, make ‘em look the same” way. Just like when they started shipping the Catalyst-based Mac apps of Messages, Photos, etc so that they’d look the same as the iOS apps (and no doubt so they could reuse some code from there instead of wasting developers on the Mac platform they hate).

It’s not as though anything about Liquid Glass makes a meaningful difference in usability.

Re: Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief

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Post by treetalker »

baggy_trough wrote: post #20

I do enjoy the liquid glass controls in some places. The glass effect is really beautiful. What I hate about it is the way the overall UI constantly gets in the way of my content.

I expect and demand a level of, for want of a better term, UI crispness.

It is equally aggravating to err on either side: Windows 3.1 clunk to the left, Tahoe's operationally useless (indeed, operationally detrimental) visual fireworks to the right.

Apple needs to hit a sweet spot of crisp, but the priority must be fast, logical interaction that lets me operate at the speed of thought. With Tahoe, Apple tried to gild the lily.

Re: Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief

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Post by DonHopkins »

renaudg wrote: post #84

Liquid Glass appears to be the culmination of the Alan Dye era at Apple, where UI terms like "radio buttons" were derided as "programmer talk". https://daringfireball.net/2025/12/bad_dye_job Thankfully he has now left. Things could hopefully pick up again usability-wise within 2-3 years.

I'm hopefully optimistic that he can destroy Meta in less time than that!

Re: Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief

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Post by foxygen »

dgreensp wrote: post #101
foxygen wrote: post #99

My MacOS has this insane bug where the cursor sometimes won't change to a pointer/loading/any other state on my second monitor. This is really bad, but even worse for me who writes websites for a living, and need to check that my CSS cursor pointer class actually worked. I can't count how many minutes I've lost refreshing my browser and double-checking my code. Now I just keep my browser on my primary monitor. I've f…

I ran into this, and there was a bizarre fix—I think having Adobe apps open in the background caused it, or something.

I saw some responses like this. I have zero Adobe apps in my Mac.
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