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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 runjake »

walthamstow wrote: post #114
eoskx wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've had similar observations with different behaviors in Safari and Finder. One would think the quality of Apple's software would be increasing with the usage of Swift over Objective-C, but the opposite seems to be true.

Spotlight is also slow and buggy now, on an M3 Pro no less. I loathe the feeling of being faster than my computer and having to wait for it to catch up, something that I haven't felt since the M1 came out.

This was my last straw that caused me to disable Spotlight:

Typing something into Spotlight, having it pull up the right result and highlight it, and me hitting the Enter key, and the search results suddenly updating after and highlighting some new result and then opening that instead.

It’s not just Liquid Glass. It’s bugs like these where I realized Apple software was truly rotten to the core. Whomever is running the show (Craig) can’t do their job.

I’m now noticing the same bug in the latest versions of Windows 11 when I hit the start button and run a search.

This was a solved computer science problem.

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

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Post by hu3 »

stefanfisk wrote: post #159
omnimus wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I said that in the next sentence. Than again this is really true only in US. In rest of the world (including europe) Macs are seen as luxury environment.

Macs are not seens as a luxury environment in Sweden at least. Of the people I know only old folks, gamers and some techies own PCs. A lot of people will however just use whatever wintel laptop their employer provides them with.

Sweden is another rich country.

But worldwide Chromebooks are more numerous than macs in education.

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

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Post by phantasmish »

fauigerzigerk wrote: post #150
efficax wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

the market agrees for the most part. VR goggle interfaces just aren't taking the world by storm. When it came out I thought: I'll wait for the iteration that comes 2 years later (the AVP 3 or whatever) since by then they'll have worked out the kinks and it will be a solid computing platform. It's 2 months shy of 2 years since general availability of the AVP and it's essentially identical to the initial release with j…

AVP may be dead but VisionOS is not. I'm pretty sure Apple smart glasses are coming.

If someone cracks “smart glasses” that’s the next smartphone-size market and revolution, guaranteed, no question about it.

VR headsets ain’t it but I’m convinced the reason every company is working on them and developing AR stuff for their traditional devices (which are terrible to use for AR) is because they don’t want to still be at the starting line if someone figures out smart glasses.

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

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Post by array_key_first »

MagicMoonlight wrote: post #44
emchammer wrote: post #38

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I don’t want to wear one of those things on my face. I want a high-quality computer and phone. Apple executives are out to lunch.

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People were right about touchscreens, actually, and mobile phones.

They never did replace the productivity usecases. They replaced a lot of casual usecases, and created a bunch more usecases, mostly around media consumption.

But if you go to an office anywhere in the world, and you look around, it's not people on their phones. It's a sea of desktop computers, like it's 1995. Even at Apple. Not because everyone is out of the times, but because we did truly find the perfect form factor, and have chosen to refine it.

Apple vision pro wont replace the productivity suite, like the iPhone didn't. And it won't replace the iPhone, because it's way bigger and more inconvenient. So, I'm not sure where that leaves it.

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

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Post by vintagedave »

kruuuder wrote: post #147

Funny to see the last screenshot of OS X from 2014 in the article. I would love to use a system with such a high contrast and information density. But I also remember very well how many users were upset with the most recent design changes at that time: The all caps section titles in the sidebar, and the gray icons that were previously colored.

It was worse than what came before, but we had no idea how bad it was going to get.

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

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Post by QuiEgo »

The really really frustrating thing is that even in this lesser state, all of the alternatives are still a worse experience than an Apple Silicon macbook.

It’s sad to be in a time where enshitifcation is the word of the day and things are getting worse as time goes on. There’s nothing on the horizon of tech that excites me anymore. I used to feel joy and excitement for the future of tech. Now I feel profound sadness at this reality.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

n8cpdx wrote: post #140
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…

Do you have a trackpad? If you re-enter focus by right clicking (very easy to do with gestures), focus stops working until you leave and re enter by left clicking. Unfortunately not a new issue.

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

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Post by ptr »

runjake wrote: post #171
walthamstow wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Spotlight is also slow and buggy now, on an M3 Pro no less. I loathe the feeling of being faster than my computer and having to wait for it to catch up, something that I haven't felt since the M1 came out.

This was my last straw that caused me to disable Spotlight: Typing something into Spotlight, having it pull up the right result and highlight it, and me hitting the Enter key, and the search results suddenly updating after and highlighting some new result and then opening that instead. It’s not just Liquid Glass. It’s bugs like these where I realized Apple software was truly rotten to the core. Whomever is running th…

Apple software used to exhibit reasonable UX for “edge cases” just like the one you described. This was one of my main reasons for going Mac — they cared about the details. Sad to see that seems to be going away.

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

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Post by foxygen »

n8cpdx wrote: post #140
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…

Do you have a trackpad? If you re-enter focus by right clicking (very easy to do with gestures), focus stops working until you leave and re enter by left clicking. Unfortunately not a new issue.

I don't use a trackpad. I leave my Macbook closed with 2 external monitors and an external mouse/keyboard.

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

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Post by stefanfisk »

hu3 wrote: post #172
stefanfisk wrote: post #159

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Macs are not seens as a luxury environment in Sweden at least. Of the people I know only old folks, gamers and some techies own PCs. A lot of people will however just use whatever wintel laptop their employer provides them with.

Sweden is another rich country. But worldwide Chromebooks are more numerous than macs in education.

I'm not arguing that macs are more common than non-macs, only that "In rest of the world (including europe) Macs are seen as luxury environment." is false.

Chromebooks dominate K12 here so it kinda depends on what you mean by "students". Once people start buying their own computers however my impression is that Macs are quite common of not dominating.

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