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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 walterbell »

2023 Vision Pro (iPad-on-Skull) sold less than 500K devices, with v2 cancelled.

In 2025, the design failed upward to 4000 x 500K users, https://archive.is/gxaYw

> [Apple] is working to simplify the way users navigate and control their devices.. The design is loosely based on the Vision Pro’s software.. will mark the most significant upgrade to the Mac since the Big Sur operating system in 2020.. For the iPhone, it will be the biggest revamp since iOS 7 in 2013... 2 billion devices in use around the world.. when Apple revamped its Photos app last year, legions of users complained. With the entire operating systems changing, the stakes are much higher.

Since 2023 launch, Meta Ray-Ban sold ~4M camera glasses priced below $500.

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

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Post by LucidLynx »

synapsomorphy wrote: post #200

I'm a Linux and Windows user thinking of getting a Macbook, mostly for the hardware. All these recent proclamations of disappointment in Tahoe seem insanely overblown to me. The problem that this post leads with is that thumbnails' corners are too rounded, which "misrepresents" the original? Seriously? Maybe it's worse now compared to the golden years, I don't know, never owned a Mac. And it's fair to criticize it fr…

It is not only for the corners.

Do some searches and you will find a ton of bugs, bad performances and bad battery life for laptops, random crashes, ...

The issue is not only on the lack of good design ideas, but also on the quality of what Apple provides since a few years now.

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

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Post by bigyabai »

synapsomorphy wrote: post #200

I'm a Linux and Windows user thinking of getting a Macbook, mostly for the hardware. All these recent proclamations of disappointment in Tahoe seem insanely overblown to me. The problem that this post leads with is that thumbnails' corners are too rounded, which "misrepresents" the original? Seriously? Maybe it's worse now compared to the golden years, I don't know, never owned a Mac. And it's fair to criticize it fr…

Okay, now go use it and report back. The grass isn't always greener.

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

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Post by Daishiman »

synapsomorphy wrote: post #200

I'm a Linux and Windows user thinking of getting a Macbook, mostly for the hardware. All these recent proclamations of disappointment in Tahoe seem insanely overblown to me. The problem that this post leads with is that thumbnails' corners are too rounded, which "misrepresents" the original? Seriously? Maybe it's worse now compared to the golden years, I don't know, never owned a Mac. And it's fair to criticize it fr…

> All these recent proclamations of disappointment in Tahoe seem insanely overblown to me. The problem that this post leads with is that thumbnails' corners are too rounded, which "misrepresents" the original? Seriously?

The example in Photos is absolutely egregious, and as a user of Linux for the past 25 years and recent user of a Mac for work I can’t remember something that bad in a mainstream desktop environment on Linux.

In fact from a usability perspective a modern Gnome desktop seems for more usable and consistent than modern Mac OS and that’s saying something. Font scaling seems to work better in Linux, UI wisgers in Gtk seem to be more consistent. Dark themes have been around on Linux far longer and it shows.

I don’t use the latest Mac OS version; it’s _okay_ from a usability perspective. But this new version seems like a clear downgrade for something where the purpose of paying large sums of money is for higher productivity and comfort.

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

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Post by someNameIG »

api wrote: post #32
layer8 wrote: post #30

There are claims that Liquid Glass was in development for three years. If that is accurate, the results are even more appalling.

All the non-technical people I know loved it. It's pretty. It's neat. It looks cool. Apple is a consumer products company. My personal feeling on it is just "meh." My productivity with my laptop hasn't changed. I'm not a huge fan but it's not a deal breaker. I still find it better than Windows 11 for the most part, and Linux has other issues as a daily driver for me. IMHO Apple needs a "tick" release where they only…

> All the non-technical people I know loved it. It's pretty. It's neat. It looks cool. Apple is a consumer products company.

My partner doesn't like it, and outside of excel she is not a technical person.

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

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Post by synapsomorphy »

LucidLynx wrote: post #203
synapsomorphy wrote: post #200

I'm a Linux and Windows user thinking of getting a Macbook, mostly for the hardware. All these recent proclamations of disappointment in Tahoe seem insanely overblown to me. The problem that this post leads with is that thumbnails' corners are too rounded, which "misrepresents" the original? Seriously? Maybe it's worse now compared to the golden years, I don't know, never owned a Mac. And it's fair to criticize it fr…

It is not only for the corners. Do some searches and you will find a ton of bugs, bad performances and bad battery life for laptops, random crashes, ... The issue is not only on the lack of good design ideas, but also on the quality of what Apple provides since a few years now.

Maybe the quality is reduced, sure. But if you "do some searches" you can find all of those things for any major software release.

Seems to me like people in Apple's walls are forgetting that the outside world is not some Garden of Eden. But yeah, I'd have to use it to say for sure.

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

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Post by eviks »

jjice wrote: post #43

I don't mind how Liquid Glass looks at all. It's just insane how buggy the system has become. Even Messages will bug out, like deleting my first word if I type too fast after opening a conversation or auto scrolling and not letting me scroll down until I exit and re-enter. Unacceptable for the premium you pay for Apple software. Unacceptable for any software one is paying for. I hope they get their shit together and…

> Unacceptable for the premium you pay for Apple software. Unacceptable for any software one is paying for.

You don't pay anything for the software, so the quality matches

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

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Post by bigyabai »

analogpixel wrote: post #126
7e wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Switch to what? Windows is horrible and Linux is just as bad (but in different ways).

I think a lot of people on HN don't realize that some people require software outside of a terminal and a web browser. Can I run Ableton on linux? can I run all the audio plugins that only ship windows/mac versions? is there a decent graphics editor? (gimp is not it.) If all I did was play in the terminal and a web browser, I'd have switched to Linux by now.

> Can I run Ableton on linux

Yes? The .msi installer for Live has worked in Wine for more than a decade.

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

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Post by PufPufPuf »

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.

Remember when Windows 8 tried to make all desktop applications touch-friendly? The situation seems remarkably similar.
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