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> Remove old junk like the Dashboard and DVD Player apps. Should just include those the app store as well. Not mentioned are the many years old bugs with multi displays and networking. I just want Apple to take a year and really fix all the core problems they've introduced. No more new features until the existing stuff works!
[1] https://www.axios.com/scoop-apple-delays-ios-features-to-foc...
I hide the dock and keep it off to the side, as I find it more annoying than useful.
Topping my wishlist would be for Apple to not have to put every product in the same "fashion bauble" category and consider pro, workhorse computers to be a different type of thing with different criteria. Both the Mac Pro and the MacBOOK Pro should be treated as workhorses, not show horses, and optimized for practical usefulness. Less emphasis on looking thinner and more fashionable and more on keyboards that feel gr…
• Apple's ecosystem (at least for business leasing) is sort of like the luxury car ecosystem: there are rather few models, and they're not very customized, but there's a dealership close enough to you that if there's any problem—any problem at all—with your [under-warranty] device, the idiomatic "solution" is to give you a loaner (the exact same model, with your data copied over) while they attempt to repair yours; and then either you get it back fixed, or you keep the loaner. Like luxury cars, this enables them to use nice-but-brittle components, under the expectation that nobody will actually have to put up with the component being broken, instead just being fed a steady supply of working devices. (Anecdata: my MacBook's keyboard has failed five times. Do you know what that means? It means that I've received a same-day replacement MacBook five times!)
• I think you're confusing "professional" with "ruggedized." Apple has never made, or claimed to make, ruggedized hardware. (The iPhone is waterproof, I guess?) Apple has no product category aimed at e.g. the ThinkPad's "techs performing maintenance on cell towers in deserts/jungles/swamps" use-case. Apple makes its desktop products like most companies make servers, or scientific equipment: intended for climate-controlled, central-air-purified conditions, to be operated by techno-priests who take the proper ritual-purity precautions before touching them. The Macs really are workstations, in the sense that they are intended to do their work from a designated station. ;)
How about the option to remove the dock entirely? Spotlight and Launchpad are preferable alternatives for opening apps, Mission Control works way better for switching between apps, and the list of running apps can be stuffed into the top menu with a pulldown list that can display diagnostic info and give a nice way to switch-to or force quit. I hide the dock and keep it off to the side, as I find it more annoying tha…
How about an iTunes experience that doesn't make me want to jump off a bridge. I can't name a single more consistently infuriating piece of software to interact with. It's been horrible as long as it has existed, without fail. On second thought, perhaps its stalwart consistency as one of the most unusable applications in the history of consumer software is one of the few constants in this fast changing world. Perhaps…
Version 1 was really good. That's where my frustration over the app comes from. It used to be pretty much perfect.
* Core Data's generated classes are broken for one-to-many relationships
* NSTableView is a total mess. Lots of things don't work quite right. For example, calculating the correct height for a row of wrapped text is nearly impossible without hackily adding a few points here and there.
* In Metal, constant buffers over 64k get silently truncated on some GPUs.
* MTKView is half-baked. Resizing it stretches the window's contents, for example. If you don't use layers it overlaps the window's rounded corners. If you do enable layers, the framerate drops by half.
* The one field editor per window hack breaks expectations every time I use it. It should be done away with.
* NSTitlebarAccessoryViewController is officially supported but was never documented and forces the entire window to use auto layout
Please don't add any features. Just fix the garbage fire you already have rather than throwing more garbage on it.
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Version 1 was really good. That's where my frustration over the app comes from. It used to be pretty much perfect.
It's an app to play music. How bad can it be?
It was so nice to rip a CD, have it part of your library, and well that's it. Search worked great, everything just worked.
The UX is just so bad now, I don't even want to listen to the music I have saved. It's literally changed my music listening behavior.
I’ll be happy if the only thing that ships with 10.14 is a bugfix for the Preview.app. It amazes me that they have not yet unfucked the PDF rendering with a minor release. It amazes me even more, that this issue is not present on the linked wishlist. Do people not view PDFs on their Macs?
Happens on both my Macbook Pros, too - a early 2015 13" (i7-5557U) with Sierra, and a mid 2014 15" (i7-4980HQ with discrete GPU) with High Sierra. The symptoms for me, with the proviso that I'm not in OS X right now to double check:
1. set Preview to open PDFs at 100% zoom, 1 page at a time. Open a PDF. Preview opens the window at the right size, then pops some scrollbars in. Now the client area is smaller, and that means the window is the wrong size! - which means the mouse wheel scrolls the view, rather than scrolling from page to page. Gets me every damn time.
(This could be related, I imagine, to that setting that forces scrollbars always to be displayed. I suppose it's too much to expect Apple's QA to have a test matrix that encompasses this case)
2. scroll from page to page. Each new page appears blurry - or, if lucky, merely wonky - for a fraction of a second, then replaced with the clearer rendering one might expect. Actually quite distracting when scrolling page by page! - and when scrolling at keyboard repeat rate, the clearer version never has time to appear, making it impossible to scroll through a document visually at full speed
3. when resizing the Preview window, some sizes look mucky - looks like the sort of thing you get if you render to an offscreen buffer that's 1 or 2 pixel the wrong size, or add the 0.5 to only one edge of your quad, and so on. Really annoying