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Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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In all fairness, you do need to hold down the command key to show the file location in Sequoia. It is an interesting default behavior to pretend the files location doesn't exist, mobile-centric.

In all fairness, secret hotkey BS may as well not exist. Are you supposed to mash every modifier key and every combination thereof on every screen and in every menu, looking for hidden goodies? Absurd.

we have simplified the interface to just one home button and the screen interface, as well as the volume up/volume down key.

To select, just press on the item.

To hover, press and hold for at least 2 seconds.

To get a list of options, press and hold for at least 2.5 seconds, but not more than 3.5 seconds.

To delete, press and hold for 3.6 seconds, but not longer than 3.9 seconds.

To save, press and hold for 4.1 seconds. Pressing and holding for exactly 4.0 seconds activates the archive action. Pressing and holding for 4.2 or more seconds sends the item to the blocked list.

To retrieve the list of items in the blocked list, press and hold and simultaneously press the volume up and volume down key.

To delete all items in the block list, press and hold and simultaneously press the volume up key only.

To completely reset your device, press and hold and simultaneously press the volume down key only, whilst holding the device in a completely vertical plane, and rotating clock-wise and counter-clockwise, smoothly, at precise 2.35619 radians every 30 seconds.

To trigger the emergency call feature, drop the device at an acceleration of no less than 9.6m/s and no more than 9.7m/s

/s (kind of)

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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I keep being tempted to write same post but named "Does all software work like shit now?", because I swear, this is not just Apple. Software in general feels more bugged as a new norm. Most websites have an element that won't load on the first try, or a button that sometimes needs to be clicked twice because the first click did nothing. Amazon shopping app needs two clicks every now and then, because the first one di…

Ironically Linux Desktop environments have never been so robust.

As much as I dislike systemd, if this is the reason, then I retract everything negative I ever said.

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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There are some factual "gaps" there about how good Snow Leopard was, but I understand the sentiment. As someone who's been a Mac user since System 6 and has been consistently using Macs alongside PCs _daily_ for over 20 years I can say that Apple's software quality (either in terms of polish or just plain QA) has steadily decreased. It's just that me and other old-time switchers have stopped complaining about it and…

Spotlight is unbelievable bad, especially on iOS. If I type a substring of the name of an installed app, it should find it effectively instantly (say, within 1-2 frames of the input showing up). Instead, it finds it sometimes. On occasion I need to hit backspace (removing a letter that should match) to get it to find it. I struggle to imagine the software design that works so poorly.

I've yet to find a decent implementation of search-as-you-type anywhere, not just Spotlight. I have that same issue on Firefox, and with Windows Search, for example.

And it makes no sense whatsoever. If "foo" matches "foobar", so should "foob". I honestly don't know how the hell can they still f up such a simple piece of technology in 2025.

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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They neither have the financial and time capacity left required for high quality, nor do they have the engineers and management to enable it anymore.

„Just get it out somehow.“

„Fixing bugs is not a KPI for our promotions and salary increases.“

Old stuff is practically abandoned. No one knows how to fix it anymore and it’s replaced instead, at best. Disdain for legacy. The only thing management gets excited about is the next shiny thing, currently tacking AI onto everything.

Can you name big companies where this did not happen?

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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I thought it was because of my MacBook pro still being an Intel One and thought that nobody at Apple cares about that anymore. But it seems also the M family suffers from it. Mine doesn't really sleep. It's always warmish despite all my best efforts to make it actually sleep. It's always plugged in, so no biggie, but it's annoying as hell. Reddit wisdom says it's because of my usb peripherals, but it's just a webcam,…

Open Activity Monitor, go to the Energy tab and look for any apps that are marked as preventing sleep.

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

#436

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Why do you want to destroy computing for everybody else just to make a very small group of hackers pleased? Can't you be satisfied with Linux or Windows or BSD? Let normal people have at least one platform that is usable for them.

How is letting users to disable bloat a bad feature? For example, can you remove Chess from MacOS? Nope! Why? What I found on Reddit, it seems because it's integral part of MacOS somehow and I am a bad person for even asking, somehow.

Chess is 11Mb, you must be desperate for space if you want to remove that.

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

#438
I'm still waiting for them to remove Launchpad (which seems like a half assed step towards unifying desktop and tablet systems), and I've yet to meet anyone that uses their weird new desktop management system, the thing with the windows on the left side. That just reminds me of the GUI experiments they did in the 2000s, with 3d environments and whatever Ubuntu (or gnome/kde/whichever) tried to do.

I'm hoping they're gathering usage analytics and will overhaul unused features.

Caveat, I'm probably not their average user, I do almost everything via Spotlight. I don't even use the bottom menu thing, it automatically hides and I only use it when I accidentally hid a window.

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

#439
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I keep being tempted to write same post but named "Does all software work like shit now?", because I swear, this is not just Apple. Software in general feels more bugged as a new norm. Most websites have an element that won't load on the first try, or a button that sometimes needs to be clicked twice because the first click did nothing. Amazon shopping app needs two clicks every now and then, because the first one di…

Something I found annoying at a previous big-tech work, was how the focus on top-level metrics (read, revenue-linked metrics) meant we couldn't fix things. There were a lot of smart people, very interested in fixing things— not only because engineers tend to like fixing things, but also because we, and everyone around us, were users too. For example, many things related to text input were broken on the site. Korean w…

You're implying that buggy software has no impact on the bottom line. I'm not so sure. Users weigh the availability of features against the quality of features. Getting bugs fixed is not necessarly the highest priority for users either. It's a trade-off.

Our use of Microsoft 365 is a pretty good example of that. I moved our company to Microsoft 365 because it had some features we wanted. Then I moved the company off Microsoft 365 because it turned out to be too buggy to be useful.

I realise that the actual users of software are not necessarily the same people making the purchasing decisions. But if productivity suffers and support costs rise then the consequences of choosing low quality software eventually filters through to purchasing decisions.

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apple's software quality (either in terms of polish or just plain QA) has steadily decreased I think the decline of software went hand-in-hand with the decline of the native indie Mac app. They still exist, but when I started with the Mac (2007), there was a very rich ecosystem of native Mac apps. Most stood head and shoulders above their Linux and Windows counterparts. Apple has nearly destroyed that ecosystem with:…

I think most of this is just downstream of the Mac being eclipsed by the iPhone in terms of Apple’s revenue. The Mac just isn’t critical to Apple’s business like it was in 2009 when Snow Leopard came out. They would have started development on SL in 2008, when the iPhone was still a fairly niche product and there wasn’t even an App Store. Now, ios gets the executive attention and it will generally get the best develo…

Yeah I think this is the one, in terms of number of users, revenue, etc. The iPhone is more than 50% of their revenue, Mac is only ~8. Lower volume and higher price, but it doesn't come anywhere near their phone. Same with tablets, although they share an app revenue income stream with the iphone which makes up for the difference in hardware sales.
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