The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe

Post by halapro » Mon, Jan 12, 2026, 4:15 AM UTC

DonHopkins wrote: post #202

areoform wrote: post #131

Apple is at the point where they need a Jobs-ian correction again. Steve Jobs would have had a fit over this product line. As '97 era Jobs put it, "The products suck! There's no sex in them anymore!" My modest proposal for Apple diehards (especially employees) is to feed all the data that exists on Jobs into a multi-modal model so that Apple can hear just how much their shit sucks from Jobs' digital ghost. A good sta…

>"The products suck! There's no sex in them anymore!" Enter "Lickable Pixels" -- the phrase that stuck to describe the Aqua era. Introducing Mac OS X's Aqua interface, Jobs said at Macworld in January 2000: "We made the buttons on the screen look so good you'll want to lick them." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aqua_(user_interface) Then there was the red hot irresistibly sexy and well designed IBM Thinkpad TrackPoint…

Post by SoftTalker » Mon, Jan 12, 2026, 4:18 AM UTC

halapro wrote: post #430

burntcaramel wrote: post #414

This is why Steve Jobs demoed software. Watch when he unveils Aqua, there’s a couple of slides of the lickable visuals and then he sits down and demos it. He clicks and taps and shows it working. Because that’s what you the user will do. He’ll show boring things like resizing windows because those things matter to you trying and if he cares about resizing windows to this degree then imagine what else this product has…

> He’ll show boring things like resizing windows If you use something long enough, you'll get used to its idiosyncrasies. Jobs would have clicked and dragged 10px away from the rounded corner here instinctively. This is why the owner of an old car can turn it on and drive away in a blink while his son has trouble: hold the accelerator 10% down, giggle the key a little while turning, pull the wheel a bit, ... all come…

Post by TheDong » Mon, Jan 12, 2026, 4:20 AM UTC

Wyverald wrote: post #409

projektfu wrote: post #206

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I especially liked the part with the hand trying to grab the plate. Perfect imagery.

That was a sensible chuckle indeed... but then it also made me realize that grabbing things IRL _moves_ them, not _resizes_ them. Nothing IRL really resizes. So while it makes a lot of sense to grab inside the object to move it, IMO it actually makes less sense to grab _inside_ the object to resize it. (Imagine the reverse argument -- IRL you can actually grab the middle of the plate to move it, but if grabbing the m…

Post by paustint » Mon, Jan 12, 2026, 4:24 AM UTC

DevKoala wrote: post #122

I have been using Rectangle and Spectacle before it. Wanting to resize windows like in this article isn't natural to me anymore.

Post by literallyroy » Mon, Jan 12, 2026, 4:27 AM UTC

iLemming wrote: post #185

signal11 wrote: post #9

Tahoe is a macOS mis-step on par with Windows 8 or Windows Vista. If you’re from Apple and reading this, my feedback is pretty succinct: “I don’t recommend others upgrade. I wish I didn’t.” Luckily for Apple, Windows 11 is not exactly in a position to attract switchers. Let’s see if Apple can turn things around. iOS 8+ did improve on iOS 7’s worst bits.

One of the most annoying things after installing Tahoe for me, that for no good reason an ordinary app would randomly lose its focus. In the midst of my typing. This is unbelievably preposterous and I just can't stop hating Apple for this crap. How the fuck this is acceptable? I just have no words. What makes it even worse that I couldn't even complain about it on their support pages - they just keep removing my comm…