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Apple needs a Snow Sequoia
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Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia
#492Earlier quoted context omitted.
So it is not really a failure when the solution is to adopt Windows and Direct X translation API? I thought only Apple had a distortion field.
Is it a failure when everyone writes javascript/html/css instead of doing native applications for non gaming? Most of HN seems to think using a web browser as a translation layer is a good idea, yet they complain when games use a translation layer.
Yes, definitely, that is why now we have ChromeOS developers instead of Web developers.
Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia
#493In my own experience, I have noticed that Apple's software 'breaks' more on older hardware, be that Mac's, iPhones or iPads. For all the credit apple gets for supporting older devices, those devices are definitely not treated as first class citizens. For example, the touch keyboard on my (work) iPhone 12 Pro works decidedly worse than on my (private) iPhone 16 Pro. The error rate is much worse, and I believe it's due to the amount of useless features that get added with each new installment of iOS.
Whether that's intentional or not (I believe it is), Apple should focus more on delivering a stable experience, on both new and old devices.
I echo the sentiment a lot of people have already expressed. That is, using Apple products is like being a junkie. You need to use their products because there is no real alternative, but you feel kind of dirty because of their practices.To me, that sounds like it should be a huge red flag for Apple execs.
Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia
#494Am I the only one who is perfectly fine with the current macOs/IOS landscape? I encounter no bugs on daily basis, if at all.
No you're not. This thread feels like a nostalgic crowd who idealizes the past and falls into the “it was better in the old days” trap, letting go of the myriad of things that improved since then.
Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia
#495Earlier quoted context omitted.
The problem with your reasoning is that Windows/PC doesn't need to emulate Orbit OS and LibGNM, Sony also supports Direct X and Win32 directly on their engines.
"supports" as in I see articles in the PC gaming press about technical problems with From/Kojima games a year after I've finished said games on console with zero issues.
Where is Windows Proton like for Playstation APIs?
"Technical issues" has many meanings.
Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia
#496In my own experience, I have noticed that Apple's software 'breaks' more on older hardware, be that Mac's, iPhones or iPads. For all the credit apple gets for supporting older devices, those devices are definitely not treated as first class citizens. For example, the touch keyboard on my (work) iPhone 12 Pro works decidedly worse than on my (private) iPhone 16 Pro. The error rate is much worse, and I believe it's due…
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I've been holding over and running 10.5 on my iMac 2019, but then in the beginning of the year had to upgrade to Sequoia (due to software dependencies).
Of course this is just a correlation, not necessary a causation, but within a month the iMac's internal SSD was corrupted to the point that it was unrecoverable, and my 40GB RAM corrupted.
So, yeah, at the very least not sure how much testing went into Sequoia for non Mac Silicon macs.
Quite disappointing considering how long a normal Mac's lifetime used to be, which also justified its high initial hardware price.
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#497I 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…
It's true. One example I can give is how Gmail used to automatically recognise flights and hotel bookings and add them to calendar.
It was suddenly completely broken and stopped working a few years ago. I tried every setting to try to get it working but couldn't.
I feel like a stone age caveman having to manually type everything into my Google calendar.
There are a lot of people raising the same issue in Google forums, but it's not fixed yet.
Ironically they are adding new Gemini AI features into Gmail, which can't do this as well.
Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia
#498There 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…
I do love Gnome. If only we had hardware to run it :/.
I'm stuck on a MBP because it's the only laptop with a great screen, speakers, and battery life. Meanwhile my keyboard keys keep getting stuck after a year of usage, and OSX is garbage. Soon as there is similar hardware I can load Linux on, I'll be insta-switching.
Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia
#499Earlier quoted context omitted.
What’s the actual argument that will credibly convince the top leaders of Apple, to push fixing MacOS up the list of priorities? Because right now it’s clearly so far down, beneath dozens of other priorities, that expecting it to just happen one day seems futile.
Apple is addicted to growth. It is as big as it should be, but it acts like an early stage startup always trying to build some new flashy thing to attract the next customer.
Okay, if you are so confident in your convictions, convince enough Apple shareholders of this.
Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia
#500I don't think that's quite right. Snow Leopard was a lot of changes to a lot of the OS code base and wasn't great out of the gate, taking multiple dot releases, like all large-scale software updates do, to stabilize and bugfix enough to be "good." There is no silver bullet, just a lot of lead ones and the answer to Apple's quality problem is to begin baking QA back into the process in a meaningful way after letting i…
I think some people would be surprised how effective reaching out to apple is for squashing bugs. Three times now I've been assigned an engineer to pin point the bug I was experiencing, after which it was fixed in the next dot release. By all means people should complain on forums (why not?), but a forum post complaining about some years-old bug isn't going to be anywhere near as effective as contacting apple's suppo…
You must be the lucky one, because other people have had horrible experiences with Apple’s Feedback Assistant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38164735