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Re: Slow Liquid

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Post by _2d30 »

lapcat wrote: post #70
_2d30 wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You asked why it was upvoted and I gave you the reason. That the referenced post has quality content and some quality discussion is not a rejection of that. I referenced that post not because it is analogous to this post but that the discussion on it is revelatory (which is clear by what I said). Hacker News truly has a large number of topics for which the reactions and responses are reflexively negative and large in…

The problem here is that you're talking about the comments on the submission, whereas I was not. I'm talking about the upvotes on the submission. It's entirely expected and unsurprising that Apple's announcement of a major macOS release would receive a ton of upvotes, regardless of how people feel about the release. That's why I think your analogy is irrelevant. A low quality submission should not receive many upvote…

> The problem here is that you're talking about the comments on the submission, whereas I was not. I'm talking about the upvotes on the submission.

I think the idea that one behavior being used as evidence for another behavior is problematic is ridiculous.

Re: Slow Liquid

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Post by lossolo »

crazygringo wrote: post #11

I will say, wait at least a day before coming to this conclusion. Maybe the iPhone 13 Mini really will stay choppy, but even my brand-new current gen iPad got super-choppy for the first couple of hours and I was freaked out. Turns out it was just that thing where iOS reindexes everything for Spotlight on a major version upgrade, or god only knows what it's doing in the background.

I installed iOS 26 on my iPhone 13 Pro three days ago. It’s still choppy, especially noticeable when looking at the new search window, which has laggy animations. Besides that, the most noticeable issue is just scrolling through pages of apps. On iOS 18 everything was smooth, but here I can see choppiness and lag. And no, my batter is not below 80%.

Re: Slow Liquid

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Post by adastra22 »

Insanity wrote: post #59
adastra22 wrote: post #38

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You can turn those off, no? When I upgraded it asked me which I preferred, the old or the new style, and I kept the old. I presume it’s a setting toggle somewhere.

No, the original slide over is gone. See https://www.reddit.com/r/ipad/comments/1nk36lz/can_we_get_ap...

I see. I didn’t realize it was an option between two totally new interfaces. What a weird way to handle it.

Re: Slow Liquid

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Post by Insanity »

adastra22 wrote: post #73
Insanity wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, the original slide over is gone. See https://www.reddit.com/r/ipad/comments/1nk36lz/can_we_get_ap...

I see. I didn’t realize it was an option between two totally new interfaces. What a weird way to handle it.

Yup, it’s quite a frustrating experience to use the iPad now.

Re: Slow Liquid

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Post by concinds »

waynecochran wrote: post #3

Remember when Snow Leopard came out? No new user features. It just ran faster. Greatest OS release in history. Why can't Apple just do that again with one of their OS's?

I don't understand this narrative anymore. The yearly macOS changes are objectively minimal. It's a mature platform. This year, a new design and a few power user features (Spotlight, Shortcuts, tidbits like Call Screening/Hold) and framework overhauls (Metal 4), that's it. Heck, new design excepted, I doubt Snow Leopard added fewer features than Tahoe.

Snow Leopard was mainly framework overhauls, but they're still doing those, year after year, only piecewise. People praise Snow Leopard as a golden release, but early on it was very buggy and, for many, slow (I still remember). It only became great after refinement. Now Tahoe seems stable enough (not counting minor UI glitches) that even Ableton/Pro Tools/SPSS/AdobeCC and other frequent troublemakers work fine on release day, an unusual feat. The "downhill" narrative seems to be nothing but baseless nostalgia.

Everybody also forgets that Apple always did yearly macOS releases except for a short gap around the iPhone and iPad introductions. That's not new either.

Re: Slow Liquid

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Post by tomhow »

NaomiLehman wrote: post #63

damn almost as bad as the IDF /s

It's not clear what you were intending to achieve with this, but please don't post off-topic inflammatory comments here. HN is for curious conversation, not whatever this is. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45303687 and marked it off topic.

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