That was just one of the icon redesigns that got to me: https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2025/06/09/2130
WWDC25: macOS Tahoe Breaks Decades of Finder History
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Re: WWDC25: macOS Tahoe Breaks Decades of Finder History
#82Wow, the original logo from 1996 looks so good. It is like every release they redesigned the previous logo and the current logo is deep-fried.
Re: WWDC25: macOS Tahoe Breaks Decades of Finder History
#83If they really want to improve MacOS they should add synonym based search in Settings. I should not be forced to know by heart the arcane speech their marketing department chose to replace consecrated terms. Just today it took me 5 minutes to unearth the Speech Rate settings. It feels like using Siri and not knowing the magic words. Come on Apple, synonym matching is easy. Just use a LLM to generate synonyms to all t…
It wasn’t so bad when it was still control centre - I had used it for at least 15 years and knew the placement of everything. Ever since it became system settings I get lost every time I open the app.
Re: WWDC25: macOS Tahoe Breaks Decades of Finder History
#84Re: WWDC25: macOS Tahoe Breaks Decades of Finder History
#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
Alfred will show you the full path of the search results https://www.alfredapp.com/
how would one compare alfred and raycast? I've never owned a mac before, just got one a month ago.
Alfred is old and efficient, not very flashy or bling-blingy. And zero AI integration, definitely no subscriptions.
It also Just Works and stays out of the way until you need it.
I've replaced spotlight with Alfred maybe a decade ago and haven't looked back since.
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#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think this point was subtly mentioned on the WWDC State of the Union, around the 40:54 mark. https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2025/102
That was anything but subtle. > When you use Apple's native frameworks, you can write better apps with less code. Some other frameworks promise the ability to write code once for Android and iOS. And that may sound good, but by the time you've written custom code to adapt each platform's conventions, connected to hardware with platform-specific APIs, implemented accessibility, and then filled in functionality gaps by…
I would love to see the top 100 Mac developers finish this sentence in their own words:
> Apple's native frameworks are uncompromisingly focused on ___________
I bet it wouldn't align with what Apple said.
Re: WWDC25: macOS Tahoe Breaks Decades of Finder History
#87The old Finder logo is a clever ambiguous image. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambiguous_image The new Finder logo has so much meaning symbolically for me. It actually has a very ugly meaning to me. I felt that it is the end of the road for me. My first Mac was a Powermac 7300/200. btw, nobody ever mentioned that the red close button is next to the minimize button. This is similar to the close button being next to th…
If you have time to tinker with it, I highly recommend you spend some time with classic Mac OS! It obviously cannot replace the modern computer, but as a sidekick for your brain it is wonderful… Mac OS 9's Acrobat Reader still supports the PDF website captures by Safari in Sonoma.
I use it as an external brain. I love that the Finder is spatial and has a one-to-one relationship between windows and documents and files and icons… and I benefit from it leaving icons where I put them
And sometimes I play great 90s/2k games on my external brain :)
Re: WWDC25: macOS Tahoe Breaks Decades of Finder History
#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe it's a subtle way to punish non-native apps that recreate UI elements, but do not use SwiftUI. The user gets used to the native way of UI elements and everything else will look odd after a while, forcing developers to ditch everything that isn't truly native.
One doesn't need to use SwiftUI for the look. Things like the tab bar, navigation bar are available in Swift too. (for those unfamiliar, Swift is different and older than SwiftUI).
Surely you mean UIKit, not Swift? Swift is indeed older than SwiftUI, but is a language, not a UI framework, and there are no “things like tab bar, navigation bar” available in Swift per se: a framework gotta be used.