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iOS 26's Digital Glass Design: Home Screen Widgets, Camera, and More
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I forgot it was still happening as recently as that. Terrible update, burying useful settings 1 or 2 hidden levels deep may be necessary on mobile devices but not at all on desktop. It’s years later and I still wish I could go back to the old one. Always having to use the search box to find things when before I never had to.So they redid system settings and people complained, that was because it got to be too many icons in the old system settings, the rest of MacOS is not copying iOS or iPadOS.
Now where is Classical port?
On the one hand I'm excited, on the other I remember the disappointment and problems of iOS 7, some things have just been fixed over the years.
I just really hope that the UI / UX doesn't get worse.
Apple is all about design, if design fail…
I just really hope that the UI / UX doesn't get worse.
Apple is all about design, if design fail…
Crazy how few apps were originally included in Mac OS X.About to enter full circle, baby! Glass-like transparency and depth effects... MacBooks already look an awful lot like a skinny version of the Titanium Powerbooks...!
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Based on the past couple of iOS releases, I'm not confident that Apple can deliver on the stability and reliability front. I too want a redesign as I have never liked the flat aesthetic, but not confident they can do it well and stable enough.
iOS 7 had many "looked good in screenshots but doesn't work well in real life" design choices and the tweaks continue to happen until iOS 9 at least. Most of the adjustments were within the iOS7 period though.
Interesting. I felt the opposite: iOS 7 relied on animations and motion effects much more than its “artisanally bitmapped” predecessors, so it came off much better in real life than in those garish neon screenshots. Hoping that this overhaul will strike a nice balance.
Apple is now years too slow in rolling out new features. 26 looks like it's shaping up to be mainly for children that want to play with Emoji's & generating cartoons. No substance. Chat GPT is years ahead of Apple, Siri is still the same useless trash that it was when it was launched. Amazon & Google have provided good personal assistants for years already. Apple just concentrates on their image & is afraid to take any risks at all. it sit's around doing nothing while the EU is making laws to destroy it's income. The EU would fold like a wet towel if Apple just said, we are exiting the EU market, Apple products will no longer be available in EU countries if these laws are passed. People would rise up & throw their communist politicians to the curb in no time. They have just lost the plot under Mr. Cook. I don't believe Steve Jobs would have put up with any of this, heads would have rolled years ago.
Another year, another tumbleweed rolling across the landscape.
I think it’s time to admit it’s been a full decade since Apple made a computer I’d purchase again, and almost as long for an iPad & phone. Perhaps it’s time to unload and branch out beyond.
I think it’s time to admit it’s been a full decade since Apple made a computer I’d purchase again, and almost as long for an iPad & phone. Perhaps it’s time to unload and branch out beyond.
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One can’t find any of the older Intel based Macs comparable to recent M3/M4 Macs. Being able to launch multiple applications at once is beyond those older Intel Macs.
Pfft, you want to be absurd I can do better than that. They didn’t even have enough power to launch the notes app! They couldn’t even boot up without a waterwheel! They could only run one OS at a time, or at all, and all the hardware was all integrated & couldn’t be upgraded once the OS gets its final update in a few years, making the whole machine just rapidly devaluing disposable e-waste. …oh wait.
Oh it’s the fact that since mid 2012 you had soldiered RAM and SSD’s. Then there is no facts relating to OS longevity with ARM, heck the first retina Intel MBP Mac I had 9 years of OS support from Apple, but by the time it was at the EOL and quite slow the M1 arrived. Now you can buy a M4 mini for $549 Amazon. So what if it’s now all soldered it’s so cheap it’s ridiculous. But if you love those older boat anchors so be it.
Well as long as you feel like you've got all the answers, to a question that was never asked, and without knowing any relevant specifics, by all means knock yourself out dispensing completely irrelevant purchasing advice. I just put another 128GB of ram in one of our remaining 2019 i9 iMac CAD workstations yesterday, I'll be sure to throw it into the sea for you, and get a $500 ARM laptop (that won't run the CAD software) because it's so cheap it's practically disposable, and generating e-waste is great.
The new UI sounds genuinely beautiful, but it leaves a bitter taste in my mouth that Apple has time to make sweeping cosmetic changes yet no time to update their aging stable of first-party apps. For example, I’ve been waiting years for them to update the appalling stock keyboard. It's light years behind SwiftKey and Gboard, both of which are sabotaged by Apple to work atrociously with iOS and iPadOS voice dictation. The keyboard makes a chore of the simplest tasks and offers zero convenience or productivity features to the end user.
Apple's keyboard needs an option for a dedicated number row, predictive text that works with Google search, on-key punctuation symbols like the iPadOS keyboard has, voice dictation that actually follows grammar and capitalization rules, and to be fully resizable. Don't understand why a company at this level isn't producing world-class first-party apps. How are they not embarrassed and humiliated by what they deliver?
Apple's keyboard needs an option for a dedicated number row, predictive text that works with Google search, on-key punctuation symbols like the iPadOS keyboard has, voice dictation that actually follows grammar and capitalization rules, and to be fully resizable. Don't understand why a company at this level isn't producing world-class first-party apps. How are they not embarrassed and humiliated by what they deliver?
Sorry to step into your conversation, FPS contractor here... but just wanted to let you know that I run 3D CAD software in my M2 MacBook Air for on-site file revisions and editing, with performance comparable and sometimes exceeding the Windows i9 and Intel Macs workstations we have dedicated for our projects integration to architectural and structural BIM files... so yes, the cheap ones run 2D and 3D CAD software with no problems at all. Don't be afraid of them, they are excellent e-waste in my opinion. 👍