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> IMO it's no worse now than it was in 10.6, except it has a ton more features. Many of those features are the reasons why it is worse to many people. New code
by deong 10y ago
> IMO it's no worse now than it was in 10.6, except it has a ton more features.
Many of those features are the reasons why it is worse to many people. New code comes with a cost. Every new system feature (handoff, clipboard sharing, sandboxing, etc.) is more places for bugs to pop up.
There was no code in 10.6 that could cause your desktop, documents folder, and photo library to just randomly "disappear" one day when iCloud decides to have a few too many drinks and stumbles home. In 10.6, they didn't need a new low-level networking library to support drag-and-drop between your iPhone and your Mac, and as such, that code wasn't there to repeatedly rename your Mac "Foo (7)" or whatever.
Sure, if you use the new features, then on balance, they're probably fine, despite the problems that pop up. But a lot of people see these features as solving problems they don't have and solving them in a way that makes loads of things that used to work reliably no longer quite so reliable.
- eridius 10y ago> In 10.6, they didn't need a new low-level networking library to support drag-and-drop between your iPhone and your Mac, and as such, that code wasn't there to repeatedly rename your Mac "Foo (7)" or whatever. What are you talking about? Assuming you mean universal clipboard (you can't drag & drop to your iPhone), that's built on top of handoff, a technology we've had for a few years now, and has nothing at all to do with your computer being named "Foo (7)". I suspect you're thinking of the discoveryd fiasco, which isn't related to any feature work at all but was caused by Stuart Cheshire retiring (and was fixed by Stuart coming back out of retirement).
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