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Preview used to be a really great app. Similarly, Mac OS used to be a pretty great operating system. And then... > "... Apple re-organized its software engine

Preview used to be a really great app. Similarly, Mac OS used to be a pretty great operating system. And then... > "... Apple re-organized its software engineering department so there's no longer a dedicated Mac operating system team. There is now just one team, and most of the engineers are iOS first, giving the people working on the iPhone and iPad more power." https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-20/how-apple-alienated-mac-loyalists https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-20/how-apple... The new PDF editing solution is to fumble around with our fat fingers on a clunky oversized iPhone named "iPad Pro" , hooray. By the way, when was the last time you heard something positive about the Mac, Mac OS, or the Apple effort with the platform?

chmaynard 10y ago
When I worked at Apple in the early 2000s, I used to wander over to IL2 for Core Graphics meetings and occasional chats with some of the brilliant engineers working there. John Calhoun, a former Mac game developer, had total responsibility for the Preview app for a time. He was happy as a clam working on Preview and he seemed very proud of his work. As I recall, Preview back then was rock solid.
- mjmsmith 10y ago
  Yep, the opposite of Collective Code Ownership.
m_mueller 10y ago
OSX in my eye has had the following unique features that have kept me sticking to it: * fully interoperable with PDF * HiDPI that always works * a clean and consistent configuration system for the OS and third party apps (defaults system), making it easy to (a) configure anything and (b) reset anything back to factory * superb touchpad support I guess you can now knock off the first one from this list and there seems to be movements on the Windows side to fix HiDPI and touchpad support (always 2x / precision touch). I'll check back in a year to see whether this has worked and whether Windows laptops have reached an acceptable state in these matters. Macs are loosing their distinct advantages one by one currently, mostly by total mismanagement of an almost early-90ies-Apple magnitude.

chmaynard 10y ago

When I worked at Apple in the early 2000s, I used to wander over to IL2 for Core Graphics meetings and occasional chats with some of the brilliant engineers working there. John Calhoun, a former Mac game developer, had total responsibility for the Preview app for a time. He was happy as a clam working on Preview and he seemed very proud of his work. As I recall, Preview back then was rock solid.

mjmsmith 10y ago
Yep, the opposite of Collective Code Ownership.

m_mueller 10y ago

OSX in my eye has had the following unique features that have kept me sticking to it: * fully interoperable with PDF * HiDPI that always works * a clean and consistent configuration system for the OS and third party apps (defaults system), making it easy to (a) configure anything and (b) reset anything back to factory * superb touchpad support I guess you can now knock off the first one from this list and there seems to be movements on the Windows side to fix HiDPI and touchpad support (always 2x / precision touch). I'll check back in a year to see whether this has worked and whether Windows laptops have reached an acceptable state in these matters. Macs are loosing their distinct advantages one by one currently, mostly by total mismanagement of an almost early-90ies-Apple magnitude.