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Apple likes end users to discover stuff like that on their own. They hyped it up a ton at the WWDC keynote before it came out, but only a small % of mostly deve
by zwily 4y ago
Apple likes end users to discover stuff like that on their own. They hyped it up a ton at the WWDC keynote before it came out, but only a small % of mostly developers see that. Part of their philosophy is to delight users along the way and maybe finding things like that is delightsome?
They rarely throw "check out the new features!" dialogs on upgrades. (Sometimes they do, but it's rare relative to the # of new features.)
- mlindner 4y agoThis is one of these things that has kept me an Apple user all these years. It's been a core part of their software philosophy for a very long time. One of the first of these moments was when on early Mac OS X versions where you could drag and drop almost anything into anything, and it would consume it in some way. For example, dropping an image into any text box would either render it as an embedded image, paste it as a hyperlink, or paste the filename, depending on the context. And these things applied to so many different metadata and media formats that everything just moves around easily. There's always been so many little great features that you just discover through the process of using the software.