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This. People just are not building, crafting and using desktop apps specifically for Mac anymore. That ship has sailed. They either use their own frameworks a

This. People just are not building, crafting and using desktop apps specifically for Mac anymore. That ship has sailed. They either use their own frameworks and build on all 3 platforms, or use Electron. On a lot of daily things people use iOS. I am thinking what apps I actually use on my Mac the most. It’s Chrome, VSCode, Terminal. I still use Preview a lot though… I hope the Swift pushers won’t touch that. If they screw up Preview, I don’t know what I’ll do. Preview is amazing honestly.

elcritch 4y ago
Preview is amazing. And now I'm worried the Swift pushers will screw it up. More likely they'll release a new "better" Preview thats half as fast, buggy, and missing most features.
Lio 4y ago
This. I had a contract a while back that meant I had to work on desktop Linux for the first time in years. The experience on my XPS13 is not as good as macOS[1]. It’s not far off though …and FOSS is always improving. They have the edge right now but if Apple keeps neglecting macOS, degrade it to be more like iOS[2] or keep adding rent seeking nagware, Linux will be “good enough” for me. 1. Seriously, why can’t I have subtitles off by default as a preference in Gnome Video again? 2. Why is there an unused dictation toggle on my iOS keyboard but no undo key? Why can’t I copy and paste in every iOS app? Why is the spell checker so hard to trigger? etc, etc
- KerrAvon 4y ago
  Can’t answer the rest of it, but copy and paste works anywhere there’s a standard text field unless the developer has gone to the trouble of disabling it. There are ways to make it work in non-standard text fields as well. You should send bug reports to the developers of the apps where it’s not working, same as you would if it didn’t work in macOS apps.
kcplate 4y ago
Yes, Apple folks that are listening…please do not screw up preview.
brundolf 4y ago
Yeah... I could totally forgive them for sleeping on the third-party GUI frameworks, but I can't forgive them for neglecting or botching first-party apps/core parts of the OS. And those don't even make business sense to de-prioritize. I don't really know what's happening there but it's not good; the Apple Music app for Mac is one of the buggiest, slowest Mac apps I've ever used. It's distressing that this is the treatment their flagship services are getting.

elcritch 4y ago

Preview is amazing. And now I'm worried the Swift pushers will screw it up. More likely they'll release a new "better" Preview thats half as fast, buggy, and missing most features.

Lio 4y ago

This. I had a contract a while back that meant I had to work on desktop Linux for the first time in years. The experience on my XPS13 is not as good as macOS[1]. It’s not far off though …and FOSS is always improving. They have the edge right now but if Apple keeps neglecting macOS, degrade it to be more like iOS[2] or keep adding rent seeking nagware, Linux will be “good enough” for me. 1. Seriously, why can’t I have subtitles off by default as a preference in Gnome Video again? 2. Why is there an unused dictation toggle on my iOS keyboard but no undo key? Why can’t I copy and paste in every iOS app? Why is the spell checker so hard to trigger? etc, etc

KerrAvon 4y ago
Can’t answer the rest of it, but copy and paste works anywhere there’s a standard text field unless the developer has gone to the trouble of disabling it. There are ways to make it work in non-standard text fields as well. You should send bug reports to the developers of the apps where it’s not working, same as you would if it didn’t work in macOS apps.

kcplate 4y ago

Yes, Apple folks that are listening…please do not screw up preview.

brundolf 4y ago

Yeah... I could totally forgive them for sleeping on the third-party GUI frameworks, but I can't forgive them for neglecting or botching first-party apps/core parts of the OS. And those don't even make business sense to de-prioritize. I don't really know what's happening there but it's not good; the Apple Music app for Mac is one of the buggiest, slowest Mac apps I've ever used. It's distressing that this is the treatment their flagship services are getting.