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Tahoe has to be the worst software Apple has released in three decades. It's unbelievable it got through. If Macs and macOS were not a tiny portion of their rev

by xqcgrek2 10mo ago

Tahoe has to be the worst software Apple has released in three decades. It's unbelievable it got through. If Macs and macOS were not a tiny portion of their revenue I would short the stock.

uxp100 10mo ago
iOS 26 is also very bad. Many Christmas conversations between boomers baffled by their phones, and as I younger (than boomer) person I am not as baffled but there are a number of things that take more button presses than they did in previous versions for no apparent reason. And it’s real ugly imo.
- treetalker 10mo ago
  Viewing all tabs in Safari is the thorn in my side.
  - uxp100 10mo ago
    Yes, that’s the main one I was thinking of, though there are spots in the photos app too iirc.
  - spencercwood 10mo ago
    You can swipe up (or maybe down if you put it on top) on the address bar and it will take you to the all tabs view.
  - DrProtic 10mo ago
    I got so frustrated with that, luckily there’s an option is setting to bring the button back to be visible and not in a menu.
- xp84 10mo ago
  They’ve achieved sufficient lock-in that they can enshittify everything as much as they want with no consequences. Switching has too high an ecosystem cost, plus in the US it’s a special case that a lot of people think if you don’t use all Apple products you are probably poor.
vegardx 10mo ago
One thing that made Tahoe even worse is that Apple changed what they considered an update or upgrade, so for Tahoe it was suddenly considered as a update and not an upgrade, in all management solutions. This force-upgraded a lot of Macs at work and we lost days of effective work across many engineers. The machines was practically useless for weeks. They clearly don't care about power users anymore, and haven't for quite some time. It's so sad.
- hexbin010 10mo ago
  That's egregiously bad, and malicious.
- deleted 10mo ago
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xp84 10mo ago
>short the stock The frustrating part is that even if you take the position that iOS 26 is just as awful, their incentives are so decoupled from what you’d hope they would be, that ruining your product isn’t really bad for the business! After all, Apple can just point to Windows 11’s embedded ads, three or four layers of different generations of overlapping settings panes, and inferior hardware and dare you to switch. Most of the customer base has only those two realistic options.

Tahoe has to be the worst software Apple has released in three decades. It's unbelievable it got through. If Macs and macOS were not a tiny portion of their revenue I would short the stock.

uxp100 10mo ago

iOS 26 is also very bad. Many Christmas conversations between boomers baffled by their phones, and as I younger (than boomer) person I am not as baffled but there are a number of things that take more button presses than they did in previous versions for no apparent reason. And it’s real ugly imo.

treetalker 10mo ago
Viewing all tabs in Safari is the thorn in my side.
- uxp100 10mo ago
  Yes, that’s the main one I was thinking of, though there are spots in the photos app too iirc.
- spencercwood 10mo ago
  You can swipe up (or maybe down if you put it on top) on the address bar and it will take you to the all tabs view.
- DrProtic 10mo ago
  I got so frustrated with that, luckily there’s an option is setting to bring the button back to be visible and not in a menu.
xp84 10mo ago
They’ve achieved sufficient lock-in that they can enshittify everything as much as they want with no consequences. Switching has too high an ecosystem cost, plus in the US it’s a special case that a lot of people think if you don’t use all Apple products you are probably poor.

vegardx 10mo ago

One thing that made Tahoe even worse is that Apple changed what they considered an update or upgrade, so for Tahoe it was suddenly considered as a update and not an upgrade, in all management solutions. This force-upgraded a lot of Macs at work and we lost days of effective work across many engineers. The machines was practically useless for weeks. They clearly don't care about power users anymore, and haven't for quite some time. It's so sad.

hexbin010 10mo ago
That's egregiously bad, and malicious.
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xp84 10mo ago

>short the stock The frustrating part is that even if you take the position that iOS 26 is just as awful, their incentives are so decoupled from what you’d hope they would be, that ruining your product isn’t really bad for the business! After all, Apple can just point to Windows 11’s embedded ads, three or four layers of different generations of overlapping settings panes, and inferior hardware and dare you to switch. Most of the customer base has only those two realistic options.