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its very odd that apparently everyone working in Apple software dev either refuses to dogfood this stuff or just uses iPads for everything.
by jwlake 9mo ago
its very odd that apparently everyone working in Apple software dev either refuses to dogfood this stuff or just uses iPads for everything.
- hamdingers 9mo agoSo many of the rough edges disappear when "Reduce Transparency" is enabled I've theorized that setting must be pretty popular around Apple's offices.
- normie3000 9mo agoMy browser has a half-inch white bar at the bottom constantly, presumably because of this setting.
- hamdingers 9mo agoCannot reproduce on 26.2 with either Safari or Chrome with the setting on. That would infuriate me.
- normie3000 9mo agoWhen first scrolling, the bottom page controls disappear. But they leave their container blocking the page content.
- xp84 9mo agoUsing that option suddenly nerfed all my themes in Edge, forcing the window title bars to all be gray instead of the bold colors I use to differentiate the different profiles I use for work. I wish there was a “Reduce bullshit” toggle on MacOS and iOS, and also that it would skip all the increasingly stupid animations. No, reduce motion sucks because it just uses an equally-slow crossfade. Just STFU and let me move to the next task and stop animating everything. Good for you, you have a good GPU, I don’t care.
- mc32 9mo agoIronically that would be a new kind of dogfooding.
- lotsofpulp 9mo agoIt would not matter if they dogfooded it, the decision makers higher up in the chain are getting paid more to make a visible change and/or increase revenue, not to make a better user experience.
- g947o 9mo agoI think this goes both ways. Famously, Jobs' demands pushed engineers to think and work harder to achieve what they think was impossible, which resulted in many of the most iconic designs of personal electronic devices in history. On the other hand, we have butterfly keyboard and this.
- lapcat 9mo agoJobs did not run on a fixed annual schedule like Tim Cook does. Mac OS X 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 10.6, and 10.7 all took over 12 months to develop, sometimes much more, and 10.5 was famously delayed out to 30 months. Jobs may have pushed engineers, but he was more careful about what he pushed out the door to consumers.
- franktankbank 9mo agoDoesn't sound very agile..............
- andrekandre 9mo agoagile is no silver bullet...
- keyshapegeo99 9mo agoiPadOS 26 is an even bigger F-up than macOS 26, though It's hugely embarrassing how they've had to perform a screeching U-turn in bringing back Slide Over and dock-launchable Split View with the .1 and .2 updates - lest graphic artists and others who depended upon these features left their platform in droves. This is essentially an admission that iPadOS 26's touch-based UX had precisely zero thought put into it. They do not have a clue what they're doing There are still many, many more nonsensical UX degradations and bugs that need ironing out
- mitchell209 9mo agoFor years I was begging to get better multitasking and more powerful apps, especially after they introduced the magic keyboard. They can take it all back now. I'd rather they stick with 0 multitasking, if this is the best they can do.