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Apple achieved it with Mac OS X Snow Leopard. Apple then spent ~15 years un-achieving it. It started with iOS 7, and has culminated in the Liquid (Gl)ass era: a
by gnarlouse 7mo ago
Apple achieved it with Mac OS X Snow Leopard. Apple then spent ~15 years un-achieving it. It started with iOS 7, and has culminated in the Liquid (Gl)ass era: a mess of unintuitive menus, terrible and inconsistent UI patterns, the lobotomite twins Siri & Apple Intelligence.
Although, surprisingly, built on top of absolutely incredible silicon.
- Aperocky 7mo agoIt has posix shell, all is forgiven, can't complain about UI patterns that I never interact with.
- rbanffy 7mo agoExactly. Who could imagine Apple would eventually inherit Sun’s crown as the king of the RISC unix workstation?
- pjmlp 7mo agoNo one, given how A/UX went down. It was a mix of not buying Be, having a reverse acquisition with NeXT, Jobs taking over the reigns yet again, Sun doing a bunch of bad decisions. Nowadays, following the spirit of old Apple, they only care the UNIX underpinnings as good enough, and that's about it.
- rbanffy 7mo agoStill, they managed to bring Unix to the masses. On a RISC platform even. And their Unix is just fine.
- pjmlp 7mo agoUNIX had already won the server room by them with RISC. Lets not pretend outside IIS with ASP, later ASP.NET, Active Directory, Sharepoint, SQL Server, SMB, there were any other deployment scenarios left for Windows.
- rbanffy 7mo agoI have to confess I've never seen a modern .NET stack deployment on anything other than Linux.
- girvo 7mo ago> Although, surprisingly, built on top of absolutely incredible silicon. To me that's because thats a capital E "Engineering" driven task that Product can't get their grubby little mitts on and ruin.
- lmaoguy 7mo ago[flagged]
- LoganDark 7mo agoMinority in Apple R&D is mostly Asian, not Indian
- Henchman21 7mo agoI don't particularly care what their ethnicity happens to be. Just write good, bug free code that does things people want. How they get to there from here? No f'ing idea -- but I know that first they have to have to want to and they _clearly_ do not.
- andrekandre 7mo ago> Just write good, bug free code that does things people want in big tech, this is rarely caused by individuals and more by management, just fyi
- alsetmusic 7mo agoPretty cool being racist. I noticed people from varying ethnic backgrounds seemed to land in particular divisions (maybe schools in those countries focused on these cores), but I wouldn't ascribe nationality to anything as broadly as you did.
- iJohnDoe 7mo agoIt's a fair point. The Indian take over is more relevant in Microsoft.
- tonyedgecombe 7mo agoSnow Leopard was riddled with bugs. Take a look at all the updates it had following its release to confirm that.
- AlexandrB 7mo agoIf that's true, consider what it means for modern macOS quality when people look back on SL fondly as the most stable release.
- tonyedgecombe 7mo agoI think it means they are wearing rose tinted glasses.
- EldrRoot 7mo agoExactly. SL was not as polished as people remember it to be. They’re just delusional with nostalgia.
- tonyedgecombe 7mo agoThe noteworthy thing about Snow Leopard is that it was released at all. Apple had shifted all their effort onto getting the iPhone released and development on OS X pretty much stopped.
- benjaminoakes 7mo agoI thought they delayed Leopard, not Snow Leopard...
- gnarlouse 7mo agoI have become ~comfortably numb~ delusionally nostalgic.
- gnarlouse 7mo agoWas it? I remember it being a pretty solid experience.
- WillAdams 7mo agoI still regret that I did not get a ModBook running Snow Leopard.