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Tahoe was such a huge mess, but I'm hopeful that the new CEO will turn things around and bring things back to normal. If they do, I'll consider upgrading both
by altern8 3mo ago
Tahoe was such a huge mess, but I'm hopeful that the new CEO will turn things around and bring things back to normal.
If they do, I'll consider upgrading both OS and laptop, but right now I'm holding on to Sequoia
- schappim 3mo agoIt really was Mac OS X's Vista moment. Edit: It'll always be Mac OS X to me, not macOS.
- felixding 3mo agoYes! You are not alone. The name Mac OS X has always felt special to me.
- zapzupnz 3mo agoMac OS X 27. 10.27? But that means there were two each of 10.11, 10.12, 10.13, 10.14, and 10.15 :-)
- mghackerlady 3mo agoOS X? Surely you mean Rhapsody
- lunar_rover 3mo agoWindows Vista primarily suffers from technical issues. Aero is virtually unchanged in 7.
- vikingcat 3mo agoApple CEOs always seem to want to make a splash via hardware (especially since the guy worked in hardware engineering) but it would be nice if an engineer brings more focus on the software as well.
- saagarjha 3mo agoGolden Gate is better but it hasn't fixed your icons unfortunately
- WillAdams 3mo agoThe thing which kills me, is that with entirety of the State of California's Gazetteer to pull from, Apple didn't pull a page from Android and use an alphabetically ordered naming scheme so that folks could determine ordering of versions.
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- toyg 3mo agoCodenames are meant to tickle the pride of this or that manager, not be useful to customers.
- WillAdams 3mo agoThey also need to function as workable identifiers, and their being confusing works against folks.
- coldpie 3mo agoYou know, someone should invent an infinite sequence of ordinal symbols which we could use to place things in a sequence. It could start with a simple vertical line, something like "1". Maybe someone more clever than me can come up with the next symbol.
- WillAdams 3mo agoUnfortunately, I lost track of how Mac OS X was numbered after 10.7.whatever the last iteration was. Doesn't much matter, since 10.6.8 was the last version I truly enjoyed using.
- VladVladikoff 3mo agoThey have a new head designer too IIRC, but probably is going to take some time for him to slowly move away from the mess he inherited.
- hbn 3mo agoAlan Dye was brought in during the Jony Ive era when they were launching the first Apple Watch because he came from a fashion/print background. Before Apple really figured out what the Watch was going to be (a health/fitness accessory for your phone) they were going for the "luxury fashion" angle. Somehow when Ive left, Dye got put in charge of design even though he had zero experience in software design that anyone seems to be aware of. He was criticized for the years following for a lot of bizarre design regressions that were happening across all of Apple's OSes. Then a few months after Dye himself announced Liquid Glass at WWDC last year, he blindsided Apple by accepting a poaching offer from Meta, seemingly because Zuck isn't aware of how untalented the guy is. Now Stephen Lemay is in charge, who's been at Apple for many years and actually knows stuff about software design. It's said that within the walls of Apple, a lot of people were very happy about the change, and the first showing of design changes we got since then are looking very good for Apple.
- saagarjha 3mo ago[flagged]
- hbn 3mo agoThe bit about internal rumblings at Apple I definitely read from him but the rest is just things we saw play out publicly over the past decade.
- saagarjha 3mo agoI have no real love for Alan Dye but you should probably understand that Gruber feels it is a personal affront that someone might work for a company that is not Apple.
- neonmagenta 3mo agoSame. Apple and Adobe seem to constantly have updates that feel one step forward, two steps back in a lot of places.