Feature bloat has plagued Apple developers to the point nobody knows how to wrangle all the gestures and interactions properly. Even a man as diligent as Steve, I suspect, wouldn't know what to do with the current state of things. He'd probably just burn it all down and start over with the front end, as is the natural order of things.
Music works fine. Passwords work fine. The window manager works fine.
Revolutionary? No. Needing an update? I think so.
A failure? Only in your fevered dreams.
For starters, it’s as hard for me to plug my phone in on multiple computers without licensing alerts going nuts/blocking certain songs despite the fact the music was bought through them. That is baffling to me given how synchronized Apple ID usually is.
https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MQ052LL/A/magic-keyboard-...
The Mac desktop works extremely well when used more or less as intended for the vast majority of Mac users (ie, on a laptop): with a multi-touch trackpad, flicking rapidly between virtual desktops, and flicking up to see everything at once.
Honestly, that's a terrible workflow for me. Due to the nature of my work, many times I need to tile 2, 3 or 4 windows on the same screen so I can view them all at once. Flicking quickly between them instead of having them all static in front of me is a UX nightmare that gives me eye strain just thinking about it.
I have no idea how people mange to multi task efficiently by flicking and not get headaches, or on desktop with a mouse and keyboard, but maybe Apple thinks most of its customers are content creators who should just be focusing on one app at a time and never need to tile several. I guess I just wasn't meant to be an Apple customer.
For my type of work, I much prefer the Windows/Linux way of having the flicking option for laptops but also great out of the box tiling built in.
If you want a full screen app that you flick through like an iPad you can. If you want a mess of windows on one desktop you can use App Exposé to see only the ones from a particular app. If you want a tiling manager you can install one.
If you want to turn off all the gestures you can.
It’s a mature desktop OS that has many ways of doing things.
I just want my OS to give me the option, out of the box, to quickly tile on demand 2 to 4 windows on the same screen in a sane layout that I can choose that's easily resizable to my current needs. That's it.
Kind of like this:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/desktop/modern...
Apple Music still won't sync all of my wife's MP3 songs to her iPhone 13 Pro, even though she pays for the subscription. Some stuff goes through. Some doesn't. It's very random.
My iPhone X syncs fine, even wirelessly, with the same library, though.
I'm just glad (OK, amazed) that Apple Music still syncs songs with my 17-year-old first-generation iPod Shuffle. I used it just yesterday. My only complaint is that the icon displayed in the Finder sidebar for the second-generation Shuffles has the wrong aspect ratio. Still the best music player on the planet.