I hope they invest some time in macOS, gosh it's become a right mess over the last 3-5 major releases - Tahoe is the worst of the bunch.
I am totally annoyed by the animations in Apple Notes. The icons have considerable increased in size and everything screams what a mess to me: the shadow as part of "the experience", partly rounded icons which talk more space than rectangles, hidden functions or multi function menus.
There is absolutely no spirit in this update. The animations show no variations, always the same most boring ones (the s curve in Apple Notes).
Lately I found die settings menu in Safari especially disastrous, the tab menu icons when pressed look so ridiculous, I lost words.
My mother use an old Mac Mini that is stuck on an updates from eons ago. It is slow as fuck, even though the softwares have barely changed since it was first used. She'll buy a new Mac because that's what she is used to. But I feel like a pretty bad deal considering where Apple is going.
People always rave about how long Apple computers last. I bought my first personal Mac in 2004 and I have to hard disagree. They last only if you buy the most expensive model and even then it still is going to be a miserable experience towards the end. Meanwhile, cheapo Windows PC get 10 years OS support, mostly trouble free. Reality distortion field is massive indeed.
I'm not defending Apple here, but have you seen how people feel about Windows 11?
I don't mind the Liquid Glass UI so much as what's happened to the macOS UX :-/
> The changes introduced by Windows Aero encompassed many elements of the Windows interface, with the introduction of a new visual style with an emphasis on animation, glass, and translucency; interface guidelines for phrasing and tone of instructions and other text in applications were available.
I hope the phone get's even more boring and uninspired next go around. Apple can afford to go back to the 'it just works' motto.
Oh, give it time. We thought the same when they went flat, too.
That would be the case if they would expand iOS feature set to be closer to Mac, and not the other way around.
If Apple dropped the Mac, how many of those former Mac users would also drop the iPhone? (I would.)
And of course, Mac is the platform for writing iPhone apps. Indeed, Mac is the platform that Apple engineers use to write the iPhone operating system, which was based on and shares a lot of code with the Mac operating system.
The Mac is the lynchpin that holds the entire ecosystem together. It also provides a lot cachet to Apple. Most of the wealthiest and/or influential Apple users are Mac users as well as iPhone users. If Apple can't make a desktop computer anymore, the company's founding product, that would be embarrassing to say the least.
I would drop every device I have currently (myself and my family) which is too many to admit publicly
macOS is a major part of keeping iPhone users on iPhones, and in turn keeping Apple users buying subscriptions.
When you look at the most profitable demographics in the market (e.g. “computers over $1000”) Apple has a huge percentage of that market in both revenue and marketshare.