Apple is having their Windows ME moment.
It doesn't matter how much cheap hardware you throw at the unwashed masses.
It's all about the software they would say. The chickens have come home to roost.
> Apple Announces New Mac Sales Record Following MacBook Neo Launch
Maybe it's not the cheap hardware? I don't know?
But when you put the following assertions out there:
>Tahoe/iOS26 are still the most godawful buggy pieces of software Apple ever created
and
>It doesn't matter how much cheap hardware you throw at the unwashed masses
with the market data being what it is.
I guess I'm just saying those statements definitely go under the old Abe Lincoln admonition that at times "Both may be, but one MUST be, wrong."
What is everyone seeing that I'm not? I like Tahoe/iOS26, I haven't noticed regressions with it.
macOS is much better than any alternative and Tahoe and iOS 26 seem perfectly fine?
I’m not that opinionated though - I don’t really care that much. But the part that sucked was installing it on a 2020 intel MacBook Pro. It basically made it unusable to the point of being ready to throw it out. Going back from Tahoe breathed so much life into it that it was fairly upsetting to see Apple release it. It reminded me of early iPhone updates that would basically brick older devices due to the performance impact.
I don't hate Tahoe myself, but I don't particularly love it, either. I can still get done what I need to do with an OS, but along with a bunch of other paper cuts in recent macOS versions (looking at you, System Settings) on top of Liquid Glass, I can see why folks are upset.
As someone who lived through the early days of Windows, macOS Tahoe and Windows ME aren’t in the same universe.
> It doesn't matter how much cheap hardware you throw at the unwashed masses.
It's meaningful that a product line that's 41 years old had its best launch for customers new to the platform. That's unprecedented in the computer industry.
You shouldn't have to cope with one to get the other.
The concept is great, and I would love to ditch OrbStack for it. (OrbStack is slick. But their everything-shares-one-kernel-and-they-don’t-give-privileged-access model falls apart as soon as you try to do anything that doesn’t fit in their not-amazing sandbox. Even user namespaces don’t appear to work.) But, other than the actual core mostly working, Apple Containers was a buggy mess, and it was the only thing that made me frequently reboot the whole machine.
Someone hasn't been around for very long in the Apple era, not even counting things before NexT took over.
To say Tahoe is the worst only reveals how few of the releases of MacOS X the poster actually used.
I wonder if someone got a raise for that.
These have been in the OS for so long I can't even remember when they were added.
Edit: Apple turns 50 this year
Luckily for Apple, Windows 11 is even worse in this regard.
I only need Apple ecosystem integrations, Docker, a bunch of CLI tools, Homebrew, and VSCode with Claude.
People weren't that mad about the butterfly keyboard or the 16" Macbook Pro that idled near it's junction temp. That doesn't mean they were good products, it means that the majority of Apple customers fail to evaluate the products they're buying based on quality.
"Just avoid holding it that way." - Steven Jobs