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I'm no longer the Apple/Mac/Jobs fan-boy I once was in my earlier days, but I do miss the Apple presentations that felt like they were run by a human being wanting to show off cool stuff.

I couldn't even finish the last Apple presentations as it all feels so stiff, inhuman and run by suits, they all seem like robots scared of diverging from the holy script who will get fired if they display emotions and humanity.

Off-topic perhaps, but got reminded how delightful even the somewhat messy ad-hoc presentations from Jobs were.

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I agree 100%. I stopped watching after iPhone 15 event or maybe M2.

Absolutely everything seems scripted including hand movements, shifting of postures, smiles..the whole works.

Now I just wait for the press release and that’s that.

The scripted talks in front of fancy backgrounds do make it unpalatable, it’s just a fancier version of corporate slideshows. I suppose trillion-dollar companies aren’t as willing to take risks.

> I suppose trillion-dollar companies aren’t as willing to take risks.

Which to me makes no sense, surely you have some budget for risks if you are a 1T company? I suppose their risks are more moonshots to some degree like the Apple Car but nevertheless, I do miss the old presentations.

Apple keeps solving the same old problems. Why are we still talking about how well their buttons behave?

If anything it seems to be getting worse with each iteration for long time. I guess I'm cautiously optimistic they'll get back closer to their roots with some high-level change, but really don't care that much about it these days either...

Truly. The number of times I’ve been surprised by something on newer macOS versions and thought: “I think this used to go against the human interface guidelines” is crazy. IMO: the first major sign of the downfall was when stealing focus on OS X became common.

Jobs had no problem calling BS on annoying behavior. Unfortunately we’ve completely lost that, and Apple is no longer the bastion of usability that it once was.

Point to another source that does it as well or better. The problems might have been solved, but it seems the majority of the industry continues to ignore them.

That said, I’ve been using Niri with Noctalia for months now, and I’m continuously delighted by the lack of astonishing behavior.

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