The only thing That made me think about updating and it’s not coming. In my daily workflow none of the other features will boost my productivity like the feature absent. Take my advice Apple, and go buy Luna from Astropad guys.
Likely stalled until the the redesigned larger iMac ships.Apple has officially delayed Universal Control, a hallmark feature of macOS Monterey and iPadOS 15 announced in June, until Spring 2022.
Good. Let's concentrate on bug fixes first for once. There is plenty left from the rushed updates of the last 10 years.
I still remember how incredible OS X's stability was compared to Windows. One of the main reasons why I switched to OS X. Unfortunately, the last super stable release was probably Snow Leopard in 2009, and the number of bugs have been exponentially increasing ever since. For a long time, it seemed like Apple just cannot learn from its repeated mistakes of releasing more and more stuff without properly finishing them. But it's refreshing to see that this trend might change.
Until the rest of Apple 2 year hardware transition is more complete that is the reason they would be doing that, not because of the OS not being stable.This is yet more evidence that Apple's software engineering processes are broken. The release cycle is nonsense and results in unfinished features and products shipping with serious delays or not shipping at all.
What is Universal Control...That’s not Universal Control. That’s Sidecar
Does anyone else feel like this is a gimmick?
yeah some confusion here:What is Universal Control...
Use 1 mouse and keyboard across all Macs and iPads. I can use my mouse and keyboard across my M1 Mac mini and iPad. This is "Universal Control"
This is not Universal Control feature. It's called Sidecar and it works with the iPad.Universal Control is the one where the mouse goes across screens...I have this feature. From my M1 Mac mini I can connect to my 12.9" iPad Pro and move the cursor between the 2 screens. I have Apple beta software on all of my devices. Perhaps beta testers still have this feature; I have it.
If I had to guess I would say it would be the overly optimistic assumption that they can detect relative position by BT signal processing alone across a variety of environments.I wonder what the issues are.
I mean...they release buggy OS's all the time. Whats wrong with including a fudged piece of software with it?I appreciate that they’re taking their time with it rather than releasing it buggy, but it still doesn’t feel quite right they announced the feature in June for a software version that came out in September, yet it won’t even be coming out until Spring (March? April? May? June?) 2022.
I get it’s a feature they want to demonstrate with a video (what better way?), but it still feels misleading.
No you don't.Universal Control is the one where the mouse goes across screens...I have this feature. From my M1 Mac mini I can connect to my 12.9" iPad Pro and move the cursor between the 2 screens. I have Apple beta software on all of my devices. Perhaps beta testers still have this feature; I have it.
This is yet more evidence that Apple's software engineering processes are broken. The release cycle is nonsense and results in unfinished features and products shipping with serious delays or not shipping at all.
I never thought I would say this, but Microsoft's release cadence is now making a lot more sense than Apple's. In the old days, it was torturous waiting months or even years for Microsoft to ship service packs to fix problems, but with Microsoft's current practice of releasing fixes every month and then releasing significant updates twice every year on a regular schedule—without releasing an entirely new OS, thus preserving stability—they are putting Apple to shame. Windows 10 is a very stable and predictable product at this point.
macOS is not a stable product—especially at release time. Apple needs to stop throwing stuff out the door and rethink how they approach their release and development schedules. They are embarrassing themselves and making life a lot harder for their customers.
Right, because Steve Jobs never delayed anything.If Steve Jobs were still Alive HEADS would ROLL and People would be fired for not producing good software.
Exactly.might as well ship it with the next one, right?
This ⬆️ is the most sensible post in this thread.If I had to guess I would say it would be the overly optimistic assumption that they can detect relative position by BT signal processing alone across a variety of environments.
I suspect it works quite well in non-cluttered/non-multi-path environments, but as they started to work on things in real-world environments (outside well-controlled labs) with all kinds of interference and noise, the quality of the feature likely just was not there (yet, and may never be until all relevant devices have UWB radios, it wouldn't be the first time Apple bit off a bit more than they could chew, it's rare, but it happens).
Determining position through RF signal processing seems simple at first, but even the simplest cases like this, where devices are very close, known, and owned by the same user is tough. Even if it's the seemingly straight forward case of "signal was strong through diversity antenna A and we know diversity antenna A is on the right side of the machine", when you add in things like multi-path distortion and clutter that totally invalidate the assumption that "the stronger signal is the direction of the device", you get some really nasty edge cases that aren't that infrequent, actually.
And good for Apple for not choosing to release something that doesn't work (they've done that, too, as have many other vendors, and no one likes that).
Um… boot camp was introduced in Tiger.Oh man. I was working in the Apple store in Fort Worth, TX during that launch and those days were ****ing amazing. Everyone who came in loved us. Mac OS X was crazy solid and those features were breathtaking. Snow Leopard was when we got Bootcamp for the first time. That feature alone sold SO many Macs! And yes, by the time I left in 2013, things were getting rocky at the Genius bar. Software issues we couldn't fix, strange bugs. We felt Apple just ignored Mac OS X and instead focused on iOS. And I mean, I understand why (money), but these long delays of major features speak to the consequences of years of this behavior.