I think you're asking a bit much from Craig and his zoomer team.
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Apple Releases macOS Ventura 13.3 With New Emoji, Bug Fixes and More
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I think you're asking a bit much from Craig and his zoomer team.
For "think different" reason, Apple is embarrassed to list hundreds of fixes in a bunch of main apps and processes for every release, these fixes can only be found on the user forums. They pretend that their OS is perfect and choose only a part of the improvements in the changelog, so you never know if they fixed wi-fi/bluetooth/memory leaks/kernel panics or decade old finder bugs, even if such problems can be reproduced with two clicks on any hardware.
For me, the RC was very stable. No problems on my 14" MBP (2021 base model) or my M1 MBA.
No, there are brand new bugs such as https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/multimonitor-screensaver-bug-in-ventura-13-3.2384444/
They should have focused each point update on fixing that messy looking System Preferences (settings app).
Does anyone know if the exchange calendars are working flawlessly now? (https://www.macrumors.com/2022/11/03/macos-ventura-exchange-calendar-problems/)
There's nothing to fix because it's total 💩.
Doesn't even get to a .4 release before getting replaced by an entirely new version, and the headline feature is ****ing emojis
macOS is in such a sad state.
macOS is in such a sad state.
Only 21 emoji? Pffft....no wonder it's only a 4.51 GB download. Courage takes 22 or more emoji.
I think macOS is kinda going through a mid-life identity crisis. Stop being bullied by iOS and just understand you are desktop OS and your primary method of input is keyboard and mouse. I can think of several releases where Apple had it right:
- 10.4
- 10.6
- 10.12
- 10.13
- 10.14
- 10.4
- 10.6
- 10.12
- 10.13
- 10.14
I hope we can assume you've sent this to Apple feedback. It's not exactly a common problem/situation you're venting about.
Installed the update on my M1 iMac, all seems to be fine. Running smoothly. Slightly longer boot time.
Personally, I feel it’s actually the other way around.
macOS is mature and familiar. Sure it gets a new splash of paint every couple years but since at least Mavericks, when updates started to become free and yearly, it’s just been changing very little, but steadily adding nice things to have.
iPad OS it’s truly the one having an identity crisis. It’s multitasking interface seems to get redesigned every year, and every year it seems to not be able to keep up with either of its older brothers.
It’s still far far away from a Mac, but also, you can’t even call it “iOS on steroids” anymore because it’s not, it still doesn’t have several of the features introduced in recent versions of iOS.
It doesn’t have the new lock screen, it doesn’t have any battery management, it doesn’t have certain camera features, it can’t even be used as a home hub anymore, it doesn’t have a proper Wallet app, it doesn’t have Apple Watch compatibility… it doesn’t know what it wants to be.
If you stored your data encoded in emoji instead of binary you could easily fit all your data on a regular internal drive. /s
13.3 includes some fixes to AI inference that were affecting Stable Diffusion image generation and causing lots of crashes and other weird behavior. How is that for a headline feature?
Keep in mind that this release is mostly bug fixes and most of those will be so niche that even the people potentially affected wouldn't care about them. The new emoji are probably the additions that affect the most people.
this is basically people writing articles being lazy, it is easy to say "New Emoji's" than to go through all changes and understand them and highlight them here.