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Apple's Decision to Delay Some New Features and Focus on Software Quality Extends to Mac

Mad Mac Maniac said:
:rolleyes: Oh boy... and so it begins...

This is welcomed and expected, my only curiosity is that development on next MacOS/iOS surely switched into high gear 3-4 months ago (and likely had finalized the feature set well before that). I'm surprised they would completely change the feature set when WWDC is about 4 months away....
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My point is that high Sierra was already supposed to be a maintenance release. Mac still doesn’t have feature parity with iOS, for God’s sakes.
 
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Mad Mac Maniac said:
This is welcomed and expected, my only curiosity is that development on next MacOS/iOS surely switched into high gear 3-4 months ago (and likely had finalized the feature set well before that). I'm surprised they would completely change the feature set when WWDC is about 4 months away....
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Easy, they push what was going to be 10.14 back a year, take High Sierra and do some big squashing and cosmetic updates ;)
 
So they can't redesign the home screen layout AND fix bugs under the hood at the same time? Remind me again...are we talking about a small software company or is this a company with a couple hundred billion dollars cash in the bank? :rolleyes: I mean, if they can't walk and chew gum at the same time, sure, fix the issues under the hood first -- many of which have been plaguing iOS for several years (basically since iOS 7) -- frame drops, inconsistent UI, etc.
 
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avanpelt said:
So they can't redesign the home screen layout AND fix bugs under the hood at the same time? Remind me again...are we talking about a small software company or is this a company with a couple billion dollars cash in the bank? :rolleyes: I mean, if they can't walk and chew gum at the same time, sure, fix the issues under the hood first -- many of which have been plaguing iOS for several years (basically since iOS 7) -- frame drops, inconsistent UI, etc.
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They can’t even keep the Mac App Store up to date, never mind walking and chewing gum.
 
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This is needed. The re-writes in swift have induced bugs all over the place. The re-writes were needed but they caused more problems than I think apple had thought they would. So now lets buckle down fix the foundation and build on it. They do this when they are cooking up a deeply massive shift in design in the coming year. This is a thing apple does. This is a thing they should have done over a year ago. The issue was the iPhone X was rushed and as such so was iOS 11. So now we get a breather year and we can all play catch up a bit. The developers are still working through the changes induced in iOS 11. Lets not even mention that airplay 2 protocol is not fully baked and will require re-writes
 
GOOD! Would a million percent go for this. Not worth starting all over again every year in terms of quality just to get Siri to read me the cricket scores.
 
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Next release will be Higher Sierra, since High Sierra failed to live up to the promise of being better than Sierra.

Kind of an interesting development considering High Sierra was supposed to be a "Snow Leopard" kind of performance/solidifcation release. Obviously that didn't quite work out last year - I've not had this many issues with all of my Macs since I used to get the grey screen of death all the time in Tiger (on Intel.)
 
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BB8 said:
I mean, when was the last time the Mac got any new software feature worth writing about?
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Continuity / Handoff. I can export U-V map from Blender into Pixelmator in my Mac. Using Continuity / Handoff, I hit the icon on my iPad Pro and U-V map now opens on my iPad Pro for drawing / painting. When I’m done, hit the Continuity / Handoff icon in my Mac and the changes are brought back into my laptop and then brought back into Blender. It’s almost magical how well it works together.
 
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