Maybe it’s time for a user petition to Apple. I reckon there’d be a lot of signatures on that one.
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Maybe it’s time for a user petition to Apple. I reckon there’d be a lot of signatures on that one.
Um, that one has been around for… well, too many years for me to remember.
EDIT: Oops, sorry, didn’t realise you were referring to Snow Leopard. My bad for skim-responding! It was a brilliant and fun approach to announce it with zero new features, but yes, it wasn’t quite true.
Totally agree.
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A “Snow Leopard” style update would be incredibly welcome as it was with Snow Leopard back then.
People forget two years later Apple released OSX Lion 10.7, it was garbage and everybody went back to OSX 10.6 Snow Leopard and stayed there as long as we could. 
The next macOS that was installed was 10.11 OSX El Capitan in 2015 six years later.
The next macOS that was installed was 10.11 OSX El Capitan in 2015 six years later.
Yeah! It will support iOS 27 and probably iOS 28 as well, although now that I think about it, iOS 28 could be the end of many A15 devices… at least those released with just 4GB of RAM.
Anyways, if that’s the case and iOS 28 gets released for A15 devices and up, maybe it could be a good idea to stay on iOS 27 in case that iOS 28 is more resource hungry. Staying at a stable release as iOS 27 points to be, could be a good idea in the long term. We’ll see.
So far, our A15 iPhones still have two years of iOS updates ahead, and after that, hopefully a few more security updates, plus a bunch more of years of support from apps. I think we have iPhone until 2030 at least.
Yep, I still remember trying OSX 10.7 Lion and, while it introduced many foundational features and changes, it was a complete disaster from the performance standpoint… something that wasn’t fully addressed until OSX 10.9 Mavericks, where they introduced the memory compression feature.People forget two years later Apple released OSX Lion 10.7, it was garbage and everybody went back to OSX 10.6 Snow Leopard and stayed there as long as we could.
The next macOS that was installed was 10.11 OSX El Capitan in 2015 six years later.
I'll settle for no new features but no more bugs and buttery smooth animations. I still haven't installed iOS 26.
Thought the calls via satellite was the big feature as the next gen iPhones would have the necessary hardware?
Apple engineers failed on iOS 26 so in theory iOS 27 has to be better!
Which is pretty bad because their silicon is pretty efficient and fast.
Hopefully they will clean up the icons: see https://tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-icons/
I've been on Macs since OS7. 10.6 was truly the best. IMO.
This is why Apple is market leader - they’re all about quality! Can’t say enough positive things about Apple!
Hmm, I wonder what the many Tim Cook defenders—who’ve been constantly denying how iOS 26 is bloated and buggy—have to say now?
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I miss the Classic Mac OS. I’d take OS 7 over Tahoe.
I can see your point. Thanks for going to the trouble to show the comparisons. I guess it’s all about personal preference - I like the new icons, but that’s just me, I’m sure it’s a split user preference. A toggle for previous style icons wouldn’t have been hard to implement. Much of the software I use gives options for many past versions of functionality. Apple should take a look at this. But I still prefer the new OS look, very slick and harmonious.
Agreed. Snow Leopard was rock solid.
Those square corners look so beautiful. The search bars without anything underneath half showing through look awesome
I hope the remove all traces of Dye's graphical disaster from the current mess.
At this stage of technology shouldn't almost every update be a Snow Leopard one?
Imagine a world where you're able to focus on delivering both quality code -and- features in a predictable way without having to come to a screeching halt to fix sh*t code and technical debt that has been accumulating for years.
Leadership: "No. no. We can't fix this performance thing / bug. It's far more important we deliver this Freeform app so that we have something to announce at WWDC that literally no one will ever use."
Much needed pumping of the brakes on features. Hopefully they won't cave to the pressure of new crap we don't need and stabilize iOS. Maybe they'll do the same with MacOS too.
I like the search bars located on the bottom. iOS 26/ipados 26 is solid for two phones and two iPads.
Of course bug elimination is always a good thing.
I wish I'm mistaken, but it'd be funny to see how the iPhone 11 is powerful enough for Apple to give it iOS 26, but not powerful enough for the optimized, better performing, iOS 27.
SiriAI will probably need more resources than 11 can provide.