With the fast pace of living and extreme consumerist attitudes of many, this would only make Apple lose its clients. They have to bring something new every year, otherwise people get bored and leave. Not everyone is a baked into their eco-system.
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iOS 18 Rumored to Have Design Changes, macOS Revamp Coming Later
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I’m going to be pretty disappointed if the AI assistant is only available for iPhone 16 and up…
They will be nice and do it from iPhone 15 onwards, or just keep it for the Pro line. Hah
I'd rather they stopped releasing hardware every year and put more effort into OS upgrades but then charged for them to make up the difference. iOS and Android are at an inbred-stage of development where no new rival has presented them with a borrowing cycle.
Most people just put up with the inherent problems in both of them without questioning things yet the ergonomics of them both is laughably bad. There should be no user interactions outside the bottom third of the display in portrait. I should be able to use 100% of my phone functions with one hand as its quite likely the other will be holding something (food/ransport/child/shopping etc) or I might only have one hand altogether.
'Reachability' was a quick patch-job for the iPhone 6 that was supposed to eventually get eliminated but ended up staying around.
A redesign inspired by Vision OS must include shades and frosted glass sort-of look, which sounds painful for older devices and battery life.
I think 2025/2026 is a fair time to stop supporting intel macs.
I think most people with a 7-8-9 year old laptop will want to switch, and those who won't will still be able to enjoy security updates for a year or two.
iOS is cool, but I'm always more excited to see where macOS will go, each WWDC.
Do you think that, with the end of Intel macs support, Roseta 2 will be discontinued?
Can wait to see new emoji
macOS look like OS in 2000s not improving anything, same function same app only change icon and theme and add some gimmicks function to ad more bugs and don't fix it
macOS look like OS in 2000s not improving anything, same function same app only change icon and theme and add some gimmicks function to ad more bugs and don't fix it
Fix the damn bugs. When I upgraded to 17.3 and 17.3.1 and watchOS 10.3 my Apple Watch Ultra 2 did not once use optimized battery charging, despite the setting being on. It charged to 100% each time.
I just installed 17.4 beta and watchOS 10.4 beta, and optimized battery charging is working again, after several weeks. Immediately. It’s now pausing charge at 80%. Just like I like it.
These are major bugs. Like wtf.
iOS 17 has been buggier than usual. From the initial issue of failing backup transfers from an iPhone 14 to 15 on iOS 17.0, to overheating issues on iPhone 15 pro max, to image persistence problems on iPhone 15 pro max, making it seem like oled burn in, issues with standby mode.
Redesign or not, we just want less bugs on the .0 and .1 versions of the OS. And if you get the new iphone release in September, you don’t have the luxury of camping out on the .5 or .6 version of the previous OS until the bugs in the new OS version are worked out. You’re basically buying a new phone to be a beta OS tester.
I just installed 17.4 beta and watchOS 10.4 beta, and optimized battery charging is working again, after several weeks. Immediately. It’s now pausing charge at 80%. Just like I like it.
These are major bugs. Like wtf.
iOS 17 has been buggier than usual. From the initial issue of failing backup transfers from an iPhone 14 to 15 on iOS 17.0, to overheating issues on iPhone 15 pro max, to image persistence problems on iPhone 15 pro max, making it seem like oled burn in, issues with standby mode.
Redesign or not, we just want less bugs on the .0 and .1 versions of the OS. And if you get the new iphone release in September, you don’t have the luxury of camping out on the .5 or .6 version of the previous OS until the bugs in the new OS version are worked out. You’re basically buying a new phone to be a beta OS tester.
Can you please actually name/specify precisely which bugs you want to see fixed?
Please, please, please don't **** up the UI for macOS more than you already have.
Mobile paradigms are not the same as mice/touchpad ones. Please, please kick out the people in Apple who do not get this. It literally even used to be the justification for iOS to exist. The settings menu is still a disaster.
Nobody wants less information density on screen.
Mobile paradigms are not the same as mice/touchpad ones. Please, please kick out the people in Apple who do not get this. It literally even used to be the justification for iOS to exist. The settings menu is still a disaster.
Nobody wants less information density on screen.
You haven't even seen it or know anything about it......At least wait till you see it for yourself first... Good god people are really overly dramatic.
iPadOS 17 introduced a weird bug in the Safari bookmarks bar. Like in Safari on Mac you can add folders to your bookmarks bar that pop up in a menu. With iPadOS 17 when the menu that pops up is inconsistent depending on the folder. For some folders it pops up and takes up the entire length of the screen, whereas for other folders it would take up just the length of the bookmarks list (the latter behavior is how versions prior to 17 behaved). And if you click back and forth between folders of different lengths it will cause Safari to completely crash and auto-quit. I have four folders in my bookmarks toolbar. The first two always open full screen length and the second two always open at the dynamic length of the list, and I can always reproduce the crash by clicking back and forth between the folders. I’ve reported this to Apple through the Feedback app with screen captures since iPadOS 17 was released.
macOS Big Sur introduced a bug in the dock when you have a folder in your favorite items section. If the folder is set to display as a list menu when clicked and if the list exceeds the height of the screen then when scrolling the menu the entire menu would shift down, covering the dock and then start scrolling. Again this was reported repeatedly throughout the Big Sur beta and Apple never fixed it; it was present in Monterrey and Ventura. It was finally fixed in Sonoma.
None of these bugs are earth shattering (like the bugs affecting SMB network shares and external drive reliability that popped up in early versions of Ventura) but it shows Apple will let them linger for quite some time if they bother to address them at all.
I'm full prepared to dislike this. I have little trust that Apple knows or cares much about the user experience any longer.
They screwed Apple Watch so bad that after owning several since the day V1 was released I've (gladly) resorted to an analog watch. They screwed Apple TV (app) so bad that I cancelled my TV+ subscription and invested in a Plex server. They've made some wacky brain bending choices with Safari for desktop and mobile (before adding 'choices'), they haven't improved desktop Music since before it was Music, the list goes on and on. Apple, generally, isn't making my life better, it's doing what MS did in the past and forcing me to disable or avoid using things that get in my way.
The last great user experience change Apple made was not filling the entire iPhone screen with an incoming phone call.
What Jobs did right, and what set Apple on this path for success, was to eliminate all the chaff and focus on core products and a cleaner user experience. Clearly, Cook is doing something right but I honesty don't know what it is (other than maybe paying pennies for labor while charging luxury prices).
I'd love to be proved wrong. I'd love for Apple to prove they can invest in "spacial computing" and AI, that they can add more features and technologies that no one is asking for, while refining and improving the user experience with a methodology no one has yet envisioned (you would think a multi-trillion dollar company could achieve this). They've certainly done it in the past. Well, the Jobs administration did at least.
In the meantime, I'm done being a dev beta tester and I'm done having auto-updates enabled. I want to be excited about this, like I was back in the SpyMac days, but I'm jaded and prepared for disappointment.
They screwed Apple Watch so bad that after owning several since the day V1 was released I've (gladly) resorted to an analog watch. They screwed Apple TV (app) so bad that I cancelled my TV+ subscription and invested in a Plex server. They've made some wacky brain bending choices with Safari for desktop and mobile (before adding 'choices'), they haven't improved desktop Music since before it was Music, the list goes on and on. Apple, generally, isn't making my life better, it's doing what MS did in the past and forcing me to disable or avoid using things that get in my way.
The last great user experience change Apple made was not filling the entire iPhone screen with an incoming phone call.
What Jobs did right, and what set Apple on this path for success, was to eliminate all the chaff and focus on core products and a cleaner user experience. Clearly, Cook is doing something right but I honesty don't know what it is (other than maybe paying pennies for labor while charging luxury prices).
I'd love to be proved wrong. I'd love for Apple to prove they can invest in "spacial computing" and AI, that they can add more features and technologies that no one is asking for, while refining and improving the user experience with a methodology no one has yet envisioned (you would think a multi-trillion dollar company could achieve this). They've certainly done it in the past. Well, the Jobs administration did at least.
In the meantime, I'm done being a dev beta tester and I'm done having auto-updates enabled. I want to be excited about this, like I was back in the SpyMac days, but I'm jaded and prepared for disappointment.
Please tell me people aren’t waiting for new emojis…🤮…it’s like half the Apple fanbase is stuck in junior high school…
Why does the Settings icon remind me of one of those Flash games back in the Windows XP days? Just unbelievably ugly. The exact same with Safari and Mail too.
I think iOS 18 should be more like MacOS X Snow Leopard: mostly a bug fix release. And should also better integrate the changes demanded by the EU for third party apps, app stores, NFC access an so on.
They're going to keep moving in this direction if the goal is a touch-screen Mac. That might've been unthinkable under jobs, but anything's possible now.
Well, I'm with you here but I'm almost certain it won't happen. Apple knows better and customization is not their thing. period. I like my MBP a lot but I can't stand using iPhone. Luckily I'm not forced to use it (for one reason or another) so I'm happily using Andoird device...
As you said - it's not a matter of being forced to customise but having an option to do so. same with alternative app stores that huge chunk of apple fan base sees as an existential thread - no one forces you to use those, but let others decide if they want...
What are the bugs that I keep hearing mentioned in comments ? I’m on the developer beta and haven’t even seen a noticeable bug in months.
Most certantly.
I'm already at a point where no app on my mac (and I use many) isn't apple silicon compatible.
2021 was rough (I jumped on apple silicon day one), but now the transition is 100% complete
Worst case scenario is they will finish what they started and macOS becomes a blown up iPadOS entirely
When I look at my Software applications, I can see Blizzard games such Diablo 3, StarCraft 2 and utilities such as Logitech G hub for their peripherals , VTC software Zoom are all still intel, not universal. So no I do not see anything to justify the removal of very useful Rosetta 2, never mind the AS Mac transition was finished last WWDC 2023. I am sure there are other examples not updated to universal or native. Why wouldn't Apple not continue to provide this emulation layer for AS Macs?