iOS 27 Will Reportedly Be Like Mac OS X Snow Leopard

[dba415]

When Apple would care

 

[valencian]

Mac OS X Snow Leopard did not have Liquid Glass, so will Apple remove it finally? I really don't like or want it.

 

[SSDGUY]

WHAT? Not more distracting translucent effects and fake sheens?

 

[Mavrick33332]

I remember being impressed with an operating system release that only focused on improving the software. I'm glad they are repeating this if true. Also, for everyone complaining on how bad things are - do you work on a windows machine? Caus I do at work and I sure prefer my Mac and feel much more efficient.

 

[Jeeve Stubbs]

iOS Snow 26

 

[dwaite]

I love the perpetuated narrative that snow leopard didn't have new features.

They rewrote Finder in Cocoa, launched QuickTime X, created a whole new concurrency subsystem (Grand Central Dispatch), added the Mac App Store (later) and removed PowerPC Mac support.

 

[benwiggy]

They rewrote Finder in Cocoa, launched QuickTime X, created a whole new concurrency subsystem (Grand Central Dispatch), added the Mac App Store (later) and removed PowerPC Mac support.

Not sure that removing support for PPC Macs is a feature... 🤣

But you're right: though most of these changes were transparent to the user.

QuickTime X used a completely new 64-bit framework (AV Foundation). The QuickTime Player X introduced in Snow Leopard is the default app for playing MIDI files, but it just flags an error saying it's an invalid file format (despite AV Foundation containing a perfectly good MIDI player.) I've filed it as a bug every year since 2009.

 

[TheIntruder]

I have 2 Apple TVs running 26 and neither looks anything like that. It looks like you changed the default settings. Do you keep it like that all the time, or did you change the settings just to make a point? If you keep it like that, why not use the default settings, which results in UI elements that are not hard to read?

I did change the settings. Reduce Transparency is on.

Not staged, but SOP for older hardware running newer OSes, like the ATV4 that's shown. Did the same on my 2007 iMac, running the vaunted Snow Leopard.

Here's the kicker -- I just turned it off to see what the result would be, it and became more opaque, like your screenshot. Ooops.

As I alluded to, there are clearly some background machinations that are not functioning properly, and given all the permutations and dependencies in the matrix, for appearance settings alone, Apple has dug a hole for itself in adding more settings as bandages to address flaws that it could have avoided to begin with.

That is but one example of the poor contrast, and sacrifice in usability that now guides a large part of Apple's OS development. The HIG bibles are in the distant past, and part of history.

For what? Appearances sake?

This is also an OS that, where a state-of-the-art piece of hardware like the iPhone 17 Pro, exhibits visual hiccups when trying to draw the UI. 26.3 decided that the blue gradient wallpaper that was fine in older versions would now be rendered in black if the transparency settings were changed. Sometimes, and sometimes not, which adds yet another element of frustration.

Whatever benefits Apple has in controlling the whole widget has not prevented any of this.

 

[GigabitEthernet]

I feel like most posters here are very young.

Snow Leopard was awesome. To be honest macOS

Your memory is incorrect. It dropped PPC Macs swiftly and arrived with OpenGL issues on MacBooks withx950/X3100 integrated GPUs.

I was 13 years old when this happened

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That’s absolute nonsense. One bug doesn’t negate from an experience of the OS being very well received at the time.

 

[exterminator]

In his Power On newsletter today, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reiterated that iOS 27 will be similar to 2009's Mac OS X Snow Leopard, in the sense that one of Apple's biggest priorities is bug fixes for improved performance and stability.

During WWDC 2008's State of the Union, Apple showed a slide that said Mac OS X Snow Leopard had "0 new features," as it opted to focus on performance and stability improvements. Technically, the update did include some smaller new features, but Apple was overwhelmingly focused on bug fixes and under-the-hood changes on the Mac.

"We've built on the success of Leopard and created an even better experience for our users from installation to shutdown," said Apple's former software engineering chief Bertrand Serlet. "Apple engineers have made hundreds of improvements so with Snow Leopard your system is going to feel faster, more responsive and even more reliable than before."

iOS 27 will still get some new features too, including a more personalized version of Siri. The update should be announced in June and released in September.

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Article Link: iOS 27 Will Reportedly Be Like Mac OS X Snow Leopard

What new features did the last 3 MacOS releases have??

Well, I don't want to be *that* conspiracy guy, but since I have downloaded the Tahoe on my 2021 macbook pro, it has significantly deteriorated in the terms of battery life, smoothness and the fans are on all the time.

Edit: Yes, it's iOS, but still, please, fix my mac 😩

I removed Tahoe and went back to the previous version: With Tahoe it simply stopped charging and nothing could get it to charge any more. I had to go to Apple and there was nothing wrong with it.

 

[Naaaaak]

This lie repeats yearly. "It's a Snow Leopard release this time!!"

It never is.

All the OSes need 4 years of only bugfixes, but they're focused on shareholder keywords ("AI") as the platform rots.

 

[TMRJIJ]

That’s absolute nonsense. One bug doesn’t negate from an experience of the OS being very well received at the time.

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I did an upgrade on my iMac and MBP and am pretty pissed off with the results so far. I dunno how many times I've had apps crash. I mean I can't even get iPhoto to not crash, I imported a few pictures, wanted to touch them up and the stupid progam has crashed about a dozen times. Purely ridiculous.

I also do some graphic design and don't even get me started with PS CS4. Christ I have to save my work after every freaking layer I add just in case something happens.

I wasn't expecting much in terms of features etc (not the reason why I bought SL, I bought SL purely for performance gains), but Apple could have at least released SL in a decent working order. I am a software developer and I find it hard to believe that this thing even got passed UAT, let alone being released to the public. To not even be able to run native "Apple Programs" like iPhoto is absolutely ridiculous, I can understand 3rd party apps may not be fully compatible but this clearly isn't the case.

I know I'll get a bunch of "why don't you perform a clean install?" and as much as I would like to do that I have so much configurations and applications etc on both my Macs that it just isn't worth the hassle. Apple better freakin come out with some patches soon, going from Tiger to Leopard was a way better experience than this crap.

Don't worry, they'll fix it before SL comes out of beta.



Steve has no one to blame but himself. SL was clearly not ready to ship, and they just rushed it out the door because they needed to beat Windows 7's hype machine.


When an Apple product fails to impress, it is always due to operator error.

 

[datsdatcharlie]

actual W update

 

[GigabitEthernet]

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I apologize if this has already been posted - but I couldn't find anything with search. Expose in Snow Leopard feels to me like it needs a little more polish from Apple. I am encountering three issues: 1. The "Blue Box" bug: If you call Expose (say by pressing F3) and you move your mouse...

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forums.macrumors.com

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forums.macrumors.com

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I used it dude. It was awesome.

 

[SactoGuy18]

I think the only significant change could be granular controls for Liquid Glass effects.

Mind you, I'd like to see three more changes:

1. Separate Headphones app to allow better compatibility with third-party headphones, especially wireless headphones.
2. Third-party access to NFC functionality.
3. App Store app redesigned so you can have up to four different app stores within app.

 

[TMRJIJ]

I used it dude. It was awesome.

I used it too. Lost my music library.

 

[Hyperchaotic]

9% bugs instead of 10%.

Yeah Snow Leopard was as full of bugs as previous releases, so much so that there was a rash of users going back a release temporarily. it also had some new features. It's the Snow Leopard with almost a years of incremental releases we remember.

 

[Haiku_Oezu]

I choose to believe this not because it’s true but because it’s exactly what I want

 

[nacinla]

Let's hope this means my Apple Mail will go back to remembering folders where I save emails (as it once did, flawlessly), but stopped five years ago and no help from Apple, and they improve Image Capture so it remembers the last screen size and settings.