iOS 27 Will Reportedly Be Like Mac OS X Snow Leopard

[Avenged110]

I think I've heard this one before... That said, if it ever was going to be true, it's too bad they didn't pull this off before rolling out liquid ass so we'd have a more stable foundation on which to make a long-term stand.

 

[jarman92]

This story is trotted out literally every year, and every year it's wrong 😅

 

[DocMultimedia]

While we're at it, can we fix the utterly broken interface on the Apple Watch Fitness App?

100% agree. Absolutely abysmal in the current form. I have no clue what Apple was thinking.

 

[benwiggy]

If it's like Snow Leopard, it will launch with a bug that deletes all user data (under certain circumstances); have two point releases with critical flaws that have to be pulled and reissued; break OpenType fonts; and finally fix networking to Windows in the last release, after the next OS has already been launched.

Good times.

 

[anakin44011]

Since 10.1, I have NEVER skipped a MacOS release...(nor an iOS release). There are always 2-3 features I appreciate...and I just ignore the rest.

...it is now mid-March and I still don't have any plans to install Tahoe on my Mac(s). I can't risk it on the devices where I get 95% of my 'work' done.


While I don't regret upgrading my iPhone and iPad to Tahoe...I can't yet say I like it. However, at least I understand the design choices on the iPad (such as the very rounded corners to match the screen, etc). The whole 'glass' thing is hit and miss, but again, at least I understand it.

The new Mac UI (which I installed on my daughter's old laptop as a trial) is just too frustrating, goofy, and distracting. I may end up skipping it entirely and wait for Snow Tahoe on my main computer.

Reading some recent Gruber posts where he tracks the evolution (or lack thereof) of OS & icon design, I'm really glad there's a new guy (Steve Lemay) in charge over at Apple. I quietly hope that he's a tyrant who will break some egos and right the ship.

 

[denbels]

Will it be like Snow Leopard or like Snow Leopard?

iOS 27: like Snow Leopard

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Love It !! Apple, you should be ashamed. iOS 26 and OSX 26 are both a disaster.

 

[dblissmn]

I'd happily go for text that renders properly, buttons that don't overlap, window corners that are tighter than the average Chevy Suburban turning circle, and no more Liquid Glass.

 

[vegetassj4]

What, no new emoji? Apple is slipping.

 

[platinumaqua]

Snow Tahoe.

South Lake Tahoe

 

[DrJR]

I remember snow leopard well and it was GREAT. performance boost was substantial. breathed life into old hardware kinda good.

 

[lmddawson]

“If only it looked like snow leopard”
“I hope the same for the Mac”
“Boring release”

This is EXACTLY what you guys have been begging for and you’re still complaining. The complainers on this forum are exhausting

 

[kkclstuff]

Can't come soon enough!

 

[erthquake]

Praise be! SL was the greatest Mac OS ever.

 

[HouseLannister]

Fool me 18 times, shame on you. Fool me 19 times…

 

[Artemiz]

Does Gurman charge extra for repeating the same info over and over like a broken record?

 

[xraydoc]

This story is trotted out literally every year, and every year it's wrong 😅

Yeah, I'm starting to think the same thing.

 

[wickoo]

As was Mountain Lion, El Capitan, and High Sierra

 

[switz]

Old saying: "Some folks would complain if you hung them with a new rope!"

In order to take advantage of the new (and unasked for) features in the newly minted hardware and new or tweaked firmware, the operating system has to have links in every relevant program to these wonderful (???) features. In nearly all instances, the new gear can NOT run on last years whiz bang programming flops.

New gear has to have the new operating systems purposely released way to early and thus the customers get to find all of the errors or incomplete logic (due to a lunch break perhaps?) and try to keep their business afloat while Apple is shipping out the land/water mines and a few torpedoes just to make their customer base, shall we say, less than pleased.

 

[CrabQueenInc]

I remember snow leopard well and it was GREAT. performance boost was substantial. breathed life into old hardware kinda good.

One thing that I miss from the 10.0–10.6 era was how Apple consistently improved the performance of OS X.

 

[klasma]

iOS 27 Will Reportedly Be Like Mac OS X Snow Leopard

Finally macOS on the iPhone!

 

[StrangeNoises]

This story is trotted out literally every year, and every year it's wrong 😅

literally came to make the same post. 🙄 never happens, its only value is in demonstrating how popular it would be.

 

[lotones]

so, maoOS 27...

"South Lake Tahoe"?

"King's Beach"?

"Emerald Bay"?

"Donner Pass"?

 

[qacjared]

Yeah - one year of relief (with Snow Leopard) then they wrecked it again and thereafter with Lion and all the rest.

Back then, it wasn’t a yearly cycle so it was about two years as the most up to date OS. Also, Lion was a paid upgrade so it’s not like with Tahoe with an auto update that caught some off guard and it actually got iTunes and Safari updates for three years after Lion. Many people rode it out for a while. Unfortunately, Sequoia doesn’t have the same rope length.

That is to say, the glass of ice water in hell took a lot longer to melt back then.

 

[klasma]

South Lake Tahoe

SnowfLake Tahoe

 

[BSDnostalgia]

I remember snow leopard well and it was GREAT. performance boost was substantial. breathed life into old hardware kinda good.

Snow Leopard was a great vintage for sure. I stuck with it as long as I could. Funny how the article says "no new features" and then "except ..." I wish they would defer new features for one release here and just secure, test and debug the heck out of 27 on all platforms.

I actually haven't had any trouble on iPhone and Mac using 26.3.1, but, the upgrade process on the 64GB 9th gen iPad was ugly, and, performance is, .... , "stop and go"? It seems like they didn't test or intend this version of iPadOS to run on this slightly lesser iPad.