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iOS 27 Will Reportedly Be Like Mac OS X Snow Leopard

now i see it said:
Yeah - one year of relief (with Snow Leopard) then they wrecked it again and thereafter with Lion and all the rest.
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Yep. Just like iOS 16 or whatever it was that was supposed to be a “Snow Leopard” style release to fix all the bugs that accumulated from iOS 10 through 15.

It got a little better that year, then starting going downhill again through now when we arrived at iOS 26.

It’s a pattern for Apple now:
They wait until the bugs get insufferable and refuse to acknowledge the countless Feedbacks no matter how much data you provide proving the bug.

Then they wait one more release year.

Then the next one is a bug fix release.

Then they go right back to shoving AI or whatever solution in search of a problem is popular that year back down our throats again while ignoring the new widely reported bugs that people actually care about.
 
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A “bug fix” release is so overdue, but I’ve seen liquid glass, the random drop down menu icons, and other unfathomably bad UI choices, so I don’t think we can call this “like snow leopard” except as a cynical way to try to pull on people’s nostalgia.

Now, if you tweaked snow leopard with like modern web security and codec support but generally still a 2009 era OS then compiled it for apple silicon, i’d be back in line at the Apple Store before release day to pay for a DVD copy like I used to 20 years ago.
 
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xpxp2002 said:
Yep. Just like iOS 16 or whatever it was that was supposed to be a “Snow Leopard” style release to fix all the bugs that accumulated from iOS 10 through 15.

It got a little better that year, then starting going downhill again through now when we arrived at iOS 26.

It’s a pattern for Apple now:
They wait until the bugs get insufferable and refuse to acknowledge the countless Feedbacks no matter how much data you provide proving the bug.

Then they wait one more release year.

Then the next one is a bug fix release.

Then they go right back to shoving AI or whatever solution in search of a problem is popular that year back down our throats again while ignoring the new widely reported bugs that people actually care about.
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It eventually makes one wonder why we use these products.
(talking to myself as much as anyone else)

I think it's because the landscape overall, outside Apple, isn't really much better.

Tech platforms have become "which shade of awful do you want to deal with?"
 
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Kmac2025 said:
god it’s about time. I don’t need any new features. I want my trackpad to work again. I want the battery to last as long as it did a year ago when it was new out of box.
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Something in iPadOS26 is sucking down the power. It got worse in 26.3.

I charge, therefore I am.
 
DrJR said:
I remember snow leopard well and it was GREAT. performance boost was substantial. breathed life into old hardware kinda good.
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Snowloepard dropped support for PPC, it did not breath new life into old hardware. It did run on the 32 bit 2006 Core Duo Macs with screwed up EFI booting though.
 
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turbineseaplane said:
It eventually makes one wonder why we use these products.
(talking to myself as much as anyone else)

I think it's because the landscape overall, outside Apple, isn't really much better.

Tech platforms have become "which shade of awful do you want to deal with?"
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******tification is very real. I’m still on MacOs because windows 11 is way worse and while many Linux distros are “better” none are seamless to use. Add to the fact that MacBooks are unquestionably the best and best value laptops in the world these days and can really only run MacOS now and it’s just momentum keeping us all stuck. But if I could pay for a better product with less “features” but also less bugs I would in a heartbeat.

If I was Tim Apple for a day, I’d have green lit Apple silicon re-releases of a few “classic” MacOS versions either for the Mac’s 40th or Appl’s 50th. Then sold them as physical copies with long term support. Think “to celebrate Apple’s 50th year, you can buy MacOS 10.6.9 on disk with 10 years of security and backend feature support for $199. No App Store, runs like stink on modern hardware, no bugs, etc” but that’s part of why I’m not in charge at the spaceship lol.

Also, why not an M series accelerator card for old PowerPC Macs? Like a18 on a PCI card with antennas and some trick software so things like video playback, web security, etc are handled by the add in card then displayed in a window on Mac OS 10.4 via a new “browser” app release. I’d pay $599 for that before a MacBook Neo and run my G4 or G5 tower all the time. Even better if it could be a PC Card and function in all airport compatible early Macs. Imaging traveling overseas in 2026 with my TI book!
 
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Mewix said:
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 😩
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My 2021 MacBook Pro (M1 Max) feels pretty much as snappy as before the update. YMMV.
 
I’m sorry, but I do not believe this for one second. Two years ago was reported that Apple was going to “press pause” on features and focus on stability. I don’t specifically remember, but it was probably rumored to be the case last year, as well. Apple has been using the yearly release cycle as a marketing strategy since Mountain Lion in 2012. Since Tim Cook took over Apple, services have been a priority, and marketing hype has one of the biggest driving factors for that. From a financial point of view, this is been very successful, so I don’t see them stopping anytime soon, no matter how bad their software gets. Apple has fallen into the hole that many large businesses tend to end up in, where quarterly growth is far more important than long-term customer happiness. I hope I’m wrong, but I don’t see this changing anytime soon, and definitely not while Cook is still in charge. If Cook really cared about software quality and stability, he would make it a priority for the next release cycle. However, I doubt he’s even aware of it, and if he is, he probably doesn’t care enough about it.
 
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delsoul said:
Like I keep saying on MR, horrible software team at Apple and they need to be fully replaced with actual TALENT. That includes canning the supervisors and managers. They’re all complicit in how bad Apple software has become.
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Yeah, I’m not sure, it’s either the software team itself, or pressure from the top down. My theory is that the software team is actually good enough (with the exception of the guy who spearhead Liquid Glass), but that they’re being pressured to crank stuff out before it’s ready.
 
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chrono1081 said:
Something is definitely wrong with your install or machine, that’s not normal. We have 2021 MacBook Pros at work and they all work perfectly fine. I don’t even know the last time I heard my fans.
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Guys, you really assume your Mac will work like before?) Liquid glass implementation is sucking your GPU cores and battery like crazy - optimization will not help. This OS was released too early, for the stable work specs/configs of your hardware should in general be way higher
 
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If Ternus has any supervisory/leadership responsibilities over iOS 27, I hold hope.

Amongst the MR community and pundits, I am hopeful that Ternus can bring back a "trust" back in the products that Apple delivers.
 
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"iOS 27 Will Reportedly Be Like Mac OS X Snow Leopard"

--> yes ... only ... it will still be terribly ugly (liquid "brainfart" glass) and will still be way more restricted than how snow leopard was. in fact, i think it's a disgrace for snow leopard to be in the same sentence with current iteration of macos / ios. usability, general look consistency, user experience, text legibility, all those where pushed off a rooftop in current apple systems. snow leopard was a good looking system, and restrictions weren't built all over the place yet. text legibility was a must, it was the top moment of macos. the real downfall started with big-sur and up to the disaster we have now.

the only good way to have current macos / ios in the same sentence with snow leopard would be:
" apple is going to ditch the current crap sauce, remove all the crippling restrictions everywhere and go back to the glorious days of snow leopoard UI / UX .. dear users, we are very sorry for all the pain we've caused over the years since then. as a gesture of good will, we will also implement support for more filesystems in macos for interoperability and fix the macos windows switching and fullscreen supprt that were never finished and were always a bit flaky"

that would make good sense.
 
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