Yes it would. The initial backup would take a good long time. Having a laptop that moves regularly when I have done that initial backup in multiple parts it has often failed. Apple would need to harden this.
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macOS 13: What We Know So Far
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- Ditch the California names. The only interesting one was Mavericks.
- Stop pretending you have a big new macOS version to show every year. Go to continuous integration or a biennial upgrade cycle.
- If I have an Apple Silicon Mac, supercharge Handoff by letting me bring my iPhone app onto my Mac in a window.
- If my external disks are not mid-transfer when I remove them, stop telling me I should eject them before I remove them. Handle this dynamically at the OS level and leave me alone.
- iMessages has fallen way behind - the updates that are rumored this year should've been in place last year if not earlier. There's really no innovation or drive to put iMessage on the cutting edge, and that's sad.
- Support older Macs for as long as you can. Don't roll off the 2015 models just because it's now 2022.
Indeed as the initial back-up would be upload constrained. Hence the huge pain. But the usefulness of the feature if rightly implemented can't be under-estimated.
Imagine having the ability to have your devices backed-up entirely without a worry that you forgot to plug it in.
„What Do You Want to See in macOS 13?“
Exactly? Nothing! Mammoths have vanished 10.000 years ago. So I just want a stable macOS12 - I don‘t want to see new bugs, so just leave macOS alone, Apple.
Move your bundled Apps into the store, update em whenever you want. A major update every year is so annoying.
In the goog old times, we saw an update every several years. And you inow what? Gimme a Snow Leopard release with security fixes and a revamped UI and I still would be happy.
Can I tell you a single feature that has been introduced since SL, that has changed my life completely? Yeah for sure, I like the more modern, flatter look of the current macOS releases and I do like some gimmicks.
The gimmicks I like, iCloud Copy&Paste (at least, when it works), text recognition in photos and after that it gets really difficult to name a feature. AFS? Metal? SIP?
When I was "forced" upgrading to Monterey, my only wish was that everything continues to work like before the upgrade. No bugs please, no glitches.
There simply is no need to update the whole system every year!!
Exactly? Nothing! Mammoths have vanished 10.000 years ago. So I just want a stable macOS12 - I don‘t want to see new bugs, so just leave macOS alone, Apple.
Move your bundled Apps into the store, update em whenever you want. A major update every year is so annoying.
In the goog old times, we saw an update every several years. And you inow what? Gimme a Snow Leopard release with security fixes and a revamped UI and I still would be happy.
Can I tell you a single feature that has been introduced since SL, that has changed my life completely? Yeah for sure, I like the more modern, flatter look of the current macOS releases and I do like some gimmicks.
The gimmicks I like, iCloud Copy&Paste (at least, when it works), text recognition in photos and after that it gets really difficult to name a feature. AFS? Metal? SIP?
When I was "forced" upgrading to Monterey, my only wish was that everything continues to work like before the upgrade. No bugs please, no glitches.
There simply is no need to update the whole system every year!!
Books? With Books you are doomed. Imagine you want to change platform anyway in the future, all the books you buyer are history. Or Apple does change it's apps in a way you don't like?
Can we please get an updated version of Dogcow?
carry on.
carry on.
I haven't read through the rest of the comments here yet, so this may have already been mentioned. I thought a previous Monterey update had the Music app rewritten. Personally, I have noticed some difference, but that being said...still agree with you. It could still be better.
After years of versions named after cats, true this is the only one with a unique story.
In early March 1961, three surfers, Alex Matienzo, Jim Thompson, and Dick Knottmeyer decided to try the distant waves off Pillar Point. With them was a white-haired German Shepherd named Maverick, owned by Matienzo’s roommate. Maverick was used to swimming out with his owner, or with Matienzo, while they were out surfing.
The trio left Maverick on shore, but he swam out and caught up with them. Finding the conditions unsafe for the dog, Matienzo tied him up before rejoining the others. The riders had limited success that day, surfing overhead peaks about 1/4 mile from shore, just along the rocks that are visible from shore. They deemed the bigger outside waves too dangerous.
They decided to name the surfing location after Maverick, who seemed to have gotten the most out of the experience. It became known simply as “Mavericks”.
Being that Apple has it’s main campus’s in Northern California and there are lots of names not utilized yet, they will likely stick with similar names seems likely.
Nope. iCloud data is certainly encrypted during transit and at rest, but Apple also store the decryption keys on their own servers. Governments can request that Apple decrypt iCloud data for them. They did plan on making this impossible, but rolled back on that after the FBI caused a stink.
Would be nice if all system applications were rewritten in Swift for better integration in the future (while keeping the Mac applications, well, Mac-like). This would also simplify development of the OSes, if all applications were written in Swift and were multi-platform, so features would be kept in line while the app had carve-outs for iOS, Mac, and so forth specific features.
A redone System Preferences (Settings?) application, to be more in-line with iOS, actually doesn't seem like a bad deal, tbh. SP, as is now, kind of feels dated and looks like it's from the 2000s instead of the 2020s. As long as the UI is nice, snappy, and keeps all the advanced options available to us now, it's all good.
I do think Music (formerly iTunes), Safari, and Disk Utility should get a rewrite from the ground up. Perhaps a bit of renaming/merging here and there as well; ColorSync Utility, Stickies, Grapher, and Keychain Access harkens far back to classic Mac OS. Maybe Stickies could be merged into Notes and given widget capability. And, this might be an unpopular opinion, but time for Automater to go, IMHO. Roll all existing features not yet transitioned to Shortcuts, into Shortcuts, then put Automator down to rest at peace. A lot of facets of macOS are pretty old, which is fine, but Apple should modernize those areas of the OS, while keeping it just as powerful as always (Terminal, etc). I'm hoping they'll do that, instead of giving us a shiny new app that's half-baked, and call it macOS 13 "whatever".
Edit: Oh, and unite all dialogs and make them the same across the board. For example, some application preference dialogs are simply "make changes" then close, while some others (looking at you, Music) has preference dialogs that require you to click "Save" or "Cancel". Make them all the same.
My two cents!
A redone System Preferences (Settings?) application, to be more in-line with iOS, actually doesn't seem like a bad deal, tbh. SP, as is now, kind of feels dated and looks like it's from the 2000s instead of the 2020s. As long as the UI is nice, snappy, and keeps all the advanced options available to us now, it's all good.
I do think Music (formerly iTunes), Safari, and Disk Utility should get a rewrite from the ground up. Perhaps a bit of renaming/merging here and there as well; ColorSync Utility, Stickies, Grapher, and Keychain Access harkens far back to classic Mac OS. Maybe Stickies could be merged into Notes and given widget capability. And, this might be an unpopular opinion, but time for Automater to go, IMHO. Roll all existing features not yet transitioned to Shortcuts, into Shortcuts, then put Automator down to rest at peace. A lot of facets of macOS are pretty old, which is fine, but Apple should modernize those areas of the OS, while keeping it just as powerful as always (Terminal, etc). I'm hoping they'll do that, instead of giving us a shiny new app that's half-baked, and call it macOS 13 "whatever".
Edit: Oh, and unite all dialogs and make them the same across the board. For example, some application preference dialogs are simply "make changes" then close, while some others (looking at you, Music) has preference dialogs that require you to click "Save" or "Cancel". Make them all the same.
My two cents!
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The System Preferences changes sound really, really bad. I hope this isn’t true
Individual preferences sorted by app is one of the *worst* choices they made in iOS. It’s really annoying to scroll through a long list of all apps to find the setting. I just use the search function.
It was a nice thought, but the way it works doesn’t work well. I like that in Mac OS the app’s settings are all standard in the application menu. Very easy to access and use
At this point it seems like you have to pick one of those options. And from what I’ve read from a lot of Mac devs, SwiftUI isn’t ready for prime time. It could be good for Apple to have to use it though because then they might start fixing some of the problems that plague it
THIS. If there’s one thing I want Apple to do, it’s stop mistaking hiding UI elements for a clean UI. It’s really the opposite. It looks clean on the surface but using it is more difficult. If I hear “the application just gets out of the way” one more time, I’m going to make a youtube video mocking them.
Hiding UI elements and affordances that make it clear what’s going on is a lazy way of avoiding real UI decisions. It makes things look clean at a glance while making using it harder.
And also, center the text in title bars again.
Individual preferences sorted by app is one of the *worst* choices they made in iOS. It’s really annoying to scroll through a long list of all apps to find the setting. I just use the search function.
It was a nice thought, but the way it works doesn’t work well. I like that in Mac OS the app’s settings are all standard in the application menu. Very easy to access and use
At this point it seems like you have to pick one of those options. And from what I’ve read from a lot of Mac devs, SwiftUI isn’t ready for prime time. It could be good for Apple to have to use it though because then they might start fixing some of the problems that plague it
THIS. If there’s one thing I want Apple to do, it’s stop mistaking hiding UI elements for a clean UI. It’s really the opposite. It looks clean on the surface but using it is more difficult. If I hear “the application just gets out of the way” one more time, I’m going to make a youtube video mocking them.
Hiding UI elements and affordances that make it clear what’s going on is a lazy way of avoiding real UI decisions. It makes things look clean at a glance while making using it harder.
And also, center the text in title bars again.
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I have never bought a single ebook from Apple. All my books are either ePubs or PDFs Bought from non-DRM sources.
I would like to see mail and contacts become more small business friendly. Apple mail has always been a toy, good enough for consumers to mail, but lacks several features and not robust enough for business.
what is true is that the system makes very difficult to open an unsigned app... that is pain for people that works in development... I want a unlock the lock on security and have all fredom, of course the OS can warm me with a pop up banner, but I want freedom.
if you want stable OS, just update only to X.6 versions... it is that easy... the only moment that you don't have a X.6 version is when you buy a new computer, in that case you have to wait until the x.6 version arrive...
if you want stable OS, just update only to X.6 versions... it is that easy... the only moment that you don't have a X.6 version is when you buy a new computer, in that case you have to wait until the x.6 version arrives...
Free up your buttons for other keyboard shortcus and use BetterTouchTool instead along with hot corners.
Great little app Moom fills in the long missing gap of window snapping and organization! Well worth the $10 ( and I say that as someone who doesn't buy alot from the App Store) https://apps.apple.com/us/app/moom/id419330170?mt=12
I edited my original post. My feelings, however, remain the same.
MacOS Yorkshire
Stubbornly won't do what you ask and thinks all previous iterations are just rubbish.
Stubbornly won't do what you ask and thinks all previous iterations are just rubbish.
Also: Time Machine:
IMO, when trying to locate an old file, fine-grained spacing between dates is less important than being able to go further back.
Thus, once Time Machine runs out of space, don't have it erase the very oldest backup. Instead, have it increase the spacing between oldest backups. TM doesn't do that, plus its widest spacing in monthly.
E.g., suppose your oldest backups are Jan–Dec 2018. Currently, when TM runs out of space, it will erase Jan 2018. But the point of TM is to be able to go back in time, and when TM does that, you shorten that ability. Instead, it should erase Feb 2018. And as more space is needed, switch the oldest year to keep quarterly backups, then maybe semiannually for oldest year and quarterly for the next oldest year, etc.
Using different dates as an example, this:
Jan 2014, Jan 2015, Jan 2016, Jan 2017, June 2017, Jan 2018, Apr 2018, Jul 2018, Oct 2018, Jan 2019, Feb 2019,....
Is better than this:
Mar 2018, Apr 2018, May 2018, Jun 2018, July 2018, Aug 2018, Sept 2018, Oct 2018, Nov 2018, Jan 2019, Feb 2019,....
IMO, when trying to locate an old file, fine-grained spacing between dates is less important than being able to go further back.
Thus, once Time Machine runs out of space, don't have it erase the very oldest backup. Instead, have it increase the spacing between oldest backups. TM doesn't do that, plus its widest spacing in monthly.
E.g., suppose your oldest backups are Jan–Dec 2018. Currently, when TM runs out of space, it will erase Jan 2018. But the point of TM is to be able to go back in time, and when TM does that, you shorten that ability. Instead, it should erase Feb 2018. And as more space is needed, switch the oldest year to keep quarterly backups, then maybe semiannually for oldest year and quarterly for the next oldest year, etc.
Using different dates as an example, this:
Jan 2014, Jan 2015, Jan 2016, Jan 2017, June 2017, Jan 2018, Apr 2018, Jul 2018, Oct 2018, Jan 2019, Feb 2019,....
Is better than this:
Mar 2018, Apr 2018, May 2018, Jun 2018, July 2018, Aug 2018, Sept 2018, Oct 2018, Nov 2018, Jan 2019, Feb 2019,....
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