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macOS 27: All the Rumors So Far

diego.caraballo said:
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Contacts app is a nightmare on Tahoe.

Hey there. Not sure if anyone else around here is a heavy user of MacOS' Contacts app. Under Tahoe RC, it's becoming almost useless to me. I'm quite frustrated. Been using Contacts for 15 years, I got more than 6000 records and keep the app always open while working. The interface under Tahoe...
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Interesting. Aside from the UI issues mentioned, I am not [yet] seeing any of the performance lag cited. Running 26.4 Beta (25E5218f). And, again, haven't noticed performance issue prior. YMMV, of course. Anyway, thanks for the links.
 
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To replicate what they did with snow leopard you need real developers. And Serlet and Forstall are long gone unfortunately. I don’t thing the current team has the skills to fix Apple decadent software.

Add that they will introduce new features for touch screens and brace for another disaster and disappointing release. (With Apple Intelligence delayed probably too)
 
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hieranonymous said:
A properly developed mouse/keyboard interactivity paradigm is still the most efficient and productive way to navigate macOS, but it feels contrived not to enable at least some touch interactivity at this late stage of Apple’s iPhone/iPad era. I know this ultimately puts the iPad in a bit of an awkward marketing position, but that shouldn’t be the reason Apple holds back anymore. Skate to where the puck is headed, as the saying goes.
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The problem for me is that I don't want a touch screen to drive UX decisions on the mac. I have zero interest in being able to touch the screen on my mac. I guess it's fine if we can just turn it off, but then I'm more likely to have someone else touch the screen and leave fingerprints now because they've been trained to touch it. iPad's and iPhone's is where touch should remain in my opinion.
 
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Apple's OS lineup looks more like Xiaomi and Huawei with every passing day. Tacky and cheap. Chinafied. Like someone told a SlopBot "give me a particularly soulless Y2k Futurism. Make sure the GUI is infested with the kinds of face-palm inconsistencies for which you LLMs are so well known. Double check for bugs and if there aren't any, add some."

The Chinese/Asian UI aesthetic has been creeping into cars and tech for so long it seemingly can't be undone. Personally I think it's hideous - it's the McMansion of design. There's a weird cultural barrier like how it somehow makes sense for BYD to have the text "LIVE YOUR DREAM" on the back yet everyone in the West is dumbfounded by it.
 
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Just like Snow Leopard which ditched PowerPC, macOS 27 which ditches Intel should be as polished as that.
 
I often use the iPad Pro with the floating Magic Keyboard and hate touching the screen unless I really have to. I'm sure a touchscreen MacBook would go the same way
 
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macsimcon said:
Perhaps they could fix my Apple Watch taking 45 seconds to tell me that it can't play a song I requested on my iPhone two feet away? Siri is a real piece of s***, total failure. Pathetic.

Oh no, they can't possibly do THAT! They have to spend resources on products nobody wants, like Vision Pro, Trashcan Mac, or a $2,500 foldable iPhone...and all the while ignoring the hundreds of bugs that haven't been fixed across all their platforms.
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“my Apple Watch taking 45 seconds to tell me that it can't play a song I requested on my iPhone two feet away?”

Did you try unlocking your iPhone first…?

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Astrohunter said:
Can’t wait for all this sweat and grease on my screen.

Will be buying my first Apple polishing cloth together with this. 🥂
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Even the best polishing cloth is literally nothing without also shelling out for the molecularly customized version of isopropyl alcohol that will be needed with it.
 
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Hard to imagine an OS update with a whole new touch interface is going to focus much on stability.

100:1 this is not going to be another Snow Leopard.
 
I really hope they manage to figure out how to provide different skins for the OS that will allow us to turn off Glass or any future touch interface designs and go back to the Sonoma interface.

Have accidentally upgraded my iPhone to 26 there is absolutely no way I will upgrade Mac OS to Tahoe.
 
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Astrohunter said:
Finally might buy a MBP.

Can’t wait for all this sweat and grease on my screen.

Will be buying my first Apple polishing cloth together with this. 🥂
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Think they'll go from gorilla glass to "gorilla arm" glass?

I have a touch screen netbook, but it's a convertible. I only ever use the touch when I'm using it like a tablet e-reader.
 
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I still don’t see why in the world anyone would want to touch a laptop screen. I know I don’t.
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I know, and no Gorilla Glass? People are gonna be poking those fragile, thin OLEDs with their fingernails, especially the ladies.
 
"AI (blahblahblah)...". I turn everything related to Apple Intelligence as fast as it downloads.

So, excluding AI, nothing special, just updates (No, Apple Glass has not wrecked my life, just another theme du jour,... MacOS 28 may be Apple Wood, 29, Apple Ravioli, and so on. This too shall pass).

I want the OS to just work (like fixing the correct size of items on a folder, fixing the generic icon issue, bring the music toolbar from the bottom of the Apple Music app back to the top of it, so I can see again how many items are in a playlist again, et al).
 
I suppose a touchscreen could be intended as an optional accessibility feature, useful potentially for those whose fine motor skills are declining or poor and who find navigating a hi-res screen interface with a trackpad or mouse to be challenging. In some situations these users might benefit from the ability to simply touch the screen directly, invoking the enlarged set of touch-optimized controls mentioned in the article.
 
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