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macOS 'Big Sur' Unveiled With Updated Design, New Features for Safari and Messages, and More

no matter what apple (or any tech company, for that matter does), people will complain. and no way to make everyone happy. but i, for one, appreciate that apple keeps moving forward... and look forward to downloading the first beta (& seeing what stops working, lol).

bring it on....
 
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To me it feels like this is a sign that future Macs are going to get displays with rounded corners like the iPhone X (and others with OLED) and 2018-2020 iPad Pro.

All those heavily rounded window corners, icons and dock in Big Sur looks so out of place with squared corners of then display.
 
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Curved corners on all windows -> Curved physical screen corners on Mac -> Smaller bezels on Mac portables, finally. (And the XDR being the odd one out...)

EDIT: What profets said.
 
Some people finally got what they wanted for years: macOS 11

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I gotta ask those people: is it everything you thought it would be?
 
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It makes sense to adjust to unified design language across their products, whilst still differentiating appropriately based on the device and it’s intended core use.

I like what I saw too. Looked more polished (at first glance at least) than it did after the last update a few years back.
 
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Not a huge fan of how CLOSE iPadOS and macOS look now... but i will use it with an open mind.
Looks really fresh and modern though!
 
Skoal said:
Flat is so much better than the alternative.
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It's not, I find the modern flat design language which started in earnest with Windows Metro, very difficult to use because it's not clear which part of the screen is clickable. In the 1990s with the widespread use of graphical user interface is, the faux 3-D look gave very clear user feedback with regard to interface areas.

I turn off all distracting interface movement on my phones and desktops, turn off transparency and most notifications - I like my tools to be tidy, efficient and most of all - functional.

Under Tim Cook's direction it is clear - based on his split with Jony Ive - that Tim neither knows what an engineer does nor has the aesthetic sense for understated simplicity.
 
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laz232 said:
It's not, I find the modern flat design language which started in earnest with Windows Metro, very difficult to use because it's not clear which part of the screen is clickable. In the 1990s with the widespread use of graphical user interface is, the faux 3-D look gave very clear user feedback with regard to interface areas.

I turn off all distracting interface movement on my phones and desktops, turn off transparency and most notifications - I like my tools to be tidy, efficient and most of all - functional.

Under Tim Cook's direction it is clear - based on his split with Jony Ive - that Tim neither knows what an engineer does nor has the aesthetic sense for understated simplicity.
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boohoo. because apple can't give every single user just what they want. (fwiw, i turn on 'reduce motion' on my devices as well).

ppl love to complain, but the choice, as always, is to adapt, and move forward, or whine endlessly. am getting ready now, for the mac os 11.0 forum, and that endless whining...
 
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