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macOS 'Big Sur' Unveiled With Updated Design, New Features for Safari and Messages, and More
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It actually confirms the opposite.
At least the versions of Word, Powerpoint and Excel they showed had the title bars in a different colour. You could even see a little bit of a gradient, which I appreciated. Makes me hopeful that it won't just be plain white apps across the entire OS, otherwise I'd probably leave it in dark mode most of the time.
The rounded square icons are a similarly hard sell for me. I was very worried when I first saw them, thinking that Apple might force this look on developers like they did with iOS. Knowing the way things are with graphic design right now, this would result in a ton of uninspired logos on plain white backgrounds. But thankfully a lot of the icons shown on-screen (including the MS Office icons) got to keep their existing shapes, and don't look too out of place among the square ones.
I mean, I can't believe we're at the point of praising Microsoft for their non-native design on an Apple platform, but...
...here's to the crazy ones!
iOS look on macOS, it was bad when they started merging it with Lion and it looks worse now.That iOS look just does not suit a desktop experience and if I want that 3D look I'll go and use Snow Leopard or earlier versions where it looks good.
Yeah, I'm really liking the look of this so far. It's nice to see colour back (seriously) and the return of the startup chime is a very, very welcome addition.
Why not they will be running the same hardware soon...
" Apple ditches Intel for its own processors in Macs"
I liked everything I saw, I don't know what the problem is. If you don't like that shadow you can probably turn it off like most things in OSX OS11
Me every couple of years: complains about new look to iTunes
Apple every couple of years: bases new UI on iTunes
Something about the way they demo apps one at a time taking up less than half the screen area makes it look alien to me, even before the UI change. I have all my regular apps pretty neatly tiled on multiple desktops and I definitely don‘t want any wasted space in the UI.
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When Excel was demoed, I was really hoping he would copy and paste a couple of cells of plain text. First time I do this after opening a document takes about 10 seconds on 2016 MBP.
Apple every couple of years: bases new UI on iTunes
Something about the way they demo apps one at a time taking up less than half the screen area makes it look alien to me, even before the UI change. I have all my regular apps pretty neatly tiled on multiple desktops and I definitely don‘t want any wasted space in the UI.
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When Excel was demoed, I was really hoping he would copy and paste a couple of cells of plain text. First time I do this after opening a document takes about 10 seconds on 2016 MBP.
I find the “Fisher Price” criticism kind of funny actually… because people have been saying that about the Mac since 1984. Doesn’t seem to have hindered their success so far.
These WWDC events are complete Jokes. Steve at least knew that developers were the key and did things that were congruent with real world needs. Apple is just one big mobile circle jerk now with no real vision for the future. It's just a mobile platform race without sincere innovation. I was appalled at all of the talking heads and how lacking they were in both substance and depth. I hate watching commercials at a
DEVELOPERS' CONFERENCE
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DEVELOPERS' CONFERENCE
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As a manager of a PSP (Apple premium service provider), this my 2018 MBP TB will be my last. Off to Windows and a custom AMD PC with 16 core (3950x) running a few VMs for everyone in the family to have their own "PC". The T2 chip and filevault randomly corrupt peoples drives, and too many still do not backup, along with the inability to replace major parts for the above average consumer, has driven me away from the platform. I raise my glass to my 2 8tb NVME mirrored drives in my PC with another 4TB NVME PCIE Gen 4. Suck it Apple, your OS is obtuse, and you concentrate on lackluster hardware (At least from a desktop perspective)
This is it. One step closer to make good old powerful Unix-based Mac OS X that could do crazy geek stuff into a glorified mouse keyboard control only iPadOS Pro. Soon local file system access will be removed, and more restrictive, more towards iOS. No admin user needed as there’s no point to have one once App Store becomes the only source to download and install apps. Rooting macOS will be the equivalent of jailbreaking iOS cause terminals are gone.
Again, as soon as iPadOS software catches up macOS, there’s no point to keep selling MacBook of any kind unless maybe Mac Pro with Apple’s own custom chips (CPU and GPU). macOS will eventually phase out to general public. Yes.
Again, as soon as iPadOS software catches up macOS, there’s no point to keep selling MacBook of any kind unless maybe Mac Pro with Apple’s own custom chips (CPU and GPU). macOS will eventually phase out to general public. Yes.
I like it a lot. Also that everything gets consistent between iPad and Mac
Damn! They've done it again! Way, way back - something like around System 7 - Apple changed a set of icons to have a consistent shape. The end result is that you couldn't tell them apart without looking closely! Many Apple software engineers privately voiced that this was a horrible change.
Now it looks like most icons have become roundrects...
To me it looks like the redesign is to support a better touch screen experience. Touch screen macs in the future perhaps?
These are the improvements:
- Never need to drag a window again, because in the redesigned windows on macOS Big
SuckSur you won't be able to grab any window at the top. There simply wasn't enough space for that superfluent piece of interaction. What? You're not using every app in full screen mode? That is so yesteryear. - Do you remember how your eyes got strained reading text on an LCD? Well those days are over, because on macOS Big Sur the menu bar and menus will be so transparent you can't read any text on them anyway. BUT IT LOOKS SO FASHIONABLE!!!
- So, just stop reading menus and use those neat little buttons instead that take the space that was originally meant to be there to grab a window. Just ignore that the button icons are so far abstracted and flat that you won't have any idea what they do anyway – this is how me made iOS just as productive as macOS. You're welcome!
- Ah and by the way the new developer kit for the transition to ARM is a Mac Mini. The Mac with the most underpowered GPU we've been offering so far, so that you hopefully won't notice that Apple Silicon isn't that great in graphic performance. And to not give you any crazy ideas, that Mini doesn't have a Thunderbolt 3 port. Yes, don't even think about connecting an eGPU to that machine to get at least acceptable graphic performance.
