My world does revolve around me...as does my money. You will notice I got rid of the iPhone 15+ and went with Oppo, all because of 26 LG. Apple Arrogance is slowing pushing me away from their product. I am good with that as I have options.
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macOS Tahoe: A Pattern of Poor Usability and Design Regression
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My world does revolve around me...as does my money. You will notice I got rid of the iPhone 15+ and went with Oppo, all because of 26 LG. Apple Arrogance is slowing pushing me away from their product. I am good with that as I have options.
But they're not going to do it. They'll refine and polish it with incremental updates (not to everyone's taste as usual) but it will be the full cycle most definitely. It’s up to individual user to decide whether they can live with that and adapt, or not.
That's perfectly fine. I would do the same if something bothered me so much that it interfered with my daily workflow.
They will revert it - just like they reverted to the 3D stuff of the early 2000's after 1.5 decades of flat design. That would hurt to have to wait so long, though.
Indeed. When he presented Center Stage that was the first time I thought something was off at Apple's software design. Useless and resource-hungry feature. Had I known that useless and resource-hungry would later apply to the entire OS...
I mean they won't revert it immediately after Tahoe. There will be at least 2-3 MacOS versions with some kind of LG UI.
I can imagine Apple iterating Liquid Glass; think LG 2, LG 3 etc. If only because it's an easy way to brand changes that, I believe in hindsight, Apple knows should have been made during testing.
Apple's hypocrisy will be evident, though.
(power stance)
"And now, Liquid Glass 2 brings ClearText, an even easier way to view your content!"
My guess is, they won't change those rounded corners (maybe slightly), because of unification with iOS and iPadOS. Maybe some refinements of colors and tints.
That’s how it is for me. The only similarity I’ve had to OP’s experience involves iOS Messages, dark mode, light background in the conversation. (It’s beyond stupid that conversation backgrounds must be shared.)
wondering if anyone's going to address why messages looks fine here& for @triptolemus, and not for the OP 🤔
fwiw, i've been using dark mode since it's first appearance in OS X (back in the 1940s i think), and couldn't go back to light mode (but that's just me) 🤷
agreed; glad i didn't put anything rude or stupid in the background for my GF's texts 😳
Would you stay on a forum about what you hate, tilting at windmills? That’s just weird to me.
I believe the phrase you're looking for is "it's an unpopular design"
Yes yes, everyone wants one more useless “AI” chat
Everyone wants to generate more useless slop content.
Maybe just give to assign chatgpt/gemini/whatever slop engine for who wants to?
Because it's really that bad. If you search the internet, you will find more than one thread saying cancer sucks, even though that may seem repetitious.
is it? it certainly is on this forum. but i wonder how many ppl in the real world are worried about it? (outside of hysterical youtubers & bloggers)? and, does it matter? it may change slightly, but it's the look of the present (still, let's see what OS 27 brings).
To each their own. As far as I'm concerned, if I definitely realize that something no longer suits me, I’ll change it anonymously, without any drama or public announcements. Life is short.
Apple has grown arrogant. They know pretty hardware almost always sells the product, so they don’t care about good software anymore. For longtime users of the Macintosh, it’s easy to feel forgotten and betrayed. 😡
What I find increasingly astounding is the regression in accessibility for users with visual impairment. I mean, it’s just a mess once you turn on any number of accessibility options.
Apple used to pride itself in this area, but in Tahoe it comes across as virtue signalling. In particular, the addition of outlines on all the new control/window elements probably would cause more visual impairment.
Apple used to pride itself in this area, but in Tahoe it comes across as virtue signalling. In particular, the addition of outlines on all the new control/window elements probably would cause more visual impairment.
I feel like Sequoia is gonna be my Snow Leopard for the next few years.
Because you shouldn't have to tinker with settings for an hour to make the user interface readable.
I just updated the main machine to Linux Mint Cinnamon 22.3, and right now that is the "it just works" configuration.
Those who are OCD or just plain like tinkering with settings can use KDE Plasma instead.
Purely as an aside on a related topic, due to my trifocals I've come to prefer the menu bar on the bottom on a desktop display. Having the menubar on the top requires me to shift my head to read the menus clearly through the mid-distance lens. Menubar on the bottom (in Cinnamon and most other Linux desktops) doesn't. On a laptop that is actually on my lap I only have to use the middle lens for the whole screen at least for the 13" screen I have. Obviously this will depend on your exact prescription, but my preference for desktops has changed because of this.
+1. Especially contrast. The world now thinks gray-on-white is the aesthetic thing to do (e.g. the font on this page and throughout Apple), and it sucks for the huge number of folks with impaired vision. Apple is supposed to be better, more accessible not less. Apple making white-on-gray like in the OP example is the worst kind of forced inaccessibility.
Apple needs to give us a global choice to change the gray fonts to black. White-on-gray simply should not exist.
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am intensely OCD, and feel no need to 'tinker' with settings....Those who are OCD or just plain like tinkering with settings can use KDE Plasma instead.