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macOS Tahoe Adds These 15 New Screen Savers to Your Mac

JohnC1959 said:
Gotcha. Ok, so who knows, maybe with the very first MacOS I had I did change it. That starts to blur the definition of the 'default' for each OS.
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The default are the still ones, but it does kind of blur the lines a bit. I got this answer from Grok so it may not be 100% right, but we can assume something like this must be going on if you haven’t been seeing the default still wallpapers for the past few years. Each macOS version’s default wallpaper and Dock icon layout are displayed on its Wikipedia page.
 
Mac Fly (film) said:
The default are the still ones, but it does kind of blur the lines a bit. I got this answer from Grok so it may not be 100% right, but we can assume something like this must be going on if you haven’t been seeing the default still wallpapers for the past few years. Each macOS version’s default wallpaper and Dock icon layout are displayed on its Wikipedia page.
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By the way, ALL of those scenery wallpapers I had defaulted on installation were still ones until Sequoia. And when I searched for Yosemite macOS (just as random example) on Wiki it showed the scenery wallpaper as the default. Anyway, no biggie either way.
edit: Interesting -- I searched some other versions and some had the scenery as default and some showed the simpler, abstract color wallpaper though for all of them I had the scenery as default.
 
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JohnC1959 said:
By the way, ALL of those scenery wallpapers I had defaulted on installation were still ones until Sequoia. And when I searched for Yosemite macOS (just as random example) on Wiki it showed the scenery wallpaper as the default. Anyway, no biggie either way.
edit: Interesting -- I searched some other versions and some had the scenery as default and some showed the simpler, abstract color wallpaper though for all of them I had the scenery as default.
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On wikipedia the default is the abstract for all since Big Sur.
 
Mac Fly (film) said:
How does Apple have the best aerials in the business and the least creative default wallpapers.††
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Matter of taste.

Each one shows a special scene from the environment in a minimalist style. Playing with colors, shades even "light".

Personally, I think these wallpapers are much more creative than a video loop. The designers had to put a lot of thought into the wallpapers. The beauty of the screensavers has already been created by nature.

Here is a typical photo from Sequoia and what Apple has made of it.

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con2apple said:
Matter of taste.

Each one shows a special scene from the environment in a minimalist style. Playing with colors, shades even "light".

Personally, I think these wallpapers are much more creative than a video loop. The designers had to put a lot of thought into the wallpapers. The beauty of the screensavers has already been created by nature.

Here is a typical photo from Sequoia and what Apple has made of it.

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Yes, I get it. Taste at Apple is certainly somewhere, apparently. They’re uncreative and silly and it’s tired after 6/7 yrs of this crap. These wallpapers are Microsoft’s idea of creativity. They are whiteboard concept art. The end result got old quickly and isn’t especially beautiful or interesting. It’s up there with Apple’s attempts to design app icons in recent years.
 
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svish said:
Very nice to see these new screensavers from India. Hoping to see more in the future.
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Enjoy these because when Apple adds a bunch of content like this, especially like they have here with a few for one country, historically they tend to let that be it. I’ve no idea why 11 of them are from India tbh. They’re pretty, but it seems mostly an Indian focused release of content.
 
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Mac Fly (film) said:
(...) These wallpapers are Microsoft’s idea of creativity. They are whiteboard concept art. The end result got old quickly and isn’t especially beautiful or interesting. It’s up there with Apple’s attempts to design app icons in recent years.
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Okay, I understand. You're from the older generation. Apple and Microsoft. Good and evil. Us against them.

I'd like to keep this conversation constructive.
So I'm asking , what would be a creative wallpaper for you, something that isn't just a photo of nature?
 
con2apple said:
Okay, I understand. You're from the older generation. Apple and Microsoft. Good and evil. Us against them.

I'd like to keep this conversation constructive.
So I'm asking , what would be a creative wallpaper for you, something that isn't just a photo of nature?
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It was merely an analogy for how Microsoft tends to misunderstand design because its company culture wasn’t built on design principles, so they often miss the mark. The point is, after seven years of this same idea, it’s just not very creative or beautiful. They are trying to emulate nature in a stylized way, but it doesn’t seem terribly effective.

Until they can come up with something better than nature images, and as they continue to name their releases after places in nature, they should do what they did before they used this stylized gimmick and just choose a beautiful image from the place the release is named for as the wallpaper for that release. They did that with fine success prior to this. If they are to use abstract images, they shouldn’t make them the marketing image to represent the system, and if they add new abstract images to the library of images, they might try to make something better.
 
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