To be fair, the overall UI still somewhat maintained the pre Yosemite aesthetic up until Catalina.
Clearly, Alan Dye didn't think it was good enough.
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macOS Ventura With Stage Manager and More Launching October 24
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To be fair, the overall UI still somewhat maintained the pre Yosemite aesthetic up until Catalina.
Clearly, Alan Dye didn't think it was good enough.
So I guess we'll get a RC for devs today and that'll be what they ship as the final release.
I've been using it since the day one and there are definitely still plenty of bugs to iron out.
I've been using it since the day one and there are definitely still plenty of bugs to iron out.
There are still plenty of major bugs in Monterey and we're at the 6th point release on that.
It's just how Apple rolls these days.
I'm interested to see when Freeform is released. Wondering how it can compete with some other software.
Any bugs as serious as the Monterey memory-leak bug back when it first released?
Hey thanks. I didn’t “upgrade” to Yosemite past Mavericks with my 2014 MBA since I didn’t like much of what I saw with Yosemite. I didn’t like the transparency (who uses transparent paper on your desk at home or work? So why is it “better” on screen), flat design, and non-Apple-looking font. But I gave in and went to Sierra after a while, and the aesthetic was not too terrible. (Meaning: minimalist elements of the interface were not too terrible steps backward).
When i purchased an M1 MBA then I was forced into Big Sur of course. When placed side by side with my 2014 MBA with Sierra, I so prefer much of its interface aesthetic. Not for nostalgia and a clinging to something, but it’s just more eye/user friendly and intuitive, rather than be a slave to minimalist/flat design/low-contrast.
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Nothing that serious, at least not in my experience. VLC/INNA bug was the most annoying but seems to be fixed now. I still get widgets freezing now and than and some external drives are not cooperating all the time.
Looking at some of the 10th gen iPad promotional photos ("The Student Chronicle"), we can see a bit more about what Freeform will do.
It shows PDF, Pages and Keynote files pasted on the whiteboard. I'm interested to know whether you can annotate the PDFs on the whiteboard. Perhaps via Markup?
OK, so I will make sure I do my monthly Time Machine backups this weekend, in anticipation of upgrading my Macs I plan to use Ventura on. (My M1 MacBook Air and my 2015 Retina 15" MacBook Pro, using OpenCore Legacy Patcher for the latter.)
Can't wait for Ventura to drop, always enjoy upgrading to the new Mac OS. But when will the new MBPs drop? If I had to guess it would be the 3rd week of November, 4 Weeks from the iPads dropping today makes sense to me.
I purchased this one from Amazon. It works very nice on the 14” M1 Pro MacBook. You can slide it easily where you want it. On my 2014 MacBook Pro it fits snug.
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I bought this one:
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As far as I know it’s only the dev beta that’s got the RC.
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Seems public is now available
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I’m sure AAPL spent thousands and thousands of dollars on research and designer/artiste hours to create, vet out, refine, and finally agree upon a simple, minimalist wallpaper theme.
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#aapleusedtobeassociatedwithartandsciencebutnowitsmostlyminimalismandprofitandquarterlygrowthfirst
I agreed with you — then I went to my System Prefs to check that Increase Contrast was on; it was. I played around with that and the Contrast slider and, wow, suddenly, it worked and I have black lines round everything in Mail and Safari and much clearer tabs etc. It's less pretty but a lot more visible!
So it's worth have another fiddle with it! Good luck!
Thanks, I did that a long time ago too and it was a step up! Except now it looks like macOS of the 80s and 90s…black lines and all-white monochromatic all around. The interface was quite good a few OS iterations prior, but still too unnecessarily minimalist monochromatic to me.
