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The MacRumors Show: macOS 14 Wishlist – What Do We Want to See?
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Why do you conveniently ignore many posters here who have in fact moved on from Apple to post your typical snarky replies to people critical of Apple?
Apple lying about which machines would get System9 and leaving me stranded pushed me to Windows - I was so mad at them. I didn't touch another Apple product until 2011, and only because it could run Windows/Linux too - so if Apple decided to dick me over again (WHICH THEY DID) at least I could have fully patched Windows running on it (WHICH I DO). With the M series Macs, Windows/Linux is not an option. Apple could partner with MS to make windows compatability happen again, and contribute to Linux to make M versions there too. Apple chooses not to.
It seems that no one at Apple mgt remembers that the biggest reason so many people switched back, or over to Mac in the late 2000s, after Apple absolutely blew it in the late 90s, was BootCamp providing that extra reassurance that a Macintosh computer could still do everything that needed to be done, regardless of how badly Apple screwed up in the future. Well here we are in the future and Apple is totally screwing up again.
M series machines being wholly and completely subject to the fickle whims of Apple's Marketing Machine must be making lots of businesspeople think long and hard about continuing with, or switching to new Apple hardware. Microsoft compatible hardware is once again the *only* "safe position" in large scale hardware purchasing.
Mac sales down 40%! Post Pandemic my butt.
I'd love to see the internal breakdown of that figure. Who exactly stopped buying... Interesting that Mac sales plummeted immediately after they slashed support for tens of millions of relatively modern, fast and capable machines in millions of homes and offices.
P.S. Bootcamp development apparently has been abandoned. The last Monterrey machine I installed it on, it took three solid days of hell to make it work. Bootcamp is certainly now the most bug ridden mess of any piece of Apple software ever. I gave up in frustration multiple times, but I have a hard time leaving puzzles unsolved and finally made it work. I can't imagine regular people actually installing windows via Bootcamp today.
Comprehensive Metal to Vulcan translation so we can get Proton and access to nearly all Windows games.
I would love keychain app on iOS, why finding wi-fi passwords on iOS was opaque for so long was a mystery to me.
I agree there should be more translated into Vulcan.... AND Klingon, Romulan and Ferengi. There is no way Captain Proton has any chance of running on a Mac and I would be a little worried about giving Arachnia and Doc Chaotica access to our Mac world....
Destroy the current codebase and bring back Scott Forstall.
With the direction Apple is headed, the consumers and the employees would likely see the humor in San Quentin being the next Mac OS.
Make Mac OS the stable solid base for productivity is once was. Not this pile of poop full of usless features no on actually needs. If people need/want animoji's etc, provide them as additional installations like langiauges used to be.
Return to being a more intuitive piece of software. With the numerous tweaks and redesigns over the past few versions, it is now worse than windows for bloat and stupidity.
Return to being a more intuitive piece of software. With the numerous tweaks and redesigns over the past few versions, it is now worse than windows for bloat and stupidity.
Can we finally run IOS apps on Mac?
You can run Android Apps on Windows 11.
What happened with this? Apple pitched this versions of MacOS ago.
And Please Better multiple Window management on MacOS. Stage Manager is not enough.
Better Memory management and complete banishment of the beachball.
You can run Android Apps on Windows 11.
What happened with this? Apple pitched this versions of MacOS ago.
And Please Better multiple Window management on MacOS. Stage Manager is not enough.
Better Memory management and complete banishment of the beachball.
I'm always surprised when people complain about stability. For me it has been steadily getting better pretty much since it was released. I remember getting kernel panics back in the early days just by unplugging an already ejected USB key.
Feature wise I'd like to be able to set iCloud as a destination for Time Machine backups. The UI for password management could do with some work as well.
The biggest thing for me though is paying more attention to the developer side. The documentation is poor, Xcode is ropey, SwiftUI was released far too early and still feels incomplete. Swift is nice although getting quite complex.
Feature wise I'd like to be able to set iCloud as a destination for Time Machine backups. The UI for password management could do with some work as well.
The biggest thing for me though is paying more attention to the developer side. The documentation is poor, Xcode is ropey, SwiftUI was released far too early and still feels incomplete. Swift is nice although getting quite complex.
Fix the mess that is named Finder. Give me the OS 9 Finder, and add modern features to it.
No, it doesn't. It's inconsistent. In some apps (Safari e.g.) it makes the window fit the webpage content. In some other apps (Finder Icon view e.g.) it makes the window expand vertically only. In other apps (Chrome, Finder List view) it makes the window expand both vertically and horizontally.
Ability to turn Universal Control on and off in Control Center, because, it doesn't 'just work'.
this already exists, but most developers opted out.
Also, in my experience, iPhone/iPad apps running on the Mac without any optimization is not a good experience. I’ve heard similar things about running android apps and windows, but I don’t have any actual experience with that.
Back in... uh... 2012 maybe?... I had Android apps running on Linux, and running pretty well. I dont remember exactly how it all worked, I think I had to compile a bunch of stuff... But using a mouse for Apps that were designed for a touch interface felt awkward and clunky. I can't see why it would feel any better on a non-touchscreen Mac.
I think the real issue is that for some tasks, say like banking, there should be Mac apps, but no one makes them. You're expected to use a web browser. Granted a lot of apps are just focused HTML interpreters anyway... well what I'm saying is that development efforts all seem to be focused on Android/iOS, and Mac/PC/Linux development has fallen way, way off in the last 15 years.
Support for MFi hearing aids - I'd like to be able to stream music or movie sound directly to my hearing aid from my MBP the way I can with my iPhone or iPad, but which I can't with MacOS.
Reading the latest Gurman update it sounds like it's another mediocre update for macOS this year with WatchOS getting an overhaul instead.
When you look at what Microsoft is doing with Windows it really annoys me how Apple just leaves macOS to decline. Mac sales are down 40% and not all of that is due to Covid.
When you look at what Microsoft is doing with Windows it really annoys me how Apple just leaves macOS to decline. Mac sales are down 40% and not all of that is due to Covid.
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"When Music plays consecutive tracks from the same album, crossfading is automatically turned off, with no fading between the songs (or tracks)." Music Help
This is stupid and wrong. I have a personal playlist and crossfade turned on. There is no crossfade when I play the playlist. It is also stupid that it wouldn't work on tracks from the same album. Why? What is the rationale? I can't image a good reason.
But again, it doesn't really matter since the crossfade simply does not work at any time or situation.
This is stupid and wrong. I have a personal playlist and crossfade turned on. There is no crossfade when I play the playlist. It is also stupid that it wouldn't work on tracks from the same album. Why? What is the rationale? I can't image a good reason.
But again, it doesn't really matter since the crossfade simply does not work at any time or situation.
I got an answer (a stupid answer) from Apple. Crossfade does not work over Airplay. Nor does not work with lossless tracks or with Dolby Atmos tracks. Or with songs from the same album. So, essentially, it doesn't work.
So, when I listen to music that I subscribed to from Apple, using Airpods I bought from Apple, at a lossless setting developed by Apple, I can't crossfade music. That is completely ridiculous.
So, when I listen to music that I subscribed to from Apple, using Airpods I bought from Apple, at a lossless setting developed by Apple, I can't crossfade music. That is completely ridiculous.
Agree with Safari. I can't believe that I stopped using Safari and moved to Microsoft Edge. I'm happy with Edge and its integration with Office 365 (or email and calendar system) and it just works. There were just too many times in which Safari just didn't work, the content didn't display correctly, or it didn't refresh correctly.