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Top Five Features in macOS Sonoma 14.2
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Some of these updates to Mac OS are so pathetic that it proves the point we just don’t need yearly refresh cycles of the OS. Furthermore that features promised do not ship in the OS highlight this even more.
Make Aqua great again 😂
It’ll be SUPER AWESOME *screech, flicks hair*
100% agree its the Apple gravy train, with hardware ready months and month before the software, and then the train starts all over again.
I had never seen the Clock app on macOS before but it's kinda funny. To me this looks like a first draft when laying out a UI in a form designer:
I think all 4 of the macOS developers were poached to work on iOS about 7 years ago. Now they just get on with macOS in their lunch break.
Yea, likely Craig's son fiddling with Figma, while the UX team is on PTO.
Well, to be fair, this type of updates on macOS usually never came with any new features at all. It was usually bug and security fixes, stability improvements, and some minor graphics driver tweak. At least this time we have more widgets or the new multiple timer.
You don’t need to be scared. If you make a back up (manually or Time Machine) of your important stuff, you can install the latest Sonoma version, and if you encounter any issue, erase the drive and go back to macOS 13.3
At least with Intel macs is very simple, not sure about the procedure with Apple Silicon macs.
I hardly ever use a regular timer/coundtown on my Mac but in my opinion some kind of Pomodoro/interval feature would be really useful.
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What are they supposed to do? Update the OS without any way to differentiate it from the previous version? Great way to create confusion among users
I wouldn’t consider any of these OS updates, apart from maybe the pdf autofill. These are all app updates.
Ironically this is part of the Microsoft Clock app on Windows. My how the tables have turned, now it’s Windows shipping with built-in software beyond the bare minimum. Sarcasm, but seems to be moving that direction.
I've found that with my Apple Watch enabled to unlock my family iMac, I have had to go to the login window to prevent some other family member from (sometimes) inadvertently unlocking it even though I'm in another room more than 20 feet away.
But now, with 14.2, I go to the login window and the Apple Watch will immediately unlock it once again unless I literally sprint away (or take off the watch obviously.) It's kind of annoying. I think I'm going to have to completely disable that feature for that computer.
But now, with 14.2, I go to the login window and the Apple Watch will immediately unlock it once again unless I literally sprint away (or take off the watch obviously.) It's kind of annoying. I think I'm going to have to completely disable that feature for that computer.
Has anyone noticed that cold boot ever since Sonoma takes longer for things to respond than usual? I can log in but it takes a good 30 seconds or so before my apps start loading on startup and I can opened apps. I’m hoping this update helps with that. Other than that, I have been quite happy with Sonoma.
Aaah, kids these days… I remember back when a major OS update, the 0. was a paid upgrade. They had to deliver something big, so you felt you were getting something for your $.
These days you get the thin salami method of tiny changes and you give it a whole new name. But at least it’s free. Of course these are point versions, but still, the idea is continuing small changes. The funny part is that this is exactly what you get with subscriptions except you have to pay for the privilege on an ongoing basis regardless of how small the progress. No subscriptions for me, thank you, especially when they release betaware that breaks functionality on the regular.
I miss the days when SJ would announce that Snow Leopard would have no new features and instead they’d laser focus on fixing all the bugs and making the functions actually work. I stuck to Snow Leopard for as long as I could. I hate when they announce new features when they haven’t even gotten the old ones to work properly in the first place… like what’s the point.
These days you get the thin salami method of tiny changes and you give it a whole new name. But at least it’s free. Of course these are point versions, but still, the idea is continuing small changes. The funny part is that this is exactly what you get with subscriptions except you have to pay for the privilege on an ongoing basis regardless of how small the progress. No subscriptions for me, thank you, especially when they release betaware that breaks functionality on the regular.
I miss the days when SJ would announce that Snow Leopard would have no new features and instead they’d laser focus on fixing all the bugs and making the functions actually work. I stuck to Snow Leopard for as long as I could. I hate when they announce new features when they haven’t even gotten the old ones to work properly in the first place… like what’s the point.
Nikon Camera Control Pro 2 is broken too.
If anyone needs USB tethering while the fix is underway, you may use qDslrDashboard V3.6.7 for macOS which is working w/o issues: https://dslrdashboard.info/downloads/
Tested with MBP'14 M1 Pro, Nikon Z8 tethered via usb-c, macOS 14.2 (23C64)
I actually needed a timer on my Mac recently, and I bought an app from the MacAppStore that allows you to time 15 minutes and other multiples, but not smaller fractions of time.
I’m glad Sonoma added this feature, but my Mac only allows Monterey, so I guess I’ll have to look outside the App Store. Ideally some open source timer app.
Yes it is pretty clunky. It's a reminder / tracker, not an app window you have to work in. Even when dragged to its smallest size it's too big.