They don’t release macOS iPads, because they want you locked to the App Store so they can get their 30% cut.
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WWDC 2025: What to Expect From macOS 26 Tahoe
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Apple doesn’t release new emojis another organization that Apple is part of does.
One last hooray for the best and last Intel MacBook, the 2019 i9.
I really hope this doesn’t bog those machines.
I really hope this doesn’t bog those machines.
Really? I don’t recall anything but some iPhone X models that seemed like Apple wanted to lower expectations by leaking some ugly, in comparison, designs.
Well, big in the same sense that macOS Big Sur was big. Not many new features apart from the control center, but a visual overhaul and parody to their other systems. I mean, we all thought for „macOS 11“ Apple had to do something more, but nope.
This might be that but for all systems.
They also released the ugly battery meter in an early version of macOS that they changed after a few betas.
Yeah but that doesn’t constitute as false leaks, only bad design decisions. The overhauled iOS Safari wasn’t a leak either.
Hopefully not. They have enough experience with the iPad lineup to know that would be a bad move.
Maybe they tie the name to the SoC like they do with the Mac’s and iPads now, but that doesn’t work if they continue using the same generation over more than one year.
Let’s hope they fix a few things rather than add more gimmicks
As a windows user as well, using Windows 11 is like riding a drunk horse across a field covered in landmines. My god it is the most unstable, unreliable nagging turd in the history of time. I have so many issues and abandoned little corners it's unreal. Even notepad has CoPilot shovelled into it now. It's just literally like a scrap heap of marketing direction changes spanning 25 years. Nothing is finished and nothing works properly.
As for features, I'm not sure that's even comparable. Microsoft don't even ship basic apps that work properly these days. Outlook for example is a broken pile of Electron garbage that doesn't work properly offline and steals your credentials and does everything in the cloud. Todo is buggy as hell. At best if you take a Windows 11 LTSC build and throw third party software on top you might get somewhere but it's all cranky stuff that's never been refined.
A very simple cases which are a good reminder of how bad windows is:
If I add a contact on my mac, it's on my phone. Microsoft can't even get that working with outlook and Android or iOS, even if you pay them. It has been 35 years since I started using windows and they haven't nailed this down yet. I've had that on macOS for at least 15 years.
And then there's other simple stuff like being able to open a PDF and read it without having to navigate either some crap plugged into Edge or Adobe (which is painful) or some dodgy as hell PDF reader written by someone who has absolutely no idea about user interface design.
While macOS might not run Dassault Catia or something, most of the stuff I actually use and need daily just works.
macOS is certainly not without flaws but anyone coming here saying stuff like this doesn't have a leg to stand on. Microsoft stuff is pretty much garbage these days. And that hurts because I would really rather use Windows really if this stuff worked on it. But it doesn't. And I value my time and energy more than any brand loyalty. Apple respect that at least a little bit.
Am I the only one expecting just a continuation of the trend of more bugs and glitches?
I really hope the rounded corners of windows won't be as dramatic on macOS as they are on visionOS. It just looks bad.
I think Apple should go back to in person announcements in a room full of people. There used to be a real buzz back in those days. I wonder if the sterility of giving pre-recorded presentations is feeding into the culture. Less wow. Certainly feels that way.
Total different situation. The version numbering never matched up to the name (ie Windows 2000 wasn't version 2000 but NT 5.0). Also, Apple releases a new OS version every year like clockwork so the name won't be as outdated as not releasing a new version for three years (gap between Windows 95 > 98) per example.
TBH, I don't agree with this. Released in 2025, please refer it to '25. Easiest.
Yes, there are more months in 2026 for which these OS are the "most up-to-date" but, to me, it still feels like quite cheap marketing. "Let's use 26 instead of 25 as it is more".
I hope that I am seriously wrong? But I can't help feeling that this renumbering strategy along with Apple's Intelligence fiasco combined with the UI redesign rumours are merely an act to distract us with this splash of fancy new paint all over MacOS.
Now I'm just waiting for WWDC to confirm or deny all of this. The thought of seeing a slick used car salesman in Craig Federighi on stage is making feel just - well - put off to say the least.
Now I'm just waiting for WWDC to confirm or deny all of this. The thought of seeing a slick used car salesman in Craig Federighi on stage is making feel just - well - put off to say the least.
Aero Glass didn't get "toned down" with Windows 8 but I was removed altogether.
I find it hard to believe they only started working on the redesign just now. Around 5 years after the last major redesign sounds about right too. And let's be honest: the average user probably couldn't care less about version numbering.
The problem is, Microsoft is giving you a new OS nearly every month, or at least adding features, removing features, renaming them and moving them around the interface at a whim, on a monthly cadence. The monthly security updates now include a lucky-dip feature change as well.
Copilot has moved places, changed size, had its keyboard shortcut changed multiple times over the last 12 months. Sometimes it is a bit lozenge on the taskbar, sometimes it is a little icon, sometimes it is next to the start menu, sometimes it is on the right, next to the status information, you need to press Win+C to call it up, then Alt+Space (rendering the window menu unreachable in an emergency, when the window isn't on the screen), now it is back to Win+C with the latest update.