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WWDC 2025: What to Expect From macOS 26 Tahoe
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The magazine industry has done this for decades. If a magazine comes out in June, it is the July issue, because it will be on the shelves for much of July, until the August issue comes out in mid-to-late July... That always annoyed me as well, but it is the was the world works, unfortunately.
It is the same as the 99c instead of a round dollar on prices, $9.99 is so much less than $10! Look, it is only 9, not 10!
I skipped Vista, but I do remember you could remove the glassy Aero effect in Windows 7, and end up with a straightforward and very stable system. 8 was focused on tablets, and was a bit of a mess because of it - it was trying to be like Windows phones (which were very good, btw), but it didn't work well on a larger screen. 10 rode back from that.
I hope MacOS ends up like Windows 7 with a similar ability to turn off the effects.
Theoretically (i.e. if implemented correctly) translucent windows create clarity about where you are and where other apps and visual objects are, thereby improving the user's ability to navigate their computer.
Video games have done this for at least 30 years. That Madden game that's coming out in two months? Madden NFL 26, not 25.
At the end of the day, what does it matter in 3 years whether it's called iOS 21 or 29?
I wonder if Apple is bringing back the dashboard since dashboard cracking is an issue in the Tahoe .
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About version numbering I stick with OS X since 10.2 and with iOS since iPhone 4. And I have completely given up to know which versions I run on my Macbook, my iPhone, my pad. If in question the newest release.
So has the games industry. FIFA '94 came out in 1993 and so it continues.The magazine industry has done this for decades. If a magazine comes out in June, it is the July issue, because it will be on the shelves for much of July, until the August issue comes out in mid-to-late July... That always annoyed me as well, but it is the was the world works, unfortunately.
It is the same as the 99c instead of a round dollar on prices, $9.99 is so much less than $10! Look, it is only 9, not 10!
Transparency is bull**** for user interfaces. A user interface should be nice and not obtrusive, ist shouldn't distract users from their work. We had this with skeuomorphic design when the user was forced to watch a page flipping animation when all he wanted to do is to move to the next page.
Apple Intelligence is vaporware, so I don't care about it until Apple implements Artificial Intelligence with a benefit.
What else to expect. Features, features features and bugs, bugs, bugs. If I would be the choosen king of Apple, I would turn this company upside down. Release a CoreOS with an at least 3 year lifecycle, decouple features from the OS, focus on usability and stability.
Smart devices like the Apple Watch and the iPhone should focus on connectivity and on the old Apple principle of "just works". It is total crap if you cannot connect the heartrate monitor of the AW to your bicycle computer.
And Huawei kicks Apples b** right now with its new watches. Look the same like the AW but ship with brighter display, titan, saphire glass and 10 DAYS OF BATTERY LIFE
Apple Intelligence is vaporware, so I don't care about it until Apple implements Artificial Intelligence with a benefit.
What else to expect. Features, features features and bugs, bugs, bugs. If I would be the choosen king of Apple, I would turn this company upside down. Release a CoreOS with an at least 3 year lifecycle, decouple features from the OS, focus on usability and stability.
Smart devices like the Apple Watch and the iPhone should focus on connectivity and on the old Apple principle of "just works". It is total crap if you cannot connect the heartrate monitor of the AW to your bicycle computer.
And Huawei kicks Apples b** right now with its new watches. Look the same like the AW but ship with brighter display, titan, saphire glass and 10 DAYS OF BATTERY LIFE
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It should really be named the release year + 1, because that is when the working functionality will be delivered.
Cook does not see any money in that. Instead he uses advertising bandaid over the issues and it seems to work. Especially for all of the fashion conscious Apple users.
Whoa, that is all Cook has for innovation. Cook won't get in the spotlight unless he does something revolutionary like this. Just think every media outlet will be like, "Please come and explain this revolutionary thinking by Apple."
Well, it's also when looking back in a few years on OS 26.
You always have to remember that OS xx was introduced in year xx-1.
So, the iPhone introduced in 2025 originally ran iOS 26, and so on.
Of course, not the end of the world, just feels cheap.
In gaming, if for example, I were to play F1 2025, I expect that to be reminiscent of season 2025 (so, the correct cars and drivers etc.)
First world problems 😉
I'd like it if they called all of their platforms 'Tahoe' i.e. the 'Tahoe' series of Apple platforms - with the version 26 moniker being a background thing.
Doesn't make sense why macOS gets a California name and it's biggest platform - iOS of course - doesn't.
Doesn't make sense why macOS gets a California name and it's biggest platform - iOS of course - doesn't.
I’d be happier if they did away with the California locations entirely and stuck with numbers. As Macs age I’m supposed to remember that, oh, my
iMac can only run Mavericks but my laptop can go to Tahoe? And which was Catalina? Was that before or after Big Sur?
If it brings cohesion to the system then good, but they walked back much of the window chrome translucency before because it didn’t work and users hated it. Translucency only works sparingly and in certain places. Trying to bring consistency by giving everything novel but distracting translucency is misguided. And yes, they did ruin System Settings on the Mac in the name of consistency, even though the Mac has plenty of screen space and a pointer cursor as its UX. Giving the old System Settings some better icons may have made some sense, replicating iOS? No.
They stuck with the current design language for 5 years!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah and because that transparent/translucent UI worked so well in Vista...
My personal experience: Vista was solid OS if you disabled all of this Aero gibberish. This new UI on widely understood Mac, ugh. Hope it can be turned off. Transparency is such a hog on resources and pain on the eyes. What is neat for Vision Pro headset doesn't mean its good for desktop or phone.
I wonder if Apple is bringing back the dashboard since dashboard cracking is an issue in the Tahoe
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Good pun. My first thought when I saw the new name was that car...
This is a broader problem in tech, where suddenly we need to constantly be iterating a pushing new code/releases. It stops being cute when you wake up in the morning and your banking website has a new look and feel for no reason or your OS has new features it's trying to force on you when you need to check emails.
There's no need for a new Mac OS or Windows or even Linux release every year. I wish we'd just slow things down. I'd rather wait 2-5 years for a new OS release with new features, bug fixes, performance improvements. Something I can be excited for, something that's simmered a bit rather than thrown at us due to some arbitrary marketing deadlines or fed by some overly enthusiastic product manager whose disconnected from the reality of end users. My point here is that technology should empower our lives it shouldn't control it.
On the bright side, Accessibility - Vision - Display - Reduce Transparency will (probably) still be a thing. I found the translucency in Sequoia quite distracting but it's pretty reasonable once you flip that switch. Hopefully this new interface will be the same.
I do think it would make more sense to change the iPhone names than the software names. I mean to the iPhones, iPads and Macs seem better aligned with annual naming. But I suppose that would date some things?