Re:MacOS Sierra
by h1d on Tuesday September 20, 2016 @06:04PM
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How hard is it to understand, "It used to be interesting but lately it's boring, what's up with them?" feeling?
Besides what good is an OS upgrade, if it isn't exciting while it has a risk of breaking things and possibly changing your workflow?
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And the need to get people "excited" is what leads to the kitchen-sink bloat of operating systems.
It used to be that every time you get an OS X upgrade, you can expect the OS to be faster, more stable, crash less, and have more actually useful features, both for developers and casual users. Those days ended with Snow Leopard. Of course Apple isn't charging for MacOS née Mac OS X née macOS anymore, because it's not worth the money anymore, and they know it. Now it's just an auxiliary product to their mobile devices. It's a supplement.
> expect the OS to be faster, more stable, crash less, and have more actually useful features, both for developers and casual users
Haha... that is such a wishful thinking these days... Jobs nearly made me feel that's actually possible, but lately, it became a dream again.
iOS is where all the cash is but for people who both use iOS and macOS, both are equally important but Apple is no longer good at keeping mind shares.
Perhaps what Apple did in the last 5 years could've been done in a few years with Jobs with "a few more things" .