High Sierra's Disk Utility does not recognize unformatted disks

Re:High Sierra's Disk Utility does not recognize unformatted... by cjensen on Monday October 02, 2017 @03:04PM (#15386863)

The previous capabilities of Quicktime, Airport Utility, Disk Utility, and Pages did not come back. The "new" Quicktime was introduced 8 years ago.

The pattern we've seen is Apple decides to re-write a utility because reasons. The new version comes out as part of a major OS release. Then nothing further happens.

The exceptions are the major apps like iTunes, Safari, iMovie, and iPhoto. Also the "discoveryd" re-write is extremely noteworthy in that it was fully withdrawn and replaced by its predecessor.

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Re:High Sierra's Disk Utility does not recognize unformatted... by nyreed on Monday October 02, 2017 @03:37PM (#15387200)

The loss of codec support in Quicktime was probably related to improving battery life by forcing use of H264, which is hardware accelerated.

Whether this is wise is a different question.

But no you're right, there is a definite pattern of feature loss going back to iMovie HD 5. I'm still using Pages '09 because it does what I want and feels snappier.

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Re:High Sierra's Disk Utility does not recognize unformatted... by cjensen on Monday October 02, 2017 @06:41PM (#15388607)

Also the entirety of Quicktime Pro, which enabled full transcoding control was lost.

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