Apple Unveils MacBook Pro Featuring M2 Pro and M2 Max

Re:Apple Unveils MacBook Pro Featuring M2 Pro and M2 Max by incanus77 on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @12:17PM (#34415302)

Yeah, I can see this. However, I’ve been on iOS from the start (as a developer) and there is not a lot of sense to why some settings are organized the way that they are.

- “General” is a trash fire of hodgepodge

- “Home Screen” & “Wallpaper” are separate top-levels

In general, the top level items are grouped by task, but the tasks aren’t labeled but instead implied:

  - Radio signals (Airplane Mode, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth)
  
  - Noise & distractions (Notifications, Sounds, Focus, Screen Time)
  
  - Input, output, and appearance (General, Control Center, Display, … Touch ID, …)
  
  - Purchasing (App Store, Wallet & Apple Pay)
  
  - Apple apps (except for the first, Passwords)… Mail, Contacts, Calendar, …
  
  - Apple apps with media (Music, TV, Photos, …)
  
  - All the other apps

This is on iOS. Is it too much to ask for some commitment to naming of these sections?

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Re:Apple Unveils MacBook Pro Featuring M2 Pro and M2 Max by scyzoryk_xyz on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @01:00PM (#34416006)

Oh yeah agreed, hence my approach with search taking over. Who has the time to be pointing around ever changing menus. (Which fails of course when what you’re looking for can’t be easily named to search.)

But for a corporation making these decisions, I would venture that the questions around how iOS should do it better are a separate concern from this merging the iOS way into the Mac way.

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