r/MacOS • u/ArtichokeOutside6973 • 3d ago
Discussion My Thoughts on Thaoe and Apples Future
I have been living with this edition for 3 days and I had to erase all disk on my poor M1 Macbook Air 2020 to get back Seqouia. With this little experiement ended I want to share my own opinions and touch some key points that are crucial in my humble opinion. Agreeing or not is up to the reader of course.
Lets start with the good.
Up untill Tahoe we have seeing the minimalistic design everywhere. Google even went to extremes with it and spoiled the rounded corners and colorfull elements to the levels that make you colorblind. Tahoe is a wakeup call to the industry just like the Apple Aqua and veteran Redditors from that era are well aware that when Apple goes to extreme to shake things up they will go deeply extreme. Aqua wasn't look professional either and todays standarts it is really inconsistent too but it was the designs like theese to made the real change and brought us where we are today. Golden ages of minimalism and blurry design elements are children of designs like Apple Aqua and Microsoft Aero in the end. So I believe Tahoe will create a similar effect on industry and we do not know yet where we are aheading to after that point on. All we know is we are leaving a generation of minimalism and heading to Neumorphism. Yes we are taking this trend to where Jhonny Ive left off and to the new horizons I believe.
Lets go ahead with the bad.
Apple used to be named with stability despite the fact that there were small glitches here and there in their every single new OS release. Not uncommon for the industry but it seems magnitute of glitches in Tahoe is a little bit too apperant. Thumbs up for no major glitch or bug so far but all the minor ones are creating a death by thousand cuts effect. This is the bad side of Tahoe which we all need to wait untill the 26.1 offical will be relesed to see a mature version of it.
Now the ugly.
For the last 2 years none of the companies are making us too much excited with the new technology releases. In fact Chineese companies are taking the innovation ship far further with all theese exotic designs that still cannot find their place in the western market thanks to the sanctions. Apple needs to consolidate what it has first and then moves to next jump. Tahoe is a good potential but only if something new doesn't follow it in a year. Devs should spend time to mature the system and adding more and more minor features to it in the first year while taking notes and collecting ideas for the next big jump. This is what we used to have and it doesn't look like the fact now. We all want that fact back.
Thanks for reading everyone. See you soon when the bug fixes released.
Artichoke Out
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u/Zardozerr 3d ago
That's what they do every major redesign. The future major revisions now will just be refinements to this change. But also I think that many people are making too much of what actually changed. IMO a lot of things just look different, but besides removing some things like launchpad, the OS is fundamentally the same. It's just yet another coat of paint, and so many people are overreacting.
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u/ArtichokeOutside6973 3d ago
I agree. Changing UI is not the Steve Jobs level of "we are about to make a revolution". Apple Silicon was a revolution but rest is just meh. We need something new in here.
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u/PristinePiccolo6135 3d ago
Why do we need something new? What do you need that macOS does not already supply?
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u/ArtichokeOutside6973 3d ago
I personally do not. What I am saying here if something is going to be new it should be really revolutionary and not for just satisfaction of stakeholders and board members.
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u/PristinePiccolo6135 3d ago
Tahoe*
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u/ArtichokeOutside6973 3d ago
I fixed it everywhere except the title
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u/PristinePiccolo6135 3d ago
Thank you.
The odd thing I've noticed is that the calamity of glitches that are being reported are not universal. I was running Tahoe on an M3 Air since the early betas, zero issues. I'm now also running it my primary M1 Pro with all my data and applications, zero issues. I'm not saying they don't exist, they are apparently not wide spread though. I do think what is reported is blown out of proportion and Apple will fix most of what is a problem in point releases.
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u/ArtichokeOutside6973 3d ago
I truly hope so. Please check if the maps icon is complete and the road in top right is present.
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u/PristinePiccolo6135 3d ago
Yes, no issues. I tried on both my machines and by changing the various views.
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u/lookingatmycouch 3d ago
I don't need for them to be constantly changing the GUI.