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davgreg said:

JinTech said:

Am I the only one who is absolutely ecstatic about finally being able to label actual folders with color rather than just having a dumb dot? Only took them more than 20 years to bring this back!

Custom iconography has been available from 3rd party stuff for a long time.

BUT, custom icons were not recognised across devices. Using them in iCloud Drive to aid organisation worked on MacOS but not iPadOS, and the latter could not 'Group by Tags' ...this should be a vast improvement.

9secondkox2 said:

MassiveAttack said:

Apple can´t afford to continue with their tiny uprades from WWDC to WWDC. 

WWDC 2024 was a disaster after Apple has failed to deliver what Apple promised. 

Google I/O was an "All or nothing" event with survival instinct to overcome risk of their existence. Google made a great job with I/O. 
Open AI steps up with Jony Ive to open a new chapter. 

After those revolutionary steps from others, people clearly expect from Apple to responde with similar steps. 

In Apple’s defense, they e kind of perfected everything except their nascent ai. Hard to make massive shifts when you’re already doing it right. 

How Google has stayed afloat is a mystery considering its constant throwaway projects and throw things against the wall to see if they stick approach. It makes sense they fully bore in on what stuck. Bevause they do t have much in the way of great things outside of the search engine snd the entrenched Gmail. 

Open ai HAS to do something. Competitors are getting way better and closing in. They need a differentiator. Hiring Ive is a Hail Mary shot. The amount of money going into that move is quite insane. Will see how it turns out. So far the only guarantee is jony just got rven more filthy rich. Lol. 

Apple is in refining mode as they figure out revolutions. 

"kind of perfected everything" ...Apple have perfected nothing.

There are bugs in Finder that have existed as long as I can remember. The fundamentals such as font management go unresolved whilst they focus on fluff such as animojis. Their core apps progress at a glacial pace whilst they fiddle with distractions like Stage Manager.

I no longer look forward to WWDC announcements as I have no faith in them fixing the basics.

Pixelmator Pro is one of my favourite editing apps, but it's proprietary file-format and unmanaged sidecar files, together with no adequate file manager independent of Photos means it still cannot complete with Adobe. If Apple were to acquire GraphicConverter for its Browser features then they would have the basis for a industry-leading solution.

Unfortunately, based on Photos and the push for Apple Intelligence, Apple will likely focus on the wrong features and it will be their way or the highway. They'll decide as always, they know better than the user. There is no point in all the AI stuff that Photos incorporates when its automated Collections chop the heads and feet off in portrait format images. 

 Pixelmator Pro and Photomator have had solid updates at regular periods, Apple updates its apps at a glacial pace. Sadly, I can see another great app getting destroyed.

Queue the fanfare and f'ck the fundamentals.

Will Apple have fixed the Finder yet ...no of course not. It's not productive when every time I delete an item in column-view the view resets to the root-level, or that I have to manually resize columns since SIP killed third-party solutions.

Will Apple have fixed Fonts yet ...no of course not. It's not helpful to clutter font-menus with fonts I don't use, and illegible previews.

Will Apple have fixed Photos yet ...no of course not. It's not smart to assemble Memories or Collections then cut-off heads and feet.

And on, and on.

Ignoring the obvious Plus v mini comparison.

Nothing obvious about it ...only the author thought so, it's contrived like most of the article.