Johar

In what bizarro universe are veteran operations guys responsible for design - particularly in a company built entirely on its reputation for groundbreaking design? Why is Apple seemingly so terrified of bringing in new blood? The stagnation and lack of forward looking design ideas is gradually eroding the Apple brand.

Bugs are to be expected with any beta software. It's actually the whole idea of a beta release. It's meant to open up for a larger audience than the QA testers and for regular, everyday usage patterns, rather than narrowly defined test suites.

That said, UX design is not the same as coding. There may be some graphical glitches, words that are truncated, images that get clipped, or some icon that isn't showing the proper state. But when the designer intentionally produces a UI scheme with poor legibility of key design elements, that's just incompetent. When it isn't caught by QA and remedied well before the first beta, that's doubly incompetent.

Design used to be the soul of Apple's brand. Every single industrial designer in the world used to be inspired by Apple's very obvious leadership - in both hardware and software. The first iMac was followed by a tsunami of products - all copying the Apple design revolution. Similarly with the sleek aluminum MacBooks, and of course the groundbreaking iPhone.

Then Jobs passed away. And that was it. Since then Apple has been more of a follower than a leader. The flat and dull iOS 7 was mostly a reaction to Android's Material Design. On the hardware side, every new generation of iPhones, iPads, and Macs have been some version of designs we've seen before. Nothing new, nothing exciting.

I haven't tried the new versions of the OSes, but they seem like uninspired regurgitations of previous uses of translucency - as seen on both Macs and PCs. And to add insult to injury, apparently with poor usability as well.

There is a reason I never watch the Apple events anymore. Steve Jobs is dead and so is Apple's design leadership.

Yet another clueless flyweight gaming effort from Apple, in a world of gaming heavyweight actors. It's beyond pathetic that Apple completely fails to understand what real gamers need and want. And no, that doesn't include grandmothers, who might happily buy "Hot Dog Stand Simulator 2018" as a birthday gift for little Andrew, 7 years old.

Jeez, if Apple wants to be anything of consequence in gaming, they need to do something bold, like buying Steam. That's what an entry ticket looks like. After that, they'd need to dedicate real resources to it long term. Something they've NEVER done with any of their feeble attempts so far.

I have this terrible feeling that MacOS will be dumbed down in order to make it "easier to navigate" for iPhone users. Like when a much used website suddenly is remade with a "mobile first" design approach. Everything becomes huge and space wasting for users with a big screen.

Not a lot of that from Apple since, well, you know what. Sadly.