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  • System Settings getting shuffled again in macOS 15, among other UI tweaks

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    What they did with Settings was shameful. I imagine Steve Jobs would have thrown a Mac at someone had they demo'd Settings to him. They wanted to unify macOS settings with mobile, but the problem is: they went in the wrong direction, System Preferences with significantly better. I'm mobile setting app has been a mess since the original iPhone. Granted, using something more like System Preferences on an iPhone, small screen would be difficult, but having a big panes on an iPad would work nicely. 

    Ultimately, the advantage of System Preferences was that you can easily see an entire overview of all your settings in one shot, and then drill down, categorically, to where you need to go. System Preferences always had room to be improved, but System Settings is poorly laid out, with things hidden in places that they don't need to be, and overall takes longer to get down into settings, if you can find them.

    Apple switching from System Preferences to System Settings a clear case and change for the sake of change, and a demonstration that the software team, or at least the UI team, have lost their way. I'm not his beating on Apple for the sake of beating on them, mostly just worried that they've been going in the wrong direction for years, which is particularly bad, because I originally preferred the Mac it's clean and concise design philosophies. Those philosophies have continued to be strong on the hardware side (well, not counting the hiccup of poorly designed machines from 2016 to 2001, lack of a larger screen, iMac, and the fact that they don't really understand what a Mac Pro should be anymore), but, overall, I see the software side of thing severely lacking, with a lot of bad design choices, and the inability to keep up with bugs and instability.

    I think Apple seriously needs to stop the yearly refresh to their operating systems. I know that's going to be difficult on the mobile side, but it would serve them well. Moreover, I think it'll be critical on the Mac side. Releasing a completely revamped desktop OS on a yearly cycle has given us a much less stable system, with unfinished features, and a development team that's being forced to look to the next version, instead of fixing the current version. I think it ultimately comes down to the fact that the marketing people, and the business people, are running the company now, not the developers, and the creatives.
    elijahgwilliamlondonInspecterWrektum

  • If you want an iPad Pro Magic Keyboard that matches the Siri Remote, it'll cost you

    EdgecrusherrEdgecrusherr
    I know it’s kind of crazy and unnecessary, but I respect this mod lol. I swapped my old white 2006 MacBook’s keys with black ones way back when I had it. Though, I was able to just buy a the keyboard only, I didn’t have to buy a whole black MacBook. It looked great. 
    watto_cobra

  • OLED iPad Pro owners discover grainy display problem

    EdgecrusherrEdgecrusherr
    If that's what it really looks like, that's terrible. I'd be really mad. I don't see that on my previous gen iPad Pro, or any of my Apple devices.
    AndyFVictorMortimergrandact73watto_cobra

  • Apple Vision Pro could take four generations to perfect

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    foregoneconclusion said:
    LOL...battery life with an M2 desktop class processor is as good or better than headsets using mobile Snapdragon processors. And the weight difference is 3-4 ounces versus something like Meta Quest 3. It's certainly interesting that the tech press suddenly thinks that 18 ounces is just fine and 21 to 22 ounces is "too heavy". If it were the other way around and the AVP was 3-4 ounces lighter it would probably just be blown off with a "both headsets are similar in weight" line. Example: Meta Quest 3 doesn't do Atmos surround for audio and AppleInsider doesn't think the audio comparison between Quest 3 and AVP is even necessary. 

    And four generations? Laptops didn't hit their "perfect" form factor in four generations. More like 20 years. The reality is that the AVP is right in line with other headsets in terms of the form factor and generally blows their doors off with the functionality. 
    Interesting point. I would say laptops took 10 years from the first real “portable” computers (Osborne and Compaq) to what we got in early PowerBooks and other brand laptops to be fully actualized. With Apple specifically, it was another 10 years from the McIntosh Portable (luggable) until the really great late-G3s. I think the modern laptop was really born with the PowerBook G4. It was the Ancient Greece of laptop. 

    If spacial computing really does turn into something, I think 5-ish years will hit its stride. That’s a little closer or iPhones and iPads. It depends on how fast Apple iterates and gets the price down. 

    VR has been an idea since the late 60s, with what we think of as VR coming out in the late 80s, and technology finally catching up, to what people want, in the last 5 years. Now with Apple coming at it from a productivity angle, at a high price. I’d give it 5 years or so before Apple figures out how people really want to use it,  gets the price down some, and the the rest of the industry producing their own versions of the hardware, as well as developers, as a whole, hitting their stride in application development.
    thtwatto_cobra

  • Apple Vision Pro could take four generations to perfect

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    It took Apple 4 years and 5 or 6 models (plus additional variations) for the Mac to overtake Apple II in sales. I personally think it took Apple to the Mac Plus before the Mac was truly usable for enough people to be considered a success, and the SE/30 before the compact Mac was really “powerful”. 
    foregoneconclusionmattinozwatto_cobra