hypoluxa

volcan said:

macxpress said:

I hope this is truly available throughout the entire OS (and apps)sooner rather than later. I absolutely love this feature as I use the computer in low light conditions a lot. Plus, I think it looks nicer overall.

To each their own. As long as it is optional, no big deal.

Personally I don't like Apples recent iOS trend of making text difficult to read. Dark grey text on a black background is stupid in my opinion. (See the title of the control panel image in the article.) At least Apple's website is designed with plenty of whitespace, large type and sufficient contrast, making it very easy on the eyes.

That said, I do like the dark mode in Photoshop because serves a purpose, to prevent bright white from interfering with the true colors in the image, but that is a special case because it is a photo retouching app. In general purpose apps I see no real advantage to using a dark background with lighter text, because in most cases it will only apply to the menu bar and I don't think it improves readability at all, but as long as it has enough contrast I'm ok with it.

I spend a lot of time on the web where most of my really important sites use white backgrounds anyway, so the dark mode wouldn't have much of an effect on the overall appearance for me. If the dark mode was really beneficial to the app content, such as with Photoshop, then the app or the web page itself is probably already providing that interface.

friedmud said:

Enjoyed the whole article... but I especially thought the commentary on the headphone jack was spot on.

That part should be taken out and printed as its own article.  It feels like the world has gone crazy over this whole headphone jack business... when it's really just the same incremental improvement that's always been happening in computing...

ireland said:

hypoluxa said:

Turn off animations etc in the sys prefs/accessibility dude.

Dude, are you blaming me for Apple's software quality? And fading off and fading on cannot be turned off.

ireland said:

I hope to God the two biggest headlining features of iOS 10 are stability and speed with serious work gone into both areas. These are the two most important features of any operating system, but especially a mobile release. I'm done with all this fading-nonsense on iOS. Waking up and unlocking iPhones has been consistently more buggy on iOS 7 or greater than on iOS 6 or any release prior.

I'm done with the whole fading up and fading off crap. I much preferred the snappy way an iOS 6 iPhone would wake up and lock. The fading got old one week into using iOS 7. We need productivity and reliability, not this buggy fading nonsense.

And what's up with swiping to the next or previous home screen since iOS 7. On iOS 6 I could unlock and immediately swipe to another home screen. Now we must wait for a moment even on a 6s and we're nearly up to iOS 10 now?? Makes no sense to me. These are details that Jobs would have fired someone over. It's a disgrace IMO. On iOS 6 I could swipe to the next home screen even as the icons flew in during unlock. It was alive, vital and fluid and the whole OS felt more smooth.

Apple needs to stop throwing features at iOS and get all the existing ones to work right. I've had AirPlay and AirDrop issues for almost two years now on and off, and I'm talking with every device I own. And my wifi is quite solid and very fast; it's not an issue with my network, these are software bugs. Enough of the yearly marketing releases. Let's have a solid two years of Snow Leopard-releases to fix all this crap.