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@nikitonsky Asynchronous lazy everything
@Mutesplash @nikitonsky AND slow, if it was async lazy everything and fast we wouldn't see anything
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@Lenora256 @gullevek @xerz @nikitonsky it's ok to do it together with a major OS update that gives it new graphical capabilities (classic Mac OS -> OS X). It's also ok to do it if you can't fit some genuinely useful feature into the existing design.
However, doing it "just because" is making your users re-learn to do the same things for no reason.
I'd rather have skeuomorphism forever than the modern atrocity where you don't know what anything is until you try interacting with it.
@grishka @gullevek @xerz @nikitonsky I don’t think they did this redesign just because, and I don’t think they did the last just because. You don’t plan things out for years just because.
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@nikitonsky It looks impressive but I can see it's really just 40 long looping gifs tiled 10 times onto primitives. It wouldn't be terribly difficult to do this kind of thing on modern hardware. That would require passion and dedication to a craft but I can see that the modern OS is not living it's best life.
@Smohc_Stahc how did you even see that
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Apple in 2026:
@nikitonsky @siracusa Remember when the M1 was out and everything was so fast that we even praised how changing screen resolution was instant, as opposed to the black screen and waiting that was all we had ever known? Now we can’t even change a few icon colours properly.
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@grishka @gullevek @xerz @nikitonsky I don’t think they did this redesign just because, and I don’t think they did the last just because. You don’t plan things out for years just because.
@Lenora256 @grishka @xerz @nikitonsky Because is the usual reason. And this time it’s extra shit. My wife never complained so much about not being able to find basic shit anymore. It is just bad. Worst redesign ever. And this was not planned for years else it wouldn’t be full of all those small issues
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@Lenora256 @grishka @xerz @nikitonsky Because is the usual reason. And this time it’s extra shit. My wife never complained so much about not being able to find basic shit anymore. It is just bad. Worst redesign ever. And this was not planned for years else it wouldn’t be full of all those small issues
@gullevek @Lenora256 @xerz @nikitonsky I don't use iOS much, but it's kinda fine there. My only complaint about iOS liquid glass is the very stupid gradient that changes between white and black to maintain contrast as you scroll.
On macOS though... Just give me Mavericks on ARM please. Just roll back all userspace changes that were made during the last 13 years, thanks. I want a real desktop OS, not whatever this crap is.
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@nikitonsky @siracusa Looks like I’m going to be on Sequoia until maybe the M6 is available.
@slyborg
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@gullevek @Lenora256 @xerz @nikitonsky I don't use iOS much, but it's kinda fine there. My only complaint about iOS liquid glass is the very stupid gradient that changes between white and black to maintain contrast as you scroll.
On macOS though... Just give me Mavericks on ARM please. Just roll back all userspace changes that were made during the last 13 years, thanks. I want a real desktop OS, not whatever this crap is.
@grishka @Lenora256 @xerz @nikitonsky iOS has turned into so much crap. In the olden days I could connect my phone to my tv and then have a slideshow with my music there. I could do that since the first iPad. Now whenever I do that I get a mirrored screen. Screw iOS. Went to fucking dogshit too. We can’t have nice things. Everything has to be hyper enshittificateted to the max (als the keyboard input on iOS went to dog shit extreme)
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@grishka @Lenora256 @xerz @nikitonsky iOS has turned into so much crap. In the olden days I could connect my phone to my tv and then have a slideshow with my music there. I could do that since the first iPad. Now whenever I do that I get a mirrored screen. Screw iOS. Went to fucking dogshit too. We can’t have nice things. Everything has to be hyper enshittificateted to the max (als the keyboard input on iOS went to dog shit extreme)
Well good thing the person responsible went off to a better paying job at meta.
Apple exec responsible for Liquid Glass design leaves the company
Apple’s head of UI design, Alan Dye, is leaving for Meta – a move Bloomberg labelled a “major coup” for Mark Zuckerberg’s
TapSmart (www.tapsmart.com)
Now everything will be changed back and lost capability of the OS recovered, right? right????
I'm so glad I switched to Linux. Color correction still has ways to go, but all the rest is so much more … out of my way.
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@grishka @Lenora256 @xerz @nikitonsky iOS has turned into so much crap. In the olden days I could connect my phone to my tv and then have a slideshow with my music there. I could do that since the first iPad. Now whenever I do that I get a mirrored screen. Screw iOS. Went to fucking dogshit too. We can’t have nice things. Everything has to be hyper enshittificateted to the max (als the keyboard input on iOS went to dog shit extreme)
@gullevek @grishka @xerz @nikitonsky Enshittification is a deliberate thing. It is usually done to make money through ads. The performance issues and bugs here are hardly intentional, it’s a skill issue.
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@Lenora256 @grishka @xerz @nikitonsky Because is the usual reason. And this time it’s extra shit. My wife never complained so much about not being able to find basic shit anymore. It is just bad. Worst redesign ever. And this was not planned for years else it wouldn’t be full of all those small issues
@gullevek @grishka @xerz @nikitonsky I didn’t say it was coded for years. I said it was planned for years. It can be planned for years and the implementation still runs into issues. Also, worst redesign ever? No, that’s still iOS 7 on release.
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Apple in 2007: here’s 400 videos playing at the same time, with interactive search and real-time animations (via https://t.me/ilyabirman_channel/12350)
@nikitonsky like this was fucking 2007 where real people still had XP on their machines...
this was such a massive "guys, computers can also look really cool you know"
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Apple in 2026:
@nikitonsky I'm all for dunking on Apple but "loading 40 icons is much harder to do than playing 400 videos" is just one of those things that seem crazy from a "normal person perspective" but make perfect sense from the inside
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@gullevek @grishka @xerz @nikitonsky I didn’t say it was coded for years. I said it was planned for years. It can be planned for years and the implementation still runs into issues. Also, worst redesign ever? No, that’s still iOS 7 on release.
@Lenora256 @grishka @xerz @nikitonsky Ios7 never had so many absolute crap UI decisions ever. Shit was till at the same place and you didn’t have to click five hundred submenus to do the same. It also didn’t make everything almost unreadable on default
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Apple in 2026:
@nikitonsky I just started re-writing an app in AppKit/UIKit because SwiftUI is just too slow 🥲
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@Lenora256 @grishka @xerz @nikitonsky Ios7 never had so many absolute crap UI decisions ever. Shit was till at the same place and you didn’t have to click five hundred submenus to do the same. It also didn’t make everything almost unreadable on default
@gullevek @grishka @xerz @nikitonsky iOS 7 was unreadable to anyone without perfect eyesight and had issues with knowing where buttons were. I think you’re looking back with rose tinted glasses.
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@nikitonsky It looks impressive but I can see it's really just 40 long looping gifs tiled 10 times onto primitives. It wouldn't be terribly difficult to do this kind of thing on modern hardware. That would require passion and dedication to a craft but I can see that the modern OS is not living it's best life.
@Smohc_Stahc Nobody says we can’t do it anymore. The problem is we are not doing. We can, but we don’t
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@nikitonsky I'm all for dunking on Apple but "loading 40 icons is much harder to do than playing 400 videos" is just one of those things that seem crazy from a "normal person perspective" but make perfect sense from the inside
@valpackett I am from the industry and no, it doesn’t sound all that crazy. I am familiar with the excuses people usually make about those kind of things, but no, if anyone really wanted and cared, that shit would work in less than 1 frame on 120 Hz display. Besides, you don’t even need to load 40 icons. They are already loaded!
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Apple in 2026:
@nikitonsky That's the kind of performance I'd expect from running in a virtual machine with CPU emulation and no GPU acceleration.
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@ramin_hal9001 @gullevek @nikitonsky
For me it's not just the bugs or performance issues, but the way their apps all look and feel like Electron apps now. The UI design, usability, search, consistency, navigation are all bad, and on the Mac, nothing follows Mac conventions anymore.I recall when Mac fans would imagine if we had to choose between using Windows on Mac hardware or macOS on PC hardware. The difficult answer was always the software over the hardware. Today though?
@freediverx
Yes, I too pine for the days of System 7.5, the Apple Human Interface Guidelines, and the "Platinum" theme by Susan Kare. You really only needed one mouse button.
I agree, modern MacOS is a trash pile.
Nowadays, on my work laptop (MacBook M1), I avoid the MacOS UI/UX by keeping Chrome and Emacs both full screen and switching between them with the Ctrl-Arrow keys. No dock, everything launched with Spotlight or the Emacs Shell. Actually, I do something similar on Windows as well. Super-Tab to switch from Emacs to Chrome and back.
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