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[nikitonsky@mastodon.online]

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Apple in 2026:

[gullevek@famichiki.jp]

@nikitonsky Yeah. Software wise it went all to shit. Can’t put my finger on it but I’d say cost cutting for LLM gains

[borkdude@mastodon.social]

@nikitonsky omg... glad I didn't upgrade yet

[slyborg@vmst.io]

@nikitonsky @siracusa Looks like I’m going to be on Sequoia until maybe the M6 is available.

[chipgriller@chaos.social]

@nikitonsky best part: the fastest supercomputer of this time is not so much faster than actual hardware on our desktops.

[hairyvisionary@fosstodon.org]

@nikitonsky faster on my MB Pro 2021 M1, but it's Liquid Ass slowing stuff down and it really needs to be killed with fire

[xerz@soc.masfloss.net]

@gullevek @nikitonsky macOS 26 is now using realtime SVG graphics for everything. I presume not a lot of time was spent optimizing. So there's your answer.

[denofearth@mas.to]

@nikitonsky
Related, HP
https://mas.to/@DenOfEarth/115171436774202277

[freediverx@mastodon.social]

@nikitonsky
This is the difference between treating your software as a key competitive advantage (Jobs era) vs. treating it as a cost center to be minimized (Cook era).

[gullevek@famichiki.jp]

@xerz @nikitonsky I have the fear it was just vibe coded

[buck@mastodon.social]

@nikitonsky Yep. I just grabbed an M4 Mac again so I could go back to Sequoia. I can't do anymore Tahoe at this point. This kinds of crap is everywhere in Tahoe.

[mutesplash@uncontrollablegas.com]

@nikitonsky Asynchronous lazy everything

[glancepop@c.im]

@nikitonsky @siracusa I’m not a big “What would Steve do?” guy (in part because he implored us not to be), but he would definitely have been the human shield to protect us from Tahoe if that’s what it took. Such a shame.

Putting all my faith in Ternus & Lemay for a rapid response to the worst of this nonsense.

[i_o_i@mastodon.social]

@nikitonsky And people keep asking me why I keep going back to older frameworks (UIKit, Core Data, etc.). You could get real performance while doing amazing things with those frameworks while the modern SwiftUI List slows to a crawl after 100-200 items for mysterious reasons.

And that was before Liquid Glass.

[lenora256@mastodon.social]

@gullevek @xerz @nikitonsky Apple always has huge performance regressions when they make sweeping UI changes. Just look back at iOS 7.

[mhoye@cosocial.ca]

@nikitonsky The 2007 Seadragon demo was mind blowing, and it went away and never came back.

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[dxzdb@mastodon.social]

@slyborg @nikitonsky @siracusa Yeah! I'm just worried I'm going to be tricked into upgrading at some point.

Sequoia has a lot less options. Did Tahoe get rid of the scrollbar options or is that farther down?

[freediverx@mastodon.social]

@gullevek @nikitonsky
The decline in software quality began long before LLMs.

[freediverx@mastodon.social]

@dxzdb @slyborg @nikitonsky @siracusa
If you upgrade any of the iWork apps, get ready to be harassed to pay for a new subscription.

[ramin_hal9001@fe.disroot.org]

@freediverx
in Apple's case, it was switching to Swift as their application level programmung labguage that probably caused those performance issues.

Microsoft's .NET, on the other hand, is solid as a rock. So Windows performace issues are mostly to do with spending 50% or more of every computer's resources on spying on people.

@gullevek @nikitonsky