After my blood pressure dropped to healthier levels I got the strangest feeling of déjà vu. This felt exactly like using Linux in the early 2000s. Things break at random for reasons you can’t understand and the only way to fix it is to find terminal commands from discussion forums, type them in and hope for the best. Then it hit me.
This was not an isolated incidence. The parallels are everywhere.
I certainly wouldn’t go that far, but there’s definitely a kernel of truth to the perception that macOS just doesn’t feel as polished and effortless as it once was, during the Leopard days.
Firstly, before I get attacked, I’m not Pro or Anti MacOS, in fact I managed a technical design department for years that was almost exclusively MacOS except a couple of Win 7 RIPs driving large format plotters. (Back in the old days when we plotted out large format CAD drawings for archival purposes.)
My experience parallels the author’s very closely, in particular new hardware compatibility was a big driver in deciding to move away from MacOS years ago, into what is now largely a Windows 10 Pro environment with a few legacy Win 7 x64 devices remaining with one lonely Mac for compatibility purposes with some old software. It’s a bit sad really, but Apple seemed to voluntarily surrendered this space once the iPhone became a hit. I see the new Mac Pro more as a death throw than a renaissance, I can’t see them coming back and I’m not sure what to make of this latest MacOS effort, as the problem isn’t exclusively just the OS, it’s the appearance that Apple effectively abandoned and divorced itself from the hardware developer base years ago.
Apple (or MacOS?) is going through a mid-life crisis, trying to be young again, vital, relevant to the kids. At least, on the outside.
Inside, it’s saying “oh god i’m so drunk plz don’t let them see me fall down”.
All while the kids are recording the incident on their iThings.
The revolution will not be televised. (China will see to that.)
Tim Cook is what I call a Roger Smith type of CEO (the GM CEO, not the actor). Spending time looking at spreadsheets instead of looking at the product.
Numbers or Excel?
I know sub groups still immersed in Numbers and Pages. Its so annoying to deal with them. I try to avoid doing anything that would allow for a real document to be created by them, because it will be insanely difficult to do anything useful without destroying the formatting.
Lots of truth in this. Plus they have an unstable file system now just like linux had back then. I never thought I’d miss HFS+. I’ve had the file system go unbootable like 20 times on my iMac. I don’t think the support for hybrid drives is that good. Pure flash seems to work ok.
In 1999, RedHat would lose it’s file system if the power went out. It would just be gone. That’s before EXT3. fsck couldn’t recover EXT2 on RedHat 5.0 if the super block was damaged. To this day, I consider Linux unreliable because of these experiences. Now many people will feel that way about MacOS. I know linux is much better now logically, but I still don’t trust it.
Well, using the same logic if you exagerate/inflate your mistrust timelapse you should never trust on airplanes, airbags, and oh, do not EVER, EVER, EVER, trust boats/ships. Have you ever heard of Titanic? That ship sunk in a way you should never trust another ship or human being operating one…
I see the parallels but installing software on a mac without the store still works really well. I don’t understand that complaint. The Mac store is a very barren place.
It seems to me that is what makes this rebirth a folly.
How is this osnews content? That whole blog post is some random rambling about how something specific doesn’t work for the author.
It’s about a slowly diminishing OS, one that the owner seemingly abandoned before they had a change of mind!
But should we be surprised, look at the next generation of convertible and fold-able devices, they’ll be a Phone and full version OS in one, Apple must surely see this as a potential threat, they’d be negligent not to take some precautionary action.
It will be interesting to see how the new iPad pro goes in the marketplace, it’s seemingly designed to bridge that gap between the iPad and the Surface. If it’s sales are soft well surely see MacOS grow in relevance, maybe the writing is already on the wall, but is it too late?
Linux has not changed. It’s the same crap. So, all of the mainstream OS’s are dumpster fires. What a surprise… not.