Developers argue Apple's design consistency has collapsed
2 Sep 22 10:48 PM · 1d ago · 3 comments · 1 source · development 2 of 4
Commenters on Lobsters characterize Apple's UI direction as having lost native advantages, with one noting that Catalyst and "half-assed iOSification" made "native macOS UI" unrecognizable—apps like Home and Music now feel arbitrary rather than distinctly Mac.
“I think Apple lost all of their native UI advantage (it's not that anyone else beat them, they're all a mess now).”
kornelBrent Simmons Developer, Inessential authorApple Platform vendor
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I think Apple lost all of their native UI advantage (it's not that anyone else beat them, they're all a mess now). Lucida-Grande-era Aqua was unique and its pixel-perfect widgets were impossible to fake. But Catalyst and half-assed iOSification introduced so much inconsistency that "native macOS UI" stopped being a recognizable thing. If the…
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Currently I think the biggest UI annoyance with macOS is the rounded content window corners, which was a thing even pre-Tahoe. It even cuts off corners of images. Who thought that was a good idea? Meanwhile, I was doing nerd work in CodeWarrior this weekend on Mac OS 9.2.2 and it felt like a pleasure, even if the operating system underpinnings are…
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Codewarrior was so nice to use. I'm sure the passage of time has caused me to forget some papercuts from those days. Given some of the other disagreements I have with the direction of the OS and the iDevices, if there were a really good Mac OS 9 theme for Plasma, I might switch back to Linux and just leave the Mac for when I actually need to build…
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