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I wish Apple would sometimes say, “Hey, MacOS is so powerful and well-loved, that all of our changes in Bakersfield are going to be under the hood––AND––we’re going to give you tools to paint and wax that hood in more ways than ever before.IStat Menus is a Mac app that provides quick access to this. I wrote to the iStat team and they are already working on closing the space between iStat icons on the menubar for this very purpose, but Apple needs to provide better tools for us to do that.Ĭhange for the sake of change is inefficiency and stress for no constructive reason. Ironically enough, you can’t ask the TimeMachine icon to appear in the Control Center. But while iStat Menus will allow you to edit and shrink the size of those icons, Apple will not. Everything must now crowd onto what’s left of the right half of the menu bar. My beautiful M2 MBAir is now desperately starved for top menu bar space now that Apple decided to remove an INCH AND A HALF of space from it for the ill-conceived notched camera. That’s a crude way of saying that, but I believe there are some simple interface hacks that might make many of us happier.

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Seems to me that as Apple has gradually released the reigns around the right to repair (the hardware), they might be encouraged to start doing that with the software as well? I’m well aware of how that would affect their ability to support the platform, but they could also build in an “undo” to this process if necessary. Apple still insists they’re going to keep those lines separate, but we never really know till we know, right? Merging them would be a very bad idea because they were originally designed for two very different types of experiences: Touch -vs- Mouse/Keyboard.

Many of us were worried he’d eventually merge them and I don’t think that possibility is completely off the table.

My theory is that Timo (who I think is otherwise doing a pretty good job most of the time managing the world’s largest company) is a big fan of iOS. Peter, like you, I’m not in love with them either. Maybe that’s because I’m from Santa Barbara? I feel like I’m sounding like the grumpy old “You kids get off my lawn!” guy, but I haven’t seen much to get excited about Ventura. It’s good to see that process vastly better than in past incarnations. The System Settings remembered my old accounts and offered them up in a new and improved way.

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In the plus column, because I did a complete wipe and manual reinstall of everything (due to iCloud Drive insisting on filling the hard drive), I got to see how improved setting up email addresses finally is.

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I usually run a system with way more than 4 windows and applications open too, so it feels a little gimmicky to me at this stage. I was trying to get used to it, but it’s annoying that you can’t see (much less access) files on the desktop. I’m running Ventura (from Santa Barbara) on my M2 MBAir, but have kept Monterey on the MacStudio. Why in my mac.com addresses, can I not turn off the me.com and aliases? I’ve never used those but 90% of spammers sure seem to. Why can’t I place apps on my brand new Ultra AppleWatch in list view, in the order I use them? True intuitive design? Allowing users to place things where they want to. I could think like a human looking into a drawer I organized last summer and finding what I need. In the past, I didn’t have to try and think like an OS designer. The bottom line is it feels that since Jobs left the building Apple’s sense of its iconic catchphrases, “intuitive design,” and “user-friendly,” have lost some of their meaning. We probably can never stem the tide of over-caffeinated app designers, who don’t bother to design a Mac version, but I suppose the few that can run on an M-chip helps. So, I’d prefer redesigns in the MacOS not be tied to it. I’m not a big believer in the elegance and “ease” of navigation in iOS either. Anything that wastes navigational time and doesn’t add a much-needed feature, is not going to get a whole lotta love out of the gate.Īpple should have left the option for a “Classic” view, IMHO. Right now it just means having to search for things we’ve known where to find for decades.