2025-10-25 17:36:30.867323+02 by Dan Lyke 4 comments
Migrating platforms and apps is always fraught, but my main interface to computers for the past half decade(!) has been MacOS, and I'm gradually migrating off and back to Linux, especially as LiquidGlass makes MacOS unusable, and this is a great summary of the paper cuts: Michael Tsai: What Happened to Apple’s Legendary Attention to Detail?
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#Comment Re: What Happened to Apple’s Legendary Attention to Detail? made: 2025-10-25 20:12:53.321617+02 by: spc476
Steve Jobs died, and was the only one there that could say "No."
#Comment Re: What Happened to Apple’s Legendary Attention to Detail? made: 2025-10-26 12:27:25.407234+01 by: DaveP [edit history]
I've been using Apple products for 36 years. The latest mess has me working on a tunnel out of the walled garden, with no plans to ever buy another Apple product once I've made my escape.
And yeah, the best answer I've seen to the question was, "pancreatic cancer."
Edited to de-smartify quotes.
#Comment Re: What Happened to Apple’s Legendary Attention to Detail? made: 2025-10-26 15:47:19.687987+01 by: Definitely Not a Bot
Adding "digital paper cuts" to my lexicon.
#Comment Re: What Happened to Apple’s Legendary Attention to Detail? made: 2025-10-28 13:53:05.519693+01 by: markd
It's definitely jumped the shark. Coupled with the current crop of techfolk who grew up with mobile and have no idea what makes for good (or bad) desktop UI. That's why I found a bunch of retrofolk and am now happily hobby programming on a VAX...