Jeff JohnsonNew blog post:
The myth and reality of Mac OS X Snow Leopard
Chris Gervais 🎸🥁💻@lapcatsoftware Nice work. I, too, dislike the fuzzy & warm remembrance of Snow Leopard. It's the software version of the Mandela Effect on display.
The SJ timing is an interesting bit as I wonder how much of the alignment of schedules was due to a misguided attempt to "maximize resources?” How much of Apple's software quality problems are the result of trying to leverage a ton of code across devices and runtimes and the breadth is just too massive otherwise manage on an annual cycle?
Pierre@lapcatsoftware oh my! I completely agree with your post!
Sir Digby@lapcatsoftware What a great blog post, detailed and well-argued. Loved it!
Luc 
@lapcatsoftware excellent article Jeff! Thanks for writing it! 🙏🏻😀
Benedict Cohen@lapcatsoftware I blame the annual cycle in part for the fundamental problems in Swift and SwiftUI. There’s a proposal to add a feature for property specific inits (a bonkers idea). It exists to patch a problem with macros, which fixed a problem with property wrappers, which were added to allow SwiftUI to subvert value type semantics. I believe if Apple had spent more time dog fooding SwiftUI it would be very different. No amount of pausing to fix bugs will allow Apple to fix the fundamentals.
Eric deRuiter@lapcatsoftware The version after it, Lion, was the start of a huge regression in interface quality and the end of traditional document management / save as. Avoiding those changes means lots of people ran 10.6.8 for half a decade which makes it feel very stable.