Riccardo Mori

https://mastodon.social/@stroughtonsmith/116284295592283216

I despise Liquid Glass because it's all (questionable) looks on the outside and bad UI regressions on the inside.

The 'convergence' (fucking euphemism) between iOS and Mac OS is something I saw coming many years ago and I'm simply waiting for the day when Mac OS will be fully iOS-ified. I'm not looking forward to it. But I will also have left Apple behind before that happens.

Mar 24 at 4:38pmWeb
Show threadRiccardo MoriMar 24
I also don’t know where Troughton-Smith got the idea that “The Mac has been aligning with iOS since 2006”. Steve Jobs wanted the iPad to be the central device for what he called ‘Post-PC era’, but wanted Mac OS and the Mac to carry on and be the ‘trucks’ as opposed to iPads being the ‘cars’ — and Mac OS would have thrived as the OS for Pros. The first real iOS concessions he allowed in Mac OS X happened with Lion (2011). See: Launchpad, fullscreen apps, instant-resume for apps, auto-save…
Show threadDarby LinesMar 24
@morrick Dude's just a font of bad takes.
Show threadRiccardo MoriMar 24
@angry_drunk You’re right. I don’t know why I spend time debunking him.
Show threadBrad DoughertyMar 25
@morrick lol the iPhone wasn't introduced until 2007, so what the hell is he talking about?
Show threadRiccardo MoriMar 25
@brad ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Show threaddmitriidMar 24

@morrick

Unfortunately, @STE33PPM is now fully in the "if it's on iOS, it's good, and this is the default premise how dare you question it".

Can't wait to see the "new generation" "driven by Neo" doing anytging on a glorified iPhone.

Show threadRiccardo MoriMar 24
@dmitriid (I think your device has autocompleted the wrong Mastodon user. You probably wanted to mention Troughton-Smith. But yes, I agree.)
Show threaddmitriidMar 24

@morrick

Ahahah YES 😬😬😬

Show threadGregoryMar 25

@morrick I generally dislike most major UI redesigns because the people who do them can almost never provide a coherent answer to the simple question "what am *I*, as a user, going to gain from putting in real effort to adapt to these changes".

I'm also a strong believer that OSes made for different interaction paradigms shouldn't share any UI code at all. They should also be made by entirely different teams that don't talk to each other.

Show threadArcticulate5d ago
@morrick Thanks to rapid pace of development for Swift-based SDKs on Linux (and official Android support), there’s now an escape hatch for me and other developers who feel disappointed about Apple’s plans to swap the macOS GUI for iPadOS. I am now able to build apps on a Linux machine using SwiftCrossUI (https://swiftcrossui.dev) or Adwaita for Swift (https://aparokshaui.github.io/adwaita-swift/documentation/adwaita/). It’s still early days, but as a dev I can soon skip macOS entirely, all while rewriting my apps for Linux!
SwiftCrossUI

Show threadArcticulate5d ago
@morrick I want to point out that it’s a plan E as in ”Emergency”. I don’t *want* to stop using new versions of macOS. If it turns out that macOS improves in the future (improbable but not impossible) it’s still a win-win situation to gain experience in building native apps for multiple operating systems while putting my eggs in more than one OS basket.
Show threadRiccardo Mori5d ago

@Arcticulate Of course. You do what you have to do. I understand that, for some people, updating to the latest Mac OS version is unavoidable, unfortunately.

If my primary job will eventually force me to update to Tahoe, I’ll buy a second-hand Apple Silicon Mac and use that Mac exclusively for work.

Show threadArcticulate4d ago
@morrick Yeah, unfortunately indeed. I feel like Apple made a Forrest Gump move when they took two decades of MacOS X and just changed their mind of achieving excellence.