Pages is one of Apple’s hero apps. It’s part of a subscription for working professionals. I use this app professionally—that is, literally as part of my job—and the Comments & Changes UI is a necessary part of the work I do. The fact that UI of this nature was not considered as part of the Liquid Glass redesign for the entire ecosystem just shows how little the designers up top *understood* the ecosystem.
It’s shameful, and there’s no other way to put it.
Apple’s apps are supposed to be the best on the platform. They’re supposed to be exemplary. Third party developers work so hard to make sure their apps work to their own standards plus Apple’s standards (Apple calls them “guidelines” but they are often *requirements*), and they often get their apps rejected for the most trivial things.
I want Apple to care at least as much about their own software as they do policing what third party app developers are trying to ship. I think that’s reasonable.
Individual apps do not have to wait for a yearly release schedule to update them. The OS itself does not have to wait for its own self-mandated release schedule. Apple is its own company that can do what they want. There’s no good reason Apple didn’t address this months ago. There’s no good reason they can’t address this now.
Every developer will tell you that they file bugs, wait a year, and the bug doesn’t get fixed. And then they have to wait another year, just on hope. This doesn’t work.
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