A $499 MacBook Neo with the brains of a couple-year-old iPhone can run Xcode, Photoshop, Blender, Terminal, and pretty much everything else you can think of, yet your $3,200 iPad Pro, with a desktop-class chip, cannot 😑

What are we doing here?

There I fixed it

In 30 years, it's been incredible to watch the arc from Netscape making everyone realize you can just publish frequent point release upgrades & fixes—to our current moment, where software & hardware companies have decided they own your device & it's ok to harass you into upgrades because it's better for them.

I have spent my career leaning on Apple's excellent design chops when building my own apps.

Now they've broken the design language of their operating systems so badly that it's not possible to build excellent, bug free user experiences.

I've lost a north star here, and it's heartbreaking because there's no real way for them to turn this around for a very long time.

I despise the mouse pointers in Mac OS Tahoe so much that I went looking for solutions, and found this little utility called Mousecape, which allows you to create and apply custom pointer sets. Works great.

One I've disliked for much longer is the flat interpretation of the "beach ball of death", which we've had since El Capitan. To me it always looked lopsided and lazy compared to the old Aqua version, so I decided to have a bit of fun and make my own interpretation of it.

One of the new things in Mac OS Tahoe is the ability to customise folder icon colours, which is nice, but… the slider for setting the luminance of the colour works backwards. Make it make sense.

The only way to reliably get the colour you want is to mix it in another app and then use the colour picker to sample it from there.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@heliographe_studio/115890819509545391

This is what makes me so sad. It’s not that the icons have changed, but that they have straight up *devolved* over the years.

With Apple's announcement of Creator Studio today, looking at the app icons, we have more Liquid Glass Slop. I didn't make comparisons for all icons but how the F do you go from some of the most gorgeous, most creative icons ever made to simple line art with gradients? How?!

The icon for Motion back in the day was *chef's kiss* and using a gyroscope was just genius! Now it looks like an app that introduces kids to physics concepts.

#LiquidGlass #LiquidGlassSlop