Apple should accept the old Mac OS X HIG principles and make them mandatory. The UX is so broken, that in some moments I have Windows Vista reminiscence.
But hey, I am an old user. I should move away and say: Yes Apple, you know better than me.:)
Like, really horrible as a desktop macOS feature IMHO.
I feel like Apple are trying to shoehorn bad iPad features into macOS to unify them. Instead of making iPadOS more like macOS and therefore more useful generally.
I dont know - something is screwed up in Apple's strategic thinking.
They admitted as much though with their back-to-the-mac push a few years back.
Shrug.
I've been using Macs since the mid-80s, and i'm very conflicted.
The experience isn't the same anymore, for me But then the computing world isn't the same, and my needs aren't the same.
I used to customise and feel a personal connection to my Mac. Now they are interchangeable and disposable. Like servers, they are cattle not pets.
The new M1 Macbooks are amazing though and we've never had it better in many ways.
>But then the computing world isn't the same, and my needs aren't the same.
Strongly disagree, the needs are the same, the interfaces and information flow are different.
This is not a reason to abandon basic UX and UI principles.
On the desktop, the paradigm is still a mouse (pointer device) and keyboard. Accessibility and Usability requirements are the same.
I had more pleasure in recent years from customized KDE environment than the chaotic changes in macOS.
Unifying UX for desktop computers with UX for touch devices is an absurd proposition.
But hey, I am an old user. I should move away and say: Yes Apple, you know better than me.:)