macOS 26 Tahoe: The Ars Technica Review

The Liquid Glass screenshots look like an assortment of noisy customized Linux compiz desktops or blurry Windows Vista.

	▲	musicale 20 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> Liquid Glass. It’s a major change to the way things look, and for better or worse, those shifts tend to suck > the oxygen out of the room.

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kashunstva 21 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I don’t understand what human factors needs are being met here; probably none. Who is asking for backgrounds on Messages windows? Who is asking for these gratuitous animations? What is the design reasoning?

	▲	cute_boi 21 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Probably someone from leadership in apple just doing to save their job.... And I upgraded today just to revert back.

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gumboshoes a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

HUGE round corners on Finder windows. Gonna take a while to get used to them.

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musicale 20 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The target audience is everyone who wanted their Mac to run iPadOS. Without a touchscreen.

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justsomehnguy a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I guess everyone in Apple has 20/20 vision.

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luckman212 a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Ugh. This is peak macOS enshittification.

	▲	hoherd 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It may have rough edges, but it doesn't fit the definition of Enshittification at all. > first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification#History_and_d...