Re: [RUMOUR] Apple planning enormous changes to iOS and macOS

On Mar 11, 2025 at 1:31:38 AM EDT, "Your Name" <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:

On 2025-03-11 03:47:39 +0000, Tyrone said:

On Mar 10, 2025 at 5:33:46 PM EDT, "Your Name" <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:

 
Apple already started trying to make macOS look and work more like iOS
/ iPadOS, and it's a bit of a horrible mess. Trying to make computers
and touch devices work in the same way will never be a good option, let
alone the ridiculousness of trying to make both of them work like a
pair of AR/VR googles.  :-\
 
Plus, whichever moron in management thinks such a silly design change
will somehow "recapture some of its Pandemic-era sales" needs to be
fired.

 
These rumours are very common. Because any "rumour" about Apple generates
clicks on websites.

 
Apparently the redesign has now been mentioned by three separate
"sources", including Mark Gurman, so has a bit more substance than most
anonymous rumours. :-(
<https://www.macrumors.com/2025/03/10/ios-19-visionos-redesign-rumors/>
 
 
 
 

MacOS UI and iPadOS UI are never going to merge. To do so would be like a
broken pencil.
 
Pointless.
 
The people who want a mouse and keyboard on an iPad and the people who want a
touch screen on a Mac have one thing in common.  Both need to Get A Life.
 
You might as well wish for a steering wheel on motorcyles and handle bars on
cars.
 
Different tools for different jobs, folks.

 
Precisely, but apparently some moron in management at Apple doesn't
understand that. Although the OSes are apparently not planned to
actually merge, they already have been being made similar. For example
the ugly rounded rectangle icons infesting macOS and the make-over to
the old macOS "System Preferences" to be the horrible, near unusable,
"System Settings").  :-(
 
If Apple keeps trying to turn the Mac into a giant iPad, then they are
going to lose sales, not gain them.

Exactly. 

The OSes are already 75% identical. All are Unix underneath.  Only the UIs are
different.  For obvious reasons.

There is no point in making them run the same UIs. As someone else said, if
the only tool you have is a hammer then all problems tend to look like nails.
 

One size never fits all.  We have microwave ovens and wood burning, brick
pizza ovens.  Both are ovens, but for vastly different uses.