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Cake day: September 21st, 2024

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  • Integration with macOS and features like synchronization with iOS/iPhone or generating new iCloud mail addresses.

    I always use other browsers in parallel. Sadly they typically fail to adhere to macOS UI conventions or don’t integrate as well across devices.

    I use Waterfox (Firefox fork) as a secondary browser because of the more powerful extensions. Other than that usability and OS integration is worse.

    Camino used to a be a good Mozilla/gecko browser back in day. Sadly it was abandoned a long time ago.



  • Gestures like pinch to zoom or swiping photos are easier with touch. Drawing a shape or writing a signature are another thing.

    Multitouch is something a mouse can’t do at all. Macs have quite a nice set of gestures that can be used with the touchpad. A touch screen could use similar gestures.

    For laptops touch screens are useful. Especially on convertible laptops, that transform into a tablet when folding over the screen completely. Also when you’re using it with more than one person at the same time.

    For desktops, I don’t really see much of a benefit. Apple’s touchpads are pretty nice for that use case. I used to have a mouse on the right and a touchpad on the left of my keyboard.

    Apple has completely failed to build a great convertible laptop for many years now. Windows laptops do it somewhat okay, but this is the product category where Apple could actually build something great. Apple Pencil on a convertible MacBook would fly off the shelves.

    Since Tim Cook’s reign started there has been little vision regarding product design.

    Apple should go beyond iOS, iPadOS, macOS to a unified operating system with an adaptive UI. I want to connect my phone with an M-series chip inside (or watch) to a thunderbolt hub and have a full desktop experience. iOS/iPadOS are too neutered. macOS is too neglected. VisionOS is a dead end toy.

    I don’t want synchronization between four devices, I want one device that does everything and connects to various peripheries.















  • You can turn off a lot of the transparency and other effects in System Preferences under accessibility. Setting the traffic light window buttons to greyscale is done in appearance I think.

    I always enable “reduce transparency” and “always show scroll bars” for a saner default. There’s a bunch of other settings there that are sensible as well

    Keyboard navigation for windows and menus is turned off by default. So turn it on for a more efficient experience.