[SllX]

> and there was also no expectation whatsoever of "touch friendly" controls so everything was a lot more tightly-spaced than today

Well if Apple’s Execs are to be believed, touch-screen Macs aren’t in the pipeline, which is aces with me because that’s what my iPad is for.

So given that the preeminent pointing devices on a Macintosh are still the mouse and trackpad, I could do with them tightening up the spacing again and walking back the last 10 years of nonsense.

We don’t have to go back to Snow Leopard, certainly not Platinum; but widgets and theming that are consistent with how a Macintosh is used and the hardware it actually runs on would be preferable.

[kaba0]

But ios apps are runnable on macs, aren’t they? And on that front apple does want some unification.

[SllX]

On ARM-based Macintoshes, as an option that a lot of apps I personally use haven’t taken.

That kind of thing is gravy, where it works, but it’s not worth optimizing the entire UI around when you can optimize the UI around Mac apps instead.

[andrekandre]

a lot of them arent available on the appstore (anymore anyways), and the few i tried were.... not that great (like iphone apps with non-resizable windows)...