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by fujigawa 238 days ago
If we follow the same pattern, iOS 27 and corresponding releases will be completely flat and look like Mac OS System 7. Chicago font wants to live another day.

Windows 8 got some serious hate back in the day, it had some sound ideas that were implemented poorly, but no one could deny it was lightweight. It had the smallest memory footprint of all the modern Windowses IIRC.
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jval43 237 days ago
Unironically Mac OS 7/8/9 felt the best IMHO. Even though there were some missteps (the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_Strip was awful) and 9.x got a bit overloaded towards the end.

Mac OS X (and macOS still) never felt as good.

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musicale 237 days ago
Apple's classic human interface guidelines were well thought out. They should consider (re)reading them sometime.
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BoredPositron 237 days ago
Tiger was fine :D
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mikepurvis 235 days ago
A lot of people argue it peaked with snow leopard; that was consistent, performant, and feature complete, not yet overly influenced by mobile.
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dialup_sounds 237 days ago
Tiger still had that weird thing where half the apps were brushed metal for no apparent reason.
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