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by robot_jesus 7 days ago
Yeah. It's clear they've been hearing the complaints. Not just Liquid Glass, but they even talked about the inconsistent menu bar icons and problems with rounded corner radii (among a bunch of improvements). I'm excited that this is basically Snow Leopard part II, for those who remember.
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Well, let’s wait a bit before giving it such an honorable name lol
Snow Leopard was a goddamn mess, everyone forgets. Yeah, 10.6.8 was rock solid. In 10.6.0 there was a bug that erased your user folder if you logged into the guest account. It was NOT a good release at the start.
Snow Leopard even happened in the first place because Apple's A team was busy with iPhone, and iPhone has priority.

You will see that during this era Mac OS X was relegated to stepchild status and received far fewer support.

All this glory is just Steve Jobs selling it to us as a good thing! In the end it worked out, but it was more incidental and a collateral of the iPhone than the public memory likes to admit.

Exactly. And macOS 27 is unlikely to be a Snow Leopard release because it won’t have the time to. The yearly release schedule is too brutal.
Snow Leopard was a nothing release basically - but under the hood a lot got fixed and got better for devs