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by kibwen 3 hours ago
It's obvious that Microsoft doesn't even want to be in the consumer desktop OS market anymore, they'd rather pivot to being pure B2B like IBM did. Likewise, it's obvious that the future of MacOS is continued iOS-ification and infantilization of their OS until it will eventually be useless for anything except developing iOS apps. So neither major player will bother spending a marketing budget to reverse this trend; they'd rather not play the game at all. On the flipside, fewer and fewer people will have traditional desktops in the first place; owning only a phone and no PC at all is the new normal.
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lukevp 2 hours ago
What have they iOSed about macOS? The latest versions haven’t lost any features as far as I’m aware. But Windows lost the ability to even pin the task bar to the side of the window in Windows 11… and the ability to stop auto updates.

If anything, iOS is getting more Mac-like, especially the iPad version. It has multi windowing and a window manager now.

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olyjohn 1 hour ago
Everything. The whole OS has been getting locked down more with each release. More harassment about Apple accounts, harder to run non signed apps, the OS gets less and less configurable. I mean when Launchpad was released, it was clearly and iOS style interface to find your apps. Maybe you aren't old enough to remember when you could literally do anything you wanted with the OS and make it work for you.
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fsflover 2 hours ago
> What have they iOSed about macOS?

How about this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25074959

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pbalau 1 hour ago
Meanwhile, here I am posting this using Google Chrome, with Lightroom Classic, InDesign, Sublime Text, Steam bla bla all opened in the background.

You posted a 6 years old link.

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andsoitis 2 hours ago
> it's obvious that the future of MacOS is continued iOS-ification

What’s an example of a specific iOS-indication in macOS that makes the OS worse?

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fragmede 2 hours ago
Launchpad. It sucks on macOS. You can just not use it but it's there.

Fullscreen apps and Spaces. My Mac isn't an iPad, but their window manager wants me to use it like one.

Hidden scrollbars.

App sandboxing.

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olyjohn 1 hour ago
I think people don't know what OSX was like, when it was a glorious Unix system that did what you wanted. It let you install extensions and run unsigned code. Now its just a boring locked down iOS that has a windowing interface.
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