• obvs@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    MacOS was so much better when Steve Jobs was in charge.

    Tim Cook REALLY made it worse. Steve Jobs made sure the user experience was generally good, although admittedly there were many times when he was pigheaded. On a personal level, Steve Jobs was a terrible person, but he made the operating system very good and very consistent.

    And Tim Cook didn’t care about any of that, and macOS is now SUPER inconsistent and much less user friendly. It’s still better than Windows, but MAN is it so so so much worse.

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      7 hours ago

      At least he gave us some basic window management features. It’s still miles behind what Windows and Linux has unfortunately.

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      21 hours ago

      admittedly there were many times when he was pigheaded

      Arguably, he’d still be alive today if he wasn’t so pigheaded.

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        18 hours ago

        Behind the Bastards had a good one on Jobs, where they went into a little bit how he believed in this mucus theory, it was pure madness. And it’s why he died.

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      21 hours ago

      It’s still better than Windows

      The problem there is that Windows has been lowering the bar for a decade now.

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        19 hours ago

        Well that’s not correct.

        Engineers are great at developing a product.

        But having someone at the end who’s using the product and insisting on consistency because he’s anal-retentive and a pain in the ass will mean the product is consistent with the evaluator’s goals.

        macOS used to have a lot of underlying features that worked consistently no matter which app you were using, and Apple destroyed that.

        Either Jobs was having an effect, or it’s a damned strange coincidence that the severe reduction in consistency in macOS started just at the point that he died.