Maybe it's new and controversial, but I like it. Honestly, I think there is something more about it. Like another Apple product that we're going to see in the future, like Apple glasses would work perfectly with this UI.
I've been using it for ~6 weeks, and I'm also a bit confused by the hate since it's barely changed. I'm a fan of the improved UX harmonization across form factors. My intuition is that the minor and gradual "Duploization" of macOS in Sequoia and now Tahoe foreshadows touchscreen MacBooks.
> I'm a fan of the improved UX harmonization across form factors.
Don't understand why. A ~6" phone screen and a 3x1440p setup have little in common regarding what "effective" UX looks like. Unifying them for the sake of consistency risks making both worse.
Absolutely, scalable UX is a hard problem, and it's taken Apple nearly two decades to get to this point. But to be able to learn a "Control Center pattern" (for example) and apply that across desktop, tablet, phone, HMDs and TV UXs has real benefits for ordinary users.
I don't see it. What I see is a crippled Control Centre in macOS because Apple couldn't be bothered to adapt it for a desktop environment. For example, there's no equivalent to "long tap" on macOS Control Centre, nor does right click do anything. So what you have left is the lowest common denominator of behaviours that could be supported with single-left-click only.
This isn't unifying anything, but providing the laziest solution possible for MacOS by copy/pasting the visual design of iOS.
Sidenote: Does macOS Control Center even support any shortcut keys? I've honestly never tried, but a cursory search suggests there's no way to map a shortcut key to a Control Center action though you can open it with Fn-C. Again, lazy copy/paste of the iOS UI without adding any of the functionality a desktop power user might expect.
> For example, there's no equivalent to "long tap" on macOS Control Centre, nor does right click do anything.
Long-press isn't a macOS convention, which I assume is why there's an "Edit Controls" button at the bottom of Control Center for macOS. Right-clicking controls does show contextual menus as you'd expect.
> …a cursory search suggests there's no way to map a shortcut key to a Control Center action…
Desktop power users can (1) Fn-C and tab through them (as you said), (2) navigate Control Center using macOS's usual keyboard accessibility features, (3) create keyboard-activated Shortcuts, (4) use third-party utilities like Keyboard Maestro and Karabiner-Elements, etc.
I understand that Linux has solved this problem, but it's interesting to see Apple's progress on harmonizing their OS/device experiences over the last decade. I expect that there will always be shitty individual UI details you can pick on if that's your thing, like this detail from macOS 26.0's Calendar: https://imgur.com/a/BYalaa1
I agree with you. It really hasn't changed all that much. It's a bit more cartooney, but as long as it doesn't get in the way of my work, I don't care.
It looks like a lot of the hate flowing on HN is just people looking at worst-case screenshots on blogs and piling on. They haven't even used it.
There are a few things I'm not wild about, but for the most part it's a bunch of shoulder-shrugs. This isn't the end-of-the-world scenario that people are making it out to be.
I have a regular non-techie person in the family with a Mac who I think will like the changes. Those are the people who Apple is targeting. Not the tech bros and the wannabe posers who are desperately clutching their 10-year-old iPhones out of some kind of righteous indignation.
Same. I like it so far. After the upgrade I spent a lot of time looking around, trying things out, and generally exploring. I haven’t haven’t felt that sense of exploration and discovery since the first iPhone.
- Constraint solvers? That's a nice concept, I heard about this once. However, for the purposes of the interview, let's just write some Python code, I wanna see your way of thinking...
(I think it's almost impossible to convince your interviewer into constraint solvers, while the concept itself is great)
I wish technology is not blocked that easily. I doubt people want this feature to be banned. Apple's live translation is probably the greatest feature of the last 30 years. I wanted it so bad, I lived in India and South-East Asia for 3 years, it would definitely make my experience SO much better.
Pretty excited about this one. The amount of tech went into this is obviously insane. Happy to see the company is still the driver of innovation. I bet we'll see more slim phones coming up next months from other vendors.
> In our hyper-connected world, we've become slaves to the endless scroll. Social media, news, videos - the algorithm-driven content feeds are designed to capture and hold our attention indefinitely. We tell ourselves "just 5 more minutes" but hours disappear. Our brains are being rewired for constant stimulation, making us less capable of deep thought, genuine connection, and meaningful work.
> The Big Internet Button breaks this cycle by introducing friction back into your internet consumption.
> Yet it is wrong for a government to deny the people to access foreign services over the Internet when they want
"Services" here can be replaced with "control". I'm not super conservative, but social media sometimes do take control over our kids, and ourselves. If they could have offered a better way to content moderation, or ability to tune algorithms, that would be a great thing.
I wish there is a law that allows parents, and individuals to have control over some social media and their algorithms. For now all they do is just prevent themselves from scraping and automation
It's easy: Cursor are resellers, they optimize your token usage, so they can make a profit. Claude is the final point, and they offer tokens for the cheapest price possible.
There is one thing I would highly recommend to anyone using Claude or any other agents: logging. I can't emphasize it more, if you have logging you can take the whole log file, dump it into AI, outline the problem and likely you're getting solution or would advance to the next step. Logging is everything.
Is there anything similar to block/unblock them on network level? Some kind of lists, how reliable those lists are and how often do you need to update those? Curious if I can just have a shell script and will autoupdate everything on my router - install and forget solution.
