Sure. Tim Cook was great at driving costs down and selling more devices and services.

Design is how it works, not just how it looks. Apple has focused much more on the looks instead of functionality and usability since Cook took over. You can even see it on Apple’s website. It’s looks flashy and elegant, but finding technical information is a hassle. The user interface is optimized to look clean and elegant in screen shots, not for usability.

I recently used an older Mac and was delighted with using it.

macOS has gotten noticeably worse in many aspects. The Human Interface Guidelines are often ignored. Some system applications like Disk Utility were rewritten with less features than before. QuickTime only has a fraction of the features of QuickTime 7. Hiding UI elements like scrollbars, excessive transparency made usability worse. The new System settings are a convoluted mess compared to the old one. The way permissions and app notarization are implemented is user hostile, while giving only marginal security improvements.

Also on the technical side it has been meh. Swift if a good programming language but it suffers from endless feature creep. Compile speed and debugging is still worse than Objective-C.

Apple used to dogfeed new APIs in house first for a few years and then open it up once it was working. They have changed this completely. New APIs are first introduced for public use while in an unfinished state.

SwiftUI being a major example. It’s a giant framework introduced with the idea of being cross platform between all of Apple’s platforms. However, it hasn’t managed to do that. SwiftUI is different on all of them. It even makes it harder to write proper Mac apps. All while being much slower, more buggy, and more limited than UIKit and Appkit.

Or look at the options for scripting and automation. Shortcuts is cross platform. However it’s limited and can’t do everything that’s possible with Automator, AppleScript, and shell scripting. It also doesn’t integrate with the existing Services menu in macOS. The share menu still feels kind of alien on macOS.

iPadOS is held back by lots of limitations. For example the file manager is a joke compared to Finder on the Mac. It’s still bogged down by design decisions that were made for the first iPhones that had extremely limited memory and no swap. The windowing and multitasking are clunky and inelegant.

Liquid Glass is so bad usability wise, the guy who lead it left the company.

The yearly releases of major versions for operating systems led to a less stable platform. Every year millions of developers spend time to test adjust to the new version. This means they can’t work ok features or other bugs. This has lead to lots of abandoned software especially on iOS, that could still work if Apple didn’t break stuff every year.

I still miss iPhoto. Photos can’t even do drag and drop properly.

Steve Jobs gave a shit and is the reason Apple products had good design. Since his death Apple has been coasting and iterating aimlessly.

Mac Studio is a Mac mini with better cooling and better all around specs.

The trash can MacPro was kinda cool when introduced, but then they never bother to upgrade it.

You need the newest Qt alpha to compile it from source.

Apple would use a minimalist and confusing name like: Task

Overcomplicated is when you have a thick book for rules and spend an hour just to sort and setup all the different tokens, figures, cards, dice, etc.

The user experience and user interface has suffered.

The MacPro line has been finally canceled after being neglected for years.

Sure the system is broken and my experience is anecdotal.

There’s a generational war if you want to call it that. Birthdates fell below replacement rates starting over the last 60 years in European countries. At the same time life expectancy increased significantly. In European countries with state run health care and pensions this has a huge impact.

So now you have lots of boomers that retired early, own real estate, receive government retirement benefits, company or government pension, healthcare, etc.

At the same time there are a big number of immigrants, who cost the state more than they contribute. On top of that the quality of infrastructure and state services keeps decreasing.

Gen X and Millenials are the workforce, who are forced to pay for all of that. Stagnant wages, high taxes, worse government services, worse healthcare, etc. All of it was caused by boomers, their life choices, and political votes.

Boomers still occupy the most powerful positions in the state, other institutions, NGOs, corporations, political parties, etc. Gen X only starts getting there.

The whole demographic crisis was known for decades. However retirees are the biggest voting block. In the end we have an alliance between retirees, capital, welfare recipients, and the state against the productive working population.

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The success of the populist right is directly caused by the decades of failures by institutions run by boomers and the policies they have voted for.

It’s a class war that built this system, not a generational war.

Class war accelerated the generational war.

My parents received a lot o financial support in order to afford to buy an apartment for our family.

Neither my sister, nor myself has received similar financial support to buy a place to live in.

My parents instead live in a gigantic place they don’t use fully, and own several houses and apartments they rent out for profit. Of course none the real estate they own is anywhere near myself or my sister’s family. They also love to go on fancy expensive vacations all the time and complain about the younger generations. Of course they also get pensions from the companies they used to work for. Something that just doesn’t exist anymore.

There’s a lot of overlap between generational and class war.

It’s necessary because people develop software with Macs.

macOS just makes you jump through a hoop every time you run an application that’s not notarized.

In practice that means cross platform open source projects don’t want to pay money to join apple’s developer program and set up code singing and deal with certificates.

So after download an unsigned app, macOS refuses to start it until you go to system settings > security > and allow.

You have to do this again after every update.

It’s very annoying and does very little for security.

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I recommend studying Crowley and Osho.

Jesus never asked for wars in his name though. It’s not part of his teachings.

Christianity changed a lot once it became the dominant religion of the Roman Empire.

However Christianity also brought a lot of positive social changes with the focus on forgiveness and helping the unfortunate for example.

It was spread by conquest, but also peaceful friendly missionaries. These missionaries often invented a writing system for the illiterate people they visited.

There are blond people in the Levant.

Scripts and aliases make this easy to set up.

What do you mean by natural? Do you want stateful APIs?