I wish Craig Federighi was the replacement, he is obviously the most competent person at Apple right now, maybe ever save for Woz…
But I’m pretty sure he’s not interested.
I can still remember the first time he had to do a presentation with Steve and he was shaking. Crazy how well trained everyone is for those presentations by now.
Apples hardware is at its best right now. John is the head of hardware. Their software is a buggy shitshow. Craig is the head of software engineering.
Woz hasn’t done anything at Apple since the Apple IIGS. He has been a honorary employee since the late 80’s. Dude isn’t competent at all to run a trillion dollar company.
Haha he’s gonna feel so dumb now.
Imagine being named Tim Apple and NOT working at apple.
Would have been fun if the new guy was called Pine.
Or Adams
He’ll have more time to learn how to wave a flag
?
Can the glass theme go away now?
I like it ):
It is way prettier than the standard flat icon theme.
I do kind of wish that there was a way to bring back the old squishy gel 3D icons, though.
The current thing is a bit of an awkward cross between them, and the flat colours that seem to be basically everywhere now.
I miss the skeuomorphism of the really old versions. I loved that the game center looked like a poker table, for instance.
Hilarious that you got downvoted into the negative for daring to voice a dissenting opinion. Truly, Lemmy is a child of Reddit.
I’m upvoting just to counterbalance the people downvoting because they dislike someone else’s subjective opinion.
Literally not a single lick of usability improved from glass theme. Lots of worse. I support a handful of relatives and none of them like the change and still find I confusing.
I’ve only used it in passing when somebody’s handed me their phone to put my number in or something but I think the big objection is not what it looks like but it’s usability or lack thereof.
Why would I want my user interface to be transparent, isn’t the whole point that I need to be able to see the interface surely I want it to stand out from the background.
The other complaint is that the analogy doesn’t really work, glass isn’t a liquid substance, so why does it make sense for the sliding toggle to morph?
The transparent theme is just one of several settings for it, and that it idiotic, but the normal mode when it adds a bit of gloss and texture to the icons is great
You mean wannabe Windows 7 Aero? I sure hope so, one of the best things about it is that you can turn it off
You mean you can turn Windows 7 Aero off? I haven’t found a way to turn glass off on MacOS. There’s settings that seem like they would turn it off, but they don’t.
You can turn glass off in macOS. On my MacBook running the latest 26.4.1 it’s in the System Settings under Accessibility -> Display -> Reduce transparency.
Sadly, there are still a few apps that don’t respect Accessibility settings, like Tidal, but it should apply to everything that’s part of macOS.
Yes, that’s what I did. The very OS doesn’t respect it. Not for nothing did they call it “reduce” and not “eliminate”. It looks like shit. I have refused upgrading my other Mac to the latest OS version due to this.
That’s weird, it completely kills it for me… I’ll have a look later to see if I ticked any other boxes.
Oh shit, I take that back, either they added that toggle after the initial release or I failed to find it at the time. I had it off, turned it on and I have a reasonable UI again! 🙏
BFD, I switched to a Fairphone 6 (De-Googled) and I’m not looking back. The only thing I might miss, a tiny bit, is the iWatch.
Seems like iphone lovers are mighty upset at you.
I don’t think it’s that, it’s that this comment doesn’t really add anything and it’s annoying to see the same tribalistic tropes repeated in every single post about phone brands. I despise the dogged fanboyism of the android and iOS people.
I didn’t up or downvote for the record.
I despise the dogged fanboyism of the android and iOS people
Same. Which is why I like to see Fairphone, Jolla and GrapheneOS etcetc mentioned as much as possible :)
Stop it, Patrick! You’re scaring him! Fairphone, Jolla, SailfishOS, GrapheneOS! 👻
Good for you
Which isn’t even called the iWatch
? And apparently Tim Apple isn’t even called Tim Apple? Is this whole company some sort of mirage?
I am still waiting for a new Maxipad.
Sadly the apple watch sensor + algorithm is the singular best PPG optical heart rate tracker on the market.
Not enough to put myself in danger of the Israeli Pegasus sending me one text to inject spyware but still…
The fuck is that headline? The CEO is stepping down as CEO? Like, is it really important to let people know what CEO means?
I mean, he is stepping down from that position but will continue to be with the company. If the headline just said he’s stepping down it could imply that he’s leaving entirely which would not be true.
fair enough
I can hear the meeting already “we haven’t gotten onto the ai bandwagon enough yet, clearly we’re gonna miss out on all those profits that are 100% bound to happen (my ai told me so).”
gobbling trumps nub, dint help you in the slightest.
Cook is going to transition to executive chairman, and he will “assist with certain aspects of the company, including engaging with policymakers around the world.”
His new role is literally Trump Gobbler
Embarrassingly, it did seem to have helped Apple when it comes to tariffs.
article says Tim Cook and shows a picture of Tim Apple.
fucking amateurs.
Damn i came here to make some variation of this joke!
I wanted to randomly bring Will Smith into this with a new line they are marketing around his persona…“Slapple”.
What a fresh and timely reference
At least it’s a hardware person taking over and not some marketing twat.
Goodbye Tim Apple, hello John Apple.
Cool, will he fix the Gulf Of Mexico in Maps?
I completely forgot about that shit. So stupid.
We can only hope incoming is as careful with our information as outgoing is.
I wonder what this will mean for Apple and whether this is an ominous foreshadowing of the ongoing hardware crisis. It seems to me like this would only be happening if the Macbook Neo has a difficult coming year or two down the line and he’s taking the fall preemptively. Either that or perhaps undisclosed health issues.
It’s been rumoured for about a year now
There doesn’t have to be a health issue. 65 is not an unreasonable age to want to transition into semi-retirement
We all knew it was coming, but what a time to pass the baton. Good luck, John.
