Apple continues to get more aggressive trying to get me to upgrade my personal MacBook Pro and iPad to Tahoe (at 26.2 at this time of writing). All they have to do is revert the liquid glass UI and I’ll be happy to. I made the mistake of letting my iPhone update and barely tolerate it. The only benefit is that I’m on my phone less. The universal opinion of everybody I know is that we all hate it. It UI makes everything harder to read and use. There is transparency in places for no explicable reason. I have no clue how any of this escaped review of Apple’s design teams.
Apple still makes wonderful hardware, but this OS version is an absolute turd.
This has been one of the the tougher winter cold and flu seasons in recent memory. So many people at work out sick, and at least half the family at home has something. Between that and the persistent layer of slush and ice around Chicago, maybe February will be better? (Despite those two weeks of February where literally nothing happens after the Superbowl and people are just waiting for Spring.)
It’s very simple. Do not upgrade from macOS Sequoia to macOS Tahoe. The UI is fundamentally broken in so many ways. My iPad and MacBook Pro are staying where they are on the latest release of last year’s OS. I deeply regret letting my iPhone update, thinking, “Surely it can’t be that bad.”
It is this bad. The liquid glass UI is lower contrast and less useable in every way. The use of transparency for no explicable reason is dumbfounding. I’ve managed to adjust a little bit for my day to day usage of my phone, but I refuse to let that upgrade harm my Mac, where I actually have to get real work done.
I’ve started watching Castlevania for the 3rd time on Netflix. All four seasons build on each other, and watching the entire series is so entertaining. I appreciate stories that let the characters grow and change, and allow them to be deeper than simple archetypes and common tropes. Every villain in the series has valid motivations for what they do, beyond just jazz hands “world domination”. I’m especially looking forward to the introduction of Carmilla, who really allows the show to hit its stride.
It’s the cold, sad months in Chicago right now, and this is a wonderful way to pass the time until we get past mid-February.