Ask HN: Has Apple lost its way?
9 Zufriedenheit 12 6/9/2025, 6:42:15 PM
I use a Mac and iPhone and appreciate the clean experience. But i just watched the WWDC and felt like the whole thing could be summed up in a 5 min video. They have so much talent and resources and all they come up with is slightly redesigning the icons every couple years. And now it seems they started to re-implement the mac UI on iPad again, i literally though that was a joke when i first saw it.
You mean that, like me, you aren't excited about Apple's "new material" and jiggle physics?
Apple is dragging its feet on the incorporation of LLMs/ML in the OS. This is another facelift; my expensive iMac Pro will be phased out on OS updates and exposed to security issues; and Apple is blowing smoke up the wazoo with trite rhetoric about "new material" that boils down to translucent glass. Not the bold leadership and vision one might hope for, and I'm going to start looking around for other options to outfit my law firm. I can't stand M$, so it might be time to bite the bullet and look into Linux and a dumb phone.
For what the iPad Pro costs, Apple should have brought the Mac UI to it 5 years ago, but Apple wants you to travel with a Macbook and an iPad and a Phone whereas one sleek device could replace them all.
Personally, I think tablet is a loser form factor. It’s great for simple fixed app scenarios, and mediocre for everything else.
I believe this has little to do with the outcome we got. We are definitely at a local maxima of technology advancement, when it comes to laptops and mobile devices. You can't expect even the most talented people to innovate out of their butts in 2025 just like that.
iOS 18 on the iPhone SE sometimes won't respond to tapping to share a photo... Spotlight on Mac has gotten worse and often won't find files...
The fact that a PR video goes on long is ... normal?