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um it's pumpkin spice latte and Apple

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operating system update season every fall apple delivers to us an aromatic

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array of new features that should make using their devices better and easier

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should what we're getting is iOS and

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iPad OS 16. macOS 13 Ventura and watch

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OS 9. they all include a lot of new features and revisions but what I'm

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noticing this time around is not just the features each platform gets but also

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the features they all share what does this mean for the whole concept of the

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operating system for Apple going forward

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if you look at some sections of Apple's

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all new features pages on their website you can see that many of the updates are

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exactly the same verbatim between all the operating

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systems messages Safari mail iCloud

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photo sharing home photos reminders live

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text and a bunch of others the new features added to these apps are doled

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out to all devices equally this is a good thing as it means you won't lose

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out on functionality using the same app between different devices you can undo

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send and edit iMessages and emails no matter what keyboard you wrote them on

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how you surf in Safari won't have to be limited by your screen size the way you

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organize your reminders on your Mac won't be any different than on your

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iPhone but are these updates really worthy of

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WWDC would they have even been noticed

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on previous releases like Panther snow leopard or lion I don't think so

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photos is a standalone cross-platform app Safari is a standalone

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cross-platform app Reminders is a standalone cross-platform service and

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yet their updates are arbitrarily tied to the broader operating system update

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this can be really annoying too take

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maps for instance you can finally make a

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multi-stop route no matter which device you're using this is an easy feature

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that should have been added years ago yet to get it you have to update each

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device's entire operating system you

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might think that this means the operating systems are converging all

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into one harmonious hole with only by the screen size to differentiate them if

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Apple was doing that feature parity like we're seeing would be a necessary step

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so is this preparation for one Apple OS

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to rule them all touchscreens on the Mac I'd argue no because these changes to

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the cross-platform apps just increase usability across the ecosystem and if

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you take a close look Beyond them you'll find that these os's are as different

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from each other as ever despite the fact that it's going to be a little delayed

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iPad OS looks to be the most transformed this year after all our dogged

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complaining apple is really bringing the iPad into it's more capable own

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toolbars are customizable now allowing developers and power users to

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personalize and optimize their app's functions it looks like a promising step

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forward as the iPad moves further away from the iPhone and closer in capability

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to the Mac the biggest demonstration of this is stage manager it's a new app

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windowing Feature available only to M1 powered iPads instead of being limited

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to two full screen apps side by side with a slide over floater for good

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measure you can now pile and resize groups of windowed apps together on the

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screen and then switch between those piles based on what you're working on

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it's improved since I first tried it earlier this summer but despite these

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soft round corners there are still rough edges apps aren't freely movable and

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resizable they kind of just snap into set sizes and positions it's quite

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interesting that you cannot completely cover app Windows over one another these

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behaviors will require getting used to and developers are going to have to put

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in a lot of work to support all these

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new layouts as you can see even on this

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big iPad Pro screen I don't think I'd use stage manager but hooked up to an

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external monitor it's a game changer now

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the iPad really is a tangible computer replacement for those who can work

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within the platform's bumper guards though if you're used to a desktop

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operating system don't forget that you will probably run into Mouse

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interactions that won't work like You're Expecting

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Touch first everyone also on a Mac you

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can close minimize and maximize Windows with the traffic lights on the top

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corner of a window here those options are buried under an annoying Sub menu

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is here too and because the operating

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system was engineered from the ground up to support resizable windowing it works

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much better here think about it as an alternative way to organize tasks in

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Windows compared to Mission Control next

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we have something that works great on the iPad but not so much on the Mac they

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have replaced the system preferences with the system settings app same

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stovetop logo though it's adopted the sidebar format found on Apple's mobile

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devices that makes it easier to find the section you're looking for at a glance

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but I'm not bowled over by the controls

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and layout once you're in there Everything feels more complex look at

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how these alignments have changed creating redundant space between the

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options and their selections it's very hard to see things at a glance their

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screens are so much bigger and I'm really not convinced that mobile UI

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paradigms should be in desktop operating systems wait macOS has a noise machine

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and accessibility well that's hard to find and why is this

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a toggle switch why is this a window what why did they chew developer Nikki

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tonsky posted a thread on Twitter showing just how rough the early beta

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versions of this app are and showcase some of the questionable UI choices

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Apple has made with it I find it so unrelentingly gray like

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this list of toggles that look grayed

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out as if you can't use them but oh you can also these were the gesture videos

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to show you how to use your magic mouse and trackpad before the are the new ones

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this is what software feels like these days in microcosm we've gone from a rich

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beautiful understandable video to an uninspiring abstract boring animation

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bound to Peak the Curiosity of exactly no one

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because everything has moved around so much I'm going to recommend that you

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only update to Ventura when you're mentally prepared to but don't worry

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like iPad OS this update will be coming a bit later now the update worth

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installing is iOS I absolutely love the look of the

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new lock screen it makes the phone so much more useful at a glance something

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my Apple watch is great at you can now

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add simple widgets and set your wallpaper to shuffle photos from your

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library and if you don't have widgets enabled the clock can now be cleverly

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placed behind your photo subject you can even change the clock's font

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notifications are piled up at the bottom now out of the way and finally as your

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mood changes you can swipe between all your multiple themes which can also be

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tied to different Focus modes I do have some niggles on some wallpapers the

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widgets can become completely illegible because there's no contrast and

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disappointingly all the options and freedom we get on the lock screen comes

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with a commensurate removal of options for the home screen Apple's default

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wallpaper options are all but gone unless you use the same background as

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the lock screen oh and check this out in

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the photos app that's cool I've always hated doing that

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on Photoshop Apple's finally showing us what capabilities the neural engine can

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bring to software adding to live text to video and dictation improvements other

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than these main highlights you're really not going to notice the improvements in

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day-to-day use unless you really dig deep Adam angst at tidbits did a survey

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asking people what features from last year's releases people were using and

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the results showed that a wide majority of users didn't use any of the new

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features save for live text it makes me wish for a release that has no new

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features and it's just bug fixes and refinements a year-long feature

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moratorium wouldn't that be great thanks

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for worsening the UI of this Mac Address now if you are going to update your

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devices right away give this video a like and if you're gonna hold off you

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might as well subscribe now comment below I'm curious what you think about a

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feature moratorium Now new features just fixes

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you agree