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[Opinion] Apple CEO Tim Cook's Legacy Is Dull Products And Spineless Capitulation (karlbode.com)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmus.org/post/25140646

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[–] 8 points 2 hours ago (3 children)

MacOS was so much better when Steve Jobs was in charge.

Tim Cook REALLY made it worse. Steve Jobs made sure the user experience was generally good, although admittedly there were many times when he was pigheaded. On a personal level, Steve Jobs was a terrible person, but he made the operating system very good and very consistent.

And Tim Cook didn't care about any of that, and macOS is now SUPER inconsistent and much less user friendly. It's still better than Windows, but MAN is it so so so much worse.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 hours ago (1 child)

    Engineers made the OS good. Steve didn't do shit.

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  • [–] 0 points 25 minutes ago

    Well that's not correct.

    Engineers are great at developing a product.

    But having someone at the end who's using the product and insisting on consistency because he's anal-retentive and a pain in the ass will mean the product is consistent with the evaluator's goals.

    macOS used to have a lot of underlying features that worked consistently no matter which app you were using, and Apple destroyed that.

    Either Jobs was having an effect, or it's a damned strange coincidence that the severe reduction in consistency in macOS started just at the point that he died.

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