macOS 26 Tahoe: The Ars Technica Review(arstechnica.com)

40 pointsby robin_realavor 10 Monaten10 comments

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/09/macos-26-tahoe-the-ars-technica-review/

11 comments

karmakazevor 10 Monaten

The Liquid Glass screenshots look like an assortment of noisy customized Linux compiz desktops or blurry Windows Vista.

musicalevor 10 Monaten

> Liquid Glass. It’s a major change to the way things look, and for better or worse, those shifts tend to suck

> the oxygen out of the room.

kashunstvavor 10 Monaten

I don’t understand what human factors needs are being met here; probably none. Who is asking for backgrounds on Messages windows? Who is asking for these gratuitous animations? What is the design reasoning?

cute_boivor 10 Monaten

Probably someone from leadership in apple just doing to save their job.... And I upgraded today just to revert back.

gumboshoesvor 10 Monaten

HUGE round corners on Finder windows. Gonna take a while to get used to them.

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justsomehnguyvor 10 Monaten

I guess everyone in Apple has 20/20 vision.

musicalevor 10 Monaten

The target audience is everyone who wanted their Mac to run iPadOS. Without a touchscreen.

luckman212vor 10 Monaten

Ugh. This is peak macOS enshittification.

hoherdvor 10 Monaten

It may have rough edges, but it doesn't fit the definition of Enshittification at all.

> first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification#History_and_d...

kossTKRvor 10 Monaten

No this 100% is Enshittification - making the entire os a big shiny flashy jewel that's good for promo shots, but bad actual users, all to please shareholders.