#SAFARI TECHNOLOGY PREVIEW REVIEW MAC#

#SAFARI TECHNOLOGY PREVIEW REVIEW MAC#

shopping for vacuum cleaners on a mac you’d not necessarily have a tab for each vacuum cleaner you research but a window for each of them, so you can compare them side by side, a possibility that under i(Pad)OS is impossible/severely limited, which is one of many reasons iPadOS isn’t a very productive environment to work in, unless you do very specialized, one-track-minded work. Similarly “tab groups”: great feature for i(Pad)OS, but for macOS it would need to be “tab AND window groups”, because e.g. So unless you essentially disable the toolbar by removing all buttons, you can’t properly work with the unified tab bar under macOS. It was a half-baked decision to bring it over to macOS, because in macOS there’s also the toolbar. Haha, the unified tab bar was clearly designed for i(Pad)OS, where it works reasonably well. If someone at Apple is being extra stubborn on something the change will stay until the next major version of i/mac/iPadOS. Getting used to it being in the way is like getting used to having a thorn in your finger, why should people get used to a design that is a regression?Either way it has been widely panned but they're still continuing with it, so not sure Apple is listening to tech pundits at all.Īpple has always made big changes in the early developer betas and depending on the pushback they get, they usually tone them down a bit but not always. iOS Safari's new address bar at the bottom is better than it was in previous betas for example but is still in the way of content way too much. I'm not saying Apple shouldn't listen to outside opinions at all, but what's the right balance?Ĭhange for the sake of change isn't always good. Think of all the decisions and designs Apple has made that were initially panned by tech pundits, even by those that were loyal to Apple. Getting used to a new way of doing things always takes time, but tech pundits have a perverse incentive to complain loudly and quicker than the other guy. I'm starting to worry that Apple is listening to the tech pundits too much.

Safari technology preview review