The Mac is just as compelling
iOS or Mac OS X? You don't have to pick one at all costs.
All posts tagged: UX
Control Centre is fine
I had planned to write about The Case Against Control Center by Stephen Hackett, expressing my complete disagreement with it. I refreshed my feeds a moment ago and noticed that John Gruber has beaten me to it, saying essentially what I was about to say. I’ll just add that this is a textbook case of modern tech blogger’s tunnel vision. The gist of Hackett’s piece seems to be: “Apple should adjust/rethink Control Centre’s UI to better […]
More on iOS 9 and older devices
Apple favoured support and compatibility over user experience, and decided to extend the life of the iPhone 4S and similar devices anyway, when a more reasonable approach would have been to stop support at iOS 8.4.
iOS 9 on the iPad 2
Barely usable, unfortunately.
The first Spotlight interface is still the best
Spotlight in OS X Yosemite and El Capitan is getting better, but I still prefer the original interface it had when it debuted ten years ago in Mac OS X Tiger.