macOS 26's Cut Corners

https://daringfireball.net/2026/01/resizing_windows_macos_26

60•7777777phil•3w ago

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netsharc•3w ago

Related, 2640 points yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46579864

sho_hn•3w ago

Gruber's take is nothing but a blog spam rehash that adds nothing at twice the word count, too.

skylurk•3w ago

Gruber is HN's Nickelback.

But I appreciated how he reminded me of the grippy-strips.

WorldMaker•3w ago

A lot of this article certainly is saying "Look at this photograph."

MarleTangible•3w ago

The illustration with the breakfast plate is a really good example.

https://noheger.at/blog/2026/01/11/the-struggle-of-resizing-...

stephen_g•3w ago

I’m very glad I decided to keep my MacBook Pro on the previous version, but it’s irritating that I now seem to need to turn on ‘Beta Releases’ to get any other update but 26.x. And if you click ‘Other Updates’ (where the Safari update is, if you want to update that without restarting the computer) it tries to trick you by also selecting Tahoe by default.

That’s the kind of behaviour I’d grown used to from Microsoft over the last decade but something I’d thought Apple was still above until the last little while…

trashymctrash•3w ago

Is „Dyehoe“ in the title a typo? Otherwise I don’t get it

sirwhinesalot•3w ago

It's a pun, look up Alan Dye :)

rowanseymour•3w ago

As much as I'm enjoying all these articles about bad MacOS UI design.. people really be refusing to upgrade over this? I'm sitting here on Tahoe happily resizing windows all day (the cursor change lets you know you're grabbing the correct part).

hyperhello•3w ago

There is always a single perfect flaw in every apple product release for everyone on social media to align on. Apple may put them there on purpose.

geoffeg•3w ago

I see no real reason to upgrade, there's no new features that interest me. Combined with the UI issues, why would I upgrade?

1stranger•3w ago

1. it's not that bad 2. you'll probably get used to it 3. gotta get it over with sometime

zapzupnz•3w ago

These are not reasons. These are placatings.

Tanoc•3w ago

People get very annoyed and less productive when they have to relearn a large portion of their workflow. A carpenter uses the same tools the same way for fifty years, but someone working with software in any capacity has their tools replaced with new ones every few months and has to learn first how they differ and then how to get them to mostly do the same things as they old tools.

kccoder•3w ago

> there's no new features that interest me

Precisely! Can’t recall the last time they added a feature I wanted, so I just stick with the oldest version that is still supported. Upgrading is more likely to break things than provide anything I actually need.

russelg•3w ago

It is but one of the straws that broke the camels back.

Fethbita•3w ago

I updated but then regretted since I learned that Firewire support is now removed. I shoot retro videos with an old Firewire camera so to be able to get footage out of it, I had to stop whatever I was doing and figure out how to create a dual boot system.

Apple doing things like this is quite annoying where the hardware has support for Firewire but software removes it.

sillywalk•3w ago

Not just this.

The entire Liquid Glass thing is a usability nightmare for me. I already have had to enable accessibility options in previous releases, now these things don't even fix the transparency problems.

nkotov•3w ago

Yes. Been a life long Apple fan, this is the first OS update I am unwilling to upgrade to. iPhone is one thing, but ruining my desktop experience is extremely annoying. I'm dreading the day I need to upgrade to an M5 Pro MBP later this year.

bni•3w ago

I have not upgraded yet because I think it's very ugly.

Im ok with the glass part but the very rounded corners ugly and unprofessional.

oniony•3w ago

It's really not a big issue: the pointer changes to a resize arrow when you're in the right place, so it's pretty clear when you've got it right.

muro•3w ago

Just tried with Lightroom - sometimes the pointer changes, sometimes it doesn't and stays as the normal arrow. Sometimes it allows resizing in height and width, other times only one of them.

spider-mario•3w ago

> I think everything about the 10.7 Lion GUI looks better than the 10.6 Snow Leopard GUI — except for the omission of the resize affordance in the corner.

I think 10.6 looked way better. fite me

WorldMaker•3w ago

A part of me still thinks the peak was somewhere around System 7.

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