Yes, can’t combine it with windowed mode. I would love to able to simply float one window, so it’s always on top.

I run iPad OS 26 on a 2018 iPad Pro and it works well. A current base iPad should be able to run this just fine.

Can your Mac still be booted into target disk mode? Then you can connect it to another Mac and install from there.

It’s still bad. This is the worst UI Apple has designed in a long time.

It helps somewhat, but is also ugly.

Apple does not build large scale infrastructure networks and keep them backwards compatible for decades. It’s a totally different business.

A bigger battery also means you can use your phone for longer for high energy tasks. Like recording video and a high brightness screen still eats battery pretty quickly.

Before smartphones, battery life of mobile phones was several days.

FreeBSD of course.

I read posts just like yours ten years ago.

The design presentation never referenced any analytics data being used.

Also analytics data is not a replacement for good design.

Integration with macOS and features like synchronization with iOS/iPhone or generating new iCloud mail addresses.

I always use other browsers in parallel. Sadly they typically fail to adhere to macOS UI conventions or don’t integrate as well across devices.

I use Waterfox (Firefox fork) as a secondary browser because of the more powerful extensions. Other than that usability and OS integration is worse.

Camino used to a be a good Mozilla/gecko browser back in day. Sadly it was abandoned a long time ago.

The screenshots show the same functionality.

Gestures like pinch to zoom or swiping photos are easier with touch. Drawing a shape or writing a signature are another thing.

Multitouch is something a mouse can’t do at all. Macs have quite a nice set of gestures that can be used with the touchpad. A touch screen could use similar gestures.

For laptops touch screens are useful. Especially on convertible laptops, that transform into a tablet when folding over the screen completely. Also when you’re using it with more than one person at the same time.

For desktops, I don’t really see much of a benefit. Apple’s touchpads are pretty nice for that use case. I used to have a mouse on the right and a touchpad on the left of my keyboard.

Apple has completely failed to build a great convertible laptop for many years now. Windows laptops do it somewhat okay, but this is the product category where Apple could actually build something great. Apple Pencil on a convertible MacBook would fly off the shelves.

Since Tim Cook’s reign started there has been little vision regarding product design.

Apple should go beyond iOS, iPadOS, macOS to a unified operating system with an adaptive UI. I want to connect my phone with an M-series chip inside (or watch) to a thunderbolt hub and have a full desktop experience. iOS/iPadOS are too neutered. macOS is too neglected. VisionOS is a dead end toy.

I don’t want synchronization between four devices, I want one device that does everything and connects to various peripheries.

Leopard was peak Mac OS X.

Any recommendations?

It might look pleasing, but I think dropping the separation between window title bar and toolbar is a huge usability downgrade.

App Store monopoly is actually an issue, which is slowly improving.

What monopoly does Apple have?

You can turn off a lot of the transparency and other effects in System Preferences under accessibility. Setting the traffic light window buttons to greyscale is done in appearance I think.

I always enable “reduce transparency” and “always show scroll bars” for a saner default. There’s a bunch of other settings there that are sensible as well

Keyboard navigation for windows and menus is turned off by default. So turn it on for a more efficient experience.

It’s more difficult to find free software for macOS.

Most Linux software is available for macOS as well.

The indie developer scene for macOS is quite healthy and there are a lot of gems to be found like Panic, Omni, Kaleidoscope.app, GitTower, and many more.

Not upgradeable

Buy as much RAM and storage as you can afford. The high purchase price is offset somewhat by the very good resale value.