Books for iPad Gets the Photos Treatment
So, uhm, the UI changes to the Books app for iPad are pretty concerning…?
The app went from having a rich sidebar in iPadOS 17 with sections and collections always available to a simplified layout where sections are hidden away in a popover. Less flexible and discoverable than before.
Does Apple want to make iPad apps less desktop class now?
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They’ve made the same changes to the Podcasts app. It looks like they’re trying to align all of these with the Music app. Though TV hasn’t changed yet.
All of Apple's software is going down the toilet. Everything is being redesigned to ram their AI/ML suggested content down users' throats while depriving users of the power to curate and organize their own music, photos, books, tv shows, and movies. Apple is barreling down the enshittification ramp.
I've quit using Apple Books now, after 14 years. I had to do some really awful bullshit to pull it out, into Calibre, convert them to "real epub", and then load into Readdle Documents. But the organizing and reading experience is now much better.
I don't understand why all software design is coalescing around the simplest and worst applications.
Is this all because of Vision OS, and Alan Dye has been designing everything with that in mind, to the detriment of literally all other platforms?
Kind of seems that way.
