Sarah Reichelt (Mastodon):
[When] I scrolled down from the top, the content rows would scroll into the header, making the top messy and unreadable. This sort of overlapping and unreadable text is a feature of the various OS 26s, but in this case, there wasn’t a hint of transparency, so it looked like a bug to me. […] This exact layout worked fine on earlier versions of macOS, but as is often the case with all the OS 26s, things that used to work no longer do.
[…]
I reversed that change and then added space below the table view. Bingo! […] If a table doesn’t stretch from top to bottom of its view controller’s content view, in macOS Tahoe, the content will scroll into the header.
[…]
I ended up spacing the table view 1 point down from the top and 1 point in from the left of its enclosing view. The left spacing is not required but it makes the layout look more symmetrical. This prevents the bug from occurring and allows me to add the content I want underneath the table[…] I don’t think it looks as neat and clean as the original layout, but at least it works.
Brian Webster:
I just solved something different, but what feels like might have been caused by whatever the same underlying issue is.
In my case, it was a table view inside a sidebar whose content scrolled up underneath the toolbar without the toolbar applying a blur. The culprit was that the enclosing scroll view had a border type chosen. Changing the scroll view to no border made the toolbar render a blur correctly over the table view content. 🤷♂️
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Richard Lawler:
Emails released by the Justice Department on Friday appear to show that former Windows boss Steven Sinofsky not only consulted Jeffrey Epstein for help in securing his $14 million “retirement” package in November of 2012, but also in working on future career steps at other companies like Samsung or Apple. One document appears to show that a couple of weeks after Sinofsky’s departure was announced, Epstein wrote to him saying Apple CEO Tim Cook was “excited to meet.”
Malcolm Owen:
While apparently excited, Cook allegedly turned down the meeting. Epstein recounts that Cook declined because he was told that Sinofsky was starting a company with “farstall?(sp).”
Bob Burrough:
Tim Cook was actively thwarting Scott Forstall’s business prospects even after Scott was no longer employed by Apple.
Scott played the most significant role in the development of iPhone and iPad save for maybe two or three other people. Did he deserve to be crushed by Tim?
Steven Sinofsky:
forstall was the guy who led the iphone software - essentially my counterpart. he was actually fired for being mean to
people. I called him and we joked. he is from Seattle and his brother works at ms.
was that tim brushing you off?
I could send tim mail but don’t want him to forward to steve.
This was sent more than a year after Steve Jobs died, so I’m not sure who he’s referring to. Was he worried about Ballmer?
Steven Sinofsky, writing to Epstein (via Edward):
The industry is going through a post-hp (post bill, post jobs,
post chambers) world where leaders are being picked for being stewards and benign (hopefully).
The big tech compnies are all on a path to be mediocre because of that. That’s really driving the
bearish views of apple--Tim isn’t the right guy and it started with forstall being fired.
Microsoft going with tony bates. Hp going with meg. People with no views of the industry. Just
people who organize and speak about it.
Personally I think apple and google need them, skills, most. Apple has no one. Google killing it
now but very fragile.
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Matt Gemmell (Mastodon, Hacker News):
Executives, experts, engineers, and designers are all leaving for more lucrative positions at even less scrupulous companies. Apple is currently the GUI laughing stock of the industry, a position once firmly held by Microsoft for decades, and the walking-back of poor decisions in followup point-releases has become normal. Liquid Glass is the sort of folly that was once limited to portfolio pieces and fanciful blog posts, complete with clumsy attempts to replicate Apple’s style of marketing copy; pretty little animations that showed as much inexperience in UX as they did proficiency in Photoshop. Now, these missteps come from the company itself.
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Interface designers must have the same maxim as doctors: primum non nocere, and Apple could previously always be relied upon to remember and demonstrate it. Those days are apparently gone for now, replaced with whim and indulgence; tech demos canonised by whatever shoehorning is necessary. Putting aside the ugliness, and both inaptness and ineptness of the implementation, the largest problem with Liquid Glass is that it is so damned ominous. It portends, or perhaps reveals, a rot; an erosion in the core where Apple has always been distinct and steadfast.
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The thing is, for now at least, none of this seems to matter, because the investors are happy. Apple is the gold standard for hyper-profitability and predatory monetisation. Huge margins, hardware which runs only their own operating systems, operating systems that run only approved software (with even the Mac creeping ever-closer to an iOS-style lockdown), and software which pays its tithe to Cupertino at every stage. Leverage upon leverage, incompatible with our quaint old-world perceptions of ownership, so long as the money flows.
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The company feels like a performance of itself[…]
Unlike him, I think Apple’s hardware is mostly going fine, but I agree with the general thrust that Apple’s success has hidden problems. The last line really resonates. At times, the company seems like a cargo cult, repeating mantras from a previous era without actually following them and applying the same strategies as before even though they no longer make sense.
The Macalope:
We are experiencing a period of great angst in the Apple community, and most of it is the result of Tim Cook’s leadership. Cook has done a tremendous job over the years, building on Apple’s success and taking the company to new heights. For years, the Macalope skewered pundits who suggested Cook was a failure for not delivering a product as successful as the iPhone, as if it were reasonable to suggest he deliver another once-in-a-lifetime product. Cook’s tenure has been one of mature, stable stewardship, and over the more than decade and a half he’s led the company, Apple continued to ship hits like the Apple Watch and AirPods.
The problem is that we didn’t get stable stewardship. Apple’s software and developer relations fell apart on his watch.
Nathan Manceaux-Panot:
The Apple indie dev community is undergoing an identity crisis. For decades, whatever Apple said was good, was good. People mostly agreed with their ethics, design priorities, way of doing business.
Now that all of that has, well, severely degraded, it leaves us in the dark. The north star is gone.
See also: Warner Crocker, Dare Obasanjo, Kevin Renskers, Matt Gemmell.
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