{"id":14246,"date":"2016-04-22T12:38:17","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T16:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=14246"},"modified":"2016-04-22T12:38:17","modified_gmt":"2016-04-22T16:38:17","slug":"it-just-works-should-be-the-next-step","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/22\/it-just-works-should-be-the-next-step\/","title":{"rendered":"&ldquo;It Just Works&rdquo; Should Be the Next Step"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/morrick.me\/archives\/7616\">Riccardo Mori<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/morrick.me\/archives\/7616\">\n<p>In the end, I think that what the next &lsquo;MacOS&rsquo; needs most is focus. Focus on what it has historically done best &mdash; &lsquo;just working&rsquo;. I don&rsquo;t think that the current problems of OS X have much to do with its old age or its old models. It&rsquo;s more a matter of identity. I feel that recent versions of OS X have tried to &lsquo;look friendly&rsquo;, as if to say <em>Hey folks, I can be simple like iOS! Look, I too can have big app icons taking up the whole screen! I too can go full-screen with apps, and I can do split-view just as well! And I have Notification Centre like on iOS!<\/em> and so on. This path of convergence with iOS hasn&rsquo;t been all bad, but the process has involved an accumulation of new features which not always have brought more value or functionality, and often have introduced bugs or annoyances; all this has ultimately undermined the most important aspect of using a Mac &mdash; the &lsquo;it just works&rsquo; aspect.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Riccardo Mori: In the end, I think that what the next &lsquo;MacOS&rsquo; needs most is focus. Focus on what it has historically done best &mdash; &lsquo;just working&rsquo;. I don&rsquo;t think that the current problems of OS X have much to do with its old age or its old models. It&rsquo;s more a matter of identity. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[30,1199],"class_list":["post-14246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-mac","tag-mac-os-x-10-11"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14247,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14246\/revisions\/14247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}