For the first time, I’m excited about Preview.
Apple’s latest desktop software adds a sprawling list of features to the operating system. But you have to dig a little bit to find the most interesting ones.
Oh, and before we dive in: I have not encountered anything I would consider to be a show-stopping glitch or a bug in this release. That said, please insert the usual caveats about updating your OS here: it’s always safest to wait a few months before updating your operating system, particularly if you use a Mac to make your income. But also, live your life; it’s going to be fine.Here’s what it looks like immediately after you swipe right on a message.
The actual usefulness of this feature will be entirely dependent on how well it works. So, I welcome Apple to take as much time as it needs on this one. I’ll be here. Waiting.I was trying to work with a MacBook next to me on my desk, but I kept getting distracted by these damn seals. And that’s pretty much it. Those are the three things I’m really, really psyched about in macOS Sonoma. The rest of the features below I can take or leave, but perhaps you’ll get more value out of them.This one is not actually going to impact my life in any particular way because I use Chrome. But as someone who has been using Chrome’s version of profiles for the past few years, I do think Safari users should be pumped for it.
I can see this panning out to be something I see everyone using everywhere. I can also see it being something that everyone uses in their meetings for the course of a day, laughs about, and then never uses again . The first step, if Apple wants to land in the former camp, will be getting Presenter Mode to work across platforms. The feature was shown, in demonstrations, to be functional in Zoom. I got it working in FaceTime but could not get it working in Zoom.
Good job, Apple, I suppose, for giving folks who use both a Mac and an iPhone an experience that is incrementally more continuous. On the other hand, this is the most pointless clock I have ever seen. The date and time being prominent on my iPhone’s lock screen is useful because I whip out said iPhone to check the time approximately a thousand times a day. Nobody is whipping out their iMac to check the time.
I decorated my desktop with every widget I could think of in an effort to see which ones would make their way into my daily routine. None of them did. The issue, again, is similar to the clock one. A major benefit of widgets on the iPhone is that you can just glance down at them to get necessary information when you’re getting on the bus or whatever and don’t have time to scroll through an app.
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