“I’ve taken much longer to write about OS X Yosemite than any other modern Mac operating system that I can remember,” Jim Dalrymple writes for The Loop. “Part of the reason for the delay is that I’m quite taken with the new design and wanted to see if I like it over the long term, but I also think this is one of the most important OS X releases ever.”
“One of the biggest changes users will notice about OS X Yosemite is its redesigned interface. Honestly, it’s absolutely gorgeous. I’ve loved everything about the new interface from the moment I turned on the computer I picked up from Apple after the WWDC keynote,” Dalrymple writes. “In fact, I liked it so much, I’ve been using it as my main machine since the week after WWDC. The system font is much easier to read — no, it’s actually a delight to read — so much so that I don’t really like going back to my older MacBook Air with OS X Mavericks.”
“I know a lot of people were worried about the so-called ‘flat design’ in Yosemite, and to be honest, so was I. I guess like a lot of people, I’m a bit protective of OS X — it’s like a member of the family and I want to see it treated well, protected even,” Dalrymple writes. “If Yosemite is any indication of what’s to come, Apple is treating OS X like royalty. I really do love the design overall, and I’m glad Apple chose to update the operating system like this.”
Read more in the full article – recommended – here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Larry B.” for the heads up.]
Yeah, Dalrymple! Right on! (And write on!)
He doesn’t usually gush like this…maybe Apple has discovered a hypnosis-inducing UI effect? OK, I’m intrigued enough to actually go read the full article.
Subliminal messages are in the wall paper. Also you don’t notice it but every now and then a message flashes on the screen saying Like Yosemite.
Curious thing is that the National Park has report a surge in software developers visiting the California icon.
Funny how much Yosemite’s El Capitan wallpaper reminds me of Devils Tower…
Interesting wallpaper, but I have a problem with “wallpaper.”
I have had an aversion to wallpaper since it was introduced.
I keep half a dozen to a dozen windows and some document & drive icons on my desktop all day long. Keeping track of these items, even with Apple’s various screen techniques, is worse when the wallpaper colors are all over the place.
Hence, I use a one color ‘background’ so I can tell in an instant where the desktop is. I wonder what % of Mac users feel this way.
It should be an MDN poll. I always use Solid Aqua Blue or Graphite for the primary desktop and something different for a secondary desktop
Light grey for me, been that way since System 7.
I just like that the focus is on the machine rather than the wallpaper… I dunno why I just like the neutral look on my desktop the few times a year I reboot and login to a fresh desktop.
The Beard is my favorite, most trusted tech pundit. I’ll have what he’s having!…
What’s a lot of people 4 or 5 – no one really cares we just want it to be cool!
been using it as a daily driver for a few weeks and for the most part, i don’t even realize anything is different even though it is.
the only thing that bothers me is that spotlight opens up in the middle of my screen when i’m trying to use it as a calculator for numbers that i have up and it covers up what i’m looking at.
otherwise, the transition has been seamless and pretty enjoyable.
The scary part of this article is where he mentions that Yosemite is comparable to iOS7 — how he hates going back to iOS6. For those of us who preferred iOS6, this is exactly the disaster we were expecting.
Alas, unlike, say, Aperture, it’s quite difficult to continue using the old OS version when all updated applications will want the new version.
It also concerns me that MS Office has problems. Hopefully these as problems that need to be fixed on Apple’s, not Microsoft’s side. I have to use Word for compatibility with work; however, I’m running Word 2008 and refuse to participate in subscription-based services. Hopefully, Yosemite won’t require moving to a new version of Word (OTOH, 2008 crashes so much I really ought to just bite the bullet and go with it).
I hate [the look and feel of] iOS7. There I said it (again). Now having said that if they took the look and feel of Yosemite and rolled it into iOS7, then they would really have something. Everything is cleaner, but not iOS7 bleached, and it’s not so different from OSX9 that it makes your hair fall out. The look is different — in a good way, and the feel is familiar — in a good way. It really makes iOS7 look like what everyone was thinking when it came out — it wasn’t finished, was made worse with their 7.1 crap, and never will be finished. So far, though, iOS8 has the same look and feel of iOS7 (and the latest beta is killing the battery in my old iPad2).
I wonder if you have some eye problems? Trouble seeing a balance of colours? That would explain a lot.
People hated Aqua when Steve first announced it. They hated pinstripes and brushed metal. I know a lot of people who maybe don’t love everything about iOS 7 but would never want to go back to iOS 6. From what I’ve seen of Yosemite it’s not iOS 7 on the Mac. It’s really quite beautiful and I’m hoping some of that design finds it’s way over to iOS.
Use iWork Pages app & save as Word document for work.
It would be nice if you could reliably move complex documents back and forth between Pages and Word, but you can’t. Most formatting and edit history translates, but it fails too often for a business to rely on.
I try to use Pages for as much as I can, but sometimes I need to use Word because people I am working with use Word and Pages is not fully compatible with Word’s features like Track Changes, auto page numbering, etc.
Track changes is an abomination of all things pure and simple.
Please give it a rest already. iOS 6 is a dog in light of iOS 7, and Apple’s design esthetic is showing up everywhere.
But I imagine there are people that still think Windows 95 is da bomb as well.
Gushing over almost nothing at all. Steve Jobs performed magic by instilling in every consumer of his products an irrational generational celebration of anything the company does, no matter if it is simple tweaks – like skinner fonts. Therefore there is no reason whatsoever for anything truly innovative or transformational. By now, Tim Cook has figured out that annual appearances on a stage in front of an audience of lemmings is all he needs to do. So, that’s all he does.
Zzzzz……
Really. I’m with you. Very tiresome. Like a broken record.
Jay, you were funny at first, but now you’re being irrational.
Not trying to be funny. Why is it that this site is mostly known for repetitive, irrational celebration of nothing really new, constant dumbing down of software – Aperture the latest victim – and ordinary tweaks of the OS’s, that such behavior is somehow anything but tiresome?
Jay, you’re irrational because you expect Apple to blow up a whole industry every three years. Not even Steve Jobs could do that. Now that he’s dead, why the double standard?
Oh, I know: because you’re buying into the conventional media narrative. The same narrative that’s propelled Apple to continue to shatter all of Steve Jobs’s achievements, and go places Jobs couldn’t imagine. Did you not watch WWDC?
Either that, or you just lack patience. Chill out; visit a bar or something. In the meantime, Apple will continue dominating smartphone profits and the PC market. And I’ll keep making money on AAPL off you and your fellow bears.
Steve Jobs’s most innovative product was Apple, Inc., not a damn phone.
I agree with @Concept. People see the change in visual appearance and choose to ignore the under-the-hood changes between major OS releases. Yosemite both _looks_ better and _is_ better through and through. You will come to realize that eventually.
Why is it that this site is mostly known for …
Anonymous coward ‘Jay’, you don’t give a rat’s about this site or even read it. You’re only here to TROLL. Soak up all the hate from the otherwise kindly and smart Apple users. That’s an illness Jay.
So ass kisser or troll. What’s the difference. Most are A kissing apple lovers irregardless if good or not
Why is it that you keep coming here? That’s the REAL question.
If the OS “tweaks” are “ordinary”, please predict what EXACTLY will be the next set will be the post OS X Yosemite update.
So you would prefer that Apple treats OS X like Microsoft treats Windows, never moving on from old technology, never streamlining the OS for the sake of “backward compatibility”, and taking 4+ years between upgrades?
No thanks. And for all of the complaints about Aperture, I suspect Apple sells a relatively few number of licenses, thus making the decision to terminate Aperture and iPhoto in favor of developing one Photo app makes good business sense.
I disagree: Jay was NEVER funny… though he has always been an a-hole.
“Skinnier”. You can’t “skin” a font, skinner.
Seriously ‘Jay Morrison’. Your anonymous coward nick is now a trigger for revulsion.
But that’s how you like it, isn’t it.
jay, you really must lose your virginity and become rational.
I see that you tried to type words but it only reads as “tollolololololololololololololololol!!!!!!!!!1one…”
cool
The app icons from Apple are stunning, and far from their flat iOS brethren. The only retraining I’m having to do is the Safari “back” button is not where it used to be, since all those controls are now in-line with the window title. This won’t be a problem for people using a Magic Mouse, since the swipe gesture works the “back” motion. And like “h2a” said, the Spotlight window being radically different in position takes some eye muscle retraining!
*GAG* I can smell what Dalrymple is licking and it’s nauseating.
It’s not that Yosemite is a total FAIL of a GUI. Some of it is inspired loveliness. It’s that little touches are absolutely AWFUL! I’ve blethered about it enough around here already and have no interest in arguing about it.
BUT! I will point out that the Flat, Flatter, Flattest attitude in Yosemite is going to INSPIRE people to FLEE screaming away from ye olde 2D graphics and RUSH toward what Apple should have been doing years ago: A real 3D element GUI, AKA The Future. Mark my words! I said it first, I am the prophet, pay me homage and all that rot.
Dull is not a fashion statement or a usability statement. It’s just dull.
Oh right so that big ass type designer who droned on about
Helvetica not being suitable in such small type sizes despite the fact it was designed specifically to work in small sizes, was as I claimed at the time talking a load of bollocks then. Hey but got himself some publicity I guess. I will judge it as and when I use but just because you have an entry on wiki doesn’t mean you actually know remotely what you are talking about on everything.