my plan for an Apple Watch has to either get the current Ultra as it seems to be a nice piece of kit - rugged and feature rich. Or to get a Hermes model from a prior year (I guess getting one older than Series 10 is prohibitive now) to have the watch & band on my wrist be more handsome looking while still totally being an Apple Watch.
Especially after the recent news that they shelved the cheaper Vision "Air" product in lieu of the AR glasses crap, I could care less about anything on that platform. I wanted a cheaper Vision product to replace my iPad, but since there's almost no development for streaming apps on it already, and that's all I would mainly use it for, my interest has waned.
I literally just bought an 11 to upgrade my from my 3. Honestly, the three has been holding up perfectly well with what I use it for (running and Walt Disney World trips, that's it), but I figure it's time to finally upgrade. Ultra just seemed too much for what I don't do.
Yes, they did! At the 8:50 mark, it ended up being one of the first things shown for the keynote LMAO. I never updated my M1 Air to Tahoe, so I've been irritated about this exact issue ever since I got my M5 Air a few weeks back. Relieved they're fixing it.
Not the smartest thing I’ve ever done, especially with a trip coming up next week, but I installed the beta on my 16PM. It feels surprisingly snappy so far.
I waited to see app compatibility but did the same. This is a huge step back in UI and I’m not sure I like it.
Huh, I must not be very attentive because so far I haven’t noticed much in the way of UI changes but I haven’t explored much yet. I think the new toolbar in Safari is useful. Biggest change I’ve noticed really is that my phone just feels faster than it has in ages. I could just be imagining it but I don’t think I am; for example, searching texts has been a huge pain point for me for a long time, and right now it’s actually working with zero lag.
Take all the dated UI elements of iOS 18, merge them with the bad parts of iOS 26 - there you have iOS 27.
Y’all are way more adventurous than I am installing Beta 1 like that, but I hope they get lots of feedback like this about UI clashes, and make some changes before the official release.
Knowing this was more like a Snow Leopard I was comfortable with it. I'm never doing Watch betas again, though.
Apple Announces macOS 27 Golden Gate With New Siri and 'Tons' of Refinements macOS Golden Gate also has design changes. For example, apps now have a unified toolbar at the top, and sidebars now extend to the edge of the window. way better
The toolbar and sidebar look goofy as hell with the Liquid Glass elements. We'll see how it gets updated through the betas but it's still not good.
I've been playing around a small bit with the new Siri AI stuff, haven't really gone into the context aware things because I just don't really care about that myself but it's nice to know I have a private AI chat I can turn to.
Thankfully can rearrange the sections on the Safari start page, my muscle memory kept me clicking on the AI grouped tabs.
I still don't understand this Liquid Glass craze, from an UX/UI POV at least... there has to be many ppl with vision impairments who must be impacted by it no? Feels like a step backwards accessibility wise so far