I’ve been using Mac/iOS/watchOS 26 for the last week and it restored some hope in Apple.
Overall I like the aesthetic (though they could have toned down the radius on those rounded rectangles) but the productivity improvements are great. Spotlight has caught up with third party tools, continuity has improved, and there’s little things like text verification codes pop up in other browsers than Safari.
Mac is my daily driver but I also have 2 windows PCs and 3 Linux boxes (Linux Mint, PopOS, and Ubuntu). Mac is still the most enjoyable computer experience.
As many have noted, the big notable miss is AI. Siri could be the dream assistant, privately accessing all my personal knowledge base but instead they just have parlor trick gen AI thats really just a call to Chat GPT.
#macOS
