Feels like at one point all the people who spent decades building OSes and desktop environment left Apple and Microsoft, and the people left are brand new developers who only been using computers for the last 10 years or something. Or something something executives/management, whatever fits your worldview better.
I think peak productivity for desktops was probably hit about 10 years ago. Most things since then are worse, and the best things from macOS (drag and drop everything nearly anywhere, consistent keyboard shortcuts and interfaces, scriptability of everything, etc.) were never copied by other systems.
Now systems are being designed to follow Node JS-style development which doesn’t work like a normal thing anywhere and native apps are just as bad as electron apps from a usability perspective…
At least they can be vibe coded since Interface Builder is no longer needed?
0 - https://daringfireball.net/2026/06/swiftui_only_makes_it_eas...
The issue IMHO is that this is not configurable. Apple Music may even be a reasonable default (being the built-in music player). But it should provide options for Apple Music, whatever other apps I have installed, or nothing.
