lupinglade

Apple has been going down hill at an exponential rate since the loss of Steve (and subsequently just about all real engineers at Apple).

Swift is turning into a mess and SwiftUI is complete, utter garbage. Tahoe’s UI is unbearable.

The problem is there is no real alternative - Linux is the closest thing (but has its issues).

Tahoe’s UI is a disaster. Giant buggy controls. Sad to see where macOS has ended up. Apple used to have so much attention to detail in their UI design - now it looks like it’s “anything goes”.

And Canada too.

Pathetic.

Human accelerated change is the concern.

I long for a modern NeXTStep-like OS. A polished, consistent, solid operating system that is lean, clean and simply focused on getting things done. It should be predictable in every way and never get in your way. None of this SwiftUI bullshit, Animoji, AI or blurry UI. sigh

Use it every day and still no idea where anything really is in there. What a shitshow.

Not sure.

This might be the main issue with software at Apple getting so much worse. Bertrand knew what he was doing. Apple's (and NeXT's) OS used to be an OS, not a collection of toy apps.

The problem is the materials used. Greedy developers building junk homes and making bank. People in those areas are able to afford fire resistant housing but most of them are being swindled into buying stick homes. The few properly designed homes fared far better. Code needs to be updated and consumers need to be educated.

Actually, in the long run, it's likely to make good engineers a lot more scarce.

It is a webpage that was quickly put together. We are a small company and our focus has been on the product. You can run Linux and macOS currently. That is listed on the features page as well as the app store product listing.

There is no dark pattern, it is actually a problem with the way Apple allows developers to sell software on the Mac App Store. We don't have proper control over the process and thus end up with this convoluted purchasing system that is more geared towards subscriptions - which are the real dark pattern nowadays. We sell without any subscriptions - at a very fair price that is extremely competitive with other products. The old upgrade pricing model was a lot more fair to both developers and users and we are sticking to it. This is the only way to offer a free trial on the App Store without requiring a separate installation, which would be inconvenient for everyone.

Far from a university project - but your opinion is yours to keep. It is a shame you are so negative, as it really is a labour of love and a quality Mac app. In fact we have a lot of firsts here, no one has really done a lot of these things (snapshots, suspend & resume, proper dynamic resolution with retina support) with the new Apple framework yet.

Yes, VMTek does snapshots natively and takes advantage of APFS. We have a great graphical snapshot UI as well.