At least he was consistent and the UI design made sense, textures aside. And UI gossip aside, all the accounts from every engineer who worked under him consistently praised him.
Safari with its KHTML underpinnings was also created under his watch, apparently.
Webkit (along with Safari) was started under Avie Tevanian's watch. Scott Forstall worked under him and Bertrand Serlet, along with Lisa Melton, who lead the development team for Webkit. Forstall was responsible for the development and release of Apple Maps.
And for Apple Maps, I remember reading somewhere that one reason Forstall refused to sign the infamous apology letter was that the initial release was from a team not directly under his supervision, but I can't find the old reference to that...granted, whatever went down was probably a joint failure of everyone involved
Not that OS9 was better - there are thing that I miss, such as drag and drop control panels and system extensions. My point is that people have been complaining about the newer versions of Mac operating systems since there were numbered upgrades.
Tedious tasks, like retopologising, UV unwrapping and rigging would be great examples of where AI in tools like Maya and Blender could be really useful.
Well, yes. I do really hate opinionated software (e.g. Apple, or GNOME). I do tend to find the weird niches that work for me. I'm currently using KDE and I've totally worked it over. Which is great because I can be much more productive if I'm not constantly fighting against the UI. But yeah such tools with millions of niche features are great for me.
The software packages I really value the most are the ones where a situation causes something really weird I need to do, and I read in the documentation to try to find some workaround, and then I discover that it already has exactly that feature that I need hidden in there somewhere. It's like the developer read my mind :) There's been very few packages that I truly cherished (and very few in this day and age, software in the early PC days was often more powerful IMO).
One of them was SP (SK Packet Radio), where this happened several times. That was truly amazing software, there was so much it could do and it all worked on an 8088 together with a TSR-based softmodem (connected to a radio not a phone line). Wow. Even the insanest stuff that popped into my head I could make happen with just some settings.
That's a really decent discussion though, from both sides. The option was seriously considered.
It's a world of difference to Gnome devs that will just shut down everything.
PS I do think dolphin is the weakest link in the KDE experience though. But they have made some really good improvements with KDE 6. Like the typable crumb trail.
It's a bit of a contrast though with macOS where the finder is one of the least opinionated parts of the OS (and thus for me one of the best). I think that's more of a historical thing though, Apple's vision seems to be more centered around moving file management into the domain of different apps like on iOS. Another thing i don't like but I think ios has loosened that somewhat as they had to contend that it was necessary to make the iPad more of a productivity device (it still really isn't one though)
How? Support for RAW formats is reasonably complete. I can hop between different editors without much, if any, hassle at all. Since getting my first DSLR in the early 00's, I have used (in no order) Photos, Bibble, Lightroom, Aperture, Capture One, Photoshop, Pixelmator, Photomator, Darkroom, On1, Raw Power, Nitro Photo, Luminar, Darktable and RawTherapee, all without fuss. Where is the lock in?
It seems to me that it has actually been harmful to F/LOSS in the longer term. Where before, there were companies that were contributing to and using F/LOSS, GPLv3 put a stop to that virtually overnight. Now we see comments like "$MEGACORP should stop leaching" or "$MEGACORP should sponsor/ contribute more" - which of course they did, with time and people before the GPLv3 was released.
