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macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess
In June 2008 Apple announced Mac OS X Snow Leopard, proudly boasting that it would have "no new features". Instead of piling on new things, Snow Leopard aimed to build on the success of its predecessor, Leopard, opting to focus on under-the-hood performance and stability improvements throughout the system.
18 years later, Apple is taking a similar approach with macOS 27. Golden Gate aims to fix the missteps of last year's Tahoe, promising an expansive set of improvements and "a more responsive and delightful experience".
Does it hold up? Here are just some of the bugs I’ve encountered in my daily use over the past couple of weeks.
Let's start with some good old alignment bugs. Centring things is the hardest problem in computer science, after all.
Take the QuickTime record button. Hey, at least it's vertically centred.
And here are the window tiling icons. These were centred at some point, I'm sure.
Text is affected, too, but I'm not sure this is even attempting to look centred.
And this is the first thing you see when you open System Settings. A little bit more padding under the heading wouldn't hurt, no?
Opening the Mac User Guide, I was quite surprised to find that it was for last year's OS. This made me wonder: what else did they forget?
We're bound to find things Apple overlooked poking around the Touch Bar settings. Sure enough, here's Siri's old logo.