It’s much easier to make stuff work with Safari first then last.

“In the EU” only because some countries might have individual laws, unless you have more information about the EU specifically causing that?

The country with the worst “bad opinion, police comes knocking” is the recently seceded UK.

And I guess Germany has something against nazism?

Problem with SwiftUI is that it only works well on macOS 26, maybe one version prior. AppKit works well on all macOS versions.

Building a macOS 26 only app in SwiftUI today is a great UX, just as fast as AppKit.

But it takes quite some effort to turn an iOS SwiftUI app into a real macOS experience. Though most macOS optimizations help for iPadOS as well.

I had similar experiences working with the RAW data API's that appeared a few years ago in iOS. My photos were barely better than the stuff I would take with my old Nokia!

I have a lot of respect they manage to get pictures to get to look as good as they do on phones.

Worse is the Git UI, where random English words that seem to have a clear meaning in the context of source control don't do at all what you think they do, or five different things, or are really just a bunch of other commands wrapped together for less typing (like "pull").

I would rather have fantasy names than wrong names.

8.1 was peak MacOS Classic for me as well. 8.5 was like Windows 98. Just added stuff that made it slower.

The korg monotribe is magic for kids

Sounds like ASP.Net Web Forms! Except it would fall apart anyway when you would reload!

If I would work at AOL I would start polishing up my resumé. They usually fire 80% after acquisition.

AOL was already owned by private equity so I'd imagine not much left to cut.

Is that an increase in sales, or just everything getting more expensive?