vunderba 5 hours ago

I have a Mac M1 that's been on MacOS 14 Sonoma for a couple years at this point - I've not seen anything even remotely interesting in later releases that could incentivize me to roll the dice and upgrade.

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  • apparent 5 hours ago

    My Mac is also on Sonoma. I'm sure there are some incremental features that I would appreciate, but I'm always worried about what's going to break or be worse with the next OS update.

    I'll update my phone because iOS jumps are bigger in terms of functionality. But 14 years in, OSX just doesn't have a lot of new bells and whistles that I care about. The last time I updated, I was only excited about getting Sidecar functionality so I could dual-screen onto my iPad. When a minor feature like this is the most memorable, that's saying something.

    I think the only thing that would get me to update would be notable AI improvements. But seeing what I've seen of AI on iOS, I'm in no rush.

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lysace 7 hours ago

Waiting an extra year to jump on new macOS releases has been the norm for sane people for quite some time now.

It sucks if you buy a new mac which isn't supported by older macOS releases though, so maybe don't do that for a year or so. I guess you sometimes just have to put your new Apple device in storage for a year until there's functional software.

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  • stevage 7 hours ago

    For me I simply don't upgrade ever until I'm forced to, usually by an app that I want to use.

    As someone without an iPhone and who doesn't really use included desktop apps, there are simply never any improvements in the OS for me, only regressions.

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  • reaperducer 4 hours ago

    Waiting an extra year to jump on new macOS releases has been the norm for sane people for quite some time now.

    /Looking forward to macOS Fresno.

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