Comment on MacOS 26 TAHOE: Stop, Apple, I want to get out

After the first installation of MacOS 26 aka Tahoe, I was still positive: somehow nice, the new glassy look. The new Spotlight with integrated clipboard manager and automation functions appears useful-and the new telephony app will also help me in everyday life, I thought. Then I got into detail and finally spent two days to find different features that Apple had crazy in various places for unknown reasons, even though they clearly belonged to the same system settings.

Change keyboard – why not

And, again mentally suppressed: In addition, I quickly locked myself out of my computer because the keyboard settings in the lock screen were adjusted at the start – and I did not notice that the German keyboard layout was inactive and therefore in the “Locked, Please Wait 15 Minutes” state got. I haven’t tried special apps yet-such as hardware, which I am sure that they are currently allowed to make some trouble because this is the case every year or have already been pronounced incompatibility warnings for TAHOE.

But what I don’t understand above all is the following: Why do Apple’s developers actually do this to have to come around the corner with a new maco? In contrast to those of the iPhone, MAC appearance is now distributed wildly over the year, which means that a new MacOS is not used to justify the new acquisition of an Apple computer. But I’m afraid that the switch to the annual name scheme now leads to the fact that there will never be more time between two MacOS releases (like once between Panther and Tiger or Leopard and Snow Leopard)-or even “zero new functions” and only bug fixes. How do you want to explain to the people that they should use a “MacOS 28”, for example?

Apple’s trap – and employment therapy for users

So Apple has maneuvered itself in this trap and has to deliver. Year after year at the WWDC in June there is a new MacOS for the foreseeable future. In 2025 it was particularly violent with Liquid Glass. The surface should be adapted more to iPhone and iPad, which brought about rounded windows, converted icons (the old ones are stuffed into strange “windows”), a barely readable menu bar and, if desired, also transparent icons. Developer must adapt their apps so that they can shine in the new look that nobody had asked for from Apple. (In contrast to better AI functions.)

Since Apple only grants all security updates to the latest MacOS version, you will have to switch to Taoe for a short time. Professionals like to do this at the earliest from version .2 so that the worst bugs are fixed. But all in all, employment therapy is – for everyone. Apple’s developers are forced internally to invent new MacOS features every year, developers have to adapt their apps so that they continue to run correctly-and users deal with the upgrade process that, as mentioned, regularly leads to incompatibilities. One solution would only be to reduce the MacOS rhythm, for example to said two years. But Apple does not make any appearance that it would come. Instead, updates year after year, for thrilling and spoilage. I hardly think what I say, but couldn’t Apple cut off a disc from Microsoft and publish new main versions every few years? So that you can take a clear conscience? After all, we use our Macs to work. And this work rarely needs additional employment therapy.