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On an unrelated note, I use Time Machine and I’m surprised at how unpolished, not to say downright buggy, all the animations are. They used to look magical, but
by ndisn 5mo ago
On an unrelated note, I use Time Machine and I’m surprised at how unpolished, not to say downright buggy, all the animations are. They used to look magical, but now they are a mess of elements popping on and off and things moving and then vanishing the next frame and so on. It looks like they kept changing Finder and Time Machine didn’t keep up; they kept fixing the bare minimum to have it compile and nothing more.
- pvab3 5mo agoi wonder if support for DIY backup tools isn't prioritized when a future iCloud monthly subscription will be pushed eventually.
- fragmede 5mo agofuture iCloud monthly subscription? I've been paying for iCloud storage since I don't know when.
- still_grokking 5mo agoThe "quality" Apple delivers is by now a complete joke. It's going south since over a decade, and this never stopped. It's like that because people are still buying. Even for the ridiculous prices Apple asks for. So why would Apple actually care? They get away with this "quality", so from a business standpoint there is simply nothing that needs investments or even just attention. It's a race to the bottom. Like everywhere else. That's simply how the system which people created works.
- giwook 5mo agoMakes sense since it hasn't been supported since 2018 lol
- amluto 5mo agoEven ignoring the lack of polish, the animations make it very hard to actually use Time Machine.
- Hamuko 5mo agoThe worst feature of Time Machine is how it takes over every single display you have. Even though it only shows content on one screen, it feels the need to completely black out the others.
- xattt 5mo agoI don’t know what kind of time machines you’ve been using, but typically everything changes outside all the portholes when you time travel.
- exe34 5mo agoskeuomorphism is back, boys!
- whataboutgirls 5mo agoWhat about girls?
- sysworld 5mo agoDamn, I can't reply to the girls comment, but it's back for them too :P
- adjejmxbdjdn 5mo agoA couple of revisions in Time Machine was just fine. The UI was cute and fun if you wanted an older revision of a single file (especially since you could see previews of the file as you warped backwards). However, importantly, the snapshots were available in Finder itself so you could browse through the files you wanted and retrieve them.
- jshier 5mo agoClassic Apple engineering. I would there is technically a "single responsible individual" assigned to Time Machine, but it covers the whole product, so the UI component falls by the wayside as the work on other products or the low level portion.
- reaperducer 5mo agoOn an unrelated note If you know it's unrelated, why try to derail this discussion? Why not start another? What's the point? Could it be that you only posted this in an active thread so it would get the most eyeballs, instead of being judged on its own merits?
- avazhi 5mo ago> Could it be that you only posted this in an active thread so it would get the most eyeballs How is this a criticism? Seems smart to me.
- pnw_throwaway 5mo agoIt’s more tangential than unrelated. It’s how conversation naturally flows, and this is a discussion board. No need to fire up a new post. On another tangential note: you’re insufferable. If you’re like this in the real world, I can’t imagine you’ve got many people wanting to hold a conversation for very long.
- enaaem 5mo agoEven the new app launcher. It takes 1-2 seconds to draw a bunch of icons. Scrolling is also choppy. This even happens on their newest machines. How this possible in 2026?
- joe_mamba 5mo ago>How this possible in 2026? Enshittification. When you're an ecosystem monopoly, people are forced to buy your shit no matter how bad it gets.
- mikestorrent 5mo agoApple used to solve this through the ruthless application of good taste; we hope this returns with the new CEO
- bigyabai 5mo agoOriginally, it was "solved" because computers were the only thing Apple sold. They couldn't afford a Lisa without successes like the Apple II. Now, Apple's incentives are changed. The App Store alone makes multiple times more money in a year than the sum of annual Mac and iPad sales put together. The OSes for these products are decidedly back-burner so Apple can focus on expanding AppleTV's IP library and lobby for Apple Pay. Ternus won't be your savior. John Ternus says Apple has ‘so much’ opportunity to expand services https://9to5mac.com/2026/04/27/john-ternus-says-apple-has-so-much-opportunity-to-expand-services/ https://9to5mac.com/2026/04/27/john-ternus-says-apple-has-so...
- linguae 5mo agoThe Mac isn’t a monopoly, but choices for desktop operating systems are indeed limited. I use macOS, Windows, and Linux on a regular basis. The only one that’s improving is the Linux ecosystem. I prefer macOS to Windows, but macOS is not as polished in 2026 as it was in 2016 or especially in the Snow Leopard era.
- miki123211 5mo agoMacs are nowhere near a monopoly. I would (grudgingly) accept this argument for iOS, but for Mac OS it doesn't make any sense.
- hrdwdmrbl 5mo agoOther issues with Time Machine: - Very slow, even on an M4. - 3rd party devices are often unreliable. Not directly Apple's fault, but the lack of certification process hurts - SMB extensions: In order for an SMB server to support Time Machine, it must support Apple's AAPL extensions to SMB (my understand of this my be a bit uncorrect) - Network device connecting is separate from Time Machine device connecting. This causes an inconsistent UX. - Not possible to browse a backup. You can only view file or folder's backup over time. In other words, you can scroll through time but you can't browse a single backup (point in time). This requires using 3rd party tools like BackupLoupe
- joombaga 5mo agoYou can't turn it on without an external drive attached, even though it saves local backups. It works if you mount a disk image and then point TM to it with the CLI.
- jmspring 5mo agoI stopped using it because the interface was wretched and it didn't need to be cutesy. Rsync found it's way back into the tool belt.