![]() But hey, Apple gets privacy so all’s good and forgiven, right? Replaced with what is to me meaningless fluff at best and bloat at worst. One more thing that made a Mac a Mac, will disappear. But obviously that’s so yesterday’s thinking and by far not woke or disruptive enough for this age. From “hardly anybody even knows it exists” and “nobody uses that old junk” to “Apple didn’t support it well” to “who gives?” you’ll get every possible explanation.įor a company with $250B in the bank that finds seamlessly endless amounts of time to tinker with emojis and animojis and wristbands (a step up from socks I suppose) and try out everything from being a hip hop radio station to a TV show producer, I’d expect more effort towards their professional platform and its utility. The proposed replacements are all inadequate. ![]() I’ve also bemoaned the loss of Dashboard here. What do you all think? Did you like and still use Dashboard? Did you believe it gave Apple an advantage over Windows? Or are you someone who won’t miss Dashboard at all? In a year we’d have 1,000 widgets to pick from. One click on the right arrow and I’m right back to where I was.Īll Apple had to do was MONETIZE widgets and sell them for a buck or two in the App Store. A dictionary, Word of the Day, This Day in History, Currency Conversion, IP Phone Dialer, Movie Previews and Showtimes, What’s On TV Tonight, etc. There was something quite elegant about dragging my mouse to a hot corner and getting a full screen of widgets. So you can get Stocks, Weather or a Calculator but not much else. It isn’t and there are very few widgets for Notifications. In addition to losing the ability to run 32 bit apps, Catalina puts the final stake through the heart of Dashboard.Īpple has been neglecting Dashboard for years because there is no way for developers to make money selling widgets.Īpple claims that Notification Center is a good substitute for Dashboard. Killing an app or feature doesn’t always mean removing it or doing something to hinder its usefulness… in Apple’s case, it means doing nothing at all. Seen any updates to that mess? Screen Sharing? Back to My Mac? Safari Extensions, Built-in social media plugins for sharing, etc… the list goes on, and that’s just the very recent. Dashboard joins a long list of pieces of software that Apple heavily promotes, then allows it to languish for varying periods of time before finally killing it off for good (usually with no announcement at all).įor example, Apple Remote Desktop. Apple does this often - though it’s usually not that big of a deal. ![]() While I get what you were saying, Simon is right (perhaps a bit obnoxious about it ). Notification became the new location for widgets in macOS 10.10 Yosemite announced five years ago. A brief while goes by until Apple gets bored or distracted or makes an accountant their CEO (or some other boneheaded personnel decision).ĭashboard was first introduced in Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger in Apr 2005, so not all that brief.
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