JUNE 2019 MACWORLD 95I
fell in love with the Mac nearly 30
years ago, in the fall of 1989. It’s been
the center of my tech world ever since,
and I’ve been writing about it
professionally for 25 years. And yet these
past months, I’ve noticed something
strange creeping into my thoughts
occasionally while I sit at my desk working
on my iMac Pro: iOS does this better.
It’s disconcerting, after three decades,
to suddenly find that manipulation of files
and folders in the Finder has gone from
being business as usual to seeming like
it’s more fuss and effort than is necessary.
And yet that’s where I am now, thanks to a
couple of years of using an iPad Pro rather
than a MacBook Air whenever I’m away
from my desk. The iPad, she has infected
me. And I fear there is no cure.I’M IN AN iOS STATE OF MIND
The Finder has been the core of the Mac
experience since the very beginning.
Visually managing files and folders is whatIMAGE: APPLE
The Mac is becoming more like
iOS—and I think I like it
iOS does many things better.
BY JASON SNELL