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Why Apple’s new OS designs are so critical to its future
Rumors abound that Apple is about to redesign all its operating systems, dramatically changing the devices we use every day starting this fall. It would be a perfectly understandable reaction to wonder why Apple would focus on aesthetics while so many parts of its business seem to be in turmoil.
But I’m here to propose the opposite. That a lot of the symptoms of what Apple’s done wrong lately — most powerfully represented by the disastrous update to the macOS Settings (formerly System Preferences) app — are actually reasons why now it’s past time for Apple to turn the page, design something new, and announce it at WWDC in June.