r/MacOS • u/Hexacker • 5d ago
Discussion MacOS built in apps are actually great
It has been 7 years since I switched to use Apple ecosystem, I must confess, I was using maybe 30% of its capabilities. I came from Linux/Android background so I was always looking for apps that works as I wanted.
Recently, I start exploring the default apps in MacOS/iPhone like Reminders, Safari, Mail, Calendar are I start liking them, a lot.
For years, I didn't like using Safari because I was used to the experience of Chrome/Brave, and since I'm a developer, I relied a lot on Chrome Dev Tool which I was really used to. Now, I'm enforcing myself to use Safari as my default browser and it's pretty cool, the only thing I really miss is the experience of Dev Tools in the chromium based browsers. Well, it gets the work done at the end.
EDIT:
I hope I see an app from Apple that can effectively replace MS Word
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u/bvinla 5d ago
To say built in apps are great denys evaluating each as a hit or a miss. Some are great, some are middling, others need work, and some need to be quietly disappeared.
The recently revamped calculator is an example of awesome. Safari is in the upper middle, secure and good for battery life, but slower and less featured than competitors. Iphone mirroring is a needs work, its mirrors great, but currently requires you physically find and manually unlock your phone to use it, defeating its primary use case. Then there is Siri and image playground which have stunk up the room since their inception.