macOS Sequoia Release Likely to Be the Earliest in Years

It also has the least amount of new features in years, probably since Snow Leopard.

September 26 is mid september?

Not touching this one with a 6 foot stick for at least 6 months. Just got everything working how I want it!

Anyone else feels really nostalgic about how MacOS and iOS used to look like 15 years ago? I mean, dwelling in the past can be a fruitless exercise but don’t you wish there was a “skin” or something we can apply??

Nope, I am expecting a hot mess, but hoping for a stable release. I've been disappointed for years, so I don't expect anything different.

Overall there isn’t really much in 14.0, and 14.1 isn’t that much better. Apple really put their focus on AI in this release, and looks like they’re really far behind. So, it looks like they’ll just be releasing Sequoia unfinished, just to buy time while they work on getting the AI stuff done. That doesn’t look like it’ll happen until 14.2.

The .2 releases generally release from December and January (usually January), with as late as February. Since 14.0 is looking to be released early (14.0 it’s very much finished, and all the focuses on 14.1 and 14.2 right now), I’m going to guess that we will get 14.2 in December, maybe late November for lucky.

So while Sequoia may be released early, the real bulk of the features promised are looking to be released very late.

I’m a huge proponent of Apple needing to stop the yearly OS upgrade cycle, at least for macOS. Forcing the development team to release something new and great once a year is drastically diminished the overall quality and stability of the operating system, and has generally led to overpromising and underdelivering on features. I’m still running macOS 12 and 10.15 on some computers, because they were much more bug free than 13 and 14. My Mac studio on 13 and 14 has been a nightmare. it doesn’t appear that they’re going to fix the issues in 15, so I may roll back to 12 (but that’s going to be a pain).

Apple really needs to move to a year and a half to two years cycle, and the next release should be all about bug fixes and performance. Considering that the marketing people are mostly in charge of the company now, I don’t think there’s a chance of that happening unless they market it to us as a feature, perhaps when they drop all Intel Support. Similar to how it worked with 10.6 Snow Leopard.

I’m really hoping they get this figured out, I’m really hoping they get this figured out, Linux doesn’t quite do it for me, no matter how hard I try to use it, and Windows is a pile of garbage.