{"id":29730,"date":"2017-06-12T00:00:10","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T07:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.com\/?p=29730"},"modified":"2017-06-11T18:28:55","modified_gmt":"2017-06-12T01:28:55","slug":"newsletter-issue-915-apple-os-convergence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/2017\/06\/newsletter-issue-915-apple-os-convergence\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter Issue #915: Apple OS Convergence?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Apple began to make a few alterations to the macOS to adopt features from iOS, you can bet that some Mac users howled. So being able to switch the direction of scrolling to the \u201cnatural\u201d direction used on iPhones and iPads, and other minor interface alterations, were sharply criticized.<\/p>\n<p>There was a method in Apple\u2019s apparent madness, and it wasn\u2019t to kill the Mac. It was more about making it possible for you to do some things the same way on the two platforms. 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