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The Mac is becoming more like iOS, and I like it

I fell in love with the Mac nearly 30 years ago, in the autumn of 1989. It’s been the centre 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

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