Ternus on Apple's slippery slope

Nick Ternus wrote a sharp piece on Daring Fireball about Apple's direction. Not a rant — a measured observation about how the company's path is tilting, and how hard it is for people watching from the outside to see it happen.

What he's tracking is the slow drift: features that used to serve the power user getting quietly deprioritized, design decisions that look fine until you notice the pattern across a dozen releases. The kind of change that's invisible in a single WWDC keynote but obvious six months later when you try to do something the old way and it just… doesn't work anymore.

This isn't about Apple going bad. It's about Apple going somewhere specific, and the people who love the current Apple — the tinkerers, the devs, the ones who actually use the tools — aren't the ones steering the ship.

Why this matters for us: the tools we use to build things and run the bodega are Apple's. When Apple drifts, we drift with it. Worth paying attention before the shift is a fait accompli.