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On an unrelated note, I use Time Machine and I’m surprised at how unpolished, not to say downright buggy, all the animations are. They used to look magical, but now they are a mess of elements popping on and off and things moving and then vanishing the next frame and so on. It looks like they kept changing Finder and Time Machine didn’t keep up; they kept fixing the bare minimum to have it compile and nothing more.
enaaem | parent | next
Even the new app launcher. It takes 1-2 seconds to draw a bunch of icons. Scrolling is also choppy. This even happens on their newest machines. How this possible in 2026?
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amluto | parent | next
Even ignoring the lack of polish, the animations make it very hard to actually use Time Machine.
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jshier | parent | next
Classic Apple engineering. I would there is technically a "single responsible individual" assigned to Time Machine, but it covers the whole product, so the UI component falls by the wayside as the work on other products or the low level portion.
still_grokking | parent | next
The "quality" Apple delivers is by now a complete joke. It's going south since over a decade, and this never stopped.

It's like that because people are still buying. Even for the ridiculous prices Apple asks for.

So why would Apple actually care? They get away with this "quality", so from a business standpoint there is simply nothing that needs investments or even just attention.

It's a race to the bottom. Like everywhere else. That's simply how the system which people created works.

jmspring | parent | next
I stopped using it because the interface was wretched and it didn't need to be cutesy. Rsync found it's way back into the tool belt.
pvab3 | parent | next
i wonder if support for DIY backup tools isn't prioritized when a future iCloud monthly subscription will be pushed eventually.
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hrdwdmrbl | parent | next
Other issues with Time Machine:

- Very slow, even on an M4.

- 3rd party devices are often unreliable. Not directly Apple's fault, but the lack of certification process hurts

- SMB extensions: In order for an SMB server to support Time Machine, it must support Apple's AAPL extensions to SMB (my understand of this my be a bit uncorrect)

- Network device connecting is separate from Time Machine device connecting. This causes an inconsistent UX.

- Not possible to browse a backup. You can only view file or folder's backup over time. In other words, you can scroll through time but you can't browse a single backup (point in time). This requires using 3rd party tools like BackupLoupe

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reaperducer | parent | next
On an unrelated note

If you know it's unrelated, why try to derail this discussion? Why not start another? What's the point?

Could it be that you only posted this in an active thread so it would get the most eyeballs, instead of being judged on its own merits?

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giwook | parent
Makes sense since it hasn't been supported since 2018 lol
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