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> In Apple Calendar it's not possible to see the full year, and still have some visibility into which events are happening on the individual days

It‘s weird in general how tools/ websites seem to avoid putting too much information on a screen (see also: event listings, …). Why is that? Most people have big screens nowadays, so it would be feasible to have a view like the one described here, at least for desktop calendars.

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So much of the modern web is designed in service to ad revenue. If you optimize a website for usefulness you are losing ad revenue. Every time we force you to click to see another month/week/paragraph we make money.

Some of that is building "mobile-first". If every app needs to be easy to use on small screens with big touch targets first/foremost/always, then anything that takes time to develop and only makes sense for a demographic "desktop users with an ultrawide and effectively all the screen space in the world" gets deprioritized simply because it's a smaller audience; no real malice intended in such cases just over-prioritizing the "needs of the many" over "the desires of a privileged few".

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