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15 Things Apple Should Change in Mac OS X
richi writes "Two of Computerworld's top operating systems editors, a Mac expert and a Windows expert, compare notes on what Apple should reconsider as it develops Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. Mac OS X 10.4, or Tiger, is (in their opinion) a noticeably better operating system than XP or Vista. But it is not perfect. OS X has its own quirks and flaws, and they set out to nail down some of the 'proud nails' for the next release." From the article: "7. Inconsistent User Interface. Open iTunes, Safari and Mail. All three of these programs are Apple's own, and they're among the ones most likely to be used by Mac OS X users. So why do all three of them look different? Safari, like several other Apple-made apps such as the Finder and Address Book, uses a brushed-metal look. iTunes sports a flat gun-metal gray scheme and flat non-shiny scroll bars. Mail is somewhere in between: no brushed metal, lots of gun-metal gray, and the traditional shiny blue scroll bars. Apple is supposed to be the king of good UI, and in many areas, it is. But three widely used apps from the same company with a different look? Sometimes consistency isn't the hobgoblin of little minds."
Are you on crack? You want them to enable locatedb and its resource and hard drive usage, for the 0.02% of people who are actually going to use it? The stuff people actually CARE ABOUT "just works". You linux nerds to get it into your head that Apple is not selling you a unix system. They are selling you a system that uses unix tools and foundations to provide a solid gui desktop experience. I switched to mac os because it has the capability to do the things I want it to do, while having a nice slick graphical interface, and having my hardware "just work". Expecting locatedb to be set up out of the box is like expecting X with KDE to be working - it's just not their target audience. Do you bitch and moan that you had to install xcode to get a compiler too?