I remember, that i was also affected by this "apple is cool" lie a few years. Coincidentally, this has changed the very moment i started to work and earn money with these machines. Still I have to admit, that most of your arguments are correct. Anyway, there are a few flaws
My animosity is mainly about the Finder. Calling this thing "intelligent" is kinda abyssmal. Maybe i am biased, since the only GUI-Filemanager i ever use is the explorer. Both examples are no match for sth like norton commander or the likes. e.g. show me a way to define default settings. Or is it just me, having to switch settings everytime i open some folder for the first time? Also the searchfunction as you mention it is just minimum functionality, not some sort of kickass-feature. Aditionally, when it comes to large file-trees and folders with hundreds of objects, the Finder gets slow as hell, might refuse to show a few objects at all and sometimes crashes. About the force-quit-issue: Never had the finder hanging and refusing to.. do anything. Couldnt even kill it. Especially with the appletalk protocol the finder becomes some sort of slug, crashing at will.
Talking about appletalk... "Slow" is still an understatement. Maybe apple wanted to protect every single packet with a fluffy hull over overhead-"wool". Sheesh! The machines using it are somewhat "chatty", even slowing down all other machines in the network aswell.
Unfortunately we have to keep using appletalk especialy Apple Filing protocol for legacy purposes.
On th other hand, the rest of OSX might be really cool. I just cant find out why.[/rant]
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Did anyone else notice the banner on the 3rd screenshot saying:
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Cutting-edge Web UIs,
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I remember, that i was also affected by this "apple is cool" lie a few years. Coincidentally, this has changed the very moment i started to work and earn money with these machines.
Still I have to admit, that most of your arguments are correct.
Anyway, there are a few flaws
My animosity is mainly about the Finder. Calling this thing "intelligent" is kinda abyssmal. Maybe i am biased, since the only GUI-Filemanager i ever use is the explorer. Both examples are no match for sth like norton commander or the likes.
e.g. show me a way to define default settings. Or is it just me, having to switch settings everytime i open some folder for the first time?
Also the searchfunction as you mention it is just minimum functionality, not some sort of kickass-feature.
Aditionally, when it comes to large file-trees and folders with hundreds of objects, the Finder gets slow as hell, might refuse to show a few objects at all and sometimes crashes.
About the force-quit-issue: Never had the finder hanging and refusing to.. do anything. Couldnt even kill it. Especially with the appletalk protocol the finder becomes some sort of slug, crashing at will.
Talking about appletalk...
"Slow" is still an understatement. Maybe apple wanted to protect every single packet with a fluffy hull over overhead-"wool". Sheesh!
The machines using it are somewhat "chatty", even slowing down all other machines in the network aswell.
Unfortunately we have to keep using appletalk especialy Apple Filing protocol for legacy purposes.
On th other hand, the rest of OSX might be really cool. I just cant find out why.[/rant]