Turn by turn navigation isn't available on all devices that iOS6 works with.
That is true. And for those people, who also feel (perhaps rightly for now) that Google Maps is superior, they can either access Google Maps through a browser, or d/l the Google Maps APP (along with several others, if desired).
Actually they don't. Otherwise the 3G enabler from the Cydia app store wouldn't work as advertised.
What does the 3G enabler have to do with whether Apple "is in agreement or collusion" with AT&T on the FaceTime restriction?
The 3G Enabler (and other, similar) hacks enable FaceTime over Cell for *every* Carrier (I think); because iOS 5 (and previous) doesn't allow FaceTime over Cell, for *any* Carrier. It has exactly nothing to do with ATT, per se. 3G Enabler (and similar) are about "unlocking" the feature, period, regardless of the Carrier. Since "tweaked" iOS devices are in the extreme minority, ATT likely hasn't worried about the negligible extra load on their network.
Now, enter iOS 6, and Apple feels that FT is ready for Cell. Now there's a zillion iPhone 3GS through 5 owners that can do this. At this point, it is worth it to ATT to do deep packet inspection to "police" their policy.
No, what they're saying is that you bought a data plan from them which is not an open internet access plan. And yes, they have the right to pose whatever restrictions they want on how you send data through their network.
Wait: Are you actually defending their "right" to do this?
I'm well aware that there are other carriers but there is this small matter of a contract that I'd have to pay to get out of. Perhaps it wasn't clear in my post but I lay the blame for this not on Apple but on AT&T.
I am in a similar boat. But no, your post didn't make that too clear, sorry!
They can do whatever they want with their Maps application, as long as they don't block Google from releasing their own.
It's one thing to block other people's applications (such as browsers) because they provide insignificant functionality compared to what you already have. But this is a whole different matter. It's unacceptable to eliminate important functionality that you advertised and that people rely on. It's even worse if you do it because you have some childish pissing match with another company.
Sony pulled this shit and paid a serious price for it (although IMO they haven't paid enough). I would hope that Apple learns from Sony's mistake.
Launch your favorite iOS Browser. Type "maps.google.com". Answer the Popup as to whether you want to download the (Already Available) Google Maps App. Then either proceed to download and use Google Maps in "App" form, or continue to use it using your Browser.
This "story" is nothing but breathless click-baiting. As usual.
Has anyone stopped to think about the other major change in the "Mapping" abilities introduced in iOS6?
Turn-by-Turn Navigation.
So, instead of just another Slashdot Hate-Fest, perhaps the real reason behind the change is that, maybe, just maybe, Apple had to do their own Mapping-thing in order to do turn-by-turn Navigation?
Think about it: Do any of the standalone or "Mobile App" Navigation products use Google's map database? I don't think they do. So perhaps it is actually Google who is "driving" (no pun) this change.
Afterall, Apple has to be spending 10 metric buttloads of cash to develop this ability. There is more behind this than simple "We have a better way." Apple isn't even close to being fiscally stupid; and an undertaking of this magnitude wasn't just a case of Apple saying "neener, neener, neener" to Google, especially because they gotta know this is going to cause them some temporary ill-will.
On the plus side, between the new iPhone connector and the loss of features like Google Maps, Android's just looking like a nicer alternative.:-)
Ok, so let me get this straight:
Slashdot readers, and especially the multitudinous Fandroid faction, who, by and large, value supporting a computing platform based on its "philosophy", are now going to argue that Apple sticking with an on-again, off-again "Partner/Competitor", (Google), who can take their ball and go home at any time is actually preferable to them "rolling their own" Mapping solution?
If so, the F/OSS "movement" has just jumped the shark on their entire philosophy.
Net neutrality has nothing to do with the ability of AT&T's network to complete a call without dropping.
While I am nauseated by AT&T's decision to become the Bridge Troll for FaceTime, I want to take issue with your "call dropping" claim. I have an iPhone 4S (just as a point of reference), and at least in and around Indianapolis, IN, the only time I have problems with call-dropping at all is deep inside a certain Walmart I shop at, where there is zero to one "bar" showing.
This is only because Apple built the mechanism to ALLOW the providers the ability to disable this feature. If Apple didn't have an option to disable this feature then the providers would have no way to charge extra for it. Of course people are going to say that if Apple did NOT provide this feature then providers wouldn't carry the new iPhone. That's total bullshit, no carrier that currently carries the iPhone is going to suddenly stop selling them, they're making way too much money off the hardware.
If AT&T was so concerned about video over IP then it would be doing the exact same thing with Skype.
Um, this is AT&T using deep packet inspection to deny certain content. There is no great conspiracy here between Apple and AT&T.
Do you really think that Apple wants this frickin' "Asterisk" next to their description of Cellular FaceTime???
So all you are asking for is unlimited bandwidth at no extra charge. Seems reasonable to me.
No, this is quite different.
Here they are saying that, even though you may be far under your data plan limit, because the packets contain a certain type of data, the common carrier thinks they have a right to pose an arbitrary restriction upon passing them through their network.
AT&T is going to gouge the consumer for every cent they can. The irony, or course, is that Apple trumpets the fact that you can now make Facetime calls over a 3G/4G connection instead of WiFi. But the owner of the pipes (AT&T) is going to restrict how much of it you can use.
Um, I know you don't keep up on such things; but Apple has been on carriers other than AT&T for some time now, and they don't all pose restrictions on FaceTime. So it is not in the least disingenuous for Apple to tout that new feature in iOS 6.
Having said that, and as an AT&T customer myself, I think that what they are doing with both FaceTime AND Tethering should be frickin' illegal, even if it isn't. It's my data I'm paying for. AT&T SHOULD be a dumb pipe, nothing more, nothing less...
Lol, the problem with dumb people is, that they *by definition* don't know how *dumb* they are. Hence they are projecting it to others. Also known as that Dunning-Kruger effect. Its extreme case is, when the intelligence is so far above that person's head, that it is indistinguishable from nonsense to them.
You're is such a case.
And immediately jumping to “you’re a Mensa member" and specifically highlighting "I'm no retard" only makes that all the more clearer.
You do realize, of course, that having a serious grammatical error in your tirade utterly undermines your argument, right?
It is supposed to be "YOURS is such a case." I don't even know where "You're is" falls in the "grammatical errors" category; but it's a pretty bad one. (My sincere apologies, however, if English is not your first language).
The problem is that you mistake being a memorizing drone for actual intelligence.
Where did you get that impression? As I said before, I am an embedded (hardware/software) designer with over 30 years of (paid) experience. I also do application (ERP) programming, and a bit of web development (although I don't think I do web dev. well enough to get paid for it). I'm pretty sure that most of that calls for much more than rote memorization.
If you had any intelligence, you would very simply *not* be able to work with an Apple environment.
That's your opinion, and a pretty indefensible one, at that. Not to mention nauseatingly self-aggrandizing and elitist. (And everybody thinks that Apple fans are the elitist ones! Sheesh!)
Because it makes the very things one then needs, impossible. Instead it *forces* one to dumb down and use that retard mindset, to even be able to use its interfaces.
What is it that the "Apple Environment" (whatever that is!) makes "impossible"? Or is it simply the fact that, in your (not-so-humble) opinion, one must demonstrate their superior intellect at all times, by using, what? A CLI exclusively? Guess what? You can do that all day long on OS X, if you really think that makes you "superior". I'm really confused about what you think you can't do on OS X that you can do on another platform, if you possess the necessary skillset.
As they say: A poor craftsman blames his tools...
Make no mistake. I have extensively tested their products and services, before coming to this conclusion. They just don't support having a brain.
If all you want to do is launch Safari and cruise Facebook, sure. But what about those who spend their days in XCode? Are they "brainless" as well?
No file manager,
Funny. I seem to be able to manage terabytes worth of files with Finder. And if you must have a Windows Explorer-type multicolumn "source-target" view in a single window, there are third-party apps for that. Same with batch file-renaming. Other than that, Finder has some pretty sweet capabilities that no other "File Manager" has.
And then there's Spotlight...
no scripting possibilities at all
Boy, did you ever just step in it...
Nevermind the fact that, as a UNIX, it has the same "shell scripting" capabilities, like in this example, that come as part of the Bourne-Again SHell it runs as a CLI. In addition to that, there is also "Automator" and its bigger (and older) brother, AppleScript, which are quite unique, and (especially in the case of AppleScript) very powerful. And even cooler,
Sorry to reply to my own post (if Slashdot only had an "edit" button...)
One more thing to recommend an Apple ][ : NO INTERNET!!!
Seriously. Without the allure of the internet, he MIGHT just actually become interested in the COMPUTER part of the computer, instead of just zoning-out on the intarwebs.
Considering that fully assembled 10" Chinese tablets with IPS screens sell for considerably less than $200 I think you will have a tough time arguing the parts cost the same. Good luck with that though.
Oh, you mean the ones that are assembled with the IPS and touchscreen panels that fell out of QA screening?
No, common sense says that a device with these specs would cost more without the ads. It also says who gives a crap if there are ads on the lockscreen, as long as they aren't there while you're actually using the damn thing.
I submit that this is Jeff Bezos' method of having his cake and eating it, too.
By having all these ad "impressions" appear on the lock screen, he can charge the adverti$sers for the ad impression, and still leave ads off of the screens that users see "all the time".
Kind of a smart marketing strategy, actually. Almost worthy of Steve Jobs.
Haven't you noticed, Apple fans are now in automatic "everybody hates us" defense mode. It's quite funny how many comments of that type you see across the web right now. It must hurt to have some of the luster come off.
And haven't you noticed that, almost without exception, nearly all the Apple Haters post as AC; because they're too afraid to be shown to be such uninformed dickheads. Or worse, outright liars. Besides, one person can post AC comments pretty much ad infinitum, and it looks like a whole group of people agreeing. In fact, I'll bet there are whole threads of Apple-Hate that are actually the same person, posting, and "agreeing", all as AC.
In fact, I wouldn't be surprised at all to find that a significant amount of "Anonymous" Apple Hate postings actually come from a vanishingly small number of actual persons.
For this reason, and many others, I really wish that Slashdot would either remove, or seriously restrict, the ability to post as AC.
The protagonist in breaking bad was a normal upright person who turned "bad" after he was diagnosed with cancer and tried to use his knowledge to support his family in the event he would die. Apple was an arrogant bully from the get go, they just hadn't had the chance to show it when they were smaller.
Yeah, I guess that Wozniak and Jobs were planning their evil empire when they were GIVING AWAY Apple 1 schematics to the Hombrew Computer Club.
Not everyone is retarded. But if you design for retards, people will adapt; Lowering the Gaussian distribution curve, and so resulting in another bunch of people too dumb even for that, loudly bitching and complaining (as they always do, because of the Dunning-Kruger effect) that it is too hard not to drool on themselves or tie their shoes in the morning.
You're so full of yourself it isn't even funny. Bet you're a Mensa member, aren't you?
I use Apple products as exclusively as I can, and I'm no retard. In fact, I'm out in the 2% fringe on the iQ distribution curve. I have also been an embedded developer and designer of industrial control products for over 30 years; so I know a bit about the design and manufacture of electronic products as well.
I pay Apple to do the incredibly hard work of making really complicated stuff "Just Work". And I don't mean "Kinda Work after futzing around for a week."
But most Linux fans will never get that; and instead, are proud of their status as part of the Computer Priesthood.
I will tell you this: It doesn't take ANY "vision" or "creative genius" to do the typical Linux developer tactic and expose every single variable in an application as a Userland control, and then, when not just the "retards"; but nearly every single user, has trouble, they get dismissed with "N00b!" and "RTFM" (as if there was one...).
No, the REAL genius (one of my favorite movies) comes in figuring out what controls REALLY need to be exposed to the user, and, even more importantly, HOW to present them to the user so that they can INTUITIVELY use them. That way, there isn't usually a NEED to "RTFM".
That isn't "Designing For Dummies"(tm); it's "demystifying technology". BIG Difference, and one that, as Miguel de Icaza dared to say recently, sadly, most Linux devs. never seem to fathom.
I'll end off with this quotation from the December 1994 issue of BYTE magazine (Bruce Murphy): Indeed, it would not be an exaggeration to describe the history of the computer industry for the past decade as a massive effort to keep up with Apple.
Amazing that that quote is just as relevant in 2012 as it was in 1994. And in 1994 it was already true for MORE than a decade. Bruce was being generous to the rest of the industry.
Every time I hear the Apple-Haters spouting their ridiculous "Apple didn't invent anything!" rant, I wish they would be instantly transported to a land where there never was an Apple, Inc., or Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs. Most of them would be screaming "Let me outta here!" in about 30 minutes, tops...
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Turn by turn navigation isn't available on all devices that iOS6 works with.
That is true. And for those people, who also feel (perhaps rightly for now) that Google Maps is superior, they can either access Google Maps through a browser, or d/l the Google Maps APP (along with several others, if desired).
Save web page as link on the home screen so going forward there is only step one, launch google maps.
I considered putting that in the directions; but I figured that /. readers would figure that one out themselves; but then again...
;-)
Actually they don't. Otherwise the 3G enabler from the Cydia app store wouldn't work as advertised.
What does the 3G enabler have to do with whether Apple "is in agreement or collusion" with AT&T on the FaceTime restriction?
The 3G Enabler (and other, similar) hacks enable FaceTime over Cell for *every* Carrier (I think); because iOS 5 (and previous) doesn't allow FaceTime over Cell, for *any* Carrier. It has exactly nothing to do with ATT, per se. 3G Enabler (and similar) are about "unlocking" the feature, period, regardless of the Carrier . Since "tweaked" iOS devices are in the extreme minority, ATT likely hasn't worried about the negligible extra load on their network.
Now, enter iOS 6, and Apple feels that FT is ready for Cell. Now there's a zillion iPhone 3GS through 5 owners that can do this. At this point, it is worth it to ATT to do deep packet inspection to "police" their policy.
No, what they're saying is that you bought a data plan from them which is not an open internet access plan. And yes, they have the right to pose whatever restrictions they want on how you send data through their network.
Wait: Are you actually defending their "right" to do this?
I'm well aware that there are other carriers but there is this small matter of a contract that I'd have to pay to get out of. Perhaps it wasn't clear in my post but I lay the blame for this not on Apple but on AT&T.
I am in a similar boat. But no, your post didn't make that too clear, sorry!
They can do whatever they want with their Maps application, as long as they don't block Google from releasing their own. It's one thing to block other people's applications (such as browsers) because they provide insignificant functionality compared to what you already have. But this is a whole different matter. It's unacceptable to eliminate important functionality that you advertised and that people rely on. It's even worse if you do it because you have some childish pissing match with another company. Sony pulled this shit and paid a serious price for it (although IMO they haven't paid enough). I would hope that Apple learns from Sony's mistake.
Launch your favorite iOS Browser. Type "maps.google.com". Answer the Popup as to whether you want to download the (Already Available) Google Maps App. Then either proceed to download and use Google Maps in "App" form, or continue to use it using your Browser.
This "story" is nothing but breathless click-baiting. As usual.
Has anyone stopped to think about the other major change in the "Mapping" abilities introduced in iOS6?
Turn-by-Turn Navigation.
So, instead of just another Slashdot Hate-Fest, perhaps the real reason behind the change is that, maybe, just maybe, Apple had to do their own Mapping-thing in order to do turn-by-turn Navigation?
Think about it: Do any of the standalone or "Mobile App" Navigation products use Google's map database? I don't think they do. So perhaps it is actually Google who is "driving" (no pun) this change.
Afterall, Apple has to be spending 10 metric buttloads of cash to develop this ability. There is more behind this than simple "We have a better way." Apple isn't even close to being fiscally stupid; and an undertaking of this magnitude wasn't just a case of Apple saying "neener, neener, neener" to Google, especially because they gotta know this is going to cause them some temporary ill-will.
they will be able to still get google maps on the iphone as well...?
Want to use Google Maps on iOS 6? Here's how hard it is:
1. Launch Safari (or the iOS browser of your choice)
2. In the Address Bar, type maps.google.com
3. There is no Step 3.
BTW, what launches is actually more useful than the Google Maps "App", IMHO. Oh, and speaking of which, their "App" is also available.
So, in the long run, nothing is changing, and, if anything, iOS customers will have more choices, not less.
On the plus side, between the new iPhone connector and the loss of features like Google Maps, Android's just looking like a nicer alternative. :-)
Ok, so let me get this straight:
Slashdot readers, and especially the multitudinous Fandroid faction, who, by and large, value supporting a computing platform based on its "philosophy", are now going to argue that Apple sticking with an on-again, off-again "Partner/Competitor", (Google), who can take their ball and go home at any time is actually preferable to them "rolling their own" Mapping solution?
If so, the F/OSS "movement" has just jumped the shark on their entire philosophy.
Net neutrality has nothing to do with the ability of AT&T's network to complete a call without dropping.
While I am nauseated by AT&T's decision to become the Bridge Troll for FaceTime, I want to take issue with your "call dropping" claim. I have an iPhone 4S (just as a point of reference), and at least in and around Indianapolis, IN, the only time I have problems with call-dropping at all is deep inside a certain Walmart I shop at, where there is zero to one "bar" showing.
This is only because Apple built the mechanism to ALLOW the providers the ability to disable this feature. If Apple didn't have an option to disable this feature then the providers would have no way to charge extra for it. Of course people are going to say that if Apple did NOT provide this feature then providers wouldn't carry the new iPhone. That's total bullshit, no carrier that currently carries the iPhone is going to suddenly stop selling them, they're making way too much money off the hardware. If AT&T was so concerned about video over IP then it would be doing the exact same thing with Skype.
Um, this is AT&T using deep packet inspection to deny certain content. There is no great conspiracy here between Apple and AT&T.
Do you really think that Apple wants this frickin' "Asterisk" next to their description of Cellular FaceTime???
So all you are asking for is unlimited bandwidth at no extra charge. Seems reasonable to me.
No, this is quite different.
Here they are saying that, even though you may be far under your data plan limit, because the packets contain a certain type of data, the common carrier thinks they have a right to pose an arbitrary restriction upon passing them through their network.
AT&T is going to gouge the consumer for every cent they can. The irony, or course, is that Apple trumpets the fact that you can now make Facetime calls over a 3G/4G connection instead of WiFi. But the owner of the pipes (AT&T) is going to restrict how much of it you can use.
Um, I know you don't keep up on such things; but Apple has been on carriers other than AT&T for some time now, and they don't all pose restrictions on FaceTime. So it is not in the least disingenuous for Apple to tout that new feature in iOS 6.
Having said that, and as an AT&T customer myself, I think that what they are doing with both FaceTime AND Tethering should be frickin' illegal, even if it isn't. It's my data I'm paying for. AT&T SHOULD be a dumb pipe, nothing more, nothing less...
I love poisoning the data of market researchers! :D
You beat me to it!
I was just going to say that giving deliberately deceiving answers is the best way to kill off this trend.
Lol, the problem with dumb people is, that they *by definition* don't know how *dumb* they are. Hence they are projecting it to others. Also known as that Dunning-Kruger effect. Its extreme case is, when the intelligence is so far above that person's head, that it is indistinguishable from nonsense to them.
You're is such a case.
And immediately jumping to “you’re a Mensa member" and specifically highlighting "I'm no retard" only makes that all the more clearer.
You do realize, of course, that having a serious grammatical error in your tirade utterly undermines your argument, right?
It is supposed to be "YOURS is such a case." I don't even know where "You're is" falls in the "grammatical errors" category; but it's a pretty bad one. (My sincere apologies, however, if English is not your first language).
The problem is that you mistake being a memorizing drone for actual intelligence.
Where did you get that impression? As I said before, I am an embedded (hardware/software) designer with over 30 years of (paid) experience. I also do application (ERP) programming, and a bit of web development (although I don't think I do web dev. well enough to get paid for it). I'm pretty sure that most of that calls for much more than rote memorization.
If you had any intelligence, you would very simply *not* be able to work with an Apple environment.
That's your opinion, and a pretty indefensible one, at that. Not to mention nauseatingly self-aggrandizing and elitist. (And everybody thinks that Apple fans are the elitist ones! Sheesh!)
Because it makes the very things one then needs, impossible. Instead it *forces* one to dumb down and use that retard mindset, to even be able to use its interfaces.
What is it that the "Apple Environment" (whatever that is!) makes "impossible"? Or is it simply the fact that, in your (not-so-humble) opinion, one must demonstrate their superior intellect at all times, by using, what? A CLI exclusively? Guess what? You can do that all day long on OS X, if you really think that makes you "superior". I'm really confused about what you think you can't do on OS X that you can do on another platform, if you possess the necessary skillset.
As they say: A poor craftsman blames his tools...
Make no mistake. I have extensively tested their products and services, before coming to this conclusion. They just don't support having a brain.
If all you want to do is launch Safari and cruise Facebook, sure. But what about those who spend their days in XCode? Are they "brainless" as well?
No file manager,
Funny. I seem to be able to manage terabytes worth of files with Finder. And if you must have a Windows Explorer-type multicolumn "source-target" view in a single window, there are third-party apps for that. Same with batch file-renaming. Other than that, Finder has some pretty sweet capabilities that no other "File Manager" has.
And then there's Spotlight...
no scripting possibilities at all
Boy, did you ever just step in it...
Nevermind the fact that, as a UNIX, it has the same "shell scripting" capabilities, like in this example, that come as part of the Bourne-Again SHell it runs as a CLI. In addition to that, there is also "Automator" and its bigger (and older) brother, AppleScript, which are quite unique, and (especially in the case of AppleScript) very powerful. And even cooler,
Sorry to reply to my own post (if Slashdot only had an "edit" button...)
One more thing to recommend an Apple ][ : NO INTERNET!!!
Seriously. Without the allure of the internet, he MIGHT just actually become interested in the COMPUTER part of the computer, instead of just zoning-out on the intarwebs.
Lot's of trolls say it has a Fischer Price interface.
Best of all the youngster can learn some UNIX as well
Actually, I would seriously suggest an Apple ][. Built-In BASIC, Built-In mini-assembler, and you can find them for about $5.
Considering that fully assembled 10" Chinese tablets with IPS screens sell for considerably less than $200 I think you will have a tough time arguing the parts cost the same. Good luck with that though.
Oh, you mean the ones that are assembled with the IPS and touchscreen panels that fell out of QA screening?
No, common sense says that a device with these specs would cost more without the ads. It also says who gives a crap if there are ads on the lockscreen, as long as they aren't there while you're actually using the damn thing.
I submit that this is Jeff Bezos' method of having his cake and eating it, too.
By having all these ad "impressions" appear on the lock screen, he can charge the adverti$sers for the ad impression, and still leave ads off of the screens that users see "all the time".
Kind of a smart marketing strategy, actually. Almost worthy of Steve Jobs.
Almost.
I wonder if they will accept ads for ipads.
They sell iPads, don't they?
Then, there's your answer.
how do you get that from TFA?
oh, you didn't read it?
Haven't you noticed, Apple fans are now in automatic "everybody hates us" defense mode. It's quite funny how many comments of that type you see across the web right now. It must hurt to have some of the luster come off.
And haven't you noticed that, almost without exception, nearly all the Apple Haters post as AC; because they're too afraid to be shown to be such uninformed dickheads. Or worse, outright liars. Besides, one person can post AC comments pretty much ad infinitum, and it looks like a whole group of people agreeing. In fact, I'll bet there are whole threads of Apple-Hate that are actually the same person, posting, and "agreeing", all as AC.
In fact, I wouldn't be surprised at all to find that a significant amount of "Anonymous" Apple Hate postings actually come from a vanishingly small number of actual persons.
For this reason, and many others, I really wish that Slashdot would either remove, or seriously restrict, the ability to post as AC.
For the "I hate Apple week", has it already started?
Does it ever end around here?
The protagonist in breaking bad was a normal upright person who turned "bad" after he was diagnosed with cancer and tried to use his knowledge to support his family in the event he would die. Apple was an arrogant bully from the get go, they just hadn't had the chance to show it when they were smaller.
Yeah, I guess that Wozniak and Jobs were planning their evil empire when they were GIVING AWAY Apple 1 schematics to the Hombrew Computer Club.
Do these guys look like evil geniuses bent on world domination, or closer to Stallmanesque neckbeards playing with their new toy?
Go hate somewhere else, you waste-of-skin-and-bandwidth.
Not everyone is retarded. But if you design for retards, people will adapt; Lowering the Gaussian distribution curve, and so resulting in another bunch of people too dumb even for that, loudly bitching and complaining (as they always do, because of the Dunning-Kruger effect) that it is too hard not to drool on themselves or tie their shoes in the morning.
You're so full of yourself it isn't even funny. Bet you're a Mensa member, aren't you?
I use Apple products as exclusively as I can, and I'm no retard. In fact, I'm out in the 2% fringe on the iQ distribution curve. I have also been an embedded developer and designer of industrial control products for over 30 years; so I know a bit about the design and manufacture of electronic products as well.
I pay Apple to do the incredibly hard work of making really complicated stuff "Just Work". And I don't mean "Kinda Work after futzing around for a week."
But most Linux fans will never get that; and instead, are proud of their status as part of the Computer Priesthood.
I will tell you this: It doesn't take ANY "vision" or "creative genius" to do the typical Linux developer tactic and expose every single variable in an application as a Userland control, and then, when not just the "retards"; but nearly every single user, has trouble, they get dismissed with "N00b!" and "RTFM" (as if there was one...).
No, the REAL genius (one of my favorite movies) comes in figuring out what controls REALLY need to be exposed to the user, and, even more importantly, HOW to present them to the user so that they can INTUITIVELY use them. That way, there isn't usually a NEED to "RTFM".
That isn't "Designing For Dummies"(tm); it's "demystifying technology". BIG Difference, and one that, as Miguel de Icaza dared to say recently, sadly, most Linux devs. never seem to fathom.
I'll end off with this quotation from the December 1994 issue of BYTE magazine (Bruce Murphy): Indeed, it would not be an exaggeration to describe the history of the computer industry for the past decade as a massive effort to keep up with Apple.
Amazing that that quote is just as relevant in 2012 as it was in 1994. And in 1994 it was already true for MORE than a decade. Bruce was being generous to the rest of the industry.
Every time I hear the Apple-Haters spouting their ridiculous "Apple didn't invent anything!" rant, I wish they would be instantly transported to a land where there never was an Apple, Inc., or Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs. Most of them would be screaming "Let me outta here!" in about 30 minutes, tops...