Extemely serious issues affecting Macs

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RudivanS
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Re: Extemely serious issues affecting Macs
In reply to noirdesir, 4 months ago

noirdesir wrote:

RudivanS wrote:

"OS X is degrading into a base for an entertainment platform. As it stands, the trend is entirely downhill for serious work (albeit a mild grade so far, but steadily downhill nonetheless).

The same can be said about estate/station wagons. They sacrificed storage space for a more elegant sloped back over the last 30+ years. But except on some specific measures (storage volume, more precisely storage volume per length of the car) todays station wagons are much better cars than those from 30 years.

Unless one keeps something completely unchanged there will always be some measure by which things changed for the worse ('gone downhill'). The issues Lloyd reports are real and some of them might have better in the past. But there was no shortage of issues five, ten or fifteen years ago. Lloyd largely falls into the trap of not realising that his view of the present is biased by the essential feature of our brains that lets us forget bad things more than good things.

  • The trend to a new breed of “shallow” features: those useful only for beginners and entertainment, coupled with serious bugs or workflow impairments for everyone else. Makeup over pimples.
  • The general dumbing-down of features in every Apple OS X program. Arbitrary removal of functionality such as keyboard shortcuts, or simply removal of features entirely.
  • The OS X donkey cart is getting loaded with ribbons and flyers and decorations and marching band, but getting real work done is getting harder due to having to work around “improvements”.
  • So-called OS X “upgrades” now consist largely of ill-conceived dilettante eye-candy features that reduce usability, clutter the user interface and introduce scads of new bugs. No true upgrades have occurred for at least two major releases."

The above from Lloyds blog has heightened my fears on Apples commercial success.

Very pleased with snow leopard and soon to be an owner of a new imac with latest OS though ..

Steve Jobs has gone and it shows.

You realise that most the complaints by Lloyd are based on stuff released some time ago, ie, when Jobs was still the CEO?

"Lloyd largely falls into the trap of not realising that his view of the present is biased by the essential feature of our brains that lets us forget bad things more than good things."

Yes, you are correct in the philosophical context, however, I don't want my OS to either look or behave as my iphone 5 does.

Who knows, Steve may well have adapted or improved on the earlier releases? We will never know

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