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The early releases of OS X were far more primitive, so more work needed to be done on the basic building blocks (e.g. CoreImage or CoreAudio). Besides that, hal
by danieldk 10y ago
The early releases of OS X were far more primitive, so more work needed to be done on the basic building blocks (e.g. CoreImage or CoreAudio). Besides that, half of these features I have never used:
- Dashboard: never used it. Fiddled for 10 minutes and decided it's not useful.
- Automator: maybe some Alfred workflows that I use, use automator, but I never used it directly. I also don't think anyone outside power users write automator scripts. And these are the same people that can benefit from APFS or Hypervisor.framework.
- Spaces: gone. I am still sour about this though ;).
- Time machine: not that great in practice. Especially with a Time Capsule/Airport often results in backup sets that are broken.
- Cover flow: never used it, not saw the point.
- Boot camp. Never used it.
So, I and most Mac users that I know don't use half of these features. I also know quite many non-techie users that don't even know that Spotlight exists (they launch applications via the Dock and use Finder).
- ThomPete 10y agoBut most use them in some way or another which is why they are still around. Also many people who use the mac are people who use it to develop other things like web services and ios apps. They use it as an actual actual productivity platform and create much of the value of the iPhone ecosystem. Apple is basically lining up for it's own demise in the long run, the more they tighten the rope around the developers and kill much any of the thinking which should be helping them build the fundation of the future. But perhaps the mac have just become a nuisance which needs to die. In that case they are doing a great job.