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From Apple's Mac OS X Lion page [0]: "When you’re done with AirDrop, close *the Finder* and your Mac is no longer visible to others." I wonder if that's
by Samuel_Michon 16y ago
From Apple's Mac OS X Lion page [0]:
"When you’re done with AirDrop, close *the Finder* and
your Mac is no longer visible to others."
I wonder if that's a typo and they really meant 'Finder window' instead of 'Finder'. In the current Mac OS X, you can relaunch the Finder but you can't keep it closed.
If the copy on the Lion page is accurate, then Apple is moving towards operation without the Finder, replacing it with Launchpad and Mission Control. I can see how that could work for first-time Mac users, especially those who already have an iOS device.
It reminds me of At Ease [1], an environment that hid the Finder from new users, offering something similar to Lion's Launchpad.
[0] http://www.apple.com/macosx/lion/ http://www.apple.com/macosx/lion/
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_Ease http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_Ease
- seanb 16y agoAh, good ol' At Ease. The crippled app-launching interface it provided seemed to be entirely responsible for the nearly universal hatred of Apple computers by students at my high school. Compared to Windows 95, At Ease gave the impression that Macs were only capable of performing simple tasks. Everyone was thrilled when the Macs were replaced with cheap Windows machines.