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I transitioned from Ubuntu to Mac for work. As others here stated, there are often keystroke and click combinations that do perform many tasks a user might want
by PennRobotics 5y ago
I transitioned from Ubuntu to Mac for work. As others here stated, there are often keystroke and click combinations that do perform many tasks a user might want, and it's clear this isn't the main problem. In almost every case, my first ten guesses for a particular action would be wrong: deleting URL suggestions, split screen, forward delete, open terminal, switching windows within an application, search and replace, and so on.
My opinion goes deeper. There's a fundamental problem of aesthetics over functionality in Apple's designs. As I sat in front of my fresh workplace iMac, I had no idea how to turn the machine on. I looked in the back and didn't notice anything other than ports. I looked on the edge... the front... the back again... the front again... the screen...
Finally, I took my phone three levels higher in the building where I knew I got 2G signal. The power button on an dark grey iMac---I discovered after 15 minutes---is in a bottom corner of the back, essentially flush with the rest of the monitor body in the place a person is least likely to look.
The fact that multiple prominent websites exist with this information tells me all I need to know about whether Don Norman would state Apple makes intuitive products or not.