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While a pretty funny article, I disagree with the underlying message that Apple is making Lion too similar to iOS in ways that decrease its functionality. For

While a pretty funny article, I disagree with the underlying message that Apple is making Lion too similar to iOS in ways that decrease its functionality. For me, launchpad has been perfect for organizing my apps because just clicking the applications folder presents me with too many unrelated options. For example, my second launchpad window is only apps I've downloaded, so it's obvious to me how I would launch Starcraft or Braid as opposed to TextEdit.

wtallis 15y ago
Launchpad may be useful (though between Stacks and Quicksilver, I don't need it), but there are other areas where Apple made changes that they shouldn't have, even by their own standards. For example, the new full-screen mode nice on a small screen, but is detrimental to anyone who has multiple monitors, and Apple didn't even ensure that the transition animates smoothly with their own apps. Mission Control is at least an understandable attempt to integrate Spaces and Expose, but the new layout mode for Expose that lets windows overlap by more than 80% is a pretty big sacrifice that doesn't seem entirely necessary. They also removed several features that were mostly harmless or completely harmless to noobs, but useful for power users (eg. the mode-switch button on Finder windows, or the ability to browse a PDF in two-page mode with continuous scrolling on.) Simplification is good, but there's no reason to remove features that don't get in the way or make things cluttered. I don't mind Apple experimenting and iterating with their UI, but it feels like with 10.7 they took things too far and were too single-minded about it. On the other hand, I've only been using OS X since 10.3, so I missed out on all the early roughness, and almost all of their changes from 10.4-10.6 turned out to be for the better.
- aiscott 15y ago
  I'm actually a big fan of the full screen mode. I spend about half my time on a 13" screen, and the other half on 22. I actually like the auto sort mode for fullscreen/desktops as well, which surprised even me. But I like being a swipe or two away from my browser or email or vm. That said, I am frustrated that I can't bend the rules a little and bring a terminal up on another app's fullscreen. Many times I'm following an example and have to take whatever browser I'm using out of fullscreen. Dterm helps a little. I like launchpad, but I don't use it much. It does a good job of staying out of the way. I do miss the old expose, and mission control's reduced expose is not adequate to replace the old. I almost never need the single app expose, if anything I wish they had dropped that and kept the 10.6 expose as well as mission control.
ugh 15y ago
Launchpad could be pretty nice but it’s half-baked. One big problem is that it ignores OS X conventions. Organizing it is a pain. One example: It makes sense that iOS only allows you to drag one app at a time. Making it possible to select more than one app would only complicate things and confuse. It absolutely doesn’t make sense to have the same limitation in Launchpad.

wtallis 15y ago

Launchpad may be useful (though between Stacks and Quicksilver, I don't need it), but there are other areas where Apple made changes that they shouldn't have, even by their own standards. For example, the new full-screen mode nice on a small screen, but is detrimental to anyone who has multiple monitors, and Apple didn't even ensure that the transition animates smoothly with their own apps. Mission Control is at least an understandable attempt to integrate Spaces and Expose, but the new layout mode for Expose that lets windows overlap by more than 80% is a pretty big sacrifice that doesn't seem entirely necessary. They also removed several features that were mostly harmless or completely harmless to noobs, but useful for power users (eg. the mode-switch button on Finder windows, or the ability to browse a PDF in two-page mode with continuous scrolling on.) Simplification is good, but there's no reason to remove features that don't get in the way or make things cluttered. I don't mind Apple experimenting and iterating with their UI, but it feels like with 10.7 they took things too far and were too single-minded about it. On the other hand, I've only been using OS X since 10.3, so I missed out on all the early roughness, and almost all of their changes from 10.4-10.6 turned out to be for the better.

aiscott 15y ago
I'm actually a big fan of the full screen mode. I spend about half my time on a 13" screen, and the other half on 22. I actually like the auto sort mode for fullscreen/desktops as well, which surprised even me. But I like being a swipe or two away from my browser or email or vm. That said, I am frustrated that I can't bend the rules a little and bring a terminal up on another app's fullscreen. Many times I'm following an example and have to take whatever browser I'm using out of fullscreen. Dterm helps a little. I like launchpad, but I don't use it much. It does a good job of staying out of the way. I do miss the old expose, and mission control's reduced expose is not adequate to replace the old. I almost never need the single app expose, if anything I wish they had dropped that and kept the 10.6 expose as well as mission control.

ugh 15y ago

Launchpad could be pretty nice but it’s half-baked. One big problem is that it ignores OS X conventions. Organizing it is a pain. One example: It makes sense that iOS only allows you to drag one app at a time. Making it possible to select more than one app would only complicate things and confuse. It absolutely doesn’t make sense to have the same limitation in Launchpad.