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> Nobody will claim that Apple creates ugly, hard to use hardware and software. I will. The current iMac keyboard is a bad joke and the mouse is just plain str
by derleth 14y ago
> Nobody will claim that Apple creates ugly, hard to use hardware and software.
I will. The current iMac keyboard is a bad joke and the mouse is just plain strange. Why would I need a touchpad on a mouse?
The Mac GUI is atrocious. Forcing the focused window to be on top is asinine. Making it impossible to change this is idiotic, and symptomatic of a deeper evil:
There is only One Steve Jobs Way. Unless you do it their way, well, "You're holding it wrong." Don't argue, just adapt your workflow to their technology and never expect the designers to be humble enough to admit that they might, in your case, be wrong about something.
So, no, the Macintosh is not my favorite computer system.
- berlinbrown 14y agoCompared to the Linux (open) world? There was no real interface before 2000. Even with the core Linux developers like Linus, he absolutely did not care about the user space. Linux was sort of this competitor to MS Windows and the main creator of Linux didn't actually care to building user interfaces. Sure Linus was a kernel hacker and was trying to building the compliant OS system. I bet Steve Jobs didn't just look on the Apple OS kernel. He focused on the design of the hardware and the design of all the software. It is myopic to completely ignore the desktop arena. And a lot of open source developers were like that.
- derleth 14y ago> There was no real interface before 2000. Yes there was. This invalidates your whole post.