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I know a simple solution to all of this: if you don't like it, don't use it.
I mean, honestly, quite a few of you have spent a significant amount of time in this thread trying to impress upon us the short-comings of Mac OS X. Don't you have better things to do?
Personally, I enjoy the user experience, despite its issues, more than any other system I have tried my hands on (and I have tried quite a few). But that is just my opinion. When you have used Windows/Linux your whole life, I can see why you wouldn't like the way Mac's do things. I have grown accustomed to it, and now find using Windows and Linux unbearable.
You know what they say: there is an ass for every seat.
Ok... what's about this:
I do not like OS X and Apple so much that I'd love to perhaps hurt their reputation and/or sales [grin]
Why? I do not want to use OS X. But as software developer, I'm in a position when I can not always avoid it. The fewer people buy macs, the less I have to use OS X.
This dislike is a result of my experience with OS X, I certainly did not have this dislike before trying it out.
Legitimate enough a reason, though the point still remains: some of us DO like it, so you WILL have to decide either to suck it up and use it, or stop supporting it. I suppose slandering can go a long way (look at what it did to Vista), but at this point, Apple has the hype train going for 'em.
No need for slander. Truth about user experience seems quite sufficient.
Consider this: even with all the hype train, OS X has quite low market share worldwide. You watch a lot of apple ads on TV and billboards, but fortunately rest of world doesn't. Also, even in US OSX market share is low.
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I think the issue is you need to fully immerse yourself.
I'd even say you need to fully immerse yourself because you have to adapt yourself to computer rather than adapt computer to yourself.
Which may be all fine for you, but is not feasible for someone who has to deal with multiple systems on daily basis.
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If I had kept going back and forth between my PC and Mac when I got my first Mac, I probably would never have been able to live without the things I cherished so dearly on my PC. But since I immersed myself, I was forced to find elegant solutions to things I found unbearable when I first started using Mac. Quicksilver/Spotlight/Expose/Spaces pretty much solve all my issues -- and 3 of the 4 are built in to Mac OS X. Could Mac still learn from Vista and Linux? Sure! I could not agree more about the confusing green plus-sign GUI button. On the other hand, I feel that Vista and Linux could take just as much as the good stuff from Macs.
What good stuff, for example? Quicksilver/spotlight/expose/spaces has already been taken (or did exist long before OSX, like "spaces").
I don't like expose and don't find it elegant. Desktop search and keyboard launching are old too.
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Competition makes us better...
True, though I don't think Apple is really a technological competitor to Microsoft.
