I’m in the Amen crowd on these issues. I was thinking in my previous post about the OS and its core apps. In those areas I see a problematic trend to chase after the fickle affections of the “design” crowd and to also tablet-ify the OS. That particularly gets up my nose. Why would I want my pricey Macbook Pro to be crippled into an iPad. Dumb.
But the so-called iApps, iPhoto, iTunes, good god, they suck butt so bad. iTunes’s interface is a disaster. And I really see that as a response to all the kvetching in previous years about it being ugly, as well as an attempt to confuse me, excuse me, invite me into the cloud-based stuff. Same with iPhoto, or whatever its successor is, no LAN sharing at all. Just cloud.
Anyway, the basic OS, I still really have no beefs with. It runs just fine on a seven-year old machine (granted with RAM upgrades and and SSD). But the Apple apps… Well, I’m constantly looking to see if some of my core needs can be met on Ubuntu or Mint. The answer remains (for now) no. Linux is 85-90% there, but that last bit is a sticking-point, because I need the machine for work. Which I should be doing now, actually.
