Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!usenet.stanford.edu!panix!MIX!Blackbird From: billy@MIX.COM Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Yosemite or how to make OSX look like iOS :( Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 22:05:23 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 53 Message-ID: References: <53d53ab8$0$17073$c3e8da3$dd9697d2@news.astraweb.com> <280720141546366846%michelle@michelle.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: panix5.panix.com X-Trace: reader2.panix.com 1406757923 25120 166.84.1.5 (30 Jul 2014 22:05:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 22:05:23 +0000 (UTC) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:62648 FPP writes: > I'm not telling YOU what you should use. My job is to give people what they want, not rag on them about what they should want... > And I never said the Apple menu was "necessary"... > just more elegant and convenient. Oddly enough, I also give myself what I want. In this case, elegant and convenient is the old Apple menu. > I find the dock to be more of a distraction, > and I don't find it adds anything I need. I've > found something that I think works better, and > fits my workflow. > > What is it about the dock that makes it indispensable? It looks good in the computer shop, and sells hardware. | Originally published February, 2001. Last updated January, 2004. | | Top Ten^W Nine Reasons the Apple Dock Still Sucks http://www.asktog.com/columns/044top10docksucks.html | Apple Employee #66, Apple's first Interaction Designer and only | Human Interface Evangelist, weighs in on the scientific evidence | against the Dock and the sales reality that keeps it in place. | | Apple Sales is in love with the Dock. You can't go into an Apple | store without seeing it splayed across the bottom of the screen, in | the very configuration least conducive to computing on a Macintosh. | Why? Because it's sexy and it sells. It makes that bright, shiny new | Apple look simple, approachable, and beautiful. It makes for a great | demo, but not a great product. [...] | The problem does not lie with the Dock itself - if it makes a great | demo, leave it in - but with Apple's apparent belief that it is a | complete solution. The Dock is akin to a brightly-colored set of | children's blocks, ideal for your first words - dog, cat, run, Spot, | run - but not too effective for displaying the contents of War and | Peace. [...] Billy Y.. -- sub #'9+1 ,r0 ; convert ascii byte add #9.+1 ,r0 ; to an integer bcc 20$ ; not a number