Monday, November 30, 2009

Two big Things Wrong With Macs

I remember well when Macs were so much better than Microsoft Windows computer. They are still better, but not so much. Here is a short list:

File management is horrible. Save a file and most Mac users don't have a clue where it goes. A tiny arrow icon gives a drop down list that most people do not recognize as a hierarchical path. You don't even get a hint unless you know enough to click on another tiny icon.

And where's the button that takes you up a folder level? Yes, you can use cmd-up, but who wants to figure that out?

Oh, and the applications that run and even come to the front without showing you a window. How often does someone want to run an app and have nothing visible except a menu bar? Very rarely. The default should be if you switch to an application that does not have any windows open, open a new window.

How hard can that be?