Not entirely, but that's astute.
I don't know Jobs, Ive or Cook personally but now I'm tempted to read a book about Jobs. I have one in mind.
It's worth considering these three words, each one in isolation:
- superego
- ego
- mania
I don't know Jobs. I assume that his superego had a generally healthy effect on Apple's human interface guidelines.
I do know plenty of Macs. If Steve Jobs had excessive enthusiasm for Macs, then I can not fault that excess.
I don't know who had the last word in the Jobs era, but I believe that Apple no longer has a single, clear, shared vision for OS X.
A different party begins. I can't imagine it lasting thirty years.
Some people may persuade Apple to begin murdering parts of the Yosemite party before those parts reach the age of one.
I fear that a similar attitude may be taken by some of the people who are responsible for the human interface to Yosemite.
Which other familiar features of the human interface would you like Apple to remove before Yosemite is released?
Why, do you think, are the changes not complete?
How long might it take to completely replace Aqua?
If it will be necessary to murder parts of Yosemite before Aqua is replaced: which parts, do you think, should be shot? Be practical think ahead - let Apple know, now, during the public beta, which parts of Yosemite will become worthless. Suggest some dates for the killings.
Murder is not a selling point.
Wait a while, then tell that to the people whose new Mac hardware will be limited to Yosemite (if they want an Apple operating system). Tell that to the people who might enjoy continuity-related features, but dislike Apple's human interface.
The current experience I do not accept that Mavericks is too old is far from crap.
What is it with people failing to understand other people's reasons for disliking the interface of Yosemite?
+1
I would not say everything, but Yosemite does require me to cease some of the behaviours that have been very strongly reinforced by past operating systems from Apple.
If the intention of Yosemite was to just work for people like me, then Apple has failed in that respect.
I'm less interested in the number of people complaining. More interested in the nature and passion of people's complaints. It may take weeks to get to the heart of a complaint.
Customers are accustomed to Apple introducing changes that are almost entirely positive.
Wherever there's a sense that Yosemite over-does things in a negative way, in a way that's not expected from Apple I should expect over-the-top reactions from people.
Extremely negative reactions should be recognised as a sign that Yosemite will be far from the best operating system.
Neither of those paragraphs exemplifies critical thinking.
I think not. It has helped me to understand some of the conflicting points of view.
My use of Mavericks is mostly visual looking at the screen(s).
With Yosemite it was too often more difficult to understand, at a glance, what was on-screen.
I wouldn't say every app developer, but I do expect some third party software to become more difficult to use as a direct result of the lacklustre examples set by Apple.
http://www.apple.com/osx/preview/ is probably the most prominent set of statements from Apple.
I do not see a guiding logic. The proof is in the pudding, and Yosemite appears to be a mixture of things. No single, clear, shared vision of the ingredients or the recipe. The overall taste is repellent to me.
I agree, but I fear that Apple will ignore some of the serious complaints.
In some areas, the company appears to follow a strange mixture of leads; appears to ignore what was good about its past operating systems for the Mac.
Maybe.
A rush is not necessarily a good thing.
If Yosemite plays a part in anyone's departure, I reckon that it'll more likely be a quiet resignation.
Yosemite and HIG aside for a moment, John Siracusa wrote:
(Side note: as far as I can tell, Dominic Giampaolo is still with the company.)
I'd give Yosemite 2.
In the months and years ahead, it'll be interesting to compare the measurements given by GoSquared:
and so on.
The shouting is noted.
Without shouting: some things may suggest otherwise.
Apple Customer Satisfaction Study: Apple loses top ranking | BGR (2014-01-21)
> a huge changing of the guard. The study gauges consumers
> satisfaction level with consumer electronics brands by posing
> three questions: 1) How enjoyable were they to do business with?
> 2) How easy were they to do business with? 3) How effective were
> they at meeting your needs?
>
> satisfaction score fell behind rivals Samsung, Microsoft and
> Sony this year.
Apple Falls to Four-Year Low in Online Customer Satisfaction Survey - John Paczkowski - News - AllThingsD (2012-12-27)
> its not evident where, exactly, Apple suffered declines.
>
> Apples diminished customer satisfaction score seems more the
> result of consumer caprice than anything else.
>
> The luster of Apple is fading a bit,
Apple store customer satisfaction begins to plummet as company ditches legendary focus on customer service | Mail Online (2013-08-03)
> the Silicon Valley tech giant has asked its retail workers to
> focus on sales rather than customer service.
(What's written by the Mail rarely has great value, but that quote is a fair response to what was shouted above.)
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