Revisiting a few points
I sometimes use the word 'unforgiving' to describe Yosemite.
It does seem impossible to adjust the worst aspects of Yosemite, and that certainly worsens the annoyance, but that's not my reason for using the word. I'll return to this in a few days, maybe sooner.
A few years will be far too late. I will have abandoned Apple far sooner (five years at most, I reckon).
Toolbars, please see below.
leman, thank you. I wondered about that for a few weeks.
I do realise the sense, and it is a reasonable approach, but it's likely that any such study would have failed to capture the saccades for what probably annoyed me the most. More on this later (if Apple performed even basic measurements of saccades, I'll be surprised …).
I agree, Cook is not to blame. I recall someone else (Wozniak?) making a comparable non-detrimental comment about Cook's overseeing of things.
I assume that things must be passed by more than Apple's internal design team before a release of OS X, but I don't know.
I still find occasional verbal bashing of Sir Jonathan Ive. The more I look at things, the more I believe that he's not to blame. He's also human, like the rest of us.
I suspect that pre-release feedback and public mood were much more positive than public reactions to the release. If that's true: Apple might have underestimated the value of some pre-release problem reports, and so things might have been improperly 'passed'. More on this later (in a nutshell: I can imagine the OS X Yosemite concept being approved for release by people who lack the required organisational memory).
The worst of Yosemite, worked around
For me, Safari is the worst part. Around midnight now. If I can achieve what's below before I go to work tomorrow, there'll be some satisfaction (but not enough to choose Yosemite) –
– whenever I tried, that mixture of two operating systems seemed impossible. One group of people has succeeded in that workaround, so I ought to try (and it ought to be a priority).
I sometimes use the word 'unforgiving' to describe Yosemite.
It does seem impossible to adjust the worst aspects of Yosemite, and that certainly worsens the annoyance, but that's not my reason for using the word. I'll return to this in a few days, maybe sooner.
A few years will be far too late. I will have abandoned Apple far sooner (five years at most, I reckon).
Toolbars, please see below.
leman, thank you. I wondered about that for a few weeks.
I do realise the sense, and it is a reasonable approach, but it's likely that any such study would have failed to capture the saccades for what probably annoyed me the most. More on this later (if Apple performed even basic measurements of saccades, I'll be surprised …).
I agree, Cook is not to blame. I recall someone else (Wozniak?) making a comparable non-detrimental comment about Cook's overseeing of things.
I assume that things must be passed by more than Apple's internal design team before a release of OS X, but I don't know.
I still find occasional verbal bashing of Sir Jonathan Ive. The more I look at things, the more I believe that he's not to blame. He's also human, like the rest of us.
I suspect that pre-release feedback and public mood were much more positive than public reactions to the release. If that's true: Apple might have underestimated the value of some pre-release problem reports, and so things might have been improperly 'passed'. More on this later (in a nutshell: I can imagine the OS X Yosemite concept being approved for release by people who lack the required organisational memory).
The worst of Yosemite, worked around
For me, Safari is the worst part. Around midnight now. If I can achieve what's below before I go to work tomorrow, there'll be some satisfaction (but not enough to choose Yosemite) –
– whenever I tried, that mixture of two operating systems seemed impossible. One group of people has succeeded in that workaround, so I ought to try (and it ought to be a priority).
