Article: Dear Apple I'm Leaving

Bryn26 said:
I think fullscreen mode would drive me up the wall. I need to see what's going on with my other apps and be able to click on their icons in a flash (and not hover my cursor for a bar to pitch up) to switch to them. I also found in Mountain Lion that it's not easy to tell which apps are open. There's some kind of nondescript squiggle under the icon.
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CMD-Tab
 
ghoti said:
Here are some recent quotes from scientology on an article critical to it in vanity fair:

"The entire story is hogwash...a status obsessed apostate who exploited a tenuous connection with Scientology to grab headlines via a publicity stunt "

http://perezhilton.com/2012-09-04-s...-wife-hunt-allegations/?feat=yes#.UJd9-Iogenw

#Justsaying...
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Well it's kind of hard to argue with that isn't it now. Man writes fairly badly-written disgruntled article. Man gets criticized for it. Critics of said article called cultists.

But just for you, here's some more scientological witch-hunting:
http://www.androidauthority.com/switching-to-iphone-because-117387/
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1427677
 
cerebus said:
Well it's kind of hard to argue with that isn't it now.

But just for you, here's some more scientological witch-hunting:
http://www.androidauthority.com/switching-to-iphone-because-117387/
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1427677
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I really dont care if someone wants to switch to an iphone. Good for them.

Perhaps android is heading the way of religion status like Apple is: http://articles.cnn.com/2011-05-19/...apple-store-apple-employees-brains?_s=PM:TECH Bound to happen.
 
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Bryn26 said:
I think fullscreen mode would drive me up the wall. I need to see what's going on with my other apps and be able to click on their icons in a flash (and not hover my cursor for a bar to pitch up) to switch to them. I also found in Mountain Lion that it's not easy to tell which apps are open. There's some kind of nondescript squiggle under the icon.
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Full screen is better with some apps than others.

There are several ways to switch between open apps, including cmd+tab. A three finger swipe also opens another method.

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I don't have any problem differentiating between open and closed apps on the dock. The dot is fairly well pronounced but then I tend not to over clutter it.
 
clasqm said:
CMD-Tab
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Will that switch to the next open app or display all open apps? Either way, I generally have a bunch of applications open at any given moment and on Windows it takes a millisecond to switch to a particular app.

bwana said:
Full screen is better with some apps than others.

There are several ways to switch between open apps, including cmd+tab. A three finger swipe also opens another method.

I don't have any problem differentiating between open and closed apps on the dock. The dot is fairly well pronounced but then I tend not to over clutter it.
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Thanks, but that seems a lot slower than simply clicking an icon on the taskbar.
 
Bryn26 said:
Thanks, but that seems a lot slower than simply clicking an icon on the taskbar.
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Not really. My preferred method of operating when I know I'm going to be working on multiple apps at any given time is to have each running on it's own desktop - then I just swipe between them but that's just how I work on my 13" mbp.

How do you switch between apps in windows so quickly? You mentioned the menu bar in OsX taking up valuable space so it cant be the task bar because that also takes up the same amount of space, if not more.

In osx you can set the dock so only open apps are on it - or you can position your favourite apps on one side and open apps on the other, or any multitude of ways.
 
Man I tried Win8 in Dion's on the weekend - now there's a nightmare for multitasking. Two separate open apps regions and I couldn't figure out how to move naturally between Metro and desktop open apps. Windows7desktop4life, yo.
 
I am a bit of an Apple fanboy and I too have gone through the same niggles that the Ed went through. I will still use a Mac since I find that it is far superior to the Windows machines but I have converted to Samsung since the IOS ecosystem has become very stagnated and boring. We have all been switching trough the same looking OS since 2007 and all the new features are old news on the Android platform. Apple will need to watch themselves because if they continue to lose supporters it will be their downfall
 
Dalem44 said:
I am a bit of an Apple fanboy and I too have gone through the same niggles that the Ed went through. I will still use a Mac since I find that it is far superior to the Windows machines but I have converted to Samsung since the IOS ecosystem has become very stagnated and boring. We have all been switching trough the same looking OS since 2007 and all the new features are old news on the Android platform. Apple will need to watch themselves because if they continue to lose supporters it will be their downfall
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Yeah. IOS has been pretty boring lately; they really need to do something there. But on the desktop and laptops they are still way ahead. The new Imacs, Macbook Pro Retina, and Macbook Airs are all still class leading with OSX doing a very good job. The only minor issue with OSX lately has been the odd instance of tacky skeuomorphism, but that's going the way of the dodo.

Most of their issues at the moment are IOS related.
 
Zyzzyva said:
Yeah. IOS has been pretty boring lately; they really need to do something there. But on the desktop and laptops they are still way ahead. The new Imacs, Macbook Pro Retina, and Macbook Airs are all still class leading with OSX doing a very good job. The only minor issue with OSX lately has been the odd instance of tacky skeuomorphism, but that's going the way of the dodo.

Most of their issues at the moment are IOS related.
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An unnecessary analogue metaphor in a digital world. Game centre on iOS has to be the most egregious
one of them all.
 
bwana said:
An unnecessary analogue metaphor in a digital world. Game centre on iOS has to be the most egregious
one of them all.
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In fact now that I think of it... ML seems to have done more bad than good to my Mac than Lion did. I hate the fact that mail is slower than ever before (I found a fix by re indexing the addresses). My battery is nowhere near as good as it was with Lion. The IOS "integration" is not something I like too much and I feel it is a bit wasted on my mac since I use a magic mouse more than the trackpad.

Overall, OSX is still an awesome operating system and it will need to have multiple catastrophic failures before I think of moving back to Windows, or an other OS
 
Well I just bought a MacBook Pro on Saturday. I bought it because I want to start writing apps for iPad and iPhone.

I know C++ and Java, but I needed the Xcode environment and the simulator. Never worked with Objective C before.

I knew absolutely zero about OS X, and was pleased to discover that's its basically unix(would have preferred ksh to bash though). Spent the whole of Sunday coding in Vim and the Terminal. Haha.

Hello Apple.
:)
 
You know - Apple are the only company in the world, that gets attention like this. You don't see any "Dear Samsung, I am leaving" articles.

Either way - everyone has their own opinion. I love my Apple products and they are perfect for me. My friend loves Android products. And you know what, there's nothing wrong with that. We all have our likes and dislikes - if we all liked the same thing - how boring would life be?

Anyway - I wonder if Tim replied?
 
Tander said:
You know - Apple are the only company in the world, that gets attention like this. You don't see any "Dear Samsung, I am leaving" articles.

Either way - everyone has their own opinion. I love my Apple products and they are perfect for me. My friend loves Android products. And you know what, there's nothing wrong with that. We all have our likes and dislikes - if we all liked the same thing - how boring would life be?

Anyway - I wonder if Tim replied?
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Well said !
We all have out opinions as we are all different - the greatness in people is respecting opinion of others :)
 
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