eating is too expensive and scary for me to do it as much as i should.
it’s interesting to me how apple is making os x have more resemblance to ios, making the cursor/mouse/trackpad more prominent, when that is by far the most inefficient way to navigate around the operating system. this is because at the same time, os x has so many keyboard shortcuts that make everything so simple.
launchpad is a good example of how fucking stupid the current population is. this is an extra icon in your dock that almost exactly replicates what an applications dock stack would do, only the interface looks more like that of an idevice. obviously the easiest way to open an application is just to click an icon in your dock, but to open a less-used application that isn’t in your dock, command+space brings up spotlight, then type the first few letters of the app, then hit enter. sure, this is at least 5 keystrokes, versus two clicks to open it with launchpad, but using the keyboard rather than the mouse is so much faster. your fingers are likely closer to the keys than your cursor is to the correct icon. maybe it’s because people still don’t know how to fucking type. which doesn’t make sense because even in elementary school i was started on learn-to-type software at school.
i am somewhat of a power user and am quite bitter towards the idevice craze. i have an iphone that i am madly in love with and wouldn’t trade for any other phone. but i want my computer to do computer things. i don’t want it to be dumbed down, i want it to be smartened up. if i’m going to spend multiple thousands of dollars on an apple computer with the world’s “most advanced operating system,” i expect to get nothing short of that.
an operating system can be beautiful, intuitive, efficient, and fun to use without it catering to tech-challenged people. if a kid is doing badly in high school, you don’t change the curriculum so that he’ll pass; it’s his responsibility to figure it out.
