Who to shoot first. I speak metaphorically, of course, but did I remember the old Finder behavior from Classic, the shortcut that gave a dynamic Get Info window, one which totals sizes as you go, stays open, and otherwise supplies all the little functions I have been so annoyed at the loss of for years now? Years of my only existence on this planet? Nooo. And have learned of this key command by stumbling across, literally stumbling, a new comment to an old Mac OS X Hint, that this has always available in OS X, a lowly factlet which will now transform my computing life? Yesss.
What you others do not understand is how we hate Apple … yet, as in marriage, this hatred feels a lot like love and appreciation. Understanding that which we do not really understand at all. Teh Steve is cryptic, as well he might be—would you really want strangers trampling all over your private life and thoughts? Really? Thus the company is cryptic. And why not.
Gruber points to a piece in Tidbits by Jeff Carlson about the new iMovie release, which is chock full of nifty improvments, yet as Carlson says, we could by now all chant the release notes in unison: “Improves overall application stability as well as addressing minor issues related to usability.”
Carlson asks most plaintively,
I understand that Apple isn’t creating its products for writers, and it can (and does) change features whenever it wants. The updates here are great for iMovie users. But since the development teams must keep internal lists of what’s changed anyway, is it really so hard to spend an hour and turn those into useful release notes?
Carlson, honey, it isn’t writers Apple doesn’t care about. They don’t care about anybody, not in that way. Try and get their near autistic-stance. (After all, millions put up with Bill Gates far more annoying form of autism, for decades.) My take is that Apple is focused so hard on Apple, on getting it right, there really is no one to say to the obsessing engineers, Hey, translate that into English, wouldja?
And if it works—and it does work, has there every been anything like this company for amazing—why mess with it? If FakeSteve were here, he would explain this more thoroughly: “What? This is a fair exchange. You decipher and disseminate our release statements—we restore a sense of childlike wonder to your lives.”
More than fair. Now pardon me, I’ve got some writing to do.
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