"My thoughts each release as it evolved, long before Jobs resigned, were "I don't think Jobs is around anymore, if he were, he wouldn't let this crap go".
LaunchPad, Mission Control -- these things were neat at first, but then they got annoying and cumbersome."
Yes, exactly what I thought. Too much junk stuffed in. A more Jobsian-approach would have cut features ruthlessly.
Even the Time Machine-ish file saving time travel is full of holes. I wrote a critique of it whilst wrestling with it was still fresh in my mind.
LaunchPad, Mission Control -- these things were neat at first, but then they got annoying and cumbersome."
Yes, exactly what I thought. Too much junk stuffed in. A more Jobsian-approach would have cut features ruthlessly.
Even the Time Machine-ish file saving time travel is full of holes. I wrote a critique of it whilst wrestling with it was still fresh in my mind.
http://userxperience.posterous.com/document-versioning-inter...
Bits of it are great, but there are so many gotchas and bit of too small UI, it's hard to believe it got much love.