Prendergast's Profile

Networking under OS X sucks in my opinion. If the server drops my connection for any reason my Mac becomes unresponsive and spins the beach ball - sometimes for five minutes until it works out what has happened - Why does it take so long? Surely this can't be too difficult to fix ... then again, it appears Apple has hired a lot of second rate ex Windows programmers of late given the lack of quality of many apps ... What about a CONSISTENT USER INTERFACE? Is that too much to ask? How hard can it be to get everyone together and give them some guidelines? It's almost as if the different departments don't talk at all ... COMMUNICATION could solve so many interface woes. Perhaps programmers could be seconded to HELP desk functions once a week - that would be sure to instantaneously inspire them to make a better product. There are so many niggly little things about Tiger that really irritate me - like dragging a file to my hard drive and having the finder window that springs open, spring open behind the frontmost application so I have no idea where I'm putting the file - was Spotlight invented to solve this? (<= sarcasm) Personally I'd prefer correct Spring-loaded window behaviour. Then there are decisions that seem to be made arbitrarily, without any consultation that affect my work flow - and not in a good way. Changes to Quicktime Pro are a case in point. It feels like Apple is less responsive to user-requests than in the past ... It also feels like programmers know less about the possibilities of the OS as evidenced in numerous blogs relating to file-tracking etc. (See drunkenblogs Finder errors ...) Anyway, I hope someone at Apple finally brings it all together. I'm not used to the computer I love being uncohesive ...