I HATE APPLE

I switched to Mac a month ago and I love and prefer most things about Mac, but the things that piss me off are:

- No fucking Delete key! Or rather, the Delete key is the Backspace key, and there is no key for deleting forward.

- Hitting Enter is for renaming a file instead of opening it. WHY? Which operation is more common, opening, or renaming? Therefore, why not make opening a 1-key operation?

- Keyboard shortcuts in Office programs are not the same. Word is weird and scary. Excel is scary and weird.

- Command-Tab switches apps, but not open windows within the apps. Again, WHY? Why not cycle through the open windows? Instead I have to use my mouse or trackpad (I use Hot Corners) to open Mission Control, which is a bunch of extra movement, which seems very un-Appley.

- The whole installation process with the disk images blah blah blah. This turned out to be easy to get used to, but new Macs should come with a big warning label about the installation process. Also, why can't this be automated? (For some apps, it apparently is automated, but not for others?)

- It won't recognize all the keys on my USB keyboard.

There are like a million blogs about this stuff, and now there is one more entry.

- No fucking Delete key! Or rather, the Delete key is the Backspace key, and there is no key for deleting forward.

Hitting Enter is for renaming a file instead of opening it. WHY?

Reason is supposed to make you use the mouse, now that you've finally left DOS you may not be used to the new interface device.

Command-Tab switches apps, but not open windows within the apps. Again, WHY?

Also, why can't this be automated? (For some apps, it apparently is automated, but not for others?)

Who uses the mouse to open things? Use command-O.

Thanks, stet. The Command-~ will be very useful. I googled the problem and didn't find an answer before I got fed up, so I am grateful for your advice.

I know about fn-backspace, but I think that deleting is common enough a task that it deserves its very own key.

Were you sassing me w/r/t using the mouse? One of the great things about Macs is the efficiency of OS, so why would I want to use a mouse? I know about Command-O, but again, it's an extra key-press for an activity that is extremely common.

Anyway, like I said, on the whole, I love Mac and I finally realize what Mac people were on about. I tried using Windows 8 on a friend's computer the other day, and found that they had made the simple act of deleting a file fraught with potential malfunctions, and I started saying Mac Guy stuff.

Ah no wasn't sassing you, but Apple. The original Mac keyboard didn't have arrow keys because they were terrified people wouldn't use the mouse and would just carry on with keyboard interfaces.

There are a fair few hangovers from decisions made in those days still in OS X

Ha. That's funny b/c now (over)reliance on mice is for backwards people.

(I thought it was out of character for you to sass me!)

After years of using macs, I still hate the enter/rename thing. Then I just gave up on basically all file management on a mac and just let things organize themselves however they want.

That's why I like Quicksilver.

The hierarchical file system is a legacy concept anyway. It's a terrible interface for almost everybody.

Command down arrow is the best way to open things.

otm

My iPhone is one of those that has had its battery life screwed by the iOS 6.1 update. Can't get close to a day's use out of it all of a sudden.

After hearing about iTunes, I'm not updating anything until I get the all-clear.

Weird; my phone is opposite. Finally get decent life. (4s).

Down to 70% in two hours today. Running hot.

you might need to power cycle/full recharge a couple times

People always complain about battery life after iOS updates.

I know, but this time it's reeeaal. For me. Unless it's just a coincidence.

Anyway, don't know if it's related to this:

Vodafone Warns Against Upgrading to iOS 6.1

Apple have just put out a 6.0.1, so fingers crossed my problem will go away.

6.1.1, rather.

(for 4S only)

i had my first apple maps snafu yesterday. I didn't upgrade to ios 6 until google maps came out so I haven't used apple maps at all unless something else opens it up. I clicked on a highlighted address in mail for 178 India St., which is in Greenpoint Brooklyn, about a mile from where I was, to get directions, and it showed me 178 Indwa Street, which is in Johannesburg South Africa.

how close to south africa did you get before you realized

likely around 8469.289 miles, give or take a few (from johannesburg)

as the drone (crow) flies

I was in the middle of the atlantic before I realized there wasn't a great ocean separating East Williamsburg from Greenpoint. Just a McDonalds and the BQE.

^^ first lines of your novel

i asked siri for directions to heathmont railway station. after the third try it said it couldn't find 'sheath launch railway station'. i typed 'heathmont railway station' into maps and it took me to a railway station that was not heathmont railway station.

at this point i am very genuinely unsure how apple manages to scratch its arse without falling over

there's an app for that.

What are the chances they'll relent and make "Open in Google Maps" and option when clicking on a address?

Never

Maybe it's because Apple is a Bay area company, but Apple Maps is actually pretty cool for local stuff here.

yeah it's not bad in san diego, still not as good as google maps

It's great in South Africa…BUT I'M IN BROOKLYN.

i finally upgraded to io6 on my iphone 4 and i don't know if it's smoke and mirrors but safari feels like it's been optimized up the wazoo

i also realllly like the weird little pull-down animation for reloading that you see in mail

yeah seems like safari is waaaay faster than chrome

Safari is definitely way faster than Chrome; Chrome (and other third-party apps providing browser views) doesn't have access to the optimized javascript engine that Safari uses.

so any third-party browsers on iPhone will be less fast by design.

there is a jailbreak hack to make all browsers on iOS use the same Js engine. makes chrome awesome.

Still hesitating whether to upgrade my old iPhone 4 to iOS 6. Still worried it will turn into a piece of slow ass junk overnight

iOS 6 is great IMO. The only bad aspect is no integrated google maps but otherwise I do not regret upgrading

yeah, it's boring like a cardigan but does the job

like a cardigan

Safari is definitely way faster than Chrome; Chrome (and other third-party apps providing browser views) doesn't have access to the optimized javascript engine that Safari uses.

fairly certain this is not true

Yeah it is -- only Safari gets the JIT compiler.

ah n/m, ignore me

http://www.idownloadblog.com/2012/07/30/nitrous/

btw I'm a moron and thought that some jailbreak thingy was screwing up my battery life and I updated to an unjailbreakable version ;_;

oh wait, it looks like they have it figured out

had my first apple maps snafu last weekend

staying at a friend's house in a remote area, was sent on an errand to the closest shopping destination, walmart, ugh. surprisingly walmart did not have everything we needed, so I searched apple maps for the nearest kmart. it directed us 10 minutes away on the highway and when we pulled up in front of a weed-ridden lot filled w/ fresh dumpsters, it proudly announced 'you have arrived at kmart'. consulted google maps, which took us right back to where we came from, and lo and behold THE KMART WAS PHYSICALLY CONNECTED TO THE WALMART like you didn't even have to go outside, there was a side exit inside the walmart, you walked down a mall hallway and right into kmart. didn't notice it the first time due to angle of buildings and lack of signage but good gravy apple wtf