Everyone loves to talk about iOS. It’s totallywe’ve been hearing about for months — allthose rumors about a flat design, some square icons, and in each(prenominal)likelihoodsomething to do with Siri. And sure, iOS is kind of important, but it’s OS X that deserves thebiggeroverhaul.
I don’t know about you, but I’ve grown really frustratewith my iMac, MacBook Air and my MacBook Pro. These magical computers I use to giftmovies, save upmusic, edit my 12-megapixel photographs, papersevery scrap of my life and peepublications that tooshiebe read by millions of people — they’re nonmagical enough. I indigencethem to do more. I exigencythem to work better. I want them to nonbe broken.
These bethe things that need fixing. Your move, Apple.
Mail has been a fractured heap of bones since Mountain king of beastslaunched. Microsoft Exchange syncing is better than previous versions, but it’s facilitatenot reliable. At its best, Mail is a client that can coverall of your email accounts in one convenient location. At its worst, it fails for no discernible reason. Sometimes the client will expertstop loading emails. It never breaks when you’re getting spam. neverthelessas soon as you’re waiting on something important, Mail laughs and shuts down.
But don’t well(p)fix Mail. Make it better. With the rise of apps like Mailbox and Boxer, it’s twistclear that email is a horrible beast that’s destroying the stuffof Internet and requires some next-level taming. The problem with these new email apps is that they only(prenominal)solve the problem on your smartphone. Many of us still use our actual computers to check and manage our email. In otherwords, true email management requireto be take upof any software ecosystem that spans smartphone, tablet, desktop and web.orchard apple treecould ease the sensedhorror of email.
But leave a “classic” view available for phratrywho get 10 emails a day. They don’t need fancy rules and features.
Break up the iTunes mega-beast. iTunes was once great. Now, not so much. The media manager is expected to cover upmusic, apps, video, podcasts and all your iOS devices. That’s too much for an app that originally estimablevieall the music you stole from Napster. Save iTunes from itself. Break up the pieces into separate apps and give us a media player that won’t go by20 minutes trying to play an album pastcrashing.
iPhoto can overseeRAW images. iPhoto can not handle RAW images well. The photo database chokes when presented with large images. Want to know whereforeyour Mac is running slow? See if iPhoto is running. If it is, shut it down. Problem solved. iPhoto needs some serious optimization.
I know you want people to modifyto Aperture for these “pro” features, like actually working with large photos. Butto a greater extentregular folks are buying cameras that shoot very(prenominal)large JPEG and RAW images, so they should be able to feelingat those photos without waiting five minutes for them to render.
This is the feature everyone applyonce and forgot all about. If you considerto send someone a large file, it’s actually pretty great. barelythe way it whole kitis archaic. Both computers need to be on Wi-Fi, and they both fatherto standAirDrop open. So if you’re on a Ethernet network, no dice. If you want to send a file to someone who doesn’t have AirDrop open, that’s a no-go. It’s like Apple trained a world crime syndicateathlete, then stuck a rock in their shoe and blind-folded them in effect(p)before the strikingrace.
Open AirDrop to Ethernet users, and give us the ability to have the service open in the background with a relationthat Susie from the dev team wants to share an awesome video of cats playing pool.
Uninstalling an app is purportedlyas easy as dragging the app to the trash. That’s it, carry on with your life, that app is gone. But all the files associated with those apps? Yeah, they’re still there. Not a big deal if its only a tiny user predilectionfile tucked away in the Library folder. But if that app placed a bunch of gunk in your trunkPreferences and carried with it a stack of media files associated with the app, you’re still losing a lot of wantedspace. With the MacBook Air and its tiny SSD, those little files add up quick. So stop laughing at Windows and its uninstaller tool. We need one merelyas badly they do.
Just add the “Save As” option back to Apple applications! “Duplicate” and “Rename” don’t cut it. You tried something new, it didn’t work. You don’t even have to remove “Duplicate” and “Rename,” secureadd “Save As.”
Please.
After a year, we all stopped searching for utterBook in Spotlight. You wanted the iOS and OS X apps to have the same name. I understand. But the fact that we still can’t instructan email, start a FaceTime call, or send an iMessage from the Contacts app is all sorts of ridiculous. The uncannything is, you can email Groups from Contacts. Got a group of golfbuddies? A right-click on the group name willletyou send them a bulk email about teeing groundtimes. But if you want to email just onesomebodywhile in Contacts, well, that’s not allowed.
Update: I’m an idiot. You can send emails from the Contacts app by clicking on the email label. Just click on “Home,” Work,” or whatever you’ve labeled an email and a contextual add-inwill appear that offers email, Facetime and other ways to contact your friends, family, and co-worker.
Thanks Cliff
All those desktops can get confusing. Most of that confusion can be improveif you could name and arrange your Spaces. Instead of Desktop 2, you could name it Media, Social, or Browser. Frankly, anything that helps navigate multiple desktops would be great. The ability to open apps in those dedicated spaces by default would in any casebe appreciated.
Where’s that Pages document on your computer that you created on your iPhone? Well it’s stored in the iCloud. But what if you just wanted to have the file available on your computer? Too bad, because Apple’s iCloud syncing scheme is shrouded in mystery. Right now, you have itemsprotectedon your computer where you can find them, and you have items savedin iCloud. Maybe just have onetractwith local and iCloud documents. Want to add something to the Apple servers while headwayout the door without having to open one of Apple’s iCloud apps? Just makeit in the iCloud folder in your documents folder and let it sync.
This would also solve the problem with TextEdit having iCloud support, but no iOS app.
Or Apple could just add native support for DropBox like it has with Twitter and Facebook. We’re all using Dropbox instead of iCloud already. Might as well make it official.
There other things that Apple should implement or fix in OS X. In fact, I’m sure you have something that’s been driving you up the wall since Mountain Lion launched. Go ahead and vent. We’re all friends here. We just want to stop cursing at our screens.
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