Hi All,
Please excuse my facetiousness but I am growing more and more tired by the day of hearing that there is yet *another* new update or version of OS X on the way.
Is there any chance that, just for once, we can stop all the upgrades for a while and just get to know the software we *do* have?
For anyone accusing me of fuddy-duddyism, I have heard exactly the same criticisms levelled at the music software scene - so many new 'clever' applications and plug-ins coming out that you get caught in an endless cycle of continually installing/upgrading software and, like a child at Christmas with a hundred toys, after a while you open one present, go "that's neat" then move on to the next when the technical novelty is over.
So consider this a manifesto for better (and cheaper) Mac usage. After all who really benefits from all these upgrades - you or the developers?
dodginess
P.S. The OS X "Pipe and Slippers" Edition (*not* available in the shops) is my idea of a more polite, well-mannered and relaxed implementation of OS X that harks back to a bygone era when tools were functional, workmanlike but with more than a soupcon of flair and form. Who really wants to see an error message or 'Force Quit' dialogue box when they can instead receive a nice warm beverage courtesy of the iTea (or, for the more discerning gentlemen, the iSmallSherry) ?
