| Ah, words of wisdom from a fellow UNIXer, you're right, I'd allow it to slip on KDE or GNOME, but this is a paid-for product, not flippin cheap either and a critical part of the Mac user experience is the consistancy and predictablilty of use of the GUI. Take the red close button on the top-left of apps, sometimes it closes the window, sometimes it closes the app itself - WHY, DAMMIT?
Fryke ol' chap, you're right about comparing the final Panther with an early Tiger, but if Apple cannot release the first Tiger to be at least AS GOOD as the final Panther, then, frankly, they are not doing their job right and ARE letting us down. I expect Tiger 10.4 to be everything 10.3.9 was PLUS more. Perhaps they should focus a bit more on the software, which is obviously slipping, rather than bloody music players. I am not sure about this 'testbed' Fryke, can you describe it for me? ;-)
I must say, I DO like the new iTunes interface, perhaps (I HOPE) it's a taste of things to come, but I shouldn't have to BUY something like Shapeshifter to make everything look consistant right now. For Gods sake Apple! Just put a damn theme manager in, if can't make up your mind on how things should look - devolve the power to users.  |