Naw, just a crabby perfectionist. That's the thing about these forums - all you ever hear about is what's going wrong. Actually my iBook is a champ, as is my G4 (now that I got some decent RAM the kernel panics have gone away).
I guess I have high expectations for software. I'm always surprised that the people who spend probably thousands of hours developing this stuff miss all these little details - like the label thing in Address Book. When it's the little guy doing the work I have sympathy. Like Hamrick Software, who make VueScan (the universal scanner program - not perfect but great anyway, and a nice company to deal with). But when it's the big guys you get the feeling that either they aren't really connecting with their users, in the real world, or (like Macromedia) they just don't care. Macromedia keeps releasing buggy software that, it seems, everyone is bitching about. Do they release updates? No. They release a new, just as buggy version and charge you $129 to upgrade. You should hear my Flash developer friend go on...
My favorite program (probably because I use it a lot, developing PHP) is BBEdit. It just plain works, they release lots of little updates, which fix bugs AND add new featuers, and don't charge for them. I also feel pretty good about Adobe - they haven't quite figured out the whole interconnect between Photoshop, Imageready and Golive, but it is getting better, and at least it all works pretty well. Though - they still haven't added secure FTP to Golive - the only reason I'm not upgrading.
No, life on the Mac is generally good for me, forum postings notwithstanding.
- Bob
