It is too easy to criticize computers
A few days ago @abraham_martinc said to me that I’m getting more Apple fanboy. It was an observation made after this retweet:
@fbeeper, Nov 12: Que fàcil és criticar… RT @newsycombinator: Tim O’Reilly: I am really starting to hate Mac OS X. j.mp/uNy7IP
* English translation: It’s so easy to criticize…
Clearly, I did not expressed what I had in mind. I’ve got the feeling that people are really used to complain about technology. People who can see (and express) the bright things coming in the future seem almost extinct to me.
A nice example: I don’t know much (I think nobody does for certain) about the iOSification of MacOS X, but wouldn’t you agree with me that you haven’t heard anything good about it? Arguments include that this is another of the steps for Apple to rule everything what we can do with a computer. Others say that it makes no sense because iOS was not thought to be used in computers, and it does not apply. And last, but not least, that computers will end being too much easy to use and people will end up being dumb as a consequence. Sorry, but… WTF!
I’d rather want to hear positive comments, or new proposals to evolve the current state of things (even more from influent people as Tim O’Reilly).
I can promise that hate many things of my OS too. Last Tuesday I spend near 30 minutes of my live trying to close all the applications that I had consuming memory on my computer. It was a long list of greedy apps including Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, two instances of Safari with ~15 tabs each, three huge Keynote presentations, Calendar, Mail, iChat and Spotify. I can assure you that in those 30 minutes I hated my Mac even more than O’Reilly could have hated his. They were the only 30 min that I had to prepare my History class of the week. But, meanwhile I was waiting I was also thinking how Apple can solve this situation if they are switching to what it seems to be an even less powerful OS? The answer is pretty easy! There is no way I can use all these apps simultaneously, still, I want them opened, ready for me each time I switch my desktop. However, if Apple engineers manage to sleep and recover individual states of apps from memory… my problem will be instantly solved. My Mac will effectively look like an iOS where I don’t care what is opened and what is not. All those apps will remain opened if needed, sleeping if not.
Additionally, that would probably justify the already discredited sandboxing. To assure its technical viability. It’s not about becoming a more «more user-hostile, with more attempts to lock you into Apple’s own apps» as O’Reilly points in his post.
Positive thinking! Complain about things, but contribute (or foresee) the good things to come ;) Any additional thoughts?
P.S. I have failed to make this post shorter… maybe the next one! :P
