{"id":465,"date":"2003-05-21T14:13:35","date_gmt":"2003-05-21T18:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=465"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"depressing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2003\/05\/21\/depressing\/","title":{"rendered":"Depressing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifihifi.com\/weblog\/mac\/AppleComplaint9.html\">Buzz Andersen<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/2003\/05\/steaming_pile.html\">John Gruber<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/use.perl.org\/~pudge\/journal\/12258\">Chris Nandor<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/radio.weblogs.com\/0100544\/2003\/05\/20.html#a697\">Ryan Wilcox<\/a>, and others are saying that Apple should fix bugs in OS X before adding features. I find the fact that these people <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2003\/04\/02\/about_the_finder.html\">agree<\/a> with me on this strangely depressing. Since I tend to be hyper-sensitive about these issues, I&rsquo;ve had a lingering hope that the problems weren&rsquo;t really that bad. It&rsquo;s fading.\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n\nMatt Deatherage&rsquo;s column in the June <cite>Macworld<\/cite> posits that the OS X migration is going slowly because of NeXT hubris. On the face of it, this seems impossible. Are the Apple menu, pop-up windows, and all the rest really that big a deal? I&rsquo;ve written <em>type and creator good, file extensions bad<\/em> more times than I care to remember, yet I&rsquo;m sitting here using OS X. Others have yet to switch (it&rsquo;s more of a switch than an upgrade), and yet most of them probably have no idea what HFS metadata is.\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n\nMaybe all the changes and bugs add up to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digiserve.com\/eescape\/mac\/Death-of-a-Thousand-Stings.html\">death of a thousand strings<\/a>, altering the <a href=\"http:\/\/developer.apple.com\/techpubs\/mac\/OSUtilities\/OSUtilities-9.html\">gestalt<\/a> of the system. Or maybe late adopters aren&rsquo;t switching because they don&rsquo;t want to upgrade all their software and buy not-so-speedy new hardware just to make OS X&rsquo;s speed tolerable. Whatever the reason, the transition is going slowly. Accelerating it is probably the best thing Apple can do for itself, its developers, and ultimately its users.\n\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buzz Andersen, John Gruber, Chris Nandor, Ryan Wilcox, and others are saying that Apple should fix bugs in OS X before adding features. I find the fact that these people agree with me on this strangely depressing. Since I tend to be hyper-sensitive about these issues, I&rsquo;ve had a lingering hope that the problems weren&rsquo;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}