{"id":95,"date":"2002-11-29T20:28:23","date_gmt":"2002-11-30T01:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=95"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"finder_followups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2002\/11\/29\/finder_followups\/","title":{"rendered":"Finder Followups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Daring Fireball has posted <a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/2002\/11\/thanksfindering.html\">followup comments<\/a> about the OS X Finder:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote>\n\n<p>Mostly, though, I think they&rsquo;ve been conditioned by years of exposure to poorly designed file managers. If your file manager is irritating, you learn to stop managing your files.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That the OS X Finder is good enough for some does not mean it is good enough for all. When newcomers to the Mac&mdash;no matter how experienced they are with other platforms&mdash;dismiss long-time Mac users&rsquo; criticism with a bit of &ldquo;good enough for me&rdquo; hand-waving, it belies their ignorance of what the Mac truly stands for. Let&rsquo;s turn the tables and imagine that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnu.org\/software\/bash\/bash.html\">GNU bash shell<\/a> (favored by many Linux users) wasn&rsquo;t able to run on Mac OS X. Bash advocates would, rightly, complain loudly. Now imagine if a long-time Mac user responded to their complaints by saying, <i>I only use the Terminal to run &ldquo;top&rdquo; and to open hidden files once in a while, but I don&rsquo;t see anything wrong with tcsh. You Linux switchers are just complaining because tcsh is a little different.<\/i><\/p>\n\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>What a great way of explaining it. Also included is this comment from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.panic.com\/~stevenf\/mt\/archives\/000126.php\">Steven Frank<\/a>, which matches my experience and reaction:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote>\n\nAt WWDC last year, my co-workers and I sat in quiet horror as we heard the umpteenth presenter say, &ldquo;Now I&rsquo;m going to turn on the new &lsquo;metal&rsquo; look for this window, because it looks pretty cool.&rdquo; This from actual Apple employees, in Apple&rsquo;s actual engineering department. What happened to all the people who gave a damn about the Mac user experience? \n\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daring Fireball has posted followup comments about the OS X Finder: Mostly, though, I think they&rsquo;ve been conditioned by years of exposure to poorly designed file managers. If your file manager is irritating, you learn to stop managing your files. That the OS X Finder is good enough for some does not mean it is [&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-95","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\/95","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=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}