[X4U] Let's start the FUD presses.

[Mike Panas]

I'll have to wait an see how things look before rendering an opinion. In
general, I do prefer a consistent look for .apps, and would not wan to see
Apple going to multiple looks for various .apps. It just seems sloppy to me.
The mailbox drawer does not bother me -- I don't get the objection. I feel
the flexibility to display or hide it is an option that makes my Mac more
uniquely mine than the "one size fits all" philosophy of Windows, which Mr.
Thurrot (?) seems to think of as more "professional."
Mike


> From: DZ-Jay <dz at caribe.net>
> Reply-To: "A place to discuss Mac OS X for the casual user."
> <x4u at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
> Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 15:52:10 -0400
> To: "A place to discuss Mac OS X for the casual user."
> <x4u at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
> Subject: Re: [X4U] Let's start the FUD presses.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Apr 15, 2005, at 14:08, James S Jones wrote:
> 
>> Thurrot's piece discusses only 'features' and concludes they aren't
>> that big an advance. Tiger's big advances are in the basics, like
>> optimizing for the IBM PPC 970 series and beyond, Core Image, and
>> other optimizations to various foundation classes that improve
>> performance. Core Image should prove to be a big deal for Apple's key
>> video and graphics customers and opens the door for Macs to be a much
>> more competitive platform for games and other consumer entertainment
>> purposes.
> 
> I agree.  However, there's one thing that struck a chord with me.  If
> what he says is true of the haphazard and inconsistent interface
> changes, then that is a negative point on Apple.  The Aqua environment
> is, in my opinion, beautiful, and part of the appeal is the consistency
> among application windows.  But if Apple keeps changing the rules, or
> worse, mix-n-matching different design decisions within different
> applications, then that sort of violates the integrity of the "look and
> feel".
> 
> I haven't seen Tiger yet (only the promotional screenshots), and my OS
> X experience is limited to the few weeks I've been using Panther (I'm a
> recent Windows convert), so I would like to know the opinion of other
> Mac users from this list regarding those points from Thurrot's article
> concerning the UI changes to, for instance, Mail.app.
> 
> P.S. I personally like the mailbox "drawer" feature of Mail.app and
> iCal, but that's just me :)
> 
> dZ.
> 
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