Not defending Crapple, but in the name of fairness, some of these aren’t really accurate unless you’re ignoring the spirit of the complaint and being pedantic.
You can scroll right but not left with the track pad
You can scroll up, down, left, and right if you use two fingers to scroll.
The delete key doesn’t do anything in the finder
You can use command + backspace to delete selected files.
The terminal uses cmd+c instead of cmd+shift+c (really should be ctrl but okay)
The rest of the OS uses command + c for copying. This is consistent.
Every app relies on an antiquated menu bar at the top which is straight out of 90s UI
This is a personal opinion. It’s a valid complaint, but it’s not a universal problem.
Ultimately you may be right about these, but the issue at the heart of them all is that Apple makes their stuff harder to use by people used to other systems, on purpose. They could very easily institute a toggleable setting that’d change the hotkeys to be more like…ya know…every other OS. They could make non-Apple hardware work better (wouldn’t be trivial but I’m fairly certain they put effort into making things worse as is), they could make messages and files transfer better between iPhone and Android, etc.
Lots of things they could do to improve the experience of non-mega-fans, but they choose to run their business in a way that punishes anyone who isn’t using them for everything. And fuck em for that.
Edit: eh, you did say you weren’t actually defending them, so I’m probably just preaching to the choir here. Just grumpy that I have to use one now and they punish me daily for my lack of utter worship lol.
You can (and I do) rebind the modifier keys in System Preferences. Makes it a lot comfier to use a Mac and another machine with the same keyboard via KVM switch.
I didn’t address that one because the commenter qualified it by saying you can’t easily change them, which is kind of true. You can change the modifiers, but anything beyond that or changing keyboard layouts is a crapshoot in my experience.
It’s considerably better than trying to remap anything on Windows, at least. But, it’s also not completely free from hard-coded hotkeys and dumb restrictions. For example, Command + Tab can’t be changed or disabled, and you need to use third-party programs like BetterTouchTool to hijack the sequence in order to replace it with some other action.
More recently, I read that the latest OS version disallows registering hotkeys with only Option or Option+Shift as the modifier, which is a very big step backward. Being able to insert unicode characters is cool, but it’s peanuts compared to having 80 more options for hotkey sequences that aren’t already used by the OS or application.
Not defending Crapple, but in the name of fairness, some of these aren’t really accurate unless you’re ignoring the spirit of the complaint and being pedantic.
You can scroll up, down, left, and right if you use two fingers to scroll.
You can use
command + backspaceto delete selected files.The rest of the OS uses
command + cfor copying. This is consistent.This is a personal opinion. It’s a valid complaint, but it’s not a universal problem.
Ultimately you may be right about these, but the issue at the heart of them all is that Apple makes their stuff harder to use by people used to other systems, on purpose. They could very easily institute a toggleable setting that’d change the hotkeys to be more like…ya know…every other OS. They could make non-Apple hardware work better (wouldn’t be trivial but I’m fairly certain they put effort into making things worse as is), they could make messages and files transfer better between iPhone and Android, etc.
Lots of things they could do to improve the experience of non-mega-fans, but they choose to run their business in a way that punishes anyone who isn’t using them for everything. And fuck em for that.
Edit: eh, you did say you weren’t actually defending them, so I’m probably just preaching to the choir here. Just grumpy that I have to use one now and they punish me daily for my lack of utter worship lol.
You can (and I do) rebind the modifier keys in System Preferences. Makes it a lot comfier to use a Mac and another machine with the same keyboard via KVM switch.
I didn’t address that one because the commenter qualified it by saying you can’t easily change them, which is kind of true. You can change the modifiers, but anything beyond that or changing keyboard layouts is a crapshoot in my experience.
It’s considerably better than trying to remap anything on Windows, at least. But, it’s also not completely free from hard-coded hotkeys and dumb restrictions. For example,
Command + Tabcan’t be changed or disabled, and you need to use third-party programs like BetterTouchTool to hijack the sequence in order to replace it with some other action.More recently, I read that the latest OS version disallows registering hotkeys with only
OptionorOption+Shiftas the modifier, which is a very big step backward. Being able to insert unicode characters is cool, but it’s peanuts compared to having 80 more options for hotkey sequences that aren’t already used by the OS or application.