Apple killed OSX with Lion

App switching with four finger swipe: It's still there though it says "full screen app switch". It works just fine as long as apps live in seperate spaces. So maybe it's more of a spaces switch bute hey ...

Yeah, totally agree with you, Andrew. This is a great review about Lion - a must read, basically.

When it comes to the gestures, I feel it's more like a cosmetic thing and most of us will get used to it pretty soon.

What is really annoying me is the refresh issue. Complex web sites, PowerPoint files, previews from Outlook attachments or other applications – wherever frames have a dynamic content, the system will fail to refresh it. As soon as you resize for example the frame the content will be displayed correctly. It looks like there is link to memory usage. With some free memory the problems are fewer.

I really regret the update; Lion is the worst product from Apple I ever bought.

Here's one reason why Mac users are experiencing a degradation of the user experience. It's an excerpt from an article by Nielsen ratings describing what apps buyers most go for.

Surprise! It's "low cost or free." Not "clever" or "capable."

Low cost or free. LCD = lowest common denominator.

In turning the Mac into a portal to the Apple Store, partially via iTunes and then completely via Lion, Apple has us on a downward trajectory. The platform is devolving. One day it may become an expensive smartphone, unless we gear up ourselves.

There is growing white space for an indie or Apple spinoff manufacturer to produce high-end computers that will serve a particular market, still growing, just as gaming-quality PC manufacturers prospered in earlier days of commodity PCs. Apple will then have the low-end apps market all to itself and everyone will be happy.

Is this REALLY the future that Apple wants for itself and its users?

(Also a topic in the Apple Store forum, https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3236377//)

===Possible Consolation===

Zeran wrote:

Lion is elder abuse the lack of the pointers at the bottom of the scroll bar causes anyone that is unwilling to part with an old mouse alot of difficulty but the elder perople that love macintosh don't like change and are unwilling to loose these arrows. Apple needs to consider the aged and those who don't want to pay money to replace a good mouse with something that recignizes the gestures. I ask that apple apply the ability to reactivate the arrows together at the bottom of the scrole bare to help people in both catagory the aged and those with older mice that don't wish to change.

After much frustration, and many failed google searches... I accidentally figured out how to get expose in Lion using my Legacy mouse.

After middleclicking to activate mission control... hover the mouse over the Application group that you want to expose, and flick the scroll-wheel away from yourself.

I totally agreed with you on the Elder abuse thing.

I have an old, faithful, logitec mouse that I've been using since the Blue Domed CRT iMac.

3 buttons (counting the middleclick scrollwheel).

External Apple Keyboard.

I used to have the middle click mapped to expose... but now expose can only be activated once Mission Control is activated... and it can only be activated via a gesture (on the trackpad, or magic mouse).

This really upset me because, while I do have a shinny new Core i7 Macbook Pro,

I do not use the touchpad... In fact the laptop itself sits a few feet away from me, and is hooked to a very large display... and the main display is where I keep iChat and other small things like Terminal Windows and Activity Monitor.

babowa wrote:

I've been using it for a while and I like it much better than Snow.

The only "improvement" I can see is the cooler look in Mail. Launchpad is tacky at best on a 27" screen and Resume is a pain - at least it can be disabled.

Mail is better. I like MC better than Spaces/Exposé. Lion seems faster, but I've never benchmarked anything. I like Resume since I never shutdown or restart. If it happens due to power failure or install/update, then everything comes back the way I left it. The gestures to get around the OS are a great leap forward. Scrolling is much better. It makes more sense to move the object instead of the little widget in the scrollbar. I also like the Arrangement options in Finder, but I think there's some tweaking needed. Definitely like Versions and autosave.

I don't like Full-screen apps. I never use LaunchPad, so I've got no opinion on that besides I don't see the purpose. It also feels about half finished.

I don't mind Launchpad being there because I don't have to launch it, so I can just ignore it - it is simply superfluous eye candy. But Resume is another matter - once you've gone through the vicious circle of trying to get away from the trojan which had managed to take over my Yahoo Inbox which rendered the machine completely unresponsive where only a hard shutdown was possible...... thanks to Resume, every time I rebooted, it obligingly opened the same d.... malware infected tab in the browser. The only solution after trying everything else: yank the modem cord, boot from one of my bootable clones to get to the browser without being online and resetting it. It could also be a safety concern for someone who has client's personal/financial/health information: confer with one client while looking at the info; see another client the next day and all the previous client's info pops up. Not acceptable. So I am absolutely adamant about that feature: the user needs to be able to control it; a System Prefs Pane would be nice with options to turn it on/off app by app or system wide.

I'm not making friends with my Trackpad - it is either too sensitive opening things just because I was moving the cursor or not precise enough when editing images or videos, so I mostly use it to browse online.

(BTW, can someone please tell them to put the four-finger App switching back...it's a pain w/o it!).

Why don't you tell them yourself.

http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html

Matt

I must switch to the desired space before I am able to drag a window or app from it into a different space. Another counter-intuitive and unncessary feature downgrade.

That not true.

You can drag windows to different Desktops within Mission Control.

Matt

We've just got to accept it. Apple is dumbing down. It has new objectives. It has a new user base. It doesn't need its loyal fan base of Mac devotees. It knows best. We don't need computers. We just need giant desktop ipods. The Mac of professional creative types is now dead. Our priority must be to be able to access social networking sites and mindless apps 24/7. It doesn't need to make high quality innovative goods anymore. It now just makes money - and it does that very well. Lion is just the beginning.....

That not true.

You can drag windows to different Desktops within Mission Control.

Matt

Matt, that's only true if the window you want to move is in the desktop from which you invoked Mission Control. If I'm in Desktop 1, invoke MC, and want to move a window from Desktop 3 to Desktop 2 (which I frequently do as I want to arrange the windows in sequential desktops), I have to first go to Desktop 3, invoke MC again, then move it to the other desktop. I can't even pull a window into my current active Desktop from another Desktop with MC. I have to go to that Desktop first, invoke MC, move it, then switch back to my previous Desktop.

In usability terms, this is just rubbish.

If I'm in Desktop 1, invoke MC, and want to move a window from Desktop 3 to Desktop 2 (which I frequently do as I want to arrange the windows in sequential desktops), I have to first go to Desktop 3, invoke MC again, then move it to the other desktop.

You dont' have to invoke MC, again. Just slide over to Desktop 3 and move the windows where you want.

(which I frequently do as I want to arrange the windows in sequential desktops),

You are aware there is a setting that will leave the Desktops in place, right?

I upgraded to Lion out of necessity as Avid recommended using the New Media Compose v6 under Lion in preference to Snow Leopard. After installing I found a lot of cool gestures and a lot of problems issues/bugs where things simply did not work.

But putting all grievances aside;does anyone know how to turn off the Show Desktop mouse gesture in OS X Lion? I had the gesture turn on in Snow Leopard (magic corner), and when I upgraded to Lion, the feature carried over.

I do agree that with you in that I am not impresses with Lion. Snow Leopard was an actual upgrade, Lion is just forced bells and whistles.

I disagree with you on this statement though "Lion is a prime example of what happens when a company like apple begins to design software ala Microsoft, that is, with the lowest denominator (the average user) in mind" because OS X was always geared at the entry level user. Easy to use and shiny.

Where Apple should have followed Microsoft lead is in backward compatibility for software. Lion broke practically everything we used it for, even Safari had issues, which do seem fixed now.

I guess every company goes through a learning curve.

After having to put up with Lion, I am just in the process of converting my Machines at work to WIndows 7. I am so fed up with Lion and the general direction Apple is moving, that my next Machines will not be from Apple any more. If you look at what happend during the last few months, Apples direction becomes clear:

Xserve abandoned, Final Cut dumbed down, 10.7 geared towards casual users, but full of bugs, 10.7 Server dumbed down, rumours about Mac Pro phase out. Java abandoned (i.e. handed over to Oracle), no current OpenGL graphics drivers, Maya and Adobe Master Collection more stable on Windows than on Mac.

For me that means I will develop under Windows (Visual Studio has a very good debugger) and run Linux on a virtual machine. Development for Apple or iOS is not in my future any more. We are only a small university,

but whenever any of my about 100 Macs (mostly Mac Pros) need replacement, they will not be replaced by Apple machines any more. Needless to say, there won't be any teaching of iOS development, either. We are already in the process of moving to Android or coding device independent Web-Apps with JavaScript and HTML5.

Apple left their professional and loyal users standing in the rain - and in the long run this will not bode well for Apple.