Q: I hate the new tags in Mavericks, need coloured folders!!

allenbundy1 wrote:

 

Mavericks *****.  I'm going back to an older OS.

 

Allen

That would seem to be the best option for you, good luck with the rollback.

I hate, hate, HATE these tags. The old color system was so much better. Do you think Apple pays any attention to all these postings?

Apple claims not to. The only place they solicit feedback is here:

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

MtD

Thanks, I did send a feedback message to Apple. For all the good it will do...

pbf2 wrote:

 

Do you think Apple pays any attention to all these postings?

No.

So, imagine that you're the chief of a small development team embedded within a global hardware and software company, and that you and your team have been responsible for making some major mods to the operating system for its flagship line of personal computers. Like any technical professional, you are interested in staying on the top of your game, providing a flexible operating environment for several hundred million users, and avoiding any monthly meetings where you might come in for some unexpected self- or other type of criticism. Just like other enthusiasts, you sometimes browse the message boards set up by your own company to provide a forum for the free, (mostly) uninhibited expression of opinion on company and other products and services, a range of opinion that it is kind of hard to pry out of your friends, family, and co-workers, and you notice a couple of boards dealing with the very subject of career-critical interest to you, some of them with 70,000+ hits. I suppose you just brush by those boards without looking in....

Why??

This is not a "message board". It is a user to user technical support forum. We are users just like you, volunteering our time to help fellow users with technical questions. Apple has a feedback site for all of their products. That is what they pay attention to.

Save your breath, or tell it to Apple:

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

P.S. - I doubt seriously that the people who are responsible for developing OSX releases are a "small development team"....

Cheers,

GB

I work for a large conglomerate that also has it's own "official" feedback site, but it also has quite a few fan sites. While they don't admit to following any of the sites, it's well known that MANY in the company do since they realize that crustomer feedback - no matter it's source - is a VALUABLE resource.

I believe that anyone who thinks everyone at Apple would totally ignore any of their own "user to user technical support forum" (message boards) would hopefully be underestimating the dedication of Apple employees.

That is why they have their own feedback site and state their monitoring status clearly in the TOU.

Pete

Doug-H1955 wrote:

 

I believe that anyone who thinks everyone at Apple would totally ignore any of their own "user to user technical support forum" (message boards) would hopefully be underestimating the dedication of Apple employees.

I believe that you are speculating, and that (of course) is against the TOU for site.

DABbio wrote:

 

So, imagine that you're the chief of a small development team embedded within a global hardware an ........

Well, if we are to be fantasy people I'd like a more interesting character.

I'm pretty sure that Apple checks the pulse on the various legit forums periodically, albeit unofficially.

grdh20 wrote:

 

I'm pretty sure that Apple checks the pulse on the various legit forums periodically, albeit unofficially.

Pretty sure?

I am absolutely sure that Apple checks the legitimate feedback line;

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

I, too, absolutely hate the new tags chaos.  It's not the colors that bother me because I ignore that entirely.  What makes me want to scream is the auto-complete bully.  I don't want to keep fighting my computer just to type in the tags I want to use for any given file.  I just want to type them all and be done with it, like I used to do so easily, so quickly, so efficiently.

I used to love working with tags.  They made my job so efficient.  Now, I rarely use them, which means more work at another stop of the process.  This isn't evolution, it's de-evolution and, zero price tag or not, Mavericks has cost me a heck of a lot of money in the form of lost production time, lost revenue.

Is there any way to kill the auto-complete demon?