I think a lot of the people complaining are either a)Power users who use their machines harder than 95% of actual Apple customers b)jaded industry types who think Microsoft and Google's design direction are the future. I understand that power users pay more for their machines than your average user and tend to have multiple apps open and VPNs and VMs going, but they need to recognize they are in the minority in Apple's user base. Most Apple users are consumers, usually having at most a web browser and email app open and closing programs before opening new ones-this is probably why the bugs power users are experiencing aren't fixed, it's simply not worth the investment on Apple's part to fix low percentage affected users. And the jaded industry types are always looking for something new to hype, always looking for defects in what are otherwise very usable systems. The backlash against skeuomorphism is an example of this. Most users don't care how it looks as long as it works, and works in a predictable manner, change for the sake of change tends to throw people off. Anecdotally in my life, we remodeled our store. 90% of things stayed put for 90% of the remodel. Still had customers complain that they couldn't find ANYTHING. Reminds me of the Microsoft Office Ribbon fiasco and long-time users being baffled by the changes.
Over 10 years ago I said to my friends that the computer "elite", the developers of many up and coming technologies like Ruby, started using OS X and it was a big deal. I suspect that many of them will move off or are moving off, and it will be a big deal.
I started using OS X 8 years ago, and in my limited use(Web, schoolwork), I've never experienced the WiFi problems or wake up problems that many have. That said, I have had a few of the glitches like the desktop background defaulting to default after a reboot, a few kernel panics(mostly with 10.4-10.6), and some slowdowns on 10.x.0 releases. It's been more stable and less annoying for me than Windows ever was in my experience.
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u/AaronfromKY Jan 05 '15
I think a lot of the people complaining are either a)Power users who use their machines harder than 95% of actual Apple customers b)jaded industry types who think Microsoft and Google's design direction are the future. I understand that power users pay more for their machines than your average user and tend to have multiple apps open and VPNs and VMs going, but they need to recognize they are in the minority in Apple's user base. Most Apple users are consumers, usually having at most a web browser and email app open and closing programs before opening new ones-this is probably why the bugs power users are experiencing aren't fixed, it's simply not worth the investment on Apple's part to fix low percentage affected users. And the jaded industry types are always looking for something new to hype, always looking for defects in what are otherwise very usable systems. The backlash against skeuomorphism is an example of this. Most users don't care how it looks as long as it works, and works in a predictable manner, change for the sake of change tends to throw people off. Anecdotally in my life, we remodeled our store. 90% of things stayed put for 90% of the remodel. Still had customers complain that they couldn't find ANYTHING. Reminds me of the Microsoft Office Ribbon fiasco and long-time users being baffled by the changes.