Why does Apple continue to make their OS less and less user-friendly?
This might be dead horse I am beating, but I didn't feel like searching the forum to see if this has already been discussed ad naseum. I'm really starting to lose my patience with Apple and their insistence on removing useful features from their OS. I've already lost track of all the things that they have un-engineered in recent updates. One of the ones that I thoroughly disliked was the removal of cover flow from iTunes... of course that is a program and not the OS, but just one example. Now I am realizing that the column view in Finder has been changed as well. Used to be that you could change the width of the columns at will and now they seem to be fixed and immovable, which really p!sses me off. I don't like Icon, List or Cover Flow view in Finder and use column view almost exclusively and was always changing the column width to suit my needs, i.e. when the file name was too long to read and i could simply change the width to read it all. Now I can't do that and I am really getting sick and tired of things that are really useful that I use all the time being taken away and it's like Apple is taking steps backward. Probably 10-15 years ago, that was the norm for something like this, immovable columns and people b!tching about not being able to change the width and then we get that ability and now it's taken away again! Why are they constantly regressing? How is that improving the UI of their OS? I just don't understand it....
Please free to chime in, correct me or whatever...
Well you can tell them at http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html
Anything you post there will be read by Apple. Whereas what is posted here they will never see. So go for it. Give them both barrels.
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