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Originally Posted by anamardoll
I always find the Apple/Everything Else threads interesting because I'm one of those Rare Unicorn Mutants who does not find Apple easy or intuitive at all. Husband has a high end Mac that he bought to program on (he wanted to create a Mac-compatible version of ARAT at the time), and I used it a couple of times before rage-quitting.
I remember specifically using it because I wanted to test drive the Mac Scrivener which has more features than the Windows Scrivener. I spent 10 minutes trying to figure out how to perform a basic "Save As..." function in a different location than the Mac default. Husband came over to help, and another 15 minutes were lost. Eventually he got on his PC, and Google informed him how to get the Mac to work. I'd long since lost interest and gone back to Windows.
I just do not find Macs easy to use at all. Menus and options seem to be hidden from my Windows/Android-oriented mind. And given that there's one in my house that I watch being used from time to time and my parents have two iPads that they carry with them, I'm pretty sure the problem isn't that I'm unfamiliar with the interface. So I find these conversations interesting.  |
You're not the only one. I find Apple products mind-boggling difficult to use, because in many cases, there are NO visual clues on how to accomplish something which is done differently than Windows/Linux GUIs do it.
I spent 30 minutes on a friend's Mac complaining about no context menu being available before he clued me into the "invisible" right click on his mouse.
Then, there are the just plain STUPID design choices that Apple has made in some cases. I mean, putting your most destructive function, the window close button, in the top left close to the menu bar? That's just a ridiculously bad design choice.
If you like OSX, go for it. There are many good things about it, although most of them are inherited from BSD. What Apple brought was a much needed degree of stability, and polish, to a great operating system.
But for those of us that are OCD enough to want control of everything, Apple products don't fit the bill.