[mac4theblind] Re: Good Things About Mavricks
- From: Sam Negron <samuel_negron@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 16:09:17 -0500
Basically, it’s an issue of complexity. If it is going to work, iOS has to
become a heck of a lot more complex, and OS X either has to maintain their
current level of complexity or become even more so. The philosophy that governs
iOS right now is to utterly control the user experience and to have it as
simple as possible to appeal to the widest audience. For the most part, it
works for them, but that’s because people use their phones for different
reasons than people use their desktop/laptop. For example, I love that my phone
has Works on it and iLife, but to be frank, I’m rarely ever going to use it on
my phone, or even my iPad when I get it, and my sighted friends agree and blind
friends both agree, so it’s a cross cultural rejection of the idea..
When people use a desktop, they want to fiddle with the file system, they want
to have multiple approaches to doing things so they can interact with their
computer how they wish, people like precision and being able to manage large
workflows, people like coding, doing complex editing tasks requiring more
precise tools, people like playing games and using programs that require loads
of computing power. All these things, iOS can’t do, or does to a far lesser
degree, and that’s fine, but to apply that to OS X would be a disaster.
I hate to bring up this point, again, but in general, people dislike
dictatorial styles of running things. It makes people feel like children being
told what to do and how to do it, and the evidence points to Apple,
unfortunately, being fairly heavy handed.
On Oct 25, 2013, at 2:04 PM, David Hilbert Poehlman <poehlman1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> why don’t you like the trend?
>
> On Oct 25, 2013, at 6:56 AM, Samuel Negron <samuel_negron@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Here a few things I've been enjoying about the new update.
>
> 1. I've noticed apps and things seem to load faster and process faster. It's
> enough of an increase that my fairly oblivious self notice it, and I'm on a 4
> month old machine.
> 2. In general, I think the iOS ification of OS X is a bad direction for Apple
> to go, I do like some aspects, however, e.g. the way VO describes pictures is
> super neat, telling you if the photo has a face, whether it's clear or
> blurry, etc.
> 3. With reading text, VO seems to be more responsive and precise. This was oe
> of my frustrations originally with OS X.
>
> What do you like about Mavricks?
>
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