If you pull out the real features, you've got 2, maybe 3 'real' features there. The rest is just 'padding'.
I don't know about that. I was one who liked Lion -- but mostly from a high-level perspective. A lot of the details were just wrong but ML fixed a lot of that.
I'm having trouble remembering the little annoyances of Lion that ML fixed but I swear they are in there! The things I can remember:
* notifications: I like it just fine. Nothing super about it, but it's reasonable well supported... and is
increasingly well supported over time. Other notification systems I've used have been nicer in some respects, but it seems to me would get a certain level of support when released but over time third-parties would forget about.
* there are a lot of small things. I can't remember them all, but it's stuff like the fact that I can resize a window from any edge now -- it's just nice. Also, I greatly prefer that the mouse scroll "wheel" scrolling goes in the right direction. (did it ever make sense that the scroll wheel controlled the scroll thumb rather than the content being scrolled?!? Who was the idiot who though of that?!?)
* Mail app -- previously was a useless pile of junk to the point I stopped using it in favor of gmail's web interface. The ML version is now a joy to use.
* This was in Lion, too, but since many are comparing ML to SL: finally, finally, finally, Apple got rid of the incredible stupid yet (previously) ubiquitous "do you want to save changes?" dialog. Good god. It's a UX mortal sin to
demand an answer from the user to a question that is, 99% of the time, "yes". And yet this was the
standard for all apps, across operating systems for
literally decades. Apple neatly solved the problem in a general and elegant way by providing a way to easily and automatically persist the current state of a document along with the
undo state. (Not to mention that, at the same time, they solved the equally unforgivable UX issue that most apps would lose a user's work in the event of an unexpected crash or loss of power. Really, due to its rough edges, Lion does not get enough credit for its good points.)
I might be able to think of more points if I thought about it for a few minutes, but I've got to go see Sky Fall or The Hobbit now, so that's it.
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IDK, it is pretty cool.
BTW, this came from a cool webcomic called xkcd. You should check it out.
Er, maybe I got the direction wrong? I meant to say: I think Ocelot is probably about the coolest feline name... which is saying a lot because they are all pretty da*n cool.
