Mountain Lion needs an overhaul
Ok, here are my complaints. I've been using all previews of Mountain Lion consistently (and Lion as well) since upgrading from Snow Leopard.
Apple needs to get rid of the weird naming nomenclature, and stick to things that are simple and to the point. I know that because of a french national executive (no longer at apple I hear), Apple started added french naming like Bonjour and Expose, etc. But the trend is to go with simplicity, and to the point names. Things like "Word" (from microsoft), or "Notes" or "Reminders" or "Contacts" are in the right direction. Expose? What is that? Finder? Is that a search feature? No. it is a file browser. Maybe call it file cabinet. And what is it with the i in front of everything? Just call it Phone not iPhone. Mac, not iMac. iPhoto? what the hell? iMovie? Why not iContacts instead of Contacts. It is a confusing mess. Remove the i, stick to simple names. And why the name Spotlight? Should it be called Finder? Or Searcher?
The Magic Trackpad is horrible. Can you imagine trying to click using that thing? You will get carpel tunnel syndrome. Try clicking near the bottom and compare the pressure trying to click near the top (unfortunately, the menu bar options are near the top of the screen, so you will need to click a lot in that area). It is like 1000 times difference in pressure needed to click. And click and drag is a pain on that. There is also NO option to use double tap and drag. You must use force and click on it.
WPA doesn't work when sharing your ethernet on Wi-Fi for your iPhone to connect. The feature is to allow your Mac to become a hotspot. They got rid of WEP in mountain lion. That is stupid. What about people with old equipment? Maybe Apple wants people to keep upgrading hardware, but some old equipment just can't be upgraded. Does that mean no mountain lion upgrade for them?
Launchpad is mostly unused. Why? Because it is a second step (find icon on dock, click on icon) away from the desktop or from the dock. The dock contains a shortcut to your app. Launchpad is essentially that. What do they need to do? Make it so that if you move your cursor down towards the bottom, the whole launchpad slides up, instead of one line of the dock you can have a bunch of fast app launching. If that thing (launch pad icons) are not right on the desktop, it will never be used. Or make it so that launchpad is the default desktop on the background, and click on something brings up the regular desktop. And why the duplication? The deskop you can have folders, and launch pad you can have folders. A confusing mess. Perhaps shortcut and real files needs to be merged, using one interface.
Why is there no defragmenter? Or a way to organize stuff on the harddrive? Yes, it is a little low level, but this is needed. Even if some tool is available that does this in the background, a graphical representation of the files spread is useful for those that know these kind of things.
I would gripe more, but now struggle with flash videos crashing the DP1 and DP2. I reboot 10 times a day because of this. But since it is beta, I won't gripe too much.
