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Gizmodo: negative review of Lion... thoughts?
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i think the guys at Gizmodo missed the point of Lion - which IMO allows the masses to adjust to the touch based computing experience. Clearly, as implemented in Lion, the future is gestures vs. point and click. The reviewer either missed this point or simply neglected it in reference.
Although I do agree with their sentiments of Mission Control it's not as disastrous as described. Again the future is touch based computing so there will be no need for these type of features down the road. I think Apple did the best they could with those regards - its still usable after all.
I dont take too much seriously at Gizmodo, it is a blog after all. But hey their sensationalist review helped increase their Ad revenue.
PS - dont be surprised when Windows 8 gets rave reviews from the guys at Gawker, even though it represents the same touch based metaphors.
Although I do agree with their sentiments of Mission Control it's not as disastrous as described. Again the future is touch based computing so there will be no need for these type of features down the road. I think Apple did the best they could with those regards - its still usable after all.
I dont take too much seriously at Gizmodo, it is a blog after all. But hey their sensationalist review helped increase their Ad revenue.
PS - dont be surprised when Windows 8 gets rave reviews from the guys at Gawker, even though it represents the same touch based metaphors.
well Vista certainly wasn't horrible just for its UI. Vista sucked because it made brand new computers run like junk.
Lion will continue to improve i think. i hope to unmurder iCal and Address Book soon
Lion will continue to improve i think. i hope to unmurder iCal and Address Book soon
It's the first update I'm hesitant to buy mostly due to older software that the 3rd party refuses to update out of PPC code. To spend $29 on Lion means I have to upgrade to Office 2011 Pro ($200) and get a new color management suite ($200) since i1Match is only PPC.
So that's a $430 upgrade, yikes.
So that's a $430 upgrade, yikes.
This is such an odd excuse. Who exactly is out there that CANT adjust to the current OS X because "It doesnt look enough like my iPhone"? And why is there such a need for a touch based experience on a NON-touch based computer?
But they offer touch based metaphors backed with touch based computers. If Apple offered any promise that this is their direction then their decisions would be more understandable. But, for now, a lot of the metaphors are broken.
My comments were neither odd nor an excuse. I personally know many people who cant quite grasp the use of an iPhone or iPad. Not everyone is as "tech savvy" as macrumors members believe themselves to be.
Also last time i checked the iPad was a computer. It may only be for "light-lifting" as Steve described but this goes back to my original point of the future computing.
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Touch based experience? There's Launchpad, which is optional to use and the reverse scrolling which you can disable. Other than that, I have no idea what "touch based experience" you are on about.
That's exactly what happens when you start using the new OS from its first beta days and approach its public release gradually. 
or launch it from Spotlight (cmd-space)
or launch it from Launchpad (four-finger pinch)
I think lion its very good and fast and easily you can convert it in a giant iPad
(and bring back to life front row)
look at the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v5zQ3-eH10
(and bring back to life front row)
look at the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v5zQ3-eH10
everyone just chill the
As much as I am a die-hard Mac user, these are the exact kinds of comments that fuel the hate for Mac fanboys. Just because you and I prefer OS X doesn't mean that Windows 7 is a crappy OS. In fact, I'd say that Windows 7 is far from crappy, and has many merits of its own.
everyone just chill the
Narrow minded much ? Windows 7 is excellent.
It's the website that paid for the stolen iPhone and then refused to give it back, but it's not the same writer.
That said, that website has been bashing Apple every chance they get since the iPhone prototype debacle.
What is more amusing is they used to hate Microsoft and ripped everything Microsoft makes. Now that they burned their bridges with Apple they have a different spin on Microsoft products. I know some people are not happy with Lion but I can't believe anything I read on Gizmodo, they have no credibility.
+1. I love OS X as much as anyone else here, but I have no complaints whatsoever about W7, MS did a great job.
So to summarize, they had no credibility to begin with. No site that is consistently praising one and slagging another is worth considering for any serious information. So why the uproar? Or are sites that only blow smoke up Apple's behind and slag Microsoft your idea of credible independent news sources?
Spot on! After the whole iPhone fiasco I stopped reading there , not that I went there that often. My tech news comes from Engadget, and of course from here...although Engadget are usually faster!
Many of the Lion features only make sense if you're on a laptop or other small display device. I have a whopping 30" 2560x1600 display on my desk and Launchpad is just rubbish on that. It requires me to move the cursor from one end of the scren to the other and still manages to cram new apps on another page despite there being lots of space for them on the first one.
Similarly fullscreen mode would only be useful in apps that actually require it, namely stuff like Adobe's Creative Suite, FCP etc. The whole point of having a high res display is that you can cram more stuff on it. Running things like a word processor or web browser in full screen on a high res display is just wasting space because the content in them is not going to span the whole size.
Multitouch gestures are completely useless if you are using a traditional mouse because Apple didn't see it necessary to offer for example a mouse gestures (right click and move mouse - very natural once you get used to it) system for that.
Safari is better, especially its downloads window is the best implementation on any browser. However, its address bar is still extremely dumb. I would much prefer a Chrome type one that would do a search if you just type something rather than show an error message. Glims is still an essential addon necessary to take Safari's feature set to even the level of competing browsers.
While it has some good stuff here and there and probably a lot under the hood, the main selling points are best suited for certain types of machines.
Similarly fullscreen mode would only be useful in apps that actually require it, namely stuff like Adobe's Creative Suite, FCP etc. The whole point of having a high res display is that you can cram more stuff on it. Running things like a word processor or web browser in full screen on a high res display is just wasting space because the content in them is not going to span the whole size.
Multitouch gestures are completely useless if you are using a traditional mouse because Apple didn't see it necessary to offer for example a mouse gestures (right click and move mouse - very natural once you get used to it) system for that.
Safari is better, especially its downloads window is the best implementation on any browser. However, its address bar is still extremely dumb. I would much prefer a Chrome type one that would do a search if you just type something rather than show an error message. Glims is still an essential addon necessary to take Safari's feature set to even the level of competing browsers.
While it has some good stuff here and there and probably a lot under the hood, the main selling points are best suited for certain types of machines.
Windows 7 is the best Windows yet, but that's like saying that a shiny turd is better than a dull turd. It's still Windows and has all of the headache-inducing idiotic features Microsoft loves.
OS X: less headaches, more fulfilling.
They did occasionally criticize Apple products before, which I am completely fine with, but since the iPhone prototype situation they bash Apple every day. And on the other hand, they hated Microsoft so much that they had a video up throwing expensive Xbox freebies Microsoft gave them for review. After readers got upset, the editor of Gizmodo tried to defend himself by saying he's tired of Microsoft (and other companies) sending him free, expensive items.
But since they angered Apple they now they suddenly treat MS with respect because they realize there's not much of a market covering Linux. If I were a MS exec and saw how they treated the free items I sent them, they would have never gotten another item again, period.
So, like I said, to summarize, they had no credibility to begin with, so why the uproar left right and center on these boards?
I think lion its very good and fast and easily you can convert it in a giant iPad
(and bring back to life front row)
look at the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v5zQ3-eH10
FrontRow??
ok back on topic, the funniest part of the review on Giz was the reviewer actually complained about having multiple ways of switching between apps. At this point, like most of their articles, this review is seemingly useless and basically just written for ad revenue.
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