You seemed to contradict yourself in so far as you appeared to be advocating Lion for development of iOS apps, and yet disparaging it for hand-holding. On re-reading your post again I see you refer to OS X for application development rather than Lion specifically. I assumed incorrectly, something to which I'll happily admit.
Then I apologize for being ambiguous.
I was simply referring to development in general. My own personal source of income (and only source of income at that) stems primarily from iOS development, with the occasional Mac OS X application thrown in (usually server-side things for applications that require something sitting on the computer to talk to).
Being able to work productively and efficiently is what puts food on my table. Right now, 10.6.8 lets me do that. 10.7 does not, and things like Mission Clutter are in fact a bane to my workflow- enough so that I simply cannot waste the time dealing with it, because time is literally money.
What? Do you have a crystal ball? You have absolutely no idea who is sitting behind their computers causing a stir about Lion, your post is nothing more than an assumption. In regards to "Pro Users", again, you have no idea what type of users are doing the complaining. You're assuming once again.
. FYI, I've seen a handful of Windows users right on this forum saying they don't use Macs but tried out a friend's Mac running Lion and they hated it and were quite vocal on something they have very little experience using.
I have a crystal ball. It's called "friends in the industry".
I can, from direct experience and knowledge, essentially file Lion users that I personally know into one of two groups:
1) Those who are doing non-professional tasks (checking Facebook, writing emails, surfing the internet, managing iTunes music)- who really don't care, and in fact, tend to enjoy everything Lion has to offer.
2) Those who are doing professional tasks (graphics design, audio engineering, post production in television or film)- who definitely care about the changes in Lion, enough so that they've all simply ignored it and gone on with life, and will deal with any attempts to otherwise force them onto 10.7 later (which basically amounts to jumping ship).
Apple already had to back peddle on FCP 7- being that it is now available again if you really need it. There will be severe repercussions to what is left of Apple's professional user base if they continue down the path they're heading with on Lion, and refuse to give users the bare minimum of choices that they should have on any computing platform.
Hell, I wouldn't have any problem at all with Apple offering a desktop, workstation, AND server OS. Sell the base package for $29 or whatever. Then let the users chose what package (if any) they want to tack on for additional features and control. Going even further on that idea, there's no reason why Mission Control and Expose need to be baked into the operating system itself. They could just as well have been apps purchasable through the App Store for $4.99. Let the user figure out which one they want.
-SC
