iOS will go downhill from here

[lunaoso]

Launchpad? Really? You like... launchpad?

I thought such people didn't exist...

I use it everyday! Much easier then having 30 apps on my dock or having to go into finder and double click or having to type it into spotlight. With launchpad I know where everything is and can easily open an app quickly.

 

[JS82712]

You know, neither of them wrote all the code themselves.

It's unfair to say Craig Federighi personally introduced any of those bugs and to label anything he works on because of it.

He had the power to say: 'this isn't ready, let's hold off the release for a month or two.'

 

[hyteckit]

we all know the things Craig has done over the last 2 years for OSX - putting in iOS features at the cost of system stability, and taking away features users loved (Expose, space,..etc)

What?

Expose and space is still there.

 

[thedeejay]

Just because you don't like something about Mac OSX doesn't mean anyone else doesn't. I personally like it and from this thread alone I can tell a few others do as well. People have been doubting Apple since day 1 and they've gotten this far without me or you. Right now they're facing a tough tide, like any normal growing company and eventually they'll over come it. Doesn't mean they'll have record breaking sales every time but for sure they'll probably overcome this. So to me it's another bitch and moan. I myself have had problems with ML. Who cares? Not everything runs flawlessly all the time. You gotta accept that and move on. If not...then that's unfortunate my friend

 

[Saladinos]

He had the power to say: 'this isn't ready, let's hold off the release for a month or two.'

There will always be bugs. Nothing you've mentioned would be considered a 'release blocker' for an OS update. Other bugs may only happen in certain, hard-to-reproduce scenarios. Some may be bugs that only you experience due to a random non-fatal hardware failure or cosmic radiation.

Debugging is hard. It's another thing Craig Federighi is unlikely to handle personally. If you want to moan about poor testing, direct your anger to Apple's QA team.

Oh, and as for the iOS stuff - I like it. I like having a notes app that's synced across my Mac and iPad. I like having the site I was reading on one device visible from all the others. I like bookmarks sync, reading list, iMessage and Photo Stream. I use all of those things regularly.

I have some ideas for stuff they could do better with them (everyone who uses anything has ideas for how it could be tailored even better to their individual lives), but I'm glad they're there. Both my Mac and iPad are better for it.

 

[ajvizzgamer101]

Craig Federighi has control over the iOS team now.

we all know the things Craig has done over the last 2 years for OSX - putting in iOS features at the cost of system stability, and taking away features users loved (Expose, space,..etc)

Snow leopard, also known as apple's windows xp, was built and managed by Bertrand Serlet, who has now left apple. and when Craig took over, he introduced...Wifi connectivity problems to iMacs, macbooks, and all sorts of system glitches.

Speaking of which, ML broke more things on my 3 macs than it fixed, even after 2 clean installs.

For a guy like this to take over iOS, I think it's safe to say..apple's best days are well behind us.

When I have those problems I will agree. I have seen OS X become the most power os over time.

 

[throAU]

Launchpad? Really? You like... launchpad?

I thought such people didn't exist...

I used to think "why??!" with launchpad, but if you run fullscreen, and use a trackpad it is actually half useful.

4 finger pinch and you can launch apps pretty easy. no need to exit full screen, swipe to a desktop, etc.

i'm actually using it. With ML you can search it by typing as well, so i can start twitter (for example) with a 4 finger pinch, type "tw" and hit enter.

rather than exiting full screen, or mousing up and waiting for spotlight to appear, etc. its a lot quicker.