Ooh! Ooh! I just thought of something! I hate how Mac desktops don't come with mouse pads, and how mouse pads are not for sale in the Apple retail store either.
Forget the mousepad, how about the mouse?
I have never used a Mac mouse that was really any good at all (despite Steve waxing on about them at MacWorld every time they pump out a new one.)
The three most iconic designs they have had are the original square box one, the "hockey-puck" one from the original iMacs, and the Mighty-Mouse they currently have.
The boxy one combined with OS-9's insane menu behaviour required a sort of death-grip that gave half of my office carpal-tunnel system in the 90's. The puck like round mouse was a similar ergonomic nightmare that no-one I ever met liked to use and the mighty-mouse is just a piece of junk.
The second button of the Mighty Mouse requires you to lift the rest of your hand *off* the device to use it and the ball clogs up with junk in about a week. Since it clogs up faster than any other mouse wheel/ball I have ever seen it's pretty foolish that it is not only un-cleanable but that the mouse is sealed and more or less impossible to service. It also costs far too much for what it is.
I have personally gone through five or six of these things on my various computers since they came out. If Apple intends us to think of the mouse as a fashion accessory for the desktop and to chuck it out every time it gets dirty, they could at least sell them for ten bucks instead of 50 to 70 bucks.
Yeah, this really does say it all. If Apple dev is as condescending as a large part of its fanbase, it's going to be a while before we see a feature people have been clamoring for for years. Seriously, as someone else said, I can't tell whether I find inferior implementation or people who can't help putting you down for not liking said inferior implementation more irritating. In either case, these are easily the two least appealing parts of Macland for me.
It's not a matter of condescension, it's a matter of
design.
The Windows model is just to throw everything in there that anyone ever asked for. OS-X is carefully thought through and tested to see what works best. Once they figure out the best way to do something they make that that the standard and go with it.
They then try to stand behind that standard in the face of criticism like yours, again not out of "smugness" but because they have a rational clear understanding based on facts, that their method of doing x, y, or z, is the best way to go for the majority of users.
Speaking of simple file operations, why does it take two keys to Undo, but three to redo? It's Ctrl+Z to Undo on Windows, Ctrl+Y to Redo on Windows. For some reason, OS X decided to "think different" and require a third finger to Redo commands. I've got a third finger for whoever thought that up. Makes no sense at all....
You must have not been around for long or used Windows computers before XP.
This is actually as close to a "standard" way of doing keyboard shortcuts as there ever has been. What you are thinking of as the "Mac way" goes all the way back to DOS and before.
A key combination of any kind (Cmd-Tab for instance), has always been able to be reversed by adding the Shift (in this case Shift-Cmd-Tab). This was the way with DOS, Win3.1, Win95, and MacOS. If I remember correctly this was mostly the case even in Commodore 64 days.
>>> System Preferences >>> Dock >>> and then at the bottom, you'll see "minimizing effect" and change it from "genie" to "Scale effect."