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Resume, Auto-Save and Versions are useless candy? You may not like these features, but they're a pretty big deal.
Sorry, I was referring to his second paragraph. But anyways, if we must....
Resume is useless candy for many apps yes, go look back at my explanation. Auto-Save and Versions are basically one feature, and not all that big of a deal.
Whenever I turn in an assignment, I always take the .txt template the professor gave, and then put my stuff where it needs to go. So then when I am done, I have an edited version of the original template that I just go and click "Save as" and make that my turn in file. That way I don't save over the original template and I would always do that in TextEdit.
Now, instead of just starting right away, I have to go up to the menu, find duplicate, and click that. Then it keeps the old one open, so I go and close that next. Then I can finally start typing. Then when I am done, I save it and choose the directory for it to go in. This takes more time than just typing and using the keyboard shortcut for save as. Also, there is no keyboard shortcut for duplicate, kinda dumb if you ask me.
So sure, auto-save may be good for some people, but by taking out the "Save as" feature and can really slow people down. And because of that, I don't think it's worth it. Maybe if they add that feature back in and allowed the user to customize Auto-save then it would be worth it, but Apple doesn't care about customization, its their way or the high way.
And even if you think differently about Auto-save, thats 1 feature that its useless candy. But I have a different opinion and I stick to my original statement.
that one I actually agree with. There should possibly even be a shortcut for "Duplicate, and close the original".