Sure MacWorld 2008 stunned the world and I got lotsa nice things to say about the Macintosh over a Windows-based machine, but there may be a few suggestions I have to get even more converts:
INCLUDE SOME INSTRUCTIONS, WILL YA! Ok, so I know it supposed to be intuitive-like and all but can we have a few more instructions included other than how to connect it all up? Once I did hook it up and then turned it on and marveled appropriately at the kickass apple icon, I was faced with the annoying fact that I didn't know f*ck all to do with the thing. So I just sat, feeling like a kid having been given the space shuttle for his 12th birthday and told, "See yaz latah!"
HEY, HOW ABOUT SOME USEFUL SOFTWARE? iLife, my eye! I'd like simple inexpensive programs that allow me to work with Microsoft created documents or simply view pictures in a slideshow without having to either import 'em or put a tag on 'em. This seems to be beyond the comprehension of the software engineers at Apple, who instead decided to unleash Safari on the Win world and so prove Win apps are better after all.
LESS LEFT-BRAIN, MORE LOGIC AS TO HOW THINGS WORK. Of course I like the softer way Macs work as well as the next person, but can we get some logic to its operation as well? For example in MacMail, I wanted to change my mail server. Thinking "Easy! I'll go in, delete the old mail server and put in the details for the new one." I startled koalas with my screams of anguish as at the same time MacMail proceeded to happily delete every single message I ever received or sent from my account. Weakly going to Apple support and looking up the topic there it was in black and white, "Deleting a mail server will delete all messages sent or received from that server." It was followed by another line which simply had on it, "Duh."Yeah, I know you have this success under your belt, Steve. But just remember NeXt, Lisa, and the Apple IIe and be humble.
Be very very humble.
- Farmer Ted
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