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If you disagree, please explain why in comments. 5 magic in Lion, nor is the experience remarkably better than predecessor Snow Leopard for me. That's what creates the 'magic' Apple often uses to describe its products and the 'doh' and 'wow' experiences people have when first using them. The best products anticipate what users need and gives it to them. Focus groups won't tell you or beta feedback. 5 often sets them apart from everything else. Many Apple products incorporate all six principles, and No. When displacing something else, offers significantly better experience Allows people to do something they wished they could doĦ. Does what it's supposed to do really wellĥ.

In 2004, I first posted my four principles of good tech product design, which I expanded to six about two years later. Resume, which relaunches an app where the user left it, is another. One other benefit offers much, but introduces unnecessary complexity with it: Auto-save. The biggest: price ($29.99 for your personal Macs) and ease of purchase/installation (download from the Mac App Store and update).

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Windows 8 Metro UI fixes that problem, and Apple better hope Microsoft drags its ass getting the new OS to market.īut I find in Lion too much change for the sake of it, just like Windows Vista, without enough compelling benefits.

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I'd argue, in fact, that one of the fundamental reasons Microsoft couldn't make Tablet PC a success - years before Apple launched iPad - is full-screen mode, or lack of truly having it.

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Microsoft rightly is going there, too, and full screen already is state of the art on smartphones and media tablets. I have no problem with change, and full screen is the future of personal computing interfaces. The two objectives are intertwined with respect to certain decisions Apple has made regarding how some very basic UI elements function differently.

From that perspective, Lion radically differs from all other modern operating systems, except Chrome OS, which only functions in full-screen mode. Most people are likely to buy an iOS device first and a Mac later (if at all).Īpple is driving users to full-screen apps and trying to mimic the touchscreen experience of iOS devices.

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Considering how many more iOS devices Apple has shipped ( 250 million) versus the Mac install base (58 million), it's unsurprising that Apple would look to making its desktop operating system more like the mobile one - not the other way around. Most of the usability changes are philosophical and support an Apple worldview about computers and mobile devices: Features like multi-touch gestures (including reversing the direction of the scroll pad), LaunchPad (which presents apps in a way reminiscent of iOS) or full-screen apps all derive from behaviors taken from Apple's mobile operating system.

Priorities aren't all in the right place, compared to previous OS X releases, with changes made for Apple's benefit - such as trying to unify many behaviors with iOS - and increased complexity where simplicity should be priority. Others will disagree, but I see in Lion many uncharacteristic user interface and file system changes that smack of Windows Vista.

Also, I find the hardware options, particularly the all-important display and resolution, to be much better from Windows PC manufacturers than Apple in the same price range. Lion is the first Mac operating system that I don't like. Mac OS X 10.7 - aka 'Lion' - is major, but not only, reason. After more than two months using the Samsung Series 5 Chromebook running Google's Chrome OS, I didn't go back to the Mac but to Windows 7. On October 6, I made a dramatic, personal computing switch.

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