Apple Releases Lion

[TheAppleFreak]

I'm annoyed at Apple because they kept changing everything in the development process so a lot of Companies/Developers couldn't keep up. Also if you didn't know Apple decided to throw away flash and the online pdf reader.

I followed the developer previews, and it didn't look as if much of the code had changed too substantially. Also, what are you talking about? Apple hasn't shipped a copy of Flash with new computers since 2010 and their built-in PDF reader is working fine for me in Safari. Preview is still alive and well.

Unless you mean Java; Apple's not developing in-house versions anymore. It's a mixed blessing; on the one hand, users who need to install Java will get the latest version available (and Software Update tells them if they need it), but on the other, it's one more system plugin to keep track of.

I'm still trying to get my MacBook fully functional after the update; it broke most of my customizations and introduced a bunch of other glitches. Among them were Safari not quitting after going into Private Browsing mode and Fullscreen and Lion not waking up from sleep, requiring a cold reboot. Likewise, I'm also trying to figure out how to reenable the Library to show, but not everything else. I'm annoyed that they took out the user-specific Application folder; for multi-user computers that could have been really useful. And it's been four developer previews, one gold master, and the retail release and I STILL don't like the new Dashboard.

Otherwise, it's running okay. I do very much like Mission Control, and Fullscreen has been quite a nice addition. Some of the new app revisions are very nice too (iCal, Mail, Address Book, etc). This shall be very interesting.

 

[Nihilego]

I'm also trying to figure out how to reenable the Library to show, but not everything else.

Hold Alt / Option and click on Finder's "Go" menu and "Library" will appear as a choice.

 

[Deleted member 12729]

I'm annoyed at Apple because they kept changing everything in the development process so a lot of Companies/Developers couldn't keep up. Also if you didn't know Apple decided to throw away flash and the online pdf reader.

Where did you read this from? Are you a developer? They didn't change things all that much bro.

 

[Zet]

Where did you read this from? Are you a developer? They didn't change things all that much bro.

PPC support was dropped so Adobe Photoshop's droplets were broken.

 

[Archer]

PPC support was dropped so Adobe Photoshop's droplets were broken.

If any developer was naive enough to miss the writing on the wall when PPC began phasing out almost 6 years ago, they had it coming. If they can't turn a small aspect of code in one program to x86 code when they would have to for the Windows platform anyway, I'd have to wonder who's really being the ignorant company here.

Rosetta emulation slows things down anyway. Why wasn't the code rewritten earlier?

Finally, one important point stands (and people seem to miss it most of the time): "What you had still works the way it did."
If anyone expects to be able to keep old and new stuff together without consequences, they're usually asking too much. This doesn't just apply to Apple, at all. I heard someone complaining the other day that Quicken V6 doesn't work with Windows 7. And? It was designed for Windows 98. It still works with 98 through to XP. Use them. But if you want to use an OS that's over 10 years newer than the software, you might be out of luck. Yes, you'll have to update to the newer version of Quicken.