Comments on: Hey Apple, give me what I want (cause surely the whole world wants it to)

By: richarde

richarde — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 14:11:04 +0000

Love the idea of a sliding Dashboard. Dashboard contains lots of useful apps, all of which go unused launching the app takes over your entire screen.

If Apple don’t do it, maybe a third party app might?

As far as competing with Windows 7, I can’t imagine thats on Apple’s radar. Instead I imagine they will moving towards an iOS model, if the recent preview of OS 10.7 was anything to go by..

By: Travis

Travis — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 17:43:29 +0000

I could pretty much care less about most of this. I haven’t burned a cd in about 6 mos. I use a 27″ and 24″ display so spaces is useless. Widgets doesn’t bother me and most of all, I HATE the landscape keyboard and use the vertical keyboard almost exclusively. The only exception is when I’m laying down.

The one most useful feature I would love to see implemented is add in an app icon over the top of windows in expose. With safari possibly showing the same image as the project I’m working on in Photoshop or cocerflow in pathfinder and iTunes it’s easy to get lost and pick the wrong window.

By: Robert Elliott

Robert Elliott — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 13:18:14 +0000

If anything, you would think Apple could keep us “logged in” to password entry after the first one that has been asked for. Like if we are installing more than one app. Have the system ask for your name and password for the first install. Then, for the installs that follow the first one, not have the system ask for your name and password because we just put it in. That would be nice.

By: Reboot

Reboot — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 18:49:20 +0000

The Dashboard, Spaces, and mini calendar suggestions would be nice. I have to switch to iCal quite a few times during the day, it is a pain. I don’t use Dashboard much due to its taking over the whole display. It’s not easy to keep track of constantly changing widgets, it would be nice at a glance, and with the widescreen displays many people now have it wouldn’t get in the way. Spaces indeed needs some refinement. They have barely touched it since its inception.

Disc burning could use some enhancement, like a simple real world choice between burning formats, Mac only, ISO 9660, etc. It doesn’t make a full copy when burning anymore though, it just makes an alias to the file. They stopped that with 10.4 I think, if not 10.3. Toast takes a long time for its Write-out which actually makes the total burn time longer, but Toast does verify about 25% or so faster. On a full DVD that’s around 3 minutes or so quicker, not sure why, my guess is the Finder is the bottleneck there.

But the password thing, I doubt we’ll ever see that. I can see being able to shut it off for a set amount of time, that would be handy. An hour maybe, enough time to get through for example an Adobe updating session that asks you for a password for every single update you’ve just requested to do, but as far as having the option to totally turn it off, I don’t think it’s a good idea. How often do you install things anyway? It’s not like it’s an all day every day occurrence. For me it’s not anyway and I like to play with the new whiz bang things.