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Fun fact: Path Finder is developed by one guy
I’m giving the new Path Finder 5 another spin around my desktop to decide whether I want to finally throw down for a license. I was surprised to learn from this page of John Siracusa’s review of Mac OS X 10.4 for Ars that Path Finder is actually the work of a single developer, Steve Gehrman. Impressive.
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”Apple just ended WWDC with a huge middle finger to iPhone developers.
Of course it did. The pro-developers guy works for Microsoft.
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A letter I submitted to apple.com/feedback/iphone.html:
What the hell are you thinking by ripping GV Mobile out of the store after tons of customers have paid for it, and denying Google’s official Google Voice app? I bought GV Mobile, are you going to rip it out of my iPhone too? And are you going to keep my money when you do it? You guys have pulled a lot of stunts in the last year but this is getting ridiculous. Do you hate your customers? Do you hate your developers? You created this great store, but you’re shitting on the two groups of people who are directly responsible for making it something to brag about. The App Store and the iPhone would be absolutely nothing without apps like GV Mobile, which is a great app for a truly wonderful and innovative service from Google.
I’m a massive Apple fan. I’ve owned probably 6 PowerBooks, MacBooks, and MacBook Pros over the years. I have a Mac Pro, an Apple TV, and my wife owns an iPhone 3G. I’ve owned at least one of every generation iPod—literally, every generation—and our iTunes library just crept past the 500GB mark. But I have never been so ashamed of Apple as a company as I am now in light of the debacle you call an App Store. I would have no problem with dropping your products and AT&T for companies that don’t treat their customers like dirt.
The App Store, iPhone, and iPod touch are wonderful new products, but you’re tearing their foundation apart brick by brick. Your policies could not be any more hostile towards both your developers and your customers, even if they included a weekly beating from an AppleDon’tCare representative. Stop this.
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”How many minutes does an average user (or worse, a novice user) spend reading a label describing a confusing concept, trying to figure out what the hell it does, before asking their Computer Friend for help or skipping it entirely? One might ask how many people are desperately looking for a Minimize All item in OS X’s Window menu, not realizing they need to hold the ⌥ key. And if there were such a menu item, one might ask how many people would waste time reading it when they don’t need it, and how many people would hit it by mistake.
Mail’s Email Aliases, and Complexity Hidden - Release Candidate One
Chris Clark uses a couple of anecdotes to nail one of the most difficult challenges that constantly pulls at the heart of design. It’s obnoxious when software developers and designers duck this question by adding buttons and sliders and windows and doodads for every single feature they can think of. This cowardice is woven into the very cultural fabric of way too many Windows software shops because they have been scared into believing that they have to please everyone. They don’t.
But when developers and designers hit the bullseye, software “just works” like a skilled orchestra that’s played together for years. It’s harmonious and a joy to experience.
via Daring Fireball
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