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Okay, I've been complaining about iBook stuff so I should include a link to another excellent Apple bitching site. I mean, they've probably covered everything that I would notice, and more. (But I think they have removed some items?! They used to have one about how the iBook hinge is badly designed because it causes the LCD to be lower by an inch or so than a traditional hinge.)

(In case you are wondering, I use Safari over Firebird because the latter can't keep up with my scrolling and I quickly lose sense of where I am on the bloody page. Safari at least doesn't quite suck so much in that regard. Sure, I should get myself a real machine instead of this old G4/500, but whatever.)

Another list is more low-level.

• 150) I think it is funny-sad how many things on a Mac don't actually "just work" when that seems like one of the big deals I hear about with Macs. I, too, have seen CDs not mount properly, and wondered why packages need to be "installed", and how to un-install them, etc. And I super dislike any windowing system that has the 'close' box next to the other things like 'minimize' and 'maximize'. (Oh, and that the 'maximize' widget is more like the 'smoke some crack' widget). Maybe Apple needs to get Cooper to teach 'em a thing or two.
• 149) Good thing the Darwin Ports instructions are wrong. I get the feeling I should be igoring anything on any site or page that talks about Darwin Ports, and go only look at MacPorts. Great. Good thing we can't just get rid of the wrong broken misleading hateful old junk, now, can we?
• 148) First off, it kills me that there's too many different OS package thingies for Mac OS X: Fink, DarwingPorts, MacPorts, heaven only knows what else. Trying to figure out which one is the Right One to use is already suckful. It looks like DarwinPorts has a more recent version of Erlang than Fink does, so I go for that... and the installer says "Time Remaining: Less than a minute" with an un-advancing progress bar for pretty much the entirety of the installation process: which is tens of minutes (seems to depend on your network speed)! So to me it just looks like it is hung. I guess we can see what bringing the classic usability of Open Source to the Macintosh has done. (P.S.: if you open up the Log and then tell it to Show Everything, you'll be better off.)
• 147) It is killing me that no method of rebinding the "caps lock" key to "control" on this iBook actually fully works. A good 10% of the time the system emphatically does not see it as "control" which of course leads to no end of suck in Emacs and Terminal shells, let alone everywhere else. Both uControl and OS X 10.4 have the same problem, so I guess it is something about how the hardware is set up?! If I weren't too cheap to buy a replacement laptop, I'd go get something that at least had the Fn key to the right of the Ctrl key. Lord, how can anybody who claims to be based on unix (in other words Apple == Mach, BSD) produce such a completely broken keyboard system - from the unix perspective?
• 146) I know. Let's let people rebind things like the "caps lock" key to the "control" key, but then when they are entering their password lets make sure the binding isn't in effect so that they can end up with their password not working because they key they've told the machine is control is actually acting like "caps lock". True usability inspiration for us all.
• 145) Nice how the login display shows up and I click on my icon and... nothing happens. I click again and it notices. So I guess just because the login display is there doesn't mean it is ready to let me log in. Yeah, baby!
• 144) So far, for older laptops, uControl is the only thing that has a way to do scrolling via the trackpad - but it doesn't work for 10.4, so I'm SOL. People point to SideTrack or SmartScrollX (by the guy that donated the code I like to uControl) but as far as I could tell, neither did the "hold a key to make the whole trackpad a scroll wheel" thing, which is all I really want. Instead they have a range of insane, complicated, unsuable, overkill so-called "features" that have basically nothing to do with what I actually want. Seems like everybody continues to miss the point. Bah, humbug.
• 143) Speaking of Apple-flavoured Crack, I don't understand why anybody thinks it is cool that the "caps lock" light still operates when I've told Tiger to remap that key to "control".
• 142) This doesn't make sense to me: When I go to shut down the mac, it puts up an "are you sure" kind of dialog box. The "shut down now" button is filled in. The "cancel" button is not, but has a halo around it. Pressing return causes the computer to shut down. Pressing, instead, the space bar causes cancels. What kind of special "let's make things incomprehensible" crack is Apple smoking these days?
• 141) Sweet. On a machine running 10.4, I got a message telling me it had crashed and that I had to reboot. So very Windows 95 like! Thanks! Then, after it rebooted, some dialog came up asking me if I wanted to see the details of the crash etc. and I said yes... and nothing ever happened, no report appeared. Double sweet. (Looking in the Console app, the logs appear to have some journaling FS errors right at the time of the crash. Yay.)
• 140) Wow. The "Grab" utility is useful... but stupid. When you grab a selection, it has the coordinates displayed in a mouse tool-tip. Which. Covers. Up. What. You. Are. Trying. To. See. So, like, it is hard to make the right selection. You, know, like, the entire point of the utility? Freaking genius.
• 139) Safari does this pretty neat thing where if you interrupt it loading the next page, it can end up with an image of the page you were leaving, but it thinks it is on a blank new page. So you can't click on anything in the old page. If you go "back" then the page image you are seeing becomes usable. Nifty usability trick, there folks.
• 138) I started trying to use Safari because Camino's SVG implementation is kinda sad. So then it was interesting to see how Safari (1.3.2, I'm on Panther) is apparently kind of super crash-tastic. Nice.
• 137) Wow. And here I thought MS Windows had something like the patent on stupid unusability, where they pretty much make the user manually refresh the File Explorer to be sure it is showing reality. But then along comes the Mac "Open File" dialog which screws the proverbial pooch as, if not more, worse. Yay.
• 136) One of the problems with the NeXT-style file browser is that it pretty much forces you to lose all context, because it has a rather limited number of columns. (Also, BTW, it sucks that it doesn't support differing sort orders.) Whereas with MS's File Explorer, there is a chance that the path you are digging into will still all fit into the hierarchy tree view on the left of the window.
• 135) Now this is what I call user-friendly: I download a dmg (of Wings 3D) and double-click on it... and nothing happens. Not even an error message. Cool!
• 134) I guess the way to Think Different is to create an ecosystem where even reading a simple PDF is a freaking nightmare? The OS's "Preview" application sucks donkey poop - it doesn't even resize to full-screen if you click on the green "+" in its title bar. So then I try some other tools including PDF Viewer, which is out of date and doesn't know how to scroll upwards well by page, and of course Adobe Reader - which fails to download because their servers are unreachable. Even though, you know, I obviously have an internet connection since I downloaded their bloody downloader. So I'm left with no un-hateful way to read a simple PDF. Great. Lovely. The happy warm comfortable alternative universe vs. MS Windows, everything Just Works so well in OS X... hurl.
• 133) It is almost as if Apple wants to make an operating system they could market as having, "All the warts of MS Windows, and almost none of the games!" I had a DVD in the machine and it got "stuck" where no application that I could find was using it (lsof didn't report anything, and ps uxww didn't reveal anything obvious - and even if they did, a regular user shouldn't ever have to resort to that kind of thing, duh), yet it wouldn't eject. The Finder insisted it was in use by some application, but of course wouldn't name what application it thought was using it. Genius. There are some ways or two to kick the bloody machine in the head, fortunately. I guess. At least. Whatever.
• 132) I don't think I will ever get used to the crappy Finder browsing. The Windows File Explorer mode with the hierarchy on the left and the details on the right is the only even half-way decent file system browser I've seen to date. Sad.
• 131) Like Tog said, the fact that the green "+" icon in the window title bar sometimes actually makes the window smaller is completely insane. And we're on, what, version 10.4/10.5 now?
• 130) I have a dream - of a day when whoever writes the sorting rules for things like the list of files in the Finder (or Windows File Explorer, or whatever) realizes that 123-456-1 should come after 123-456.
• 129) The two-fingers-on-the-trackpad-to-scroll thing is cool. Too bad the MacBook we have is in a state where I've disabled that, and now if you have two fingers on the trackpad, it basically freezes. This is bad because if you brush the trackpad with anything while you are trying to mouse around, it freezes. Which happens a lot. Bad.
• 128) Dell laptops have some serious suckage, but at least they have the double set of mouse buttons around the trackpad so I can use both hands to move-and-click, rather than ending up doing the thing where my right hand is contorted so it can be used to do both moving and clicking, which is what the ergonomics of Mac laptops ends up being. (Also, somebody really needs to learn how to make trackpad areas that won't get hit while I'm typing.)
• 127) Wow. We just got a brand-new MacBook Core Duo 2, and... the Finder is a flying piece of excrement! This completely boggles the mind. Two examples: When I delete a file via an icon view, there remains a horizontal gray bar on the screen where the bottom of the icon was, until I scroll around to cause that area to repaint! Also, the layout algorithm for "Clean Up" was written by some utterly crack-smoking dumb-ass; it is more like a "Grid Align with Random Gaps and Heck Put Some Icons Off the Side of the Window For Fun". This is for what people are switching?
• 126) Ha ha. Under OS X, the mouse tracking from my iBook's trackpad is juddery and often unresponsive. The same thing under Ubuntu is super glassy interactively heavenly smooth. WTF? I guess Apple long ago got rid of the idea of a having the mouse pointer be 60 FPS no matter what?
• 125) Yes, the Preview app still sucks. To wit: I'm looking at the bottom half of page 1. I want to go on to page 2. Pressing down or dragging up to move the view down does nothing; the end of Page 1 is a wall. You can only get to page 2, apparently, with the page controls. So that seems kind of really annoying to me. Guess what, there's a kicker! The 'next page' command surely does take me to page 2, but it takes me to the end of page 2 because I was at the end of page 1. Complete and utter insanity when it comes to usability.
• 124) Yes, the Preview app still sucks. To wit: if the document takes up the whole application window then when you go to drag the bottom-right of the window to resize it, the mouse cursor remains the hand. It should change to the regular mouse arrow pointer to let you know you are over the clik-drag area, but no. Only if the document is smaller than the window will it change to the arrow. Whatever.
• 123) Some commentary regarding Linux vs. OS X that I can get behind (on both sides).
• 122) I haven't complained about the Dock in a while: It bugs me that it is translucent in parts, rather than opaque, because (I've seen this repeatedly) people might try to click on the window that is behind the Dock in an attempt to get the click to that window rather than the Dock. Yes, that is logically stupid of them, but I think the blame falls on the shoulders of the usability testers and UI folks at Apple.
• 121) When you insert a blank DVD for recording, a dialog box comes up asking you want application or action you want to have in response to the DVD. There is a button labelled "Ignore" which I clicked because I didn't really want any application or action or window, in my mind - I just wanted the blank disc to appear in the Finder windows I already had open so that I could copy stuff over for burning. Well, it turns out that is not a good button to click because the geniuses at Apple have decided it means you should never see anything about the disc, and thus you should not even be able to eject the thing to try starting the process all over again. I had to start Disk Utility to eject the bloody thing. This is the best OS UI in existence?
• 120) It is nice how Mac OS X doesn't have the same problem as MS Windows, where application windows (e.g. dialog boxes) can end up being beneath other windows and thus hidden, with nothing else to indicate their existance; nothing in the Task Bar, or sometimes even the Alt-Tab list. Oh. Wait. Ha ha, OS X does have that same bloody stupid problem! Nice! (The one difference is that Cmd-Tab to an application in OS X will cause all of the windows for that application to come up, so that ameliorates the situation a little bit.)
• 119) I do not like how OX S presents the "Alt-Tab" (Option-Tab? Command-Tab? Whatever.) list because the icons are just too bloody large. When I am working in some program my attention is generally focused on a small area of the screen. Using the application switch list brings up huge icons which are impossible for me to parse until I mentally take a step back and re-look at them to figure out what they are. That's jarring and needless; the implementation in Windows is better because the icons are smaller. Having said that, I think in both versions the systems suck because they only use icons and no text; when I have more than two or three entries in the switch list it is hard to know what the icons really represent.
• 118) Firefox is killing me.
• 117) I'm impressed how iTunes on WinXP completely locks up the UI at the very end of every file download, for like 3 seconds. I guess they've never heard of 'threads' over at Apple's software engineering? The real kicker is that not only is the UI locked up, but any mouse clicks I do during that time are not even in the queue when it wakes up; I have to click again.
• 116) Holy heck, this is supposed to be the OS for media folks? The frickin' preview app doesn't even match up to what you get in Windows for crying out loud! I download a bunch of camera pictures and no I don't want to use bloody hateful iPhoto, I just want to open them with Preview and quickly remove the ones that are obviously dud pictures. I can do that under Windows XP no problem, but the Mac OS X preview application doesn't know that I'm in a directory, so it doesn't have next and last buttons unless I manually select all the files first (sure, that is more consistent but it is also less useful), and it doesn't have a delete button to ditch the file from the folder into the Trash. No, the 'lickability' factor does not make up for the lack of actual functionality.
• 115) The finder doesn't even know the size of files (yes, that's the Get Info for the highlighted file on top). And it doesn't even have Windows's (pathetic) "Refresh" command to compensate.
• 114) Apparently, Macs have managed to push their hate of folks with disabilities, or folks who just like to use the Tab key to move through web forms, into Firefox as well! Great! It took me a while to stop just seething and do some googling to find what is hopefully a resolution. But I'll always find it a shooting offense that Apple ships software like this.
• 113) I dislike having to do something weird to turn things on and off; the iPod's manner of turning off bugs me no end.
• 112) It also really annoys me that Apple can't just settle on one bloody look-and-feel: even their metal look is different between Safari and iTunes. Whatever.
• 111) It bugs the crap outta me that Apple's brushed-metal apps, like Safari, don't gray-out the title bar when they are not active. Only the text changes color a little bit. That's <expletive>ing stupid!
• 110) This takes the biscuit! I'm running OS X Tiger on a B&W G3 upgraded to a G4/450, with a standard Yosemite graphics card - and Quicktime trailers on the bloody Apple trailer site doesn't show anything other than blackness! Sweet!
• 109) It completely sucks that Safari's right-click "google search" of hilighted text doesn't do the search in a new tab or window, but completely replaces what you've already got. Stupid! Haven't these people ever heard of Firefox?
• 108) It really freaking annoys me that I can't use the Esc key to get out of an informative dialog box (one that only has an OK button, nothing else) in OS X.
• 107) Good thing Safari's New Tab command doesn't go to the home page. Yeah, great.
• 106) It is nice how all computers apparently have to suck - because humans suck. OS X went to sleep or started the screen saver or something, and kinda ignored my "shutdown +120" that was supposed to turn the thing off over night. So when I checked it in the morning, many hours after the time it should have shut down, I moved the mouse and it came out of sleep - and immediately shut down! Greaaat.
• 105) Freaking genius user interface, here, people: when iCal is in the Dock is shows "Jul 17" even though today is Dec 17. When I launch iCal, it shows the correct date in the Dock, and when I quit it reverts to the wrong date. So that's really useful.
• 104) I love how I can hide anything other than the Finder, apparently. So getting rid of Finder windows requires a completely different approach than for any other application. That is just plain stupid.
• 103) It is pretty impressive how there are large differences between the world you see through the Finder, and the one visible via the shell. A couple small examples: A program that I can double-click on to launch in the Finder is reported to be an unexecutable file via the shell, with no hints as to how to fire it up from there. Also, when I try to 'cp' the file, I end up with something that can't be launched be either the shell or the Finder. (Then, there's all sorts of whackyness with permissions.)
• 102) Here's something worth patenting (not!): Apple's Preview doesn't select text from a single column in a dual-column PDF file. When I'm trying to select text from one column, the selection is ends up being the entire width of the page, so it is including text from the next column over! Utterly nuts. Note that Adobe Acrobat does not suffer from this broken functionality, and successfully selects only text in the column I want.
• 101) The lickable look-and-feel gets to be grating pretty quickly. This is especially the case when you have many UI controls on the screen because they are all trying to look 3D so the gestalt is a wavy screen where each little area is demanding to be licked. There is a lot to be said for flat or super simply beveled widgets. Don't forget that most people are idiots when it comes to UI, so the glossy 3D is only going to exacerbate such issues.
• 100) I find it funny (as in, pathetic) that Apple still releases mice that do not have a scroll wheel.
• 99) MS Windows lets you change the size of controls like the scroll bar. I don't know of a way to do that in OS X. Kinda sucks because I find the scroll bars to be too narrow.
• 98) I'd like to use darcs but the binary is available through fink, which doesn't work on my machine. Amongst the various problems with fink is that trying to do "fink update-all" hits a point where it is trying to update ncurses and says "you have to switch to gcc 3.3" since Tiger has gcc 4.0. So I switch to 3.3 and run "fink update-all" again... and it just immediately says "oh, you need to use gcc 4.0 buddy." So then I try to use 3.3 and only do "fink update ncurses" but that either isn't the right syntax, or ncurses doesn't exist ha ha ha ha ha.
• 97) Why do Apple programs not have keyboard shortcuts for choosing windows? Terminal does, but Safari doesn't. Nor does the bloody Finder for crying out loud!
• 96) Nice how there's seven zillion different ways of installing software on OS X, so you can end up with like four different versions of emacs, with questionable abilities to update or remove said installations, or something fun like that. I guess other people have felt this pain, too.
• 95) Good thing there's no 100% decent version of Emacs for OS X Aqua. Personally, I think the Aquaemacs people are utterly insane, and actually sorta just plain dumb. Back to the DarwinPorts version, I guess... or, maybe not: make[1]: *** No rule to make target `../src/epaths.h', needed by `yow'. Stop. make: *** [lib-src] Error 2. Everything sucks, but right now at least Aquaemacs actually runs on this machine, so I guess I'm stuck with it.
• 94) Aquaemacs sucks in so many ways... find-file opens a whole new frame, rather than just a new buffer. Bastards. It starts up really quickly... not. I'm dying because I've sorta found indications that I can make find-file work the way I want yet there isn't sufficient documentatio or info to tell me how to actually set the bloody option. Maybe I've died and I really am in hell? Oh, and then going into the customization mode is pretty funny because they've made it look like utter crap, making it harder to parse wtf is going on. Yes! And these are the folks that claim to be improving emacs's usablity! (Update: the "open buffers in separate frames" thing is under the Options menu, as in the standard Apple menubar. Nice that nowhere was that explained, at least as far as Google could determine. Oh, and the kicker is that it doesn't save the changes until you explicitly tell it to. Whatever!)
• 93) I'm trying to figure out why Java is broken under Tiger for me. Yay. I'm looking through the Apple Developer downloads to see if there are any Java patches I should apply (even though Software Update claims I'm totally up-to-date). To do that, I'm searching for "Java" and I want to see the results in chronological order. Unfortunately, the results do not show their date, so even though I've told it to sort by time, I have no idea which way it has sorted. (Since the top hit is something for Mac OS 10.3, I'm guessing it is sorting from earliest to most recent, which is exactly the wrong way for my - and I suspect just about 99% of folks' - purposes.) To further rub things in, their Advanced Search doesn't let you specify any ordering by date. I'm not sure which particular pack of monkeys on crack they used to make this search engine, but I wish they would spend another ten dollars and get the good crack instead.
• 92) Funny how the Dashboard coming and going animations don't work well on my B&W G4 (lame PCI ATI card), stuttering at like 1 frame a second, yet the QuickSilver animations, which look pretty much the same (scaling, alpha), work absolutely perfectly smoothly.
• 91) In the Finder, you can show things via the "List" view, which can have several columns of information per row (which is a single file). You can resize the column widths, but the cursor doesn't show you that; it doesn't change from the arrow pointer to the 'resize border' pointer until you click on the little 'border' graphic. This all kinda sucks because clicking on the title of a column selects that as the new sort order, so you are running the risk of accidentally resorting when all you wanted to do was move things around. Of course, if you didn't know that you could move things around then you'd also possibly get into that mode surprisingly, because the cursor never changed to show you there was this other mode, etc. etc. So, all in all, it is all kinda bad.
• 90) Spotlight is supposed to be the dope-shinola, and yet it can't even find emacs. In Terminal I get "/usr/bin/emacs" when I ask "which emacs" but Spotlight doesn't find that. Oh, and there is apparently no way to get Spotlight to show the size of files it has found, so you can't sort by that profile. Great. So useful. Worth every penny. Whatever!
• 89) I'm connecting over the web to get a dmg of lots of Tiger Packages. It took bloody for ever for the icons to show up. Then, I clicked to change the view in the Finder window to List... and the bloody thing is locked up again, apparently re-fetching everything! And this time around, the Finder is freaked out and I can't even select other files. No, the little psychadelic disk wait cursor of doom is spinning away, and I'm screwed. What the hell!? I cannot fathom how anybody thought this was a good scheme for anything! Death too good for them?
• 88) Apple's Terminal program isn't entirely evil. It has plenty of foibles that bug me, but it mostly works. Right now, probably the most suckful thing is that there is no way to change the mouse cursor color; it is always a gray/black 'i bar' text entry cursor when it is in the main window area. If you have a dark background the cursor is nigh impossible to see and there's nothing you can do about it!
• 87) Well bend me over and ram me with a pogo stick. I tried to install ghc, it told me I had to make it build with gcc 3.something rather than Tiger's default 4.0.0, so i told it to switch, and then when i tried to switch back to gcc 4.0.0 it refused!

  
       The following is missing from your gcc 4.0.0 compiler installation.
       Reinstall the 4.0.0 compiler, or use another release.
       /usr/bin/gcc-4.0.0
       /usr/bin/g++-4.0.0
       /usr/include/gcc/darwin/4.0.0/stdint.h
       /usr/include/gcc/darwin/4.0.0/
       

  Now, some of you might already know that what I probably should have done was "gcc_select 4.0" rather than "4.0.0" since when I "ls /usr/bin/gcc*" I see "/usr/bin/gcc-4.0". (Also, the man page for gcc_select made it look like I should pass it "4.x" which gave me errors like "/usr/bin/gcc-4.x" not existing.) But the reason that I used "4.0.0" was that the bloody system told me it was 4.0.0.

  
       This package must be compiled with GCC 3.3, but you currently have 4.0.0
       selected.
       To correct this problem, run the command:
  
       sudo gcc_select 3.3
  
       You may need to install a more recent version of the Developer Tools to be
       able to do so.
       

• 86) If you "Pause" the Software Update in OS X and then start it up again, it makes you go through all the license agreement questions again. So I think 'that word does not mean what they think it means', at least to me. Update: it now says "Stop" instead of "Pause".
• 85) The other blatently suck-ass-ful thing about Software Update is that it doesn't give an obvious way of dialling down the bandwidth it consumes!
• 84) Upgrading from 10.3.8 to 10.3.9 made it so my machine would not boot. Disk Repair didn't help. I had to downgrade by installing off of the 10.3 CDs I had, and now I'm trying to go straight from 10.3 to 10.3.9 in the hopes that it won't screw up the disk again. So it totally sucks to have to go through all this. The only saving grace is that I can do this; I thik with Windows XP I'd have been even more doomed because so much is kept in the Registry, which would have gotten wiped out during a reinstallation or even a restore, no?
• 83) I'm using one of those flower widescreen iMacs. All along I've assumed they are great, and I've always wanted one. Now I'm realizing they suck in new and interesting ways. The first is that the mouse which comes with it is the "whole mouse is a button" mouse which actually sucks stinky buttocks, because the places you can comfortably place your thumb is greatly reduced. And you are more likely to accidentally click. So that's basically a device I would never want to ever use again. Then, there's the fact that the LCD monitor is affixed to the base of the iMac, and that whenever I'm typing the entire monitor shakes because the setup doesn't dampen out the shaking of the desk. So the whole thing is constantly shaking around! I don't understand how people can make and sell things which take all of five minutes to see that they are crap.
• 82) The OS X NeXT-ish file browser doesn't have a right-click menu item to open a folder in a new window. That sucks.
• 81) OK, they've spend how many zillions of dollars buying NeXT and then on getting OS X out, and yet the system still freezes an application whenever you are using its menus! (At least, for Firefox and Terminal it did.) Yeah, that's some really advanced OS/UI capabilities there, folks! Kick that stock price up!
• 80) Apple tends to go too far in the direction of form over function. A fun example is the window for reading a software license where they've shoved their big fat X under the text, making it hard to read. Who knows, maybe they are explicitly trying to prevent people from reading these things?
• 79) Why does everything have to always suck? If you get down the list far enough, the Open File dialog box in OS X ends up keeping the selection at the bottom of the window, which is a pain because I'm going through the folders one by one, and so now every time I use Open File I have to scroll down before I can select the next thing (or move my hand from the mouse to the keyboard). The thing is, it doesn't do that when you are looking through the set of items at the top of the list, where it wouldn't have to scroll at all. What I think it ought to do is have the previous directory you used appear in the middle when it is farther down in the list, so you can easily pick items that are immediately neighbouring. If you catch my drift.
• 78) Allrighty, then. I think that I've come to the conclusion that the NeXT-based OS X Finder file browser just plain sucks. Compared to the Win XP File Explorer, which also sucks in some ways, the OS X thing is just a usability nightmare.
• 77) The Windows control panel for the mouse is better than the Mac OS X one. I feel like the Mac one never gets the mouse pointer movement right for me. Windows has a better implementation where the parameters end up working out better and I don't find myself being as frustrated with it as with the Mac (or, god, X Windows).
• 76) Safari was loading a web page. The form was done loading, but all the images were not. I entered the data I wanted to in the form fields, and hit enter... did Safari then quit loading the page and just submit the form? Noooo, it kept loading all the stupid images, and only after the entire page was done loading did it submit. Sweet!
• 75) Safari sucks because it doesn't have a keyboard shortcut to switch windows. You can switch tabs but you can't switch windows. Nice!
• 74) All I'm saying is, the UI for Bookmarks in Safari is about as weird, twisted, evil, stupid and just plain wrong as I have ever seen. With the possible exception of Opera.
• 73) The green 'maximize' title bar button in Preview ends up putting the horizontal scrollbar off the bottom of the screen. Admittedly, it seems to only do that when it knows everything is visible, horizontally speaking. If things are too wide it will keep the scroll bar around. But it kinda bugs me, I prefer having both scrollbars visible.
• 72) It bugs the heck out of me that Preview doesn't seem to ever hide the mouse cursor.
• 71) Windows uses the Alt key to let you use the keyboard to open a menu. I don't know if you can do that in OS X at all. Certainly, nothing like the letter underlining of Windows happens when I try various special OS X keys (Option, Command, Control with or without Shift). Seems like a blatant accessibility problem, if nothing else.
• 70) It kills me that Preview automatically shows the Drawer. I hate that crap, and apparently there is no option to turn it off for good - at best, you can set it to only appear on table-of-contents pages. (And, no, Preview doesn't seem to remember that I had the Drawer turned off between application uses, even though it apparently remembers that I wanted Continuous Scrolling.) Whatever. The other nice thing about Preview and the Drawer is that there's no checkmark next to the Preview item in the View menu. So the first time I'm trying to figure out how to turn off the damned thing it doesn't even look like it could possibly be the right menu item to use because it wasn't checked. Has Apple forgotten everything they've ever done in UI before?
• 69) At first, I liked how OS X has a larger set of icons for its version of Alt-Tab. It looked a lot more professional than the Windows implementation, what with the pretty icons and everything. But over time it has turned out to be overkill and hard to actually use - I think the main problem is that the background for it is partially transparent. That means it doesn't stand out from all the other things alread on the screen, so it is harder to parse what is going on. Furthermore, I think the fact that the icons tend to all use the same pretty color palette means that there isn't a lot to differentiate them. The Quicktime logo looks a lot like the Safari logo at a quick glance, etc. But the text for the icons is very small relatively speaking so you don't get any differentiation there, either. So all in all, in the end, I think the whole thing just doesn't work as well as the horribly cheesy looking Win XP version!
• 68) Safari's "Show in Finder" sucks skinty buttocks because it opens up a Finder window that does not have the 'Toolbar' showing. I always want that on. I'm so used to it being there that when Finder windows appear without it I'm a little confused as to what the window even is because the look so different.
• 67) When the Finder is copying things, you only get to see the progress bar when the dialog box is expanded to show all the details. That seems like a real step backwards from the history of the Mac UI. They pretty much brought the use of the progress bar into the mainstream, and here they are purposefully hiding it. That doesn't make any sense to me. (The kicker is that when burning something, the progress bar is visible even in the reduced view. Whatever!)
• 66) I hate that the only way to burn things is to have them copied first. When filling a DVD, that takes a long time. I don't even know where they are being copied, it certainly isn't the DVD itself since that doesn't happen until the burn actually takes place. I would like to have some option for not doing the copy, rather having the files get locked. Or having some more intelligent aliasing happen or whatever. Waiting for the copy just sucks, especially because the dialog box says 'Copying items to "Untitled DVD"' which, to somebody who doesn't grok computers, shounds like as soon as it finishes they will be able to take the DVD out and it will have the files on it. Oh, and the double kicker is that when you do go to burn it says something like "Checking to see if the contents fit on the disc" because, you know, you wouldn't have wanted the system to be checking all along to make sure things fit as you are copying them over? (Windows XP pretty much has the same problem.)
• 65) I can't right-click on a disk in the far left area of the Finder window (the "Toolbar" area) to e.g.: Get Info on it. If I go to the Desktop entry in the Toolbar area, it doesn't show any of the disks even though they appear on the actual Desktop. So there are two views of the Desktop which don't match. Great. Sweet. Genius. Awesome.
• 64) Great. If you select "Ignore" when you put in a new blank DVD for writing, you end up with no entry in the Finder and no apparent way to ever get one for it. I had to resort to arcane use of disktool to eject the disc and then re-insert it to get the Finder to see it again. Nice.
• 63) Why is there no man page for disktool? Whatever!
• 62) Usually when you add something to the Deskop by plugging it in (like a USB CompactFlash card), you get a little eject icon in the Finder for it, and the Trash becomes the eject icon as well (the logic of that escapes me but whatever). However, when I put in a blank CD in a burner, the icon becomes the burn icon and there is no eject to be found. I kinda hate that inconsistency. I would guess they figured that most people would most of the time want to burn something before ejecting and so it made sense to have it turn into the burn icon, but that seems to me to make it harder for the user to build a mental model for predicting how the UI is going to work - the model just got a lot more complicated which I think is just a bad idea for usability.
• 61) It kills me that in the Finder's Column mode, you can have something selected and that item's background is a hilight color, but when you try to drag and drop something into it you have to point the mouse cursor to the text of the destination, rather than just the line it is on. (I think Windows does a similar thing, and it is equally hateful.) There is some business about a different kind of hilight that appears when you sucessfully have the mouse over the destination, but that is basically just indicating that the whole thing is crap to begin with, as far as I am concerned.
• 60) Drag and drop is a horrible UI. Apple then has to go and make it utterly incomprehensible and useless in the Finder, at least when using the Column view when the destination folder is off the end of the list. If you don't pre-scroll to get that folder in place you are seemingly doomed to failure to get there once you've started the drag process. Trying to move down in the list automagically like what you can do in Windows XP only results in severe pain and trauma because the list doesn't move, rather folders start to open up in undesireable ways. Nice! (If I could at least turn off the "if you hover over the folder for more than a split second it will become selected and open" thing that would make things a little less hateful to me.)
• 59) Maybe it is just because I am running on a slow G4 500 with only 768 megs of ram, but it seems to take a long time to show a Preview image, even for items that I just looked at (where the preview image should already be cached).
• 58) Once you have become accustomed to Windows XP's right-click menu in the File Explorer, you really miss that in Apple's Finder. I want to right-click in a Folder and create a new folder that way, but you can't. Sad. It sucks in the 'columns' view because it is unclear where the new folder will get created. You pretty much have to think about operating one level above where you want to be which just seems wrong. Being able to directly act in the place you want to (namely, inside the folder itself) makes more sense to me.
• 57) There is apparently no way to 'cut' a file in the Finder. You can only copy and paste it, and then manually trash the original. Or, you have to drag and drop it. I hate all those! Why can't I just bloody well cut it?
• 56) The Finder is killing me. When I use the keyboard to move through a list, like when going through digital pictures, if I then try to use the mouse to shift-click it treats that as a regular click. The shift-click only works when the mouse was used both times to set the position in the list. Which is just plain st00pid. The kicker, the bloody kicker, is that if you use the mouse to click on the selection you navigated to with the keyboard (in an attempt to get the position set up for the shift-click), that doesn't work either because now you are in "change the file name" mode and then trying to shift-click only results in getting out of that mode and selecting the other item, with no range selected. A complete and utter nightmare.
• 55) I have yet to find a way to see my photos in the Finder window as thumbnails, which you can do in Windows XP. Maybe Apple expects me to only look at things using iPhoto? I <expletive>ing hate iPhoto and will never use that piece of excrement.
• 54) Wow. I changed a bunch of file names via the shell, and the Finder window didn't get the updates. When I clicked on the old file name in the Finder, that entry then suddenly disappeared with no explanation for why. And none of the other entries updated. And there is no View/Refresh that I could find (like what exists in Windows XP). I had to manually select a completely different folder to view in the Finder window, then come back for it to get the changes in that folder! How completely useless and obviously lame is that?!
• 53) Burning an ISO with Apple's OS X Disk Utility is one of the more obtuse and unintuitive things I've ever had to do. Yay.
• 52) I guess Safari was explicitly designed to screw people with disabilities? Like, you cannot Tab over to a drop-down (or pop-up, whatever you want to call it) menu in a web page. No, apparently you have to use the mouse to make a selection in those. Genius! (Turns out there's a Preference under Advanced that will make it work - but the feature is off by default which is utterly backwards dumb-ass wrong, in my opinion.)
• 51) There is no explanation for how to enter multiple DNS addresses in OS X Network Preferences. Do you use a space? A comma? A semi-colon? A new line? Feel the hate.
• 50) I'm amazed at how badly Safari manages bookmarks. This should not be a hard problem, this should be a completely solved UI thing. Or at least like 90% solved, I just don't get how they could cock it up so badly?
• 49) OSX's Software Update can leave you with a dialog box saying you either have to Shut Down, or Restart. You are given no other option. Now, there is no timer in the dialog box, so as long as you just leave it there you can continue on your merry way. Which means their dialog box is just plain stupid; either it should force a reset soon, or it should let me quit out of Software Update without any reset. Whatever!
• 48) I love how I'm trying to get the specs on my used B&W G3 and:
  1. The specs for it are currently missing at the Apple support web site.
  2. To tell them their site is a piece of crap, you must first register with them. I. Hate. That. Bull. Crap.
  3. All the other documents that I find talking about it state that the graphics card is an ATi RAGE 128. However, when I look on the ATi web site to find drivers for it, they don't have anything called that. They have several cards based on the RAGE 128 chip set, but there's this huge disconnect between the Apple specs and the actual cards which exist; the Apple specs are not specific enough. All in all, I just plain and simple hate everybody.
• 47) The Panther Finder window bugs me in that the title bar looks like no other OS X title bar (well, except I guess for those other annoying programs like iTunes). All my other windows like Safari or Terminal have a gray-white title bar whereas the Finder has a steel gray one which visually merges into the rest of the window. So you have less visual information telling you where to click your mouse when you want to drag the window. Whatever!
• 46) Safari's text search has no indication of when it wraps the search back to the start of the document. Nice. At least Text Edit's search dialog box lets you choose wrapping.
• 45) As a friend pointed out: Why can't we resize OS X windows from any corner? It is so utterly prehistoric to require me to adjust in two steps (title bar movement then bottom right corner movement) rather than just one (any corner movement, or at least both bottom ones for crying out loud). It pisses me off that they'd rather spend time making it lickable rather than actually functional.
• 44) I don't like that Safari's progress bar is almost the only indication that you've clicked on a hyperlink. If the hyperlink is a graphic image then it really is all you get, if it is plain text, you get a dotted border around that text. But all in all it just isn't enough to tell me that something is happening, because the progress bar is outside my focus of vision. The mouse cursor should change to a wait cursor of some ilk, or the clicked on thing should more drastically change; the text hyperlinks don't even change color from "never visited" to "visited" until you return to that page later!
• 43) It bugs me that the Finder keyboard shortcuts are more primary than those for applications. For example, Cmd-H hides the current application, which means that Safari has to use Shift-Cmd-H for going to the home page. Now, I'm way more likely to accidentally do Cmd-H when I want S-C-H rather than vice-versa, which means I'm more likely to get screwed in a really annoying (if easily recoverable) way.
• 42) Bloody hell. I customize my Terminal window and then later quit the program. It doesn't ask me if I want to save the changes I made. So then I have to do it all over again, and notice the button to save the settings. It just strikes me as utterly stupid to expect that I'd go through the trouble of changing things (font, color, window size, etc.) with the desire of not retaining those. Hate.
• 41) The Apple Store web site says, at the time of writing, "We'll be back soon. We are busy updating the store for you and will be back within the hour." And then has telephone numbers to call for ordering stuff. This completely blows my mind. This is the web. There isn't a physical store front display that you must clean out before you can put in new stuff. There is nothing physically preventing them from developing the new store off-line, and then switching it over with no down time at all. So are they desperately trying to lose my, and other's, business?
• 40) Something I don't like about the Terminal that comes with OSX: there is no window border on the bottom and left sides. That means if you have overlapping Terminal windows, it looks as if they bleed together. I wish there was an optional border, even a single pixel width line would help.
• 39) You know, for a while there - maybe at most a day - I was pretty excited to get the Apple Developer Tools so I could start doing some cool hacking of stuff on Apple hardware, under OS X. Well, I was sorta excited until I had to sign up with their stupid site and maybe agree to all sorts of licensing bullpoop. But at least I was going to get those tool, and could start programming, yeah baby! Oh, but wait, their developer tools are a 300 megabyte download, and... they don't have a widespread set of mirrors in the US. If you are lucky, they have 2 servers at most to choose from. So of the literally eleven or so times I've tried to download it, the server has either been full, or the download hasn't been successful in the end. Could I hate Apple any more? Could they obviously really not give a flying damn about me wanting to write software for their system? They seem to be actively doing their damnedest to discourage me. To tell me to sod off. Great, yeah, I might as well just go do some Linux, or even Windows development instead, thank you very much. Die, Apple. Die and go to hell. (Oh, and P.S.: their developer website sucks my buttocks. Too much stuff and it was confusing to figure out where the stupid developer tools were - the sort of thing that once you know, you know, but the first time yer kinda outta luck.)
• 38) OS X has the same pathetic thing as Windows where it says "something is using that file" when I try to delete it. But it doesn't tell me what the something is, or what I can do about it. And, as far as I know, I've already quit the program that was using the file many minutes ago... impressive!
• 37) Kill, maim, destroy. If I'm in my Desktop via a Terminal shell, and I change things via the Finder, the shell doesn't show the updates! It is only when I cd .. out of the Desktop directory that it gets updated. Blah! (Okay, sometimes it does get updated, sometimes it doesn't. There isn't a clear rhyme or reason to it. At least be consistent - don't be apparently random!) What's more is that if I update something via the shell, the Finder doesn't update the Desktop image until I make it the foreground app (or it was super slow and I beat it to the punch). More lameness! Too much seeing the man behind the curtain, as it were.
• 36) Double blah! The Installer takes way too many button clicks to get it to install. There are pages during the process where it basically says "Click "Next" to move forward" - the page itself serves no useful purpose in that it doesn't give you any options or anything. They oughtta redesign this poo.
• 35) Holy poop! I install Lynx. It's installer puts it in /usr/local/bin/. When I use Cmd-F in the Finder to search all Local Disks for anything with "lynx" in the name, it doesn't show up. What. The. Bloody. Hell. Kind. Of. Feature. Is. That? (Oh, I guess those are hidden directories. Blah!)
• 34) Argh. They completely screwed the pooch on title bar colors, as far as I'm concerned. They make the in-active windows look a lot more grabbable than the active one, which is completely ass-backward!
• 33) I like how, even though I change the selection / hilight color in the General System Prefs, lots of things including the Date and Time System Prefs completely ignore that color, and continue the bloody impossible to see (on my LCD monitor at any rate) very pale baby-blue as the hilight. Kill. Everyone.
• 32) Every time I try the Software Update, it fails. It tells me it failed, but it doesn't give me any kind of log or further information so I have absolutely nothing to go on to figure out what I could change to fix things. So I'm doomed to never be able to get and install any updates. Sweet!
• 31) Opera: Yeah, what they said.
• 30) Nice how they tell me to upgrade the Firmware but then nowhere in the doc does it tell me that - as I discover once I try to install it - I can only do so if I have OS9 installed. I can't do it at all from OSX, alone. Yeah, great, nice. Blah! I mean, does that mean I don't have to upgrade it if I'm running OSX? They don't explain any of this to me anywhere.
• 29) I swear, in OS X I'll have the mouse cursor over the bottom edge of e.g.: a dialog box OK button and I'll click and nothing will happen. If I move the cursor up a few pixels, then it will register the click. Like the click region is actually smaller than the graphic image of the button. Whatever.
• 28) This is killing me: In the NeXT style finder view, I can shift-click to get a bunch of folders selected. When I'm doing that, I don't have to click on the actual text of a folder, I can be clicking in the whitespace after its name in the row. But when it comes to registering my desire to drag-and-drop, I apparently must click on the text for it to start. Argh!!!
• 27) The original iMac is such a blatantly horrible machine with respect to ergonomics. like, you have to put four phone books under the thing to get a decent reading height for the monitor. What. Ever!
• 26) Is it me, or is the UI for QuickTime just completely stupid? It doesn't even have a simple "Open" menu item, as far as I can see . I. Just. Want. To. Open. The. Movie. In. The. Current. Player. You. JERKS.
• 25) The implementation of Classic on my iBook just plain doesn't work. Real nice. So then I go to the Help to try and find out more about what I can do, and it gives me some items, and I click on one and it says the item is actually only available via the Internet (there wasn't any icon or anything in the first list of results to indicate that), but I'm not hooked up to any ethernet or anything so I click on cancel or whatever, to not try and connect, and then it brings up a dialog box telling me there was some error connecting to the Internet, as if I had told it to connect and it couldn't because of some horrible failure somewhere. Yeah, like the horrible failure being the people who wrote this software in the first place.
• 24) Since Classic locks up so much, I was bringing up the Force Quit dialog box a fair bit. It is really lame when compared to the equivalent (at least Mach-based) Windows Task Manager because that thing will tell you if the application is responding while the Apple one just says something like "hey, if you think something hasn't responded to you in a while then you can force quit it" but it doesn't offer any input on the issue. Sure, maybe the Windows Task Manager is guessing in some fudgy way, but the user experience is a lot better.
• 23) The login screen/dialog has "Restart" and "Shutdown" and if you click on one it doesn't bring up any confirmation dialog. Great.
• 22) I boot up my iBook. As I'm doing stuff, it figures out there are software updates to download. I tell it to go ahead, and it does it, and installs them. Then I'm all done with the machine so I just want to shut it down. Some of the patches require the machine to be restarted but that's okay since I'm just going to shut it down; when I boot the next time the patches will finish being applied just as if I were to reboot right there and then. But I'm in a hurry to leave so I just want to shut down. The kicker, as you might have already guessed, is that I literally cannot shut the machine down. I am forced to reset. Like, trying to quit the software updater doesn't work. Either you restart or you don't quit it, basically. So then I try the Shutdown menu item in the Apple menu. It tells me I can't shutdown because the software updater won't let me. Okay, that's definitely in the category of non-user-friendly stupid annoying bull crap.
• 21) The OS X screen saver lets you do a slide show. So I set the folder for it to run through and I hit the Test button because I want the screen saver to start immediately. Well, that doesn't actually start the screen saver, so after five or ten minutes or whatever suddenly the whole screen dims down - presumably because the screen saver is kicking in? Or I guess because of some power saving feature of the portable Macs? Anyway, there you are, trying to watch the whole slide show and suddenly everything goes dark. So then you hit a key or move the mouse cursor to try and wake it up to get the brightness back, but then that gets out of the screen saver. If you start the screen saver again then you are back at the start of all your images. So you are screwed. Yay. Basically, the slide show is something that people like to watch even not as a screen saver. It is kind of screwy that it is in the screen saver because you get such UI stupidness.
• 20) Could they make the bloody Esc key smaller on my iBook? Hello? Ever hear of emacs??? Sheesh.
• 19) This is particularly impressive: I've made the dock in OS X auto hide itself. It is supposed to come back up when the mouse cursor gets to the bottom of the screen. That is especially critical if you want to drag anything into the trash can. Well, right now, when I try to drag a file on the desktop into the trash can, the dock absolutely refuses to come back. If the mouse isn't dragging anything then it appears just fine, but if I'm moving anything with the mouse then forget it, nothing happens. The mind reels. I ended up using the System Prefs to make the doc be on the left and tested that - it worked. So then I put the dock back at the bottom of the screen, and it started working there again as well. Heaven only knows for how long before it wigs out again...
• 18) The way the dock shows which thing is going to be activated when you are using Cmd-Shift to switch among applications is pathetic. It makes the icon slightly more gray. It isn't sufficient for me. I mean, if I'm looking exactly at the dock I guess it works okay, but I want to be able to tell what is going on without having to move my eyes from the main area of the screen. So I think the hilight should be something more drastic (like, make all the other icons darker gray, and make the one that is selected be regular or brighter, like with pink accents or something).
• 17) It bugs me that WinXP has the feature of always keeping desktop icons aligned, but in OS X you have to manually go tell it to clean things up. That's just lame.
• 16) I wish the Finder had a keyboard shortcut for hiding other apps, rather than itself. That would make a lot more sense to me (even if it isn't how pre-OSX versions worked).
• 15) Strange. I use Shift + right arrow to try and hilight part of IE5.1's address bar. But the selection doesn't actually grow.
• 14) There isn't sufficient feedback when I turn the iBook on. There is the sound/chime/whatever that happens pretty much as soon as you press the power button, so that's good, but then the screen stays completely blank and the hard disk doesn't spin make any noise for a few more seconds (presumably the power-on self test is happening?). The power button doesn't light up, either. So there are a few seconds where it is like, okay, is the machine just completely locked up, or broken, or what? Rather disconcerting.
• 13) The system suffers horribly from the new problem of single vs. double-clicking to activate something. It used to be that you could tell the difference between an icon and a button pretty often, but now there is just confusion.
• 12) When I start up my OSX machine, it takes a while for the login dialog to appear. So then I click on my account name to log in. The stupid system then takes another two or three seconds to redraw the dialog to let me enter my password. This is just plain pathetic.
• 11) My old PowerMac 6400/180, running OS 8, wasn't plugged into the network. I started it up and ran Opera. I tried to connect to google, and the whole machine locked up and I had to reboot. Impressive!
• 10) I'm trying to look up the specs on the iBook I just got, so I go to the Apple Spec Database. Now, first of all, they make it really hard to figure out which link is for which machine because there just isn't sufficient description of any of the machines. Like, for the iBook category there is a picture of a late-model white machine, and no pictures of the original multi-colored iBooks. Anyway, point being way more difficult to find the right link than it oughtta be. I mean, even when you click on the link to get to a page for a specific machine, there still isn't a picture of it! So I think I find the right one eventually, only to discover that the link is wrong. So then I try all of the links for the iBook and none of them say anything about my machine because none of them mention the 100MHz FSB. Terrific, guys. Just plain bloody terrific.
• 9) An aside: I think OSX just proves that Linux will never have a decent desktop. I mean, if the people at Apple end up making such a confusing lame system after all the years of experience they've had, then how on earth is anybody in the Linux world going to get it right? (And it goes to show " who cares about the OS when the UI sucks?" Linus points out that "[Linux and others have] a very different user base" which makes me think at least he realizes it is hopeless to get grandma using Linux, even if the Gnome or KDE folks are still drinking the KoolAid.)
• 8) So everything in OSX uses PDF? Or at least a lot of things? But then when I load up my first PDF document, Adobe Acrobat Reader comes up and asks me to agree to its license! I think that is pretty wrong - if you are going to have a file format that is core to your OS then whatever the default reader is should damn well have the exact same license as the OS.
• 7) This is killing me: How do I make fonts in things like the Desktop, the Finder, the Dock and, most importantly because it seems to use the smallest and most impossible to read fonts, in the bloody Help, bigger? Lord, give me strength.
• 6) Okay, I'm still going to complain about the iBook. Like, the Keyboard control panel doesn't let me remap keys so I guess I'm stuck with these bloody Fn and Ctrl keys in the wrong places.
• 5) I read in an O'Reilly book about OSX that passwords are only stored as the first 8 characters. What prehistoric alien desolate hell did the developers of OSX come from? (Of course, the book also says that OSX is based on BSD and never mentions Mach, so "whatever".)
• 4) The Trashcan is in the Dock. When you drag something toward the Trashcan, the Dock might suddenly move things aside to make room for letting you drop the dragged item into the Dock. So the Trashcan is a moving target. This is insane.
• 3) Why in the holy Hannah does it take seven years for the stupid System Prefs thing in OSX to come up? I mean, sheez! Maybe it is the first few times and after that it is cached? (All that lazy evaluation going on in Mach? :-)
• 2) Okay, this is pretty inexplicable to me: the Apple iBook I've got has the Ctrl key in the wrong place! Well, first off, it isn't in the middle because Caps Lock is there, which I can put up with, but then they go and hide the control key just inside the Fn key. So you can't easily get the Ctrl key with the palm of your hand. Remember, there isn't the excuse of not being a unix computer any more! I'm going to be running emacs and stuff, you bozos! The kicker is that on most Intel notebook computers (like the Dell I have at work) the Ctrl key is the leftmost key, and the Fn key is the next one. So with PCs, you can easily run unixy things. I just don't get it. All this fancy-pants design and then they go and completely cock this up!
• 1) I got an Apple iBook. I installed iPhoto. Within about ten minutes I could tell it is a complete piece of crap that is designed with the expectation that the user will bend to its will, rather than the software trying to go out of its way to help the user, which is what it should be doing. So, yeah, great, wonderful, it has jelly buttons and a cute iName, but is pretty much iSucks my iAss. iHate.