"Andrej Mitrovic" <andrej.mitrov...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:mailman.2483.1299989460.4748.digitalmar...@puremagic.com... > On 3/13/11, Nick Sabalausky <a@a.a> wrote: >> snip > > OSX is a nice OS. I gave it a try once or twice. The OS is nice, but > man, when I started looking for software on the web I almost got sick. > "Top 10 software for Your Mac", "5 Apps that will make your Mac > Experience Awesome!", "This app will make you feel a Better Mac > Person". "You deserve Beautiful Mac Software". > > Ugh.. It's like every single app has a 10$ price tag and it's all > about selling bullshit with pretty words hidden behind colorful > websites. There was a text editor that had this one major feature: > Full screen mode with black side-bars. That was it. Nothing else, just > a text editor with black bars on the side running at full-screen. And > there's a whole website devoted to how awesome and inspiring and > unique this is, how it "helps you focus". And a price tag. People buy > this shit, it's unbelievable. > > There was also this thread on Reddit with a guy making some > window-management software. All it did was divide the screen and > resized the windows and put them side by side or something. And > apparently this was so awesome everyone started yelling "Take my > wallet NOW!!!". Same thing happened on ycombinator. > > I know of at least Autohotkey which came out in 2003 with which you > can do window management with ease. Hotkeys, keyboard or mouse, or add > buttons to your taskbar that do whatever you want with your windows. > There's an entire community devoted to writing all sorts of cool > window management scripts, and that's just one small feature of this > app. But apparently this Mac software that resizes windows is > revolutionary, comes with a price tag and everyone thought it was the > best thing that ever happened.
Heh, actually, you've described how I feel about the OS itself (along with every other Apple product out there, sans the Apple II). I spent a year or two trying to use OSX as my primary OS. I was impressd at first, but eventually found myself running away screaming, in large part for many of the things you've mentioned about their third party apps, except I found it to also be applicable to all of the first-party hardware and software. I think OSX's third party market is primarily an effect of Apple itself having the same attitude.
