Comment by willidiots | Hacker News Reader

Comment by willidiots | Hacker News Reader

Title != Content IMHO. This is mostly just a rant about Lion. But while I think some of the author's problems are self-imposed (close your windows when you're done with them!), I agree with the sentiment. I've been an Apple user since 1986 and I've never seen them get closer to Microsoftian behavior than in the last year.

For another great example of this, look at Airport Utility 5 vs 6.

You gain:

  * A big shiny globe and background  
  * iOS-style badges for firmware upgrades

You lose:

  * Client lists  
  * Logging and statistics  
  * IPv6 settings  
  * Wireless multicast rate, txpower, 40MHz channels, interference robustness  
  * Printer support  
  * I'm sure some other stuff

I learned this the hard way the other day. I went to look up a DHCP client and found the table no longer exists! The recommended solution is to install Airport utility 5 ALONGSIDE Airport utility 6. What?! I completely understand the Apple mantra of simple usability, but the power user functions have always been hidden behind that veneer. Now they're just GONE.

> I've been an Apple user since 1986 and I've never seen them get closer to Microsoftian behavior

This is an odd comment -- how is this "Microsoftian" behavior? If anything, this is typical Apple behavior going back to the dawn of time. The most frustrating thing with Apple products (for technically minded users) has always been the lack of user control.

The original title was something like "Autosave? Give me my computer back!"

I've noticed a disturbing trend of people using a benign title to get to the frontpage then editing it to be troll-bait after the fact. I don't know how long you can edit a title, or who is able to edit it, but it's pretty irritating not just because of the confusion the initial comments bring under the new title, but because then I can't find the submission again later. If I tried searching for "give me back my computer", this post wouldn't show up, even though that was the title I initially commented under.

HN culture generally seems to prefer to "not change the title from the one given by the original article" (calling it "editorializing"), and so in this case the title of this post was "fixed" (which may not have even been done by the original poster: the submission guidelines state that if there is a "gratuitous editorial spin" on the title it may be changed by "the editors").

(edit: I agree, however, that changing it a while after it is posted is really awkward... I'm glad you stated the original title, as otherwise I'd have a very difficult time understanding why many of the comments are directly responding only to the auto-save feature. Also, I am not intending to state that /I/ believe the title was "gratuitous": I haven't thought about it yet.)

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