<story><title>iTunes will never work well</title><url>https://medium.com/@firasd/itunes-will-never-work-well-973674420fa4</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jheriko</author><text>i don&amp;#x27;t understand how apple have a reputation for good ui... all of their stuff is terrible.&lt;p&gt;the main problem: zero discoverablity - i need to google how to do things, then get some snotty fanboy answer about how easy and obvious it is, but there is literally no way to infer the functionality from the design.&lt;p&gt;they do love to steal context too... and interrupt your flow...&lt;p&gt;... i could go on and on, but having zero-discoverability is highly unforgivable, its an entire, rock-solid argument on its own.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>striking</author><text>Their reputation stemmed from the days where everything &lt;i&gt;was&lt;/i&gt; discoverable. Want to delete a file? There&amp;#x27;s a trash can glued to your dock. Need to perform a function but don&amp;#x27;t know the name? Look it up in the Help menu&amp;#x27;s search box.&lt;p&gt;Now, though, they&amp;#x27;ve done the Windows 8 thing of overloading gestures and hiding behaviors. Want to see your notifications? Two-finger swipe to the left, &lt;i&gt;starting from the edge of the touchpad&lt;/i&gt;. If the piece of text hasn&amp;#x27;t been there since OS X first came out, is it clickable or not? Because I damn well can&amp;#x27;t tell, nothing new looks like a button anymore.&lt;p&gt;I could also talk about how the gaussian blur effect is just about the most wasteful effect you can apply to anything, and is a far cry from pioneering the first fast rounded rectangle drawing algorithm, or anything in that vein, but I don&amp;#x27;t need to.&lt;p&gt;Because Apple&amp;#x27;s UI is just no longer good. I&amp;#x27;d rather every button look like a shimmering stupid bubble than an unusable postmodern art piece.&lt;p&gt;Sent from my MacBook Pro</text></comment>
<story><title>iTunes will never work well</title><url>https://medium.com/@firasd/itunes-will-never-work-well-973674420fa4</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jheriko</author><text>i don&amp;#x27;t understand how apple have a reputation for good ui... all of their stuff is terrible.&lt;p&gt;the main problem: zero discoverablity - i need to google how to do things, then get some snotty fanboy answer about how easy and obvious it is, but there is literally no way to infer the functionality from the design.&lt;p&gt;they do love to steal context too... and interrupt your flow...&lt;p&gt;... i could go on and on, but having zero-discoverability is highly unforgivable, its an entire, rock-solid argument on its own.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Razengan</author><text>&amp;gt; all of their stuff is terrible.&lt;p&gt;As a PC-only user since the days of DOS up till Windows 8, and having used Windows 10 after jumping ship to Macs a few hours ago, macOS has demonstrably more discoverability than Windows.&lt;p&gt;One example: Just click on the Help menu, in any app, and type something like &amp;quot;show&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;find&amp;quot; or any other operation, and it will show you all the menu items which have that word in their name.&lt;p&gt;That feature is a part of the Cocoa subsystem and comes for free with every app, and very handy when you know an app &lt;i&gt;has&lt;/i&gt; a certain feature but you&amp;#x27;re not sure which menu it&amp;#x27;s buried in (like standard operations and filters in different image editing apps.)&lt;p&gt;Also, all the shortcuts and standard menus are the same in every macOS app, and can be discovered&amp;#x2F;modified from System Preferences -&amp;gt; Keyboard, again for any app.&lt;p&gt;Take &amp;quot;Preferences&amp;quot;, which in Windows is sometimes under Edit, Tools, or the app name menu (which imitates macOS.)&lt;p&gt;I could go on and on, but &amp;quot;zero discoverability&amp;quot; is an undeserved hyperbole.</text></comment>