Apple's products are getting harder to use, ignore principles of design (2015)

Re:Apple's products are getting harder to use, ignore princi... by naravara on Sunday December 22, 2019 @09:46PM (#21861140)

> couple of decades ago I worked at a company that had about 200 Mac's and a similar number of PC's. One of our favorite practical jokes was to disable the mouse on Mac's. The victim quite literally could not do a thing with the computer until the mouse was re-enabled.

This doesn’t sound right. I once installed a corrupted version of OS 10 Jaguar on my laptop that resulted in a non-functioning mouse and touchpad. I managed to reinstall the old OS using only the keyboard. Prior to the post-Snow Leopard era when they started stripping down the file system and muddying the navigation, OSX’s interface was really easily navigable.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Apple's products are getting harder to use, ignore princi... by kalleboo on Sunday December 22, 2019 @09:58PM (#21861197)

"Couple of decades ago" could mean Classic MacOS, which is indeed mostly unusable without a mouse

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Apple's products are getting harder to use, ignore princi... by robomartin on Sunday December 22, 2019 @10:02PM (#21861209)

I don't remember the OS version at the time. I do remember it was the PowerPC era.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Apple's products are getting harder to use, ignore princi... by naravara on Wednesday December 25, 2019 @11:10AM (#21879037)

If there were pinstripes and candy colored buttons it would have been OSX. If the windows were boxy and square it would have been one of the “classic” OSes.

[ Parent | on HN ]