14 DAY TRIAL // Apple will most likely unveil OS X 10.9 at WWDC 2013 and, while I have absolutely no idea what it’ll bring new to the table, I have a couple of suggestions for Apple’s engineers, just in case there’s still time to make a few final adjustments.
One thing I’d really like to see changed in the next major release of OS X is the Export feature which replaced Save As in some applications with the release of OS X Lion in 2010.
Apple has been adamant to repair this blunder, and I’d like them to finally step forward, admit they’ve been wrong about it, and bring one of the oldest features in computing back to the Mac.
While some people may have seen an uptick in their workflow thanks to this change, it was quite clearly a mistake for the masses. For those of us writing a lot of documents and handling photos on a daily basis, it’s been a huge bummer.
Another issue I’d like to bring up is the iCloud integration in some OS X apps.
Don’t get me wrong, I love iCloud and all the perks that come with it. But I don’t need the iCloud screen to hit me in the face every single time I launch apps like TextEdit and Preview.
It’s already a pain in the neck (compared to Windows) to create a simple text document on my desktop. I don’t need an additional hurdle to save a simple piece of information in .rtf format, or simply to launch a clean text file.
The same goes for Preview.app. Every single time I want to open an image from my clipboard, I have to get past the iCloud screen.
Apple could add “iCloud” in the menubar options for each of these apps to solve this issue elegantly, and without upsetting the users who actually need it more often than I do.
Come to think of it, I wouldn’t mind if OS X 10.9 brought a full-fledged iCloud application with a unified view of all the apps and services tied to it. Just a thought.
So, these are just two things (make it three with that last suggestion) I’d really like to see changed in OS X 10.9, whatever Apple decides to call it.
Now it’s your turn to speak. What annoys you the most in OS X, and how do you propose to fix it?