Apple Bombs w/Snow Leopard
Rule #1, when dealing with the Apple Toy Company (formerly Apple Computer, Inc., before phones, iPods and accessories became the focus) is simply this: Wait a few months before upgrading to a new system. The long and short of it: I fucked up … again.
For most people, who use laptops as overblown PDAs, or browser, IM-email boxes, this is no big deal, but I use a MacBook Pro as a production machine. The good news exists, to be sure. All the big apps (Adobe, Final Cut, Quark, etc) seem to work fine.
But I use an amazing app called File Buddy, and Apple, in the most retarded move, even by their standards, in ages, has basically done away with Contextual Menu Items. My advice to anyone who has grown accustomed to the awesome , handy feature set in File Buddy, or the Contextual (right-click) menu items ported from any application whatsoever, is to take a good long rethink about this so-called upgrade.
They say the system is a bit snappier. Yeah, sure, the Finder is finally written in Cocoa, and things happen a few milliseconds faster, but the trade-off, for my needs, is just way too high.
Think of it this way: Apple acknowledges that this incremental “upgrade” will not only “break” a shitload of third-party apps, but it also screws up some of Apple’s propietary applications!
Say what you want about Microsoft, but guess what? You can still run a lot of apps that were written for Windows 98, in XP! AND, the MS OS runs on hundreds of garden-variety boxes with God-knows-how-many variances in components, quality control, etc …
Apple only has to build software for one set of machines, that they themselves build, and they can’t even do that without fucking things up. That’s a disgrace.