Sour Apple users... whinging and moaning...

Apple users really are a shallow fickle lot.. well not all of them, just the ones who seem to think that all this boils down to Apple vs Microsoft (they're good at different things.. challenge anyone of you to a race to find an icon, or a file or anything faster than me using Windows Vista with the Apple Toys R' US OS).

Latest thing is a whole tirade of people whinging at Adobe... Photoshop CS3 is out the gate and obviously marvellous like all previous versions of Photoshop. And what do you think people have found wrong with it for the Apple.. is it that somehow it's slower than on Windows Vista (nope, probably no different), is it maybe that the Windows version had more features (nope, if anything a feature rich version would more likely debut on a Mac, home of design geeks everywhere). No, it's none of these.. so what near war crime like horrors and attrocities have Adobe committed with their latest incarnation...

... drum roll...

... prepare for the horror...

... they...... moved the palette close button from the left hand side, to the right hand side...

oh god the horror! my eyes!!! It'll be on CNN later with some guy looking battered and war torn in some design office where a Mac user become so confused they went on a killing spree and then hung themselves.

A lot of people are complaining about the consolidation of the interface into something familiar to Windows users as well as the Mac. To be honest, my various encounters with the Apple OS (I do have a MacMini) havent necessarily been bad, just awkward. I spend 90% of my working life, like most peolpe in front of a Windows machine, whether I like that or not isnt the issue, the point is it's familiarity.. so I'm not going to say it's necessarily a bad thing when some minor interface changes happen over at Apple that make it more obvious to Windows users...

Sheesh, you might even win a few more Windows users over simply because it was familiar..

Well, full article on the UI issue can be found over here..