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My email to Apple
Posted at July 8, 2007 10:52 pm | In Technology | By Ben Woodruff
Tags: Annoyances, Apple/Mac
Subject: “The current implementation of the Finder makes me cry myself to sleep at night”
Message:
“Seriously though, I know you are working on improving the Finder for Leopard, but I’ve seen what you have so far, and I’m still not anything close to what I would call impressed. Now I’m not totally bashing here. Apple makes some awesome products. But the Finder is not one of them.
If you are serious about taking any real market share in the business world, please consider:
1) Better SMB / CIFS support2) Allowing the renaming of shares
3) Persistent mounts that are easier to create (NetInfo is not very “Apple” like) - I just want a check box that says “Auto mount this share on login” or similar, and then if it tries and fails, don’t have it “beach ball” the whole system for 30 minutes
4) Add tabs. Please. For the love of all that is Apple. I don’t want 50 finder Windows open at the end of the day.
5) Make the FTP support two way. FTP support is useless to me if I can’t also upload. Even M$ did this right with Internet Exploder.
Most of all, take a look at what the guys a Cocoatech have done with Path Finder. It’s amazing. It’s just slow. So if you could please just buy them out, and combine their product with Finder, that’d be awesome.
This is just some honest feedback from a real user. I do work in the industry, and would love to see Apple expand. But when trying to get my company to buy more Macs, one of the only things that makes it hard for me is the lack of a decent file management system.
If anyone reads this, and actually takes it into consideration, thank you.
If not, at least I’ve got it off my chest.”
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If you keep talking someone will listen.. maybe Apple will hear you? Maybe one day you and Apple will be one… Or you could just work for them!!
Mrs.Villone
Comment by Wendy Villone — July 13, 2007 @ 10:43 pm