A couple weeks back, I made a reference to John Gruber’s article about the poor design of the OS X Finder.
Well, not everyone agrees; Jonathan Crowe gave an alternative perspective: it works just fine, thankyouverymuch. John Gruber has since written a followup to his original article, in it quoting Mr. Crowe. Mr Crowe has, in turn, posted a reply.
This whole thing reminds me of a game my friends and I would play back in elementary school. We’d all stack our hands together, one on top of another. There was always someone — dissatisfied with being on the bottom — that would take their hand and put it on top. This process would repeat until eventually the whole thing fell apart.
What’s my view? I think Apple should call the “Finder” in OS X something else, since it really bears little resemblance to the Finder of the past 15 years. At least then we might be able to view it as a “good start” or something.