December 5, 2000
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Undoing The Mac OS Facelift
It can’t possibly take anyone by surprise that people are trying to make Mac OS X more Mac OS-like. I used to run extensions under System 7 to make it look like System 6. I couldn’t see the wonderful utility of those new-fangled disclosure triangles, because Apple decided to change the pristine, unichromatic look and feel of the windows into some sort of grayscale monstrosity. I got over it. I deliberately avoided Mac OS 8 for nearly two years before finally admitting that the Platinum scheme and its subtle dimensionalism wasn’t so bad, and maybe I could use some of those new whosits and whatsits under the hood. I got over it again. The leap to Mac OS X is a larger one, regardless of the Aquatic upolstery. Through all the other iterations of the OS, the icons were always where you left them. Some things are meant to stay as they are. Others are destined to change. Give us stability, concurrancy, protected memory, preemptive multitasking, and a kick-ass imaging engine. But leave the trash can alone, darn it all.
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