April 20, 2003
iApps
Slava from Unsanity comments on Apple's iApps and their lack of speed and functionality. He makes a very good point about how we are paying for these things in the cost of the OS. Although even if the iApps weren't included with OS upgrades, I don't think Apple would lessen the price.
It is understandable that carrying an advanced featureset and lots of media manipulations can't be all that speedy, but we're talking about the interface responsiveness here. I am, trying to assemble my first home-made movie in iMovie, using a semi-modern Mac (dual-Ghz), don't like clicking into a movie fragment and waiting for half a second for the system to understand I clicked in and update the UI. I don't like browsing through the iPhoto library with an ocassional coffee breaks every time i click on an up arrow because my library contains about 600 photos.
