“As many of you have by now heard and experienced, OS X Yosemite has its fair share of problems,” Jim Tanous writes for TekRevue.
“Some of them are minor (not preserving non-native scaling at boot or wake on Retina Displays which causes saved user windows to open at the wrong size and position) and some of them are major (UI slowdowns and system freezes that require daily reboots to clear, or Wi-Fi connectivity issues),” Tanous writes. “But the fact is that the list of bugs as of 10.10.1 (many of which are still present in the latest preview build of 10.10.2) is long and troubling, leading me to a realization this week: I no longer trust OS X. In fact, OS X Yosemite on both my 2013 Mac Pro and 2014 MacBook Pro is unusable in its current state.”
“At WWDC 2009, Apple’s then-Senior Vice President of Software Engineering, Bertrand Serlet, took the stage and announced something that he called “unprecedented” in the computing industry: the upcoming OS X Snow Leopard would have ‘no new features,'” Tanous writes. “That wasn’t technically true, of course, but his point was that Apple was focusing on refining Leopard — fixing bugs, introducing under-the-hood improvements, and providing performance boosts across the board — rather than rolling out yet another set of end-user interface and functionality changes. It was indeed a bold move, but it paid off, and Snow Leopard is generally viewed as one of the best operating systems ever released by Apple.”
Tanous writes, “It’s time to do that again.”
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I can’t use anything past Snow Leopard. I have Yosemite on another partition on my 2007 iMac and every time I try to use it I get the spinning beach ball, then have to grapple with the save as issue and no scroll arrows. Then Mail only picks up some of my mail as it pleases. Snow Leopard works. Fast and logical. I don’t want an iPad on a stand. I want a Mac, as I have since 1986.
Well said!
The problems with Yosemite aren’t merely the bugs, nor the fact that the bugs that Beta testers submit are ignored for months, but also the poor support for the user to understand and repair software issues and settings. The biggest issues may be amongst relatively new Mac OS users who expect intuitive and obvious operation. Yosemite and its included flat-look apps are simply not. iTunes is a perfect example — it syncs when it wants to, not when the user asks it to. Accomplishing any simple task takes twice as many clicks as any prior iTunes release, and then random things still occur without warning — including random loss of podcast media files. WHY? Well, Apple doesn’t have a decent help menu, troubleshooting guide, or anything online that remotely comes close to helping the user find out what’s the source of the problem.
If one is lucky, some intrepid sage may have a command line fix posted online, but why should one need to go to the command line to fix OS X settings???
Admit it: Yosemite is buggy, ugly, and unituitive. Things that the user should be able to diagnose himself are hidden, or functionality completely lost.
What does Apple need to work on, besides Ive’s hideous flat GUI?
graphics drivers
wi fi
RAM management
Mail
iTunes
Calendar
Handoff
Airdrop
Spotlight performance and security
numerous other bugs that cause delays and screen rendering glitches
power management
iPhoto / Aperture – does Apple even support them anymore? WAAAAY behind the competion now.
bring back iMovie
– iCloud needs to be moved to application level so connectivity can be better/securely controlled on multi-user Macs
I have had no serious issues with Yosemite on multiple Mac’s, the only issue I thought was annoying is when Mac’s with file shares would show up multiple times in the sidebar, later releases fixed that (along with a reboot of my Time Capsule)
No software release will ever be bug free, the guy complaining about crashes, what does he mean? I’ve haven not had a crash in OS X for years, and when there was, it was a hardware problem, NOT a software problem.
I think some Mail issues are related to corruption if you have thousands of messages, depending on the actual issue, something in the mail database is causing issues and rebuilds may or may not fix those. Only starting over..
Since updating to Yosemite, iMovie has become a pile of dog crap. I went back to iMovie 09 or use iMovie on my iPad. Many functions do not work or the thing crashes constantly.