Originally posted by clackers Using a Mac (as I do several times a week), you're used to this, Ted - in fact you're expected to put up with it.
Not just Apple. Back in the '70s, when I started in computer-based products, I adopted the slogan, for any computer system, "It all sucks, let's get the job done." This was always applicable to all development environments, system code that we built on, hardware that we had to use, etc. But we did the job. Oh, I never used Apple products in my professional career. Just at home, where it sucks more and more with time. I've used Windows a fair amount at work, and many other systems most have never heard of. All systems have their brand of suckage. Just have to get over it and do what needs to be done.
Oh, defacto standards are a great source of suckage, where systems don't talk to each other. Seen that so many times.
Enough war stories.