On Jan 10, 2014, at 10:38 PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer <[email protected]> wrote:
> I haven't yet upgraded to Mavericks. When I asked about it back in October > the consensus was, with a few exceptions, pretty good. Is that still the > consensus? Mavericks is solid, but you have to get used to some of the iOS-like features in things like file-handling and open-save dialog boxes. It's overly strict in associating files on iCloud with particular programs. Perhaps I’m an old fuddy-duddy, but I’m not yet convinced that the new file-less and directory-less paradigm is a better way to go. I tend to use DropBox and Google Drive a lot more than iCloud because I feel like I’m using my files the way I want to rather than adhering to the vision of some martinet in Cupertino. The upgrades to Mail have some real problems with Gmail under IMAP. Gmail doesn't really do true IMAP, and Mail, which does do by-the-book IMAP quite well, sometimes get confused. Apple issued an update to address some of the issues, but my Gmail is still flakey. When you upgrade to Mavericks, Apple will also want you to upgrade all the iWorks stuff to get better iCloud support. The problem is the newer versions of Numbers, Keynote and Pages aren't as capable as the iWorks 09 versions they replace; they have the lesser features of the iOS incarnations. (If you have the older iWorks 09, Apple leaves them in place so you can continue to use them.) My problem is the new versions on the iPad only support files created on the dumbed-down versions, so I’m forced to convert over to the new Keynote in order to do presentations with the iPad. Safari under Mavericks has backtracked on some of the HTML5 stuff from previous versions — most notably MathML. Its new security model makes running Java off Web pages bothersome. If you have an Airport router, Apple makes you use Airport Utility 6.3 instead of the older Airport Utility 5.6. This is bad because the newer AU is really dumbed-down and doesn't have nearly the power of the older one. It's again a case of a program being dumbed-down to work like the iOS counterpart.
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