Apple Seeds Lion 10.7.3 Beta to Developers

Here's an idea:

REMOVE LAUNCHPAD
I don't understand why we need it. We have a dock. :confused:

Another idea! Don't use it if you don't like it!

I don't understand why we have spotlight or Finder to launch our apps, We have a dock! :confused:

Here's an idea, let us users that need to continue with 10.6.8 for the foreseeable future get 10.6.9 that include iCloud. :o

Get rid of the message (or at least give an option to hide/disable in system preferences)

"Reopen windows when logging back in".

I have to uncheck this every single time I shut down.......ggrrrr.

I hope Launchpad stops rearranging itself, and that I can go back to dragging a file and activating Mission Control at the same time.

I'm in for an disable auto save. And a cure for finder amnesia please.

Hope we can make the launchpad icons smaller. I hate how 10.7.2 made them fugly large. On another note, has anyone with Lion is an 802.11x network have WiFi dropping issues? I and several Lion users have the same issues at my school. Snow Leopard is fine.

Another idea! Don't use it if you don't like it!

I don't understand why we have spotlight or Finder to launch our apps, We have a dock! :confused:

Back in the day of AtEase, I didn't use that - didn't complain about it being there.

However, in that same time, Apple concentrated *all* effort into making the Finder the absolutely best, because it was the preferred way to manipulate files.

Now Apple seems to add new half-assed features every "major" OS X version while making the old versions languish in maintenance-mode.

That's what's annoying - that we get LaunchPad when the Finder is half-assed, Spotlight is half-assed and the Dock is half-assed - instead of making an effort into improving what has already been applied.

"How can it be improved"? some would ask. Unless the above mentioned features are perfect, I think that answers that question.

Apple is like a kid with ADD, if it's new and shiny then it's all the rage. For 5 minutes. :confused:

I hope they eliminate that feature that I don't like, and improve the ones that I like.

The v10.7.3 delta update for 11C74 (official v10.7.2 in the MAS) is huge: 633 MB! So i think they changed more than just iCloud document storage, Address Book, iCal and Mail. Btw, the size of the v10.7.3 combo update is 1.08 GB (for v10.7.0-v10.7.2).

Edit:

Some updates/bug fixes in v10.7.3 beta 1:

Core OS:
- Kernel (OS)
- Sandbox (Security)
- EFI-related code (boot.efi, EFILogin.framework)
- diskutil & DiskManagement.framework/CoreStorage

IO components:
- Firewire/Thunderbolt drivers

Graphics:
- ATI/Intel/NVIDIA graphics card drivers
- QuickLook/QuickTime/Quartz/OpenGL/OpenCL

Network:
- Remote Management
- Firewall & mDNSResponder/webfilter
- WiFi/WLAN/Bluetooth drivers and frameworks

Misc:
- Java (probably only browser compatibility)
- CUPS (Printing)

Here's an idea, let us users that need to continue with 10.6.8 for the foreseeable future get 10.6.9 that include iCloud. :o

Too many under-the-hood to bring a major new functionality like iCloud to a point maintenance release.

Besides, if you know anything about OS X's history, Apple basically abandons the previous OS after the new one comes out, short of adding critical security fixes. They will compile software like iTunes for some level of backwards compatibility, but they won't really include features that rely on new software that runs locally.

Let's note that OS X actually has fairly good backwards compatibility with older hardware. I'm running OS X Lion on a five-year-old MacBook Core2Duo (late 2006 model, 2GB RAM).

You're not going to get iCloud on Snow Leopard. You have been left behind.