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=== The Dock ===
[[Bruce Tognazzini]], a usability consultant who worked for Apple in the 1980s and 1990s, has been critical of the [[Dock (computing)|Dock]]. He wrote an article in 2001 listing ten problems he saw with it. This article was updated in 2004, removing two of the original criticisms and adding a new one. Some of his concerns are that it takes too much space and is too cumbersome for everyday use, complaining that the Dock only displays labels if the mouse is over the item, stating that labels are needed to distinguish different documents from the same application, as the icon is generally the default icon assigned to them at the time they were created, which, unless the user has modified it, is often generic to all of that application's files. Tognazzini also criticized the Dock's [[drag and drop]] actions, noting the confusion that results when an icon vanishes with the need to be re-added from Finder to get it back. He describes this "object annihilation" as bad behavior.<ref name="nine_thing_dock_suck">{{cite web | last = Tognazzini | first = Bruce | accessdate = 2006-12-20 |date=2004-01-01 | title = Top Nine Reasons the Apple Dock Still Sucks | url = http://www.asktog.com/columns/044top10docksucks.html}}</ref>
=== Intel transition ===
When Apple replaced its PowerPC CPUs with Intel ones, many applications had to be rewritten to run properly. PowerPC programs continued to run inside an emulator called ''Rosetta,'' although more slowly than before. Many PowerPC applications would not run at all. In order to continue booting from a PowerPC drive, it also had to be reformatted. Plug-ins for programs such as Safari also stopped working.<ref>Landau, Ted. "OS X First Aid," ''Macworld,'' May 2006, Vol. 23, Issue 5</ref>
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