[teilo]

One of the reasons I love the unix world and despise Windows is precisely because things are not in black boxes. I can read and parse log files. Config is in text files that can be grepped. Automated processes are run from scripts that I can open and examine. Very little is done in a walled garden closed binary format. Even Apple's applications are folders inside of which I can find yet more scripts, text files, resources, etc. When something goes wrong I can usually figure out why. When something fails for some god-knows-why reason in Windows, I get an error box, and nothing else.

Please don't try to hide the guts of a system from me. It is the thing I value most about my Mac.

[glhaynes]

This is exactly why I think "computers" (using the 'folk' parlance here: I know iPhones and iPads are "computers") are on their way to becoming, essentially, workstations.

Complicated tools to do complicated things.

I don't see any reason that the Mac should ever move away from having Finder and Terminal (though they will become less and less used by the average user), but the vast majority of things that "end users" do with computers don't need to deal with this sort of stuff. The tools to make end user tools (end user tools such as device OSes, apps, and server software for end user apps to interact with), will always necessarily be of another level of complexity.

Let the Mac stay a Mac (read: UNIX), I say. But I don't want to do most of my non-techie stuff on it anymore.