1) I think it's important to try to support websites/services that
young people use, the myspace/tribes/flickr/chatroom/videochat crowd.
Currently Safari does not support some of these. This is probably
a problem with sites using Microsoft-specific code in some cases,
but even when the sites use Java (yahoo chat) they don't work
properly on the Mac. This is basic and popular stuff...
In the cases where the site uses microsoft specific stuff,
Apple should work with Microsoft or pay the site to re-engineer it --
if it's a sufficiently popular site that is.
2) Use some of their cash to pay a game developer to make sure
that cool game X is available on OSX. Recently Macs have been
threatened with being shut out of online gameplay due to some
issue with gamespy. Apple may have enough power to resolve this,
and they should try.
3) Make the key shortcuts work as well as in windows.
Make them configurable, and have one-button click to make them
emulate the windows equivalents.
4) Improve the "feel" of speed. I think OSX actually is fast,
but it "feels" slow. One person pointed out that the mouse
moves more slowly by default. The windows also wait until they're
ready before doing anything, whereas in Win/Linux they start flickering
immediately. Flickering is bad, but maybe there is some other way
to give immediate feedback.
5) Tabs in the finder: open sub-folder in new tab.
Actually I think part of the slow switching speed
may be intentional!
Try apple-tab switching between two apps
repeatedly.
It looks to me like the windows switch nearly
instantly, but the translucent apple-tab icons take
about 1/2 second to fade out, giving
the impression that it takes a while.
It reminds me of maybe 10 years ago when PC magazines
would compare scrolling speed in PageMaker, without
knowing or mentioning that the scrolling speed on the
classic text widget was intentionally limited, to
help people keep their context.
Still, Apple should kill this "feature" if it make
people think the machine is slow!
How Could OS X Be Improved?
What I’d Like to See in Tiger: Part 1, Speed