Does your Apple have "bugs"?

Let me tell you a story of a simple task that turned into anything but such. I needed to setup a small and very basic site with a few pictures and about four pages with various information. Since at the time MacBook Pro was next to me, I've opened up iWeb and shortly had the site ready. Everything looked great in the iWeb, I've exported the pages and looked at them in Firefox and surprise - the colors of all the pictures are way off! It happens that iWeb embeds color space information into pictures when it creates pages, even though pictures have the right profile/space specified. Color space that it assigns doesn't match he one used to create the pictures though. Not a big deal, right? Just a small bug, this can be fixed manually by reassigning the color space.

  Once the color issue was fixed it also became clear that album preview files created by iWeb are of such low quality that they should really be also redone manually. I guess another bug...Now listen to this - every picture added to iWeb gets its own folder with original file and 3(!) smaller, lower resolution versions. Wasteful and redundant, especially when they are of such a low quality that the are unusable. And if you have a lot of pictures, going folder by folder to delete the low res file and duplicate the high quality one is quite unrealistic.  So to aid me with this task I've started up "Automator" - a simple scripting utility developed by apple to automate simple task such as copying, renaming and changing files in other ways. What can be simpler than finding a set of files, deleting unneeded ones, duplicating high resolution files and renaming them. And again - Apple works its magic - there are no "wild cards" to craft very specific searches that would result in the data I'm looking for. The most basic and useful tool in creating search strings - a simple wild card, and it is missing. And automator has a bug where "Duplicate" action results into two sets of copies instead of one. And the result of a search can not be used as a set of files outside of the automator. So we will have to do this manually. We can search (the hard way), select the results displayed by the search and then manually rename the files all at once. Simple, right?

And again - Apple gives us another feature, or lack of - one can't rename more than a single file even by hand. I just need all the files in different folders to have the same, but I can't rename them because operating system does not support such procedure on more than a single file. To add an insult to the injury - software developers sell applications to deal with this particular problem, but even those can't rename a set of files in different folders, so all of them have the same name.

So after finding several bugs in Apple's software (iWeb and Automator), discovering a lack of basic functions in the operating system and spending too much time on something that should have taken me half an hour - I'm done with Apple's software. And it is not even because of the bugs themselves, but because they have been documented, reported by numerous users and Apple could care less. They just pump out new versions of the buggy software instead of fixing these issues at least once and then building on a good product.

I'm done venting my frustration.