To be a fly on the wall in the MacOS design meeting....

I hate MacOS. It's the most absurdly difficult operating system I've ever encountered. Easy to use, impossible to work with, or on. It's like Ubuntu, but done badly. And intentionally so. An operating system this bad couldn't possibly happen by accident. These things are made, designed, and architected. They don't happen naturally.

It's like the people that sat in those design committees were sitting there, twirling their little mustaches, because that's what evil people who sit on design committees do.

And they're sitting around saying, "Yes, well, we can convince the roobs to buy this crap... but how do we make life fucking impossible for people who are smart enough to write code?"

Then another one chimes in, and says, "I know, we'll make the wifi unreliable, and fuck with the keyring once in awhile for no FREAKING REASON!"

"And for good measure, we'll revoke certificate trust, just because, ha ha."

"Good thinking Orson." Because they're all named Orson.

"How about ports like USB-c and Firewire that nobody else wants or needs?" Another chimes in.

"BRILLIANT!" Another roars. "And we'll only give them maybe one or two of them, so that they have to decide whether to plug in a monitor or use a full size keyboard! HAHAHAHAH!"

They all laugh some more.

Another one stands up, holding his coffee in a selfie stick, and looking like he hasn't slept for a week. He smiles sinisterly.

"And then," his voice has an ominous ring to it. "We'll make ALL of it upside down and backwards from the way every other operating system works. Our mice will have one button, and use arcane gestures that even experienced, long time users won't know, and...." he coughs. "Friends, the best part, is that we'll insist on using terminology to describe things.... that doesn't even make sense.... to us. "

The room fills with bellowing laughter and uproarious applause.

At least, that's how I imagine it.

But that's nothing compared to the design meetings they must have had for the iPhone.