>For better or worse, iPhoto is a part of the Mac experience.
Sure, it's a non-part-of-the-core-OS, bundled for free, easily replaceable, with 10s of alternatives, peripheral to using a Mac, part of the Mac experience.
To return to our duck-ing topic, what does that have to do with OS X being bad or "not just working"?
If you had to bring up a bundled, non-essential, app to make your point of OS X not working well, then one has to conclude it works mighty fine overall.
And it's even worse than that: you haven't actually even made any point against iPhoto. Just that you don't like it's filesystem abstraction. Which is neither here, not there.
I am not the OP (read the usernames). In fact I don't have a problem with iPhoto at all since I never do photo stuff (don't worry I have issues with just about every other aspect of OS X). I simply wanted to point out that if he had a bad experience with iPhoto then it is fine for him to criticize Mac OS X. Especially considering that dealing with photos is a pretty basic thing for a user to do now adays, and that iPhoto comes with every single mac, and will automatically launch as soon as you plug in a camera.
I believe you are well aware that you are being disingenuous by treating iPhoto as some sort of unrelated third party application that you have no idea why anyone would bring up out of be blue in a discussion about OS X. Who cares if its "non essential", most of the stuff in OS X is completely non-essential (ahem dashboard, photo booth, even mail considering most people use webmail).
Sure, it's a non-part-of-the-core-OS, bundled for free, easily replaceable, with 10s of alternatives, peripheral to using a Mac, part of the Mac experience.
To return to our duck-ing topic, what does that have to do with OS X being bad or "not just working"?
If you had to bring up a bundled, non-essential, app to make your point of OS X not working well, then one has to conclude it works mighty fine overall.
And it's even worse than that: you haven't actually even made any point against iPhoto. Just that you don't like it's filesystem abstraction. Which is neither here, not there.