Great idea for a subject, Nick.

I too get frustrated with the stupid questions and wasted opportunities in Q&A;with various people. Do you wear boxers or briefs? LOL

I’d ask Steve this question:

Mr. Jobs, considering Apple’s own pro applications and many applications from 3rd parties, like Adobe, install components all over the hard drive instead of inside the application’s package exclusively, don’t you think it’s about time OS X had a built-in uninstaller, or at the very least, your own applications come with an uninstaller?

Two features in Windows that OS X needs desperately - centralized uninstaller and System Restore.

I’d either ask that or this one:

Considering more and more of Apple’s software relies on the GPU instead of the CPU and considering Apple’s embrace of multiple cores and multiple CPUs, why doesn’t the Mac Pro support SLI?

Probably the obvious question: does Apple have any plans of catering to the DIY market by releasing a moderately-priced mid-tower PC with lots of room for expansion, dubbed the xMac?

No. This will never happen, unfortunately. I think it’s a mistake, personally. I think they’d make more profit selling a $999 Mac with 1 or 2 SLI slots than any losses in iMac and Mac Pro sales.

I argue with Mac zealots on this issue a lot. Nobody can explain to me why plugging in a monitor is difficult and why not being able to choose my monitor is a good thing.

I think there is definitely a market for the iMac, but I think the market for an affordable, expandable Mac desktop is much bigger.

“What is Apple’s roadmap for total world domination?”

See also Pilky’s comments about this on M Diced.

I think Arden hit the nail, Apple’s plans for the future growth is the most interesting to know.

Two features in Windows that OS X needs desperately - centralized uninstaller and System Restore.

That’s for systems with a lot of flaws and hence the need for it.
To uninstall on the Mac simply drag the app to the trash. If you know there’s a few programs in the library then use Spotlight to find them. It’s not really harder than that.

And you should all stop asking for beige boxes from Apple. Jobs said Apple can’t sell crap, didn’t he?

That’s for systems with a lot of flaws and hence the need for it.

OK, the Mac OS has a lot of flaws.

Right now, there are Mac Book Pro customers who can’t use Final Cut Studio 2 because the latest Mac Book Pro update killed FCS 2. If they had System Restore, they could easily move back in time before the system update.

The same thing happens with 3rd party software - an update kills their software. For example, Newtek Lightwave customers wait before installing 10.4.10 for the guinea pigs to try it first because many, many Mac OS updates have screwed up Lightwave.

To uninstall on the Mac simply drag the app to the trash.

Not even with Apple’s own software. That is a complete and utter lie for the vast majority of the software I use. I think it applies to TextEdit and Calculator.

If you know there’s a few programs in the library then use Spotlight to find them. It’s not really harder than that.

Spotlight for what? How do you know what you are supposed to search for? Are you saying that all of the system files have the name of the application in them? No, they don’t, especially with Apple’s own pro applications.

Do you know how to uninstall Apple Motion? Nobody on that forum does. Go to the Apple Motion forum and do a search for it and you’ll find lots and lots of people who want to uninstall and can’t. Apple used to have a tech note with a laundry list of files you had to go hunt and delete manually for Motion 1. It’s gone.

I wanted to uninstall Motion 3 because it was so pathetically slow I wanted to go back to Motion 2. Just rendering the same exact project was 4X slower in Motion 3.

So I hunted and guessed and deleted Frameworks and Application Support files in the main system folder and then in my User Library folder...all a big hassle and very Windows-like. But wait, Windows has an uninstaller, so it would have been easier on Windows (assuming it actually uninstalled everything, but let’s not go there).

But wait! Compressor uses something I deleted and now Compressor won’t work on my Mac! Well, gee, just go and resinstall it from the DVD. Nope, still doesn’t launch.

There are people on the Apple forums reinstalling their entire OS to solve Final Cut Pro installation/uninstallation problems. That is what I would do a lot with Windows to solve a problem - reinstall the OS.

Mikael, it’s a big joke.

I think Adobe offers an uninstaller with the application discs with most of their software.

If OS X had a central uninstaller in the OS (using receipts, would be my guess), I would not have 90% of the hassles I do end up having with the Mac OS. Of course, OS X is way far ahead of Windows in the “hassle” regard, but those two things (uninstaller, system restore) would eliminate virtually all of the problems I do have.