Editing Finder (software) (section)

==Reception==
Stewart Alsop II in 1988 said "It is testimony to either the luck or vision of the original designers" of Finder that "the interface has been able to survive tremendous evolution without much essential damage" from 1984. He praised its [[spatial file manager]] as "probably a more complete definition of a PC-based universe than any" competitor, with users able to seamlessly use floppies, local and remote hard disks, and large and small file servers. Alsop said that even if Apple had stolen Xerox's technology for Finder, it was now very different. While criticizing the lack of a right mouse button and [[MultiFinder]]'s clumsiness, he concluded that "Apple remains the king of user interfaces. Finder is the only interface with 1.5 million people sitting in front of it daily. Apple is spending tremendous amounts of money on both development and basic research to remain the leader".<ref name="alsop19880118">{{Cite journal|last=Alsop II|first=Stewart|date=1988-01-18|title=Apple's Finder: Maturity in UI|url=http://vintagecomputer.net/cisc367/PC-Letter_19880118.pdf|journal=P.C. Letter|volume=4|issue=2|pages=4–5|access-date=November 23, 2017|archive-date=March 8, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308060223/http://vintagecomputer.net/cisc367/PC-Letter_19880118.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>

Introducing Mac OS X in 2000, [[Steve Jobs]] criticized the original Finder, saying that it "generates a ton of windows, and you get to be the janitor."<ref name="New OS X headlines">{{cite web|last1=Rothenberg|first1=Matthew|date=January 4, 2000|title=New OS X headlines Jobs keynote|url=https://www.zdnet.com/article/new-os-x-headlines-jobs-keynote/|website=ZDNet|access-date=July 5, 2024|archive-date=June 28, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220628135325/https://www.zdnet.com/article/new-os-x-headlines-jobs-keynote/|url-status=live}}</ref>

''[[Ars Technica]]'' columnist John Siracusa has been a long-standing defender of the spatial interface of the classic Mac OS Finder and a critic of the new design.<ref>{{cite web|last=Siracusa|first=John|date=April 2, 2003|title=About the Finder...|url=https://arstechnica.com/apple/2003/04/finder/|access-date=December 20, 2006|website=Ars Technica|archive-date=August 14, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120814181334/http://arstechnica.com/apple/2003/04/finder/|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Daring Fireball]] blog author [[John Gruber]] has voiced similar criticisms. In a 2005 interview<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.guidebookgallery.org/articles/interviewwithjohngruber | title=Interview with John Gruber | date=September 2005 | access-date=January 13, 2007 | author=Marcin Wichary | publisher=GUIdebook | archive-date=January 10, 2007 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070110041012/http://www.guidebookgallery.org/articles/interviewwithjohngruber | url-status=live }}</ref> he said that the Finder in version 10.3 of Mac OS X had become "worse than in 10.0" and that "the fundamental problem with the OS X Finder is that it's trying to support two opposing paradigms at once&nbsp;– the [[navigational file manager|browser metaphor]] ... and the spatial metaphor from the original Mac Finder ... and it ends up doing neither one very well." Reviewing the same version of Mac OS X, Siracusa comments that the Finder "provides exactly the same self-destructive combination of spatial and browser-style features as all of its Mac OS X predecessors".<ref>{{cite web|author=John Siracusa|date=November 9, 2003|title=Mac OS X 10.3 Panther: Same as it ever was|url=https://arstechnica.com/apple/2003/11/macosx-10-3/11/|access-date=August 4, 2012|work=Ars Technica|archive-date=October 10, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121010140123/http://arstechnica.com/apple/2003/11/macosx-10-3/11/|url-status=live}}</ref>