Bangalore: Jony Ivy, the iconic designer behind many admiring Apple products, from fruit colored Macs to iPhones, have redefined look and feel of computing devices, writes Robin Harris for ZDNet.

Harris says, computers and Smartphones are not simply designer blings, but are also the tools that are used by the consumers for carrying out some serious work. So it becomes very important that these devices should evolve consistently to cope up with changing work trends.??

In last decade the storage space of the devices have grown and so do the size of the files, be it images, videos, music, or any other piece of software; but Mac OS X is yet relying on much-patched 1980s file system technology of HFS+, something it planned to replace years ago.

(Hierarchical File System (HFS) is a file system developed by Apple Inc, designed for use on floppy and hard disks; it can also be found on read-only media such as CD-ROMs. HFS Plus is an improved version of HFS, supporting much larger files (block addresses are 32-bit length instead of 16-bit) and using Unicode (instead of Mac OS Roman or any of several other character sets) for naming the items (files, folders). It is also one of the formats used by the iPod digital music player.)

Harris says that many Mac fans discounted his concerns but now he?s got a multi page indictment of Mac?s rot, written by Lloyd Chambers of diglloyd.com, a former software engineer and long-time Mac user and fan. The problems Chambers documented are not theoretical but those he has faced personally with Mac computers. It is not just with HFS+, but with several other key Mac software products.

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