Who needs a confusing Dock when you can get a God's-eye view of your entire system? Since then, I've religiously assigned hot corners on every Mac I've used to trigger specific Exposé functions (one corner shows everything that's open, another shows me windows just for my current app, while another brings me right to the desktop). Perhaps aware of this usability quirk, Apple introduced Exposé in 2003 as an easy way to see everything you're running all at once. In comparison, the far uglier Windows XP let me zero in on specific apps (and their sub-windows) with a single click on the task bar. If you want to find a specific Safari window, for example, you have to press Control, click on the Dock icon and then select it from the dropdown. (I remember marveling at the fact that a Dock icon could show a running video.) But on its own, the Dock is a confusing mishmash of shortcuts and running application indicators, something reviews at the time also criticized. Sure, when it was first released, it was a huge visual upgrade over the simplistic taskbars in Windows and Linux. In my nearly two decades of using Macs - as a college student, IT support worker and tech journalist - I've never found OS X's Dock to be very useful. Apple Stage Manager: Making sense of the Mac madness
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