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10.5: One way to put Stacks to good use
Authored by: afb on Thu, Nov 1 2007 at 12:08PM PDT

I can't help but wonder if someone at apple saw this as a throwback to the pop-up folders in OS 9, which were very useful back then, but seem at least to me to be far less useful than LaunchBar or Quicksilver at getting to apps that aren't always running (which are the only things I "keep in" the dock, 14 including the Finder and Trash). Like the poster writes, a dock with a ton of tiny icons isn't all that good.

That said, it doesn't excuse the elimination of the hierarchical menus (which can also be (more neatly, imho) replaced by LaunchBar or Quicksilver).