OS X's interface needs changing

One of the features of OS X on Apple computers is that the menu for an application is always displayed at the top of the screen. The menu bar is one of the unique features of OS X and no matter what application you run, the menu appears in the top left corner. It's time for a change.

The Windows and Linux way of displaying an application's menu is to place it at the top of the application's window. It makes much more sense. Now you might say that I'm just a Windows user and not used to the ways of the Mac, but I use Macs a lot and this is being typed into a Mac right now.

The problem with Apple's way of doing things is that the size of the computer screen has grown over the years. Having the menu in the top left corner works when the screen is small, as they have been in the past with previous Macs. It also works well if you have a MacBook and with a 13in or 15in screen the application and the menu are never very far apart.

But what about the 27in iMac? You can have an application in the bottom right corner of the screen and the menu for it is in the top left corner. That can be literally two feet away, or over half a metre in metric terms! When you can measure the distance between an application and its menus in feet, the time has come for a change. How big will the next iMac be, 32in, 36in? Who knows? The situation is just going to get worse, so come on Apple, it's time you ditched the menu bar.