Junk files like this being littered across filesystems just wreak of extremely poor software engineering. I would love to see Apple stop writing software and operating systems and just stick to hardware.
OS X has some flaws, but I think it's better than the alternatives in the market.
I don't understand this comment. Apple absolutely makes their own hardware. They pride themselves on the A4/5 series processors and took meticulous care in designing the unibody styling that their laptops have.
But I still wouldn't want them to stop making software. I really enjoy using a lot of Apple's software and software available for their platforms.
This aspect of OS X sucks but it doesn't mean they should stop making software altogether. That is ludicrous. Lazy, lazy thinking.
Not to worry though, it only took them 20 years to decide that multiple-button mice, omni-sided window sizing and full-screen apps were at all useful. I'm sure that the removal of .DS_Store will be celebrated as a great new feature of Pious Puma in a decade or so.