"No, I mean the concept . On a Mac, refreshing is a secret handshake. It's a tacit admission that the computer might have made a mistake. And Apple doesn't make mistakes."

A "Get Info" window popped up, showing him the folder's size, creation date, and other useless trivia.

He started finding the cracks everywhere. In Finder, Command+R didn't refresh a folder—it showed "Get Info." To refresh a folder, you had to right-click and select "Clean Up," or just... close the window and open it again. The Mac's philosophy seemed to be: Why would you need to refresh? The system should just work. If it doesn't, you're holding it wrong.

"There's no refresh key," he said, defeated.

"Just try it."