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Apple fans are coming to hate Apple software
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Re: Apple fans are coming to hate Apple software
#332It's practically downvote bait in here to talk about how happy, overall, I've been with my move to the Surface product line or how much more I like the current incarnation of Win10 and the devkit than any of the other options. But yeah, I never thought I'd say I was happier using the Microsoft variant but here I am. And that's with 2 OS revs full of crashes, poor power management, and a replaced device because rev0 l…
What do you mean by awkward expression of UNIX?
Re: Apple fans are coming to hate Apple software
#333OSX 10.5 and maybe 10.6 were the last good OSX offering.
Similarly I'd peg iOS 5 or 6 as the last good iOS versions.
Both of these systems has been in steady decline. The iOS-ization of OSX killed it. Desktop user don't need stupid shit like an App Store, terrible default security options that mimic an iPhone, full screen mode default when you maximize, notifications (aka. productivity interruptions), etc. my list could go on...
There was once a time Next and maybe Apple had programmers and educational users (educated users) in mind in building some of their software. That seems to be gone.
What are we left with now Ubuntu - that's another ghetto just a different kind?
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#334It's kinda weird to read commentators talking as if this was the end of a golden age of Apple. From my perspective, their application software has always sucked. It was there because you need apps to bootstrap a platform and attract enough users to attract developers. But you can't really expect a consumer electronics company to have the best application for a given niche once the niche has been identified and attrac…
Could you please express your opinions without using the term "brainwashing"? I think Safari and iMessages are vastly superior to Chrome and Hangouts and that doesn't make me an idiot.
Thank you I completely agree. Chrome is garbage and I wouldn't trust google with my photos or calendar data.
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#335Earlier quoted context omitted.
> But at least Apple could warn the sender that it is unable to deliver the message to me, instead of silently dropping it! It's harsh, but this only happens if you don't follow the instructions. Deregister and turn off iMessage: https://selfsolve.apple.com/deregister-imessage If you follow this, you'll never miss a message.
I did follow the instructions. I deregistered several times, and Apple knows that my number is not registered with iMessages anymore.
Basically it seems that the imessage app on iOS basically can't be bothered to check every number every time a group message is sent. So once it has found you were a imessage number you are forever an imessage number within that group.
The only way to break it, as best i know as an outsider, is for everyone else in that group that are imessage users to delete the group and start over.
Likely it is another one of Apple's "usability optimizations", like how they would broadcast every last SSID you had been in contact with to try to speed up reconnects.
Re: Apple fans are coming to hate Apple software
#336All of these complaints seem to really be picking up steam.
Would be really interested to hear from an Apple employee what the inside talk is like.
Re: Apple fans are coming to hate Apple software
#337I don't much care about the software - I haven't used iTunes in years, don't use Mail, etc. etc. - it's the operating system I care about. Wi-fi has been buggy on OS X for literally years now. And each new major release seems to bring some new pain point where it refuses to turn on, refuses to connect, doesn't transmit data... and on and on. There's no way Apple can't know about this - it must drive their own employe…
I recently tried moving to Surface Book. Spent nearly $3k on a real nicely specc'd one. It BSOD'd daily, sleep modes are really confusing, battery drained terribly overnight, it was overall a bit of a nightmare. Granted probably half of my complaints are about Win10 rather than the SB itself, but still. I returned it.
It's SO CLOSE and it was $1,000 cheaper I may have just dealt with it. Just not quite there.
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#338Earlier quoted context omitted.
FWIW for Berlin, Apple Maps draws the transport lines and stations far better and nicer. Google draws the lines very imprecisely and doesn't show you tram lines, for example.
In my city, Google Maps has NO transit, NO satellite images since 2004, NO map data since 2010. Here maps has satellite and transit, and Apple Maps even has full 3D buildings. Following is a set of complaints I compiled last year when a Google employee asked me on reddit to post them more detail about my maps complaints. The usability of any Google product outside the US is a total disaster, and it’s a wonder how Goo…
Conversely, Apple Maps still has no transit in Tokyo, rendering it completely unusable in one of the iPhone's largest markets.
So don't extrapolate your city to the rest of the world.
Re: Apple fans are coming to hate Apple software
#339It's not just software. While I'm still a fan of Macbooks, I'm getting close to abandoning ship thanks to the increasingly un-repairability of these things. I have a Macbook from ~2008 that's still functional as a media PC thanks to memory/SSD upgrades and battery replacements over the years. My current Macbook Pro has memory soldered on to the motherboard and a battery glued to the case. The SSD is technically repla…
Comparable laptops aren't really any better. The rMBP is a lot more repairable than say the Surface Book (which won't let you even open the case without possibly cracking the display). At least Apple has a battery replacement service at an advertised price--what'll Dell charge you to replace the non-servicable battery in the XPS13 or XPS15? And no other PC laptop hits that right sweet spot of power/battery/display qu…
> Surface Book
Man, I love the idea of this thing.
But I recently tried moving to Surface Book. Spent nearly $3k on a real nicely specc'd one. It BSOD'd daily, sleep modes are really confusing, battery drained terribly overnight, it was overall a bit of a nightmare. Granted probably half of my complaints are about Win10 rather than the SB itself, but still. I returned it.
It's SO CLOSE and if it was $1,000 cheaper I may have just dealt with it. Just not quite there.
Re: Apple fans are coming to hate Apple software
#340It's not just software. While I'm still a fan of Macbooks, I'm getting close to abandoning ship thanks to the increasingly un-repairability of these things. I have a Macbook from ~2008 that's still functional as a media PC thanks to memory/SSD upgrades and battery replacements over the years. My current Macbook Pro has memory soldered on to the motherboard and a battery glued to the case. The SSD is technically repla…
I have one of the last MBP from that era that still has replaceable memory, hard drive and optical drive. My machine is maxed out on memory, SSD and swapped the optical for a backup HDD.
I love the thing and had the fried graphics card issue fixed some time ago instead of opting to replace the MBP with a newer model.
This old thing is struggling to keep up with El Capitan these days though and I'm now mulling a Thinkpad with OpenBSD as a replacement. I kind of wish I could get this same body with updated hardware and OSX 10.6 but that's not in the cards.