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Re: Apple fans are coming to hate Apple software

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Post by lmns »

lobster_johnson wrote: post #341
stestagg wrote: post #63

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I've found that wifi is buggy generally with lower end APs. It may be Apple employees generally have a better class of router/wifi

Can anyone in this thread recommend a rock solid off-the-shelf wifi router? The last year I have gone through three routers: * Asus RT-N66U ("the Dark Knight"), worked fine on 2.5GHz, but the 5GHz signal gradually became worse until one day it just disppeared. Apparently a lot of users have had this issue. * Asus RT-AC66U, the smaller version of the same router. Just stopped working occasionally, requiring a reboot.…

I'd consider a Ubiquiti AP or a MikroTik. Both make solid devices for routing and wifi. Especially MikroTik offers some nice all-in-one devices. Never had a problem with them.

Re: Apple fans are coming to hate Apple software

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Post by jolux »

Skunkleton wrote: post #188
nostrademons wrote: post #159

It'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…

> 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 attracted companies that really want to make it their bread-and-butter. I have a hard time with this. Apple products tend to lock you into apple software. If you want…

No, you're not locked in to using the default Mail app anymore. Since iOS 8, mail app developers can write a share sheet extension and you can access their mailer wherever you can access system share sheets.

And you're not really stuck with Xcode anymore than you're stuck with Visual Studio on Windows. You can use the command line tools to do everything yourself, it's just more difficult. You can also obviously write apps in Java or even Electron, which is very popular these days.

As for Siri not using your custom music player, that's unfortunate. But integration often comes at the cost of extensibility, and while Apple has the former nailed, they are still clearly working on the latter.

Re: Apple fans are coming to hate Apple software

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Post by kalleboo »

lobster_johnson wrote: post #276
largote wrote: post #195

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Clicking on an address defaults to fucking Apple Maps... Let me say that again: Apple Maps ...

Apple Maps' reputation is much worse than it deserves. These days it is better than Google Maps, in my opinion: Better map pins, better graphical performance, better rendering style, better search.

Someone clearly lives in the US... Probably in the Bay Area.

edit: just tested Apple Maps with a couple searches I did in Google Maps yesterday. Searched for the carrier shops for the two biggest carriers in my country. First search took me to Australia. The other ones found nothing in my city (there are probably at least 10-20 of each carrier in this town) and zoomed out to country level. Still completely and utterly useless.

That said, I'm no big Google Maps fan either, they have a lot of data issues as well. I tend to use a local app which works much better for public transit and car navigation, and has a nice category drill-down for POIs which works around a lot of the issues with free-text search

Re: Apple fans are coming to hate Apple software

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Post by floppydisk »

lobster_johnson wrote: post #276
largote wrote: post #195

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Clicking on an address defaults to fucking Apple Maps... Let me say that again: Apple Maps ...

Apple Maps' reputation is much worse than it deserves. These days it is better than Google Maps, in my opinion: Better map pins, better graphical performance, better rendering style, better search.

Apple Maps, in many ways, is more usable than Google Maps when it comes to directions / heads up on turns and such. Unfortunately, it's still missing a glaring feature for me where I can't get it to ignore toll roads or highways when calculating directions. Even if I manually jigger it to avoid the road I want to avoid, it still "corrects" and tries to send me on that road.

They need to get some more of the driving GPS features figured out and I'll switch over entirely.

Re: Apple fans are coming to hate Apple software

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Post by DasIch »

zzleeper wrote: post #368
kuschku wrote: post #281

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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…

TBH you can blame that on Germany alienating Google Maps https://gigaom.com/2014/12/05/googles-cars-return-to-german-... "Google started automatically blurring faces and number plates, it was forced to give Germans the option of having their houses blurred out as well – something hundreds of thousands of people took the firm up on. However, this was a costly business, with Google needing to hire temporary workers to…

This only affects Street View which Google has abandonded in Germany.

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Post by amatix »

readams wrote: post #364
st3v3r wrote: post #266

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OS X lets you set default apps. I had Chrome set as my default browser for a while.

Try changing the app that launches when you press play/pause on the Mac keyboard. Go ahead. I'll wait.

Seems to drive Spotify on my OSX without me doing anything special... ?

Re: Apple fans are coming to hate Apple software

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Post by piyush_soni »

1024core wrote: post #99

I used to be fairly content with Apple: the iOS ecosystem (or walled garden) was pretty decent, and OSX is basically Unix. I was happy. Then, after a few years of iOS use, I switched to Android. Suddenly, I was an outcast among friends: any group SMS conversations I had been a part of, I would no longer get. I get it: Apple uses iMessage, and it is not present in Android. But at least Apple could warn the sender that…

It was such a widespread issue that they had a lawsuit filed against them. Not sure what happened to it eventually.

http://www.macrumors.com/2015/08/05/imessage-android-lawsuit...

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Post by wyclif »

marincounty wrote: post #292
bphogan wrote: post #223

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The alternative is that I need to have 30 versions of Chrome laying around because they update every week or two. Surely there has to be a middle ground. :)

I have a three year old MacBook. I would like to use Chrome, but it brings my laptop to a crawl. Almost unusuable. I just figured it was my 4 gigs of RAM, and everyone was having a problem with Chrome? You guys run Chrome with no problems? You must have more ram?

I have an old MacBook 4,1 (w/ Core 2 Duo), 4 GB RAM, lying around with the latest version of Chrome on it. It's usable, but not snappy, and you can't have dozens of tabs open or it will get sluggish fast. You have to clear the cache and restart Chrome too often.

Re: Apple fans are coming to hate Apple software

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Post by piyush_soni »

rayiner wrote: post #208
Skunkleton wrote: post #188

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> 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 attracted companies that really want to make it their bread-and-butter. I have a hard time with this. Apple products tend to lock you into apple software. If you want…

> If you want to develop software, then you are pretty much stuck with XCode There are like nine different versions of Emacs for OS X...

But no software even close to Visual Studio, that's the point.

Re: Apple fans are coming to hate Apple software

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Post by kalleboo »

greggman wrote: post #371
vegashacker wrote: post #309

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As for FaceTime I think you're SOL. As for iMessage, you can just SMS/MMS text and it's well integrated into the Messages app on both my phone and Mac. My messages to you just appear green instead of blue.

Nice friend. You end up costing me money if you SMS/MMS me while I'm not in your country.

Receiving SMS is usually free, even while roaming
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