I'm quite happy with OSX.
Apple fans are coming to hate Apple software
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Re: Apple fans are coming to hate Apple software
#442It'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…
> Perhaps I was just less brainwashed than most Apple fans
And yet you use Google everything, despite privacy concerns...
Re: Apple fans are coming to hate Apple software
#443My iPhone 5 cannot run the newest version of Safari - too slow. I was forced to switch to Google Chrome.
Safari used to be fast two versions ago but something changed in a recent upgrade and now it is useless.
Re: Apple fans are coming to hate Apple software
#444It'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…
> But IMHO anyone who used the whole integrated Apple software suite and never looked elsewhere has been missing out on some seriously nice features this whole time.
I've looked elsewhere but I stick with Apple's software because I like the simplicity and privacy it offers. I don't want more than a handful of basic functions in my calendar app. I don't want a half a dozen new features to help me avoid reading e-mails. I don't need to install Google Maps to avoid driving off a mountain because Apple Maps works fine for me. I don't want to type the wrong thing into a Google app and see ads about it for the next 3 months.
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Apple does have such a model, at least for now: https://marco.org/2016/01/04/md101ll-a
I can't upvote this enough. A year ago, I wasn't sure how much longer my ancient (but still functioning!) 2008 MBP would be going on. So I went shopping. Found the same tradeoffs Marco mentions here: I didn't like the sealed nature of the newer offerings (and also, AFAICT no screen density can make up for the inexplicably missing matte displays). I ended up buying a used 2.6Ghz i7 8GB 15" matte MBP instead of anythin…
I still have my late 2008 MacBook Pro--the first 15" unibody design with a Core 2 Duo. I just spent about $250 for 8 GB RAM upgrade and a 500 GB SSD and did a clean install of El Cap.
It actually runs faster now than it did with the stock HD and Mountain Lion! Granted, I'm not doing a lot of heavy computing with it. For web surfing and the basics it still works great.
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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... ?
Once it's running yes. But if you close Spotify, pressing the play key will start iTunes. It's quite infuriating.
Re: Apple fans are coming to hate Apple software
#447It'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…
> Perhaps I was just less brainwashed than most Apple fans And yet you use Google everything, despite privacy concerns...
I figure I have none anyway. My working assumption is that every major government on earth could access all of my net activity with a few keystrokes, my devices are already pwned, all of my credit card numbers have already been stolen, and pretty much anyone could pretend to be me with little trouble.
The only thing that prevents this from being a massive pain in the butt is that they have also stolen the personal data of 300 million other Americans, and by the time they work their way down the list (my last name starts with 'T', after all), all that information - credit card numbers, operating system installs, addresses on file, net habits - will have changed anyway.
Re: Apple fans are coming to hate Apple software
#448I dread helping anyone with iTunes related issues. The syncing process is dangerous, it's far too easy to wipe someone's collection of music / family photos / pictures. I'm not sure if this is an isolated issue but I start sweating bullets as soon as I have to connect an iDevice to iTunes. What really shocks me is that instead of showing a big red warning message before a destructive sync, it silently goes ahead and…
Are you serious? Unless you're sharing different users' music across computers (which Apple has made difficult/unfeasible since day 1). Sync is one-way - what could you lose?
My personal fear is losing my photos when performing a sync. iCloud tops out at 5GB, which you can't effectively manage.
It's far safer to plug your phone into a Windows machine and using the file system GUI to copy the photos to the folder you want. Using Preview to import the photos as if the iPhone is a scanner is another safe method.
The multiple user/multiple computer problem that you're referencing can probably be solved by logging in to the corresponding icloud account on the computer.
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> 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.
Is there anyone preventing anyone from making something 'close to Visual Studio' though?
I don't think Apple is blocking that. If you're looking for something for iOS/Mac dev, all the build tools are available as command-line interfaces.
Re: Apple fans are coming to hate Apple software
#450The only Apple software I use is the operating system. Everything else (including the core utilities) are third party. Google Docs for word processing/spreadsheets, BusyCal for calendaring, Chrome for web browsing.
I may occasionally fire up the core Calculator app but with Numi in my menu bar and Alfred a quick Option-Space away, I rarely even use that.
Having been burnt by Apple disregarding other software I've been a big user of in the past, I'm not going to let them do it again.