Good luck w/ the alternatives.
Why I’m done with Apple
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Re: Why I’m done with Apple
#72After half a year on Android I want to move back to iOS. Good luck with switching :)
Also whatever the camera specs, I still have impression that iPhone makes better pictures. On my Sony Z7 "normal" pictures are almost unusable (poor dynamic range) and I don't really use 23Mp (files are slow to handle, etc.). So I shoot in 8Mp and HDR which doesn't obliterate half the image into highlights but gives me crazy unnatural, "alien" colors (especially on a cloudy day).
iOS mail can't search? Well there's no usable mail or calendar or weather app on Android whatsoever. Book readers are a joke, too.
Apple may be wrong much of the time but it at least tries to focus on essentials. Google seems to always build geeky three-storey-configurable apps which most people don't probably need.
Also the file system. Why in 2016 I have to tell the machine where to save a file? (Other app cannot see it anyway after I download it. I have to open a "File manager" to locate the file and open it with the respective viewer. I can imagine, reading this makes an iOS user smile.)
Good luck with other "ecosystems" out there :)
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#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
I agree that we should choose the best in class wherever possible, but doesn't Apple assume that you're all-in? The reason I bought an Archos when the first iPods came out was because it let me treat the mp3 player as a portable harddrive i.e. I wasn't locked into iTunes. Some Apple products are second to none but for reasons of pragmatism, I'm Windows + Linux VM + Android phone.
You're misremembering. The first iPods did mount as a disk for general file storage. They weren't locked into iTunes either... they supported MP3, AAC, and several other formats.
Yes and no.
Yes you could put files on there, no you could not access them from inside the iPod UI.
If you wanted to put music on a iPod it had to happen via iTunes. And only AAC (in an Apple wrapper) and MP3 was supported without transcoding.
With Archos there was no special software, just dump the files on there and go.
Re: Why I’m done with Apple
#74Click-bait, surely!
Re: Why I’m done with Apple
#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
And even more people feel the need to let us know they are "done" with reading such articles. Each time.
I am done with reading comments about being done with reading articles about being done with specific manufacturers.
Lucky for you all I can't even
Re: Why I’m done with Apple
#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
While you're right, 15-20 years ago Apple was actually building hardware for creative professionals as well. A lot of people felt betrayed by the consumer shift because the creative industry was all that really kept Apple afloat for a while until the iPod came about. None of the single-port glossy nonsense.
How dare apple decide to make products that appeal to a mass market. I remember how they used to fill my niche and now they fill everyone else's except mine and it's not fair. they don't even target creative professionals anymore; why don't they bring out a pro version of their tablet that is more accurate, powerful and fun to use than a wacom.
I think there's no question that it's been a successful strategy. A lot of people just don't like change.