iTunes was a significant factor in me moving to Android.
iTunes will never work well
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#362For OSX VLC is a surprisingly good player for music and it supports FLAC. However I'm quite interested in building a dedicated OSS music player node/electron for OSX (and windows eventually).
Would you mind developing a QuickLook plugin for the latest OS X/macOS releases that could play FLAC? :) I've been breaking my head over it and don't seem to have any solutions.
Wouldn't mind at all. Of course, that's not really in my wheelhouse...
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I agree with all you have written, but there is a way to zoom in or out without using your other hand: use your lips. "Muaa" zooms out, and "auum" zooms in. This will make public transport journeys more interesting (for the others).
I'm not that close with my phone, though.
I probably am. I spent some time in northern Europe, where the temperature would go as low as -25°C, around the time I stayed. I was loath to deglove my barely warm hands, and used my nose instead, for some basic operations.
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#364People always bash iTunes, but I actually use it quite often and I like it. Maybe it's just me though? The only thing that bugs me, is on iOS, when I load the music app (that's basically iTunes for iOS, right?) it shows a blank page until it can connect to the their servers to grab some data. It doesn't have a problem if I'm on wifi or a fast connection, but I'm often in places where my service is shit, and I get a w…
The lack of async and modal dialogs drive me nuts with iTunes. My main gripe is syncing my ipod or phone interrupts music playback--they should be completely separate things. Ideally separate applications.
Up to a few years ago, iTunes was full of these things. They've refined it over time, and most of those actions are now non-blocking from a UI perspective.
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"It's the button that adjusts the window size to the content size." Which is just so, so wrong. Imagine how much mouse-mouse-mousing around (and time wasted) that kind of organization produces. Things I wish Steve Jobs had said: "If you're using the mouse, you're doing it wrong"
Does OSX even have keyboard controls for window management, like win+arrows? I think I have a 3rd party thing doing that, which seems like it shouldn't be necessary.
Yes, it does. Pretty much the entire OS can be controlled by keyboard. You may have to turn on Assistive Services to make it work in all contexts, but it's definitely there.
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#366i don't understand how apple have a reputation for good ui... all of their stuff is terrible. the main problem: zero discoverablity - i need to google how to do things, then get some snotty fanboy answer about how easy and obvious it is, but there is literally no way to infer the functionality from the design. they do love to steal context too... and interrupt your flow... ... i could go on and on, but having zero-di…
Until a few years ago, the difference to windows was like night & day. Whenever I had to use a Windows PC during the Windows XP - Windows 7 days, I'd wonder how Windows users ever got anything done. Windows would almost constantly interrupt any sort of flow with notifications about updated virus definitions, really really urgent updates that need a reboot right now, the highly relevant information that I got a new DH…
No, it's gotten much worse with Windows 10: now it'll force you to spend 45 minutes downloading and installing updates (while you can't do anything else) and then rebooting, at whatever time it feels like it, even if you're right in the middle of a critically important meeting. I don't remember XP-7 doing stuff like that.
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Yes. That is what I mean. My wife and I both have 6 Apple devices, 624GB in total (well, yes, they are not full yet, but still) + 1 2TB AirPort Time Capsule, which could store all these GBs easily. All devices (except for old iPod) have WiFi and can connect to the capsule. Do you know how I transferred my photos to the capsule last time? I had to: 1) Connect iPhone to Macbook (via USB cable, not wifi) 2) Run shitty P…
Another solution (I'm using it with Apple devices but it might work with other type of hw) could be to use Image Capture app included in macOS/OS X which lets you access the photos directly and exporta them to a folder of your choice. Edit: it also allows to delete them directly after import
Yeah, I found this app accidentally and would say it is much better than Photos because it just works the way you expect.
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As someone who got to use a PowerBook G4 (running 10.5.8) from time to time (in fact, I'm typing this very comment on it), I fail to see how their current UI is any more undiscoverable than the UI from 7 years ago. The trash icon was there in the Dock in 10.5, and still there in 10.11. The search function in help was there in 10.5, and still there in 10.11. To remove things from the Dock, right click the icon and the…
I'd go back even further to find decent Mac UI, to the pre-X OS. Yes, it was a reliability garbage fire, but the Apple of that time really invested in usability. They published a 400-page book[1] for developers that explained the principles behind usability, showed how interface design fits into the development process, and gave specific guidelines for each type of interface element. The guidelines they publish today…
I read (and purchased) the HIG as a graphic design student in university. It inspired me to jump into the UI design w/ 2 feet.
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what analog output is there? It is now removed.
Your ears don't listen to digital signals or encrypted sound waves (they can't decrypt it). So, how do you go from digital signal on a Lightning cable to actual sound waves for the human ear? They convert the signal, obviously, somewhere along the line. The DAC is in the headphones now, instead (presumably, similar to every other bluetooth headset since forever, I suppose.) The analog output can never be removed from…
If the analog gap is reduced to holding a microphone up to your headphones, or doing fiddly soldering and destroying the headphones in the process, then that's probably good enough to stop >95% of the current use of said analog gap.
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Their reputation stemmed from the days where everything was discoverable. Want to delete a file? There's a trash can glued to your dock. Need to perform a function but don't know the name? Look it up in the Help menu's search box. Now, though, they've done the Windows 8 thing of overloading gestures and hiding behaviors. Want to see your notifications? Two-finger swipe to the left, starting from the edge of the touch…
> Want to see your notifications? Two-finger swipe to the left, starting from the edge of the touchpad. Or, y'know, you could just click the notifications icon in the menubar (the one that looks like a list of notifications)?
Er.. so what does a list of notifications look like, especially iconised, and how/why should I intuitively know that?