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Post by sinatra »

Jwarder wrote: post #232
bartread wrote: post #161

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> They justify it by reminding you that “you get to be part of the mission”. That reminds me of the post from a few days ago on HN: "#### you: pay me!" I think there comes a point in many (and I'd hope all, but I don't think it's true) peoples' careers where they realise that, in business, money talks and everything else is sadly just chatter.

Your attitude seems common, but I'm quite curious just how common it is. Personally I totally happy with my current income and don't have any real interest in making more. I can pay my bills, buy anything that catches my eye, max out my 401k, travel to visit family. I don't turn down raises or bonuses, it is nice to have a little bit extra in case of emergencies. But an extra dollar doesn't mean much compared to the…

Just curious. Have you done a serious analysis of how much you’ll need in your retirement savings to be able to live a comfortable life when you’re no longer earning (due to lack of desire to work or lack of opportunities to work)? Say you live till you’re 90. I’m asking because many times people think about the present and say they don’t need any more money, but don’t think about the future when they won’t be able to earn.

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Post by ackfoo »

matwood wrote: post #221
fauigerzigerk wrote: post #203

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>You realize that Apple has so much money they can do both. Not with the same dollar. We shouldn't forget what giving money back to shareholders means. It means that Apple cannot think of anything to invest that money in that's more promising than what investors can find elsewhere. You could say it's prudent and honest. Instead of wasting all that money on stuff that never yields a return they're handing it back thei…

Again, thinking binary is incorrect here. Apple is spending 10B+/year on R&D [1]. They clearly can think of something . I guess it could be argued they should be the top R&D spender (they are trending that way), but even if they were they would still have enough money do stock buy backs and pay dividends. The amount of money they make is staggering. Apple has traditionally not be an acquirer of large companies. I kno…

Apple needs to spend its money first on fixing the bugs in its existing code base, second on innovating within their established markets, and third on innovating in new markets.

Bricks-and-mortar stores? The eighties called--they want their business model back.

Apple was run by a creative dictator; now they are run by weak-minded marketing slime. We need some of the old.

Every time Apple does something new, I have the same reaction that made Steve want to make a blue box. Force me to do two-factor? Need a hack. Stop IOS apps from getting MAC addresses? Need a hack. New networking framework that doesn't do broadcast in IPV4? Need a hack. Old devices iCloud locked even though they were given away? Need to buy a NAND flasher. BTLE too buggy to use? OK, I give up at this point.

The marketroid asshats in charge of Apple now are exactly what drove Steve to create it in the first place. If you whittle away at the user experience long enough, the engineers and developers will start to leave. The users will slowly follow. It's a death spiral.

I am now torn between hacking everything Apple that I own (starting with a decent content filter for Safari), going back to Windows, adapting the TX2 to run something really cool, and starting my own thing.

Whichever way, it's goodbye Apple. I just bought a used 2015 MacBook Pro for MacOS/IOS development (simply due to the inertia of having to maintain existing code) and I'm looking hard at Samsung's Galaxy Tab S.

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Post by benologist »

redacted wrote: post #197
matwood wrote: post #176

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> Their iPhones have reached a peak, where it appears people are no longer willing to pay so much for them. They may have reached peak growth, but the numbers show that outside China (which in hindsight appears to have larger economic issues), millions of people buy iPhones. Are all the current iPhone users going to suddenly switch to Android? Very unlikely. By all accounts the XS is a great phone. If I had anything…

The stores (and iMessage) get brought up a lot, but for the world outside the US they are a secondary consideration if they even factor in at all. There are more _Samsung_ stores in Dublin than Apple, and the ones we have a 3rd party 'authorised resellers' with average service at best...

Most of the US is not within range of an Apple store either.

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Post by shlant »

mofe wrote: post #231
pqdbr wrote: post #210

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God, happy to see I’m not the only one with repeating keys issues in my MacBook Pro. Seriously, it’s maddening. It has halved my typing speed.

Apple will fix you keyboard free of charge, i got mine replaced by apple two weeks ago and had zero issues ever since. https://www.apple.com/support/keyboard-service-program-for-m...

I'm not looking forward to my laptop being "refreshed" by my org in the next few weeks. I will be getting a brand new 2018 Macbook Pro and all I can think is "if the stupid keyboard breaks, I'll be without a laptop for 2 months because Indonesia SUCKS for getting things done quickly".

That plus this audio bug makes me REALLY hope they let me keep this one as a back up.

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Post by satysin »

endorphone wrote: post #227
satysin wrote: post #99

Interesting as I don't seem to have this issue on the two 2018 MBP I've had. Originally I had a release day i7/32GB/1TB/560X model but it had a power/charging issue so Apple replaced it with an i9 model which has been perfect. I have worried a lot about the keyboard breaking but so far it has been fine. I actually really like working on it now with the exception of the TouchBar which is the most useless change to key…

It seems like people are comparing current Apple products with a mythology of Apple products that never actually existed -- an invented fiction where in the past the hardware and software was the height of perfection. Every Apple device and software product ever has had a number of issues, many significant. As you mentioned, however, the competitors hardly do better -- the litany of absolutely devastating faults with…

Yes this is how I feel also.

I constantly hear the phrase "This wouldn't have happened under Jobs" and it pisses me off. Apple had loads of problems with hardware under Jobs.

You're right Apple should do better. I always factor AppleCare into the machine cost the same way I used to with Lenovo's 3 year on-site warranty upgrade after they changed it to depot by default and Dell's Plus warranty option, etc.

IMHO Apple isn't any better or worst than they have ever been but they are getting cheaper with things like removing the AC extension cable, not including a USB-C to USB-A dongle like Dell, etc. do

Considering how much of a lottery it is buying a Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft laptop is though there isn't much you can do. Apple is usually 20-30% more expensive but I have easily wasted 200+% in time waiting around for Dell engineers or shipping a unit back to Microsoft (as they don't even offer on-site in Europe!).

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Post by anthonybsd »

matwood wrote: post #176
docker_up wrote: post #41

Apple appears to be coming to some sort of head at this point. This is speaking as someone heavily invested in Apple products and shares. Their iPhones have reached a peak, where it appears people are no longer willing to pay so much for them. They are too damn expensive, with nothing to justify their costs. I am one of the morons who upgraded to the XS, but only because I needed the 512GB storage. If not for the inc…

> Their iPhones have reached a peak, where it appears people are no longer willing to pay so much for them. They may have reached peak growth, but the numbers show that outside China (which in hindsight appears to have larger economic issues), millions of people buy iPhones. Are all the current iPhone users going to suddenly switch to Android? Very unlikely. By all accounts the XS is a great phone. If I had anything…

>By all accounts the XS is a great phone. If I had anything other than the X, I would have upgraded.

I upgraded to XS Max from 7+ and I regret it. LTE issues due to Intel modem are bad enough to launch a class action lawsuit.

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Post by auiya »

mihaifm wrote: post #187
bad_user wrote: post #158

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You may not upgrade to the next iPhone model, but are you going to switch to another platform? If not, then you're still in Apple's ecosystem and generating some revenue and opportunity for them, aren't you? iPhones age better than other phones. You can also get them to a service and get a batter replacement and they're like brand new after two years of use. You can't really say the same thing about the other phone m…

My Iphone 6 is still going strong after 4 years. Replaced the screen myself twice and battery once, planning to do a second battery replacement. There's no killer feature in the other models that would determine me to upgrade.

I'm on my 2nd SE. Unless Apple makes an SE2, I'll buy another SE when this one dies. To me iOS is still the most stable mobile OS, but I don't like the current models' form factors. They're all entirely too large.

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Post by auiya »

jedberg wrote: post #70
savanaly wrote: post #54

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>Apple is the richest company in the world, and instead of paying their engineers top wages... If that sentence caught anyone else's eye, know that it caught mine too and I did a quick sanity check. [0] It does seem that Apple is falling a bit short of other top companies, especially for the upper levels. [0] https://www.levels.fyi/SE/Google/Facebook/Apple

Anecdotally, everyone I know who works for Apple is paid below market rate. They justify it by reminding you that “you get to be part of the mission”. I know one guy making market and he’s in the video streaming product group.

This is the same garbage every company feeds you to make you feel better about getting under paid. It'll only stop when unions are more wide-spread.

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Post by 013a »

dharma1 wrote: post #215

Honestly, I'm really disappointed with Apple for pro use lately. 1) not testing stuff thoroughly - the i9 mbpro overheating saga ("fixed" by firmware upgrade), this T2 usb2 dropout (which probably isn't fixable at all) - unacceptable. 2) releasing significant GPU upgrade 2 months after a flagship mbpro release - I and many others were screwed by buying the latest and greatest (the most expensive laptop I've ever boug…

Most recently, I'd also include the "iPad Pro Shipping Without A Headphone Jack". It's different than ditching the headphone jack on the iPhone, which is mostly just an inconvenience and wireless headphones are becoming more popular anyway. Music production is literally one of their big advertising markets for the iPad, with a vast array of applications available. Wireless headphones are unusable for music production (not just quality, but also latency) (not Apple's fault, its just bluetooth). So if I want to mess around and make some sounds, I need a dongle for my headphones; and most often, I need a full expensive USB-C hub because I need a second USB-C port for charging.

So now, you've got a hub to get two USB-C ports, then you've got a USB-C -> 3.5 dongle on one of them (some USB-C hubs have built-in 3.5 ports, but these don't generally support audio passthrough, and the DACs inside the hub are shit compared to Apple's official ones). If you've ever owned a big USB-C hub like this, you'll know that they get Hot. Like, "that's uncomfortable to touch" Hot.

All they had to do is put two USB-C ports on it. That's fine; I get that headphone jacks are thick and "last gen". But they couldn't even do that.

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Post by rusk »

c16 wrote: post #155
rusk wrote: post #146

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Is there an alternative tool for managing your iPhone?

You dont need iTunes to manage your iphone - it's essentially it's own device. I've never synced my phone with my laptop.

So the answer is “no” then ...
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