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Post by smoofles »

webwielder2 wrote: post #391
snapples wrote: post #131

Things are so broken here at Apple. I joined about 4 years ago. I am awed by the fact that we manage to release any software at all, let alone functional software. The biggest problem is communication. No one fucking communicates. - No communication between orgs. Tons of bureaucratic tape to cut through just to get a hand on someone working on a different product - Barely any communication between teams. Literally ev…

And yet most of Apple's products are consistently best-in-class, so I guess it's working for them? And a bumper crop of bugs in a point zero macOS release doesn't count as a disaster. They've been shipping super buggy point zeros for two decades.

You do know that hardware and software teams are not the same thing, yeah?

Re: Broken

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Post by zulln »

snapples wrote: post #131

Things are so broken here at Apple. I joined about 4 years ago. I am awed by the fact that we manage to release any software at all, let alone functional software. The biggest problem is communication. No one fucking communicates. - No communication between orgs. Tons of bureaucratic tape to cut through just to get a hand on someone working on a different product - Barely any communication between teams. Literally ev…

Have you worked at a company of similar size before?

Re: Broken

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Post by smoofles »

jen729w wrote: post #492
oneplane wrote: post #315

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No, it sounds like any large multinational. In the end, all commercial entities turn into the same thing where they only differ in branding, segment and origins.

Agreed. Any sufficiently large organisation is, by definition, staffed by average people. Why would we expect that organisation, as a whole, to be above average?

Right. The poblem is when you focus on and optimize for hiring excellent developers only. Then all the non-excellent people that contribute to the average are in middle-to-higher-level management.

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Post by joeberon »

f1refly wrote: post #469
chapati23 wrote: post #302

Apple fanboy and software developer here. Also disappointed with the Catalina release. Had do an NV RAM reset, boot into safe mode, talk to Apple support to solve iCloud issues, and also click away dozens of privacy notifications. But I still really don’t consider windows or Linux as legitimate alternatives because of the ecosystem log in. Yes, macOS has its downsides. But what keeps me from even thinking about Linux…

Those features are in no way exclusive. The clipboard sync? KDE connect does that for me between my phone, my laptop and my desktop (even though I use gtk desktops). All my files are in my pocket with syncthing, updated in real time through the filesystem watcher. Tab sync? Just log into Firefox, boom, done. All those things are set and forget - enable once, never think of them again. And they just work and keep on w…

The thing is that non-technical people aren't using those features on windows/linux desktops even if it is possible to do them, whereas they are using them for macOS and iOS

It's the barrier to entry and knowledge. I agree for tab sync but for most things it takes a degree of setup and also knowing that the feature even exists to set things up, but even casual Apple users seem to know about and use these features

Re: Broken

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Post by joeberon »

schappim wrote: post #9
Animats wrote: post #4

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Or maybe it's time to get off Macs for good. At least don't try to use the version of Linux under MacOS as a Linux system. The OP is running cron jobs and Python in the background, and changes in the Apple security environment broke them. If you need to run Linux stuff, put it on a real Linux system.

>> don't try to use the version of Linux under MacOS MacOS is based on Unix not Linux. However, I mostly agree with your sentiment and would extend it to “use the right tool for the job”. Use launchd (although I hear it is on the way out) instead of Cron etc.

It IS a Unix, not "based on Unix"

Re: Broken

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Post by swah »

swiley wrote: post #411
amanzi wrote: post #176

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I've never seen a bug like that on Windows. Honestly, it feels like a lot of Mac users live in a bubble where Windows is a buggy pile of crap. Meanwhile most Windows users around the world are getting on with life on a stable OS with a great choice of hardware. While nothing's perfect, Windows is in a really good place at the moment.

As a Linux user I feel like windows users live in a bubble where where computers are more or less expected to behave like diseased wild animals rather than machines.

On the other hand, I could scale my external monitor perfectly with W10, while on Linux the answer is still xrandr. Which makes everything blurry. Unless you scale Gnome/KDE to 2x and downscale.. which makes everything slow.

Gah... i hate computers.

Re: Broken

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Post by deif »

swiley wrote: post #411
amanzi wrote: post #176

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I've never seen a bug like that on Windows. Honestly, it feels like a lot of Mac users live in a bubble where Windows is a buggy pile of crap. Meanwhile most Windows users around the world are getting on with life on a stable OS with a great choice of hardware. While nothing's perfect, Windows is in a really good place at the moment.

As a Linux user I feel like windows users live in a bubble where where computers are more or less expected to behave like diseased wild animals rather than machines.

Good joke. Sounds like you haven't used windows since ME.

Re: Broken

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Post by YeGoblynQueenne »

What is broken is the pale grey font on white background. I can't read that without hurting my eyes. What is the point of this? Is it supposed to be pretty? I can hardly see it.

Re: Broken

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Post by diffeomorphism »

MuffinFlavored wrote: post #388
jjgreen wrote: post #293

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An X1 with Ubuntu is butter-smooth

I think the Apple touchpads are the best in the industry, along with the displays as well.

The displays are good, but you get similarly good displays on similarly priced machines.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/The-Best-Notebook-Displays-As-...

For the touchpad I am undecided how much here is software and how much is hardware. E.g. install ubuntu on a macbook, is the touchpad still great or just average?

Re: Broken

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Post by oarsinsync »

megaremote wrote: post #368
chapati23 wrote: post #302

Apple fanboy and software developer here. Also disappointed with the Catalina release. Had do an NV RAM reset, boot into safe mode, talk to Apple support to solve iCloud issues, and also click away dozens of privacy notifications. But I still really don’t consider windows or Linux as legitimate alternatives because of the ecosystem log in. Yes, macOS has its downsides. But what keeps me from even thinking about Linux…

I don't understand why people update straight away. Leave it a few weeks/months. Especially as a developer.

iOS13 comes with a load of security fixes and new features - people are encouraged to update ASAP.

iOS13 comes with a load of breaking changes in iCloud. iOS12 devices and macOS apps (e.g. reminders) no longer sync with iPhones until you upgrade.

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