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Apple needs another "Snow Leopard" release - spend an entire year not adding anything - just focus on making everything work better, fix bugs, etc.
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> I've missed out on many moments with my toddler because of that You just missed taking pictures. You were still there to live them :)
Reminded me of Miyazaki Hayao's request to visitors of his museum[0]: 「カメラを向けるのではなく、この空間をご自分の目で見て、体で感じてください。そして、思い出は心の中に大切にしまって持ち帰って欲しい、これが私達の願いです。」 Which translates fairly literally to: "Rather than aiming your camera, please see this space with your own eyes and feel it with your body. We hope that you carefully store these memories in your heart and take them home with you." [0] http://www.ghibli-museum.jp/info/
Your brain can use pictures as triggers later in life to reconnect a lot of those memories that get fuzzier over time.
Taking a video of a whole concert? Obnoxious and rude to the other members.
But I’ll take around 5 photos here and there and later on I’m glad I can go back and see them.
So it’s like, hey, phone/camera doesn’t work? Put it down then. You’ll remember what your toddler looks like because you’ve got other pictures.
The worst part is with all these bugs, you kind of feel that Apple will probably never get to them, given there are just so many (and on top of that Apple may just not care about non Face-ID modes of entry anymore, probably how this bug appeared in the first place). It is especially maddening since it feels like a cruel joke to have both the physical keyboard on the laptop mess up entry AND the virtual one on the phone.
It's almost like Apple iOS/macOS and Microsoft Windows 10 are competing with each other, to see how fast they can push out buggy software upgrades and skimp on quality assurance. The grass is greener on neither side.
PS: I know Win10 LTSB exists, but that's enterprise only.
There have been glaring bugs/issues lasting ages in both MacOS and iOS. For years apple mail on iOS would always show 1 unread message in "all mail" for gmail. On my iPhone 11 pro (and the 6S i had before it) the camera app will sometimes only show a black screen and a freaking reboot is needed to get it working again. I've missed out on many moments with my toddler because of that. Multi-monitor support was so good…
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So true. My parents didn’t miss out not having a camera phone and neither did my grandparents. It’s amazing how dependant we’ve become on capturing moments. Sometimes even to the detriment of actually experiencing them.
Might be related to the "Terror Management" theory. :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21298470 We probably feel the need to preserve/hoard everything in a subconscious desire for immortality.
For example, I can go a whole vacation without taking any pictures. But with my kids I love to take their picture and get videos because they grow up so fast and it's fun now to go back and revisit a time when they were younger. They also love to see themselves when they were an age that they don't remember.
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Ohhh yes, now you made me even more depressed. But at least the Switch OS has no oopsies (that I've seen.) :) My [New] 3DS has also been rock solid for years, hardware and software.
Horizon has a broken exFAT implementation that can corrupt SD cards. Normally it only affects people running homebrew, but it can also be triggered by eShop games (Pokemon Sw/Sh was in the news for this recently). Some would consider the lack of folders an oopsie but that's probably not what you're referring to. 3DS is indeed a damn solid device, though. Nintendo did really well with it.
In iOS 13, there is an absolutely bizarre bug when typing your passcode into the lock-screen: it will randomly delete one of the characters! You can actually watch it happen, you for example type 4 characters, and then on typing the 5th, it drops down to 3. It's absolutely infuriating, especially if you have failed-unlocking behaviors turned on where you then locked out of your phone after a minute if you fail X time…
There have been glaring bugs/issues lasting ages in both MacOS and iOS. For years apple mail on iOS would always show 1 unread message in "all mail" for gmail. On my iPhone 11 pro (and the 6S i had before it) the camera app will sometimes only show a black screen and a freaking reboot is needed to get it working again. I've missed out on many moments with my toddler because of that. Multi-monitor support was so good…
Automagic is my new favourite word
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Why be a "staunch supporter" at all? It's one thing to admire the work/output of a company, but once you identify as a "Company X" supporter you are just closing yourself off to being critical of "Company X". I cringe at every WWDC session when people applaud for minor features (new themes in Xcode!) and long overdue bug fixes. I am embarrassed whenever someone online talks about a problem they have with Apple hardwa…
> Why be a "staunch supporter" at all? Because they consistently make what I want to see. For example SwiftUI, which I had been waiting for my entire life. Call it the lesser evil, compared to my experience with other companies, if that's more acceptable for you. Here's a funny observation: I have 20+ upvotes on my previous comment criticizing Apple, but a negative score for the supportive statements on this one. So…
I think this is less a case of people being too for or against a company, and more people interpreting the same statement differently depending on their own context.