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Re: Apple in 2021

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Post by jhickok »

deergomoo wrote: post #15
jhickok wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just want their native apps to work, and a lot of times I find they are busted. No excuse for that.

They don’t handle failure well. I’m not sure if this has always been the case, but the fact that most have some sort of network component now have made it very obvious. The general lack of visibility into what is actually happening is incredibly annoying. Anything that involves syncing is in dire need of “stop and start again” button.

I actually just found out that you could force a resync on the podcasts app on macos by hitting CMD + R and that has solved some of the issues I have where I just wait around for new episodes to sync (pull down for refresh is a nightmare with a trackpad on a mac laptop). But still, it's slow (can take 10-20 seconds for a podcast to begin playing), buggy (can take a full minute for the title to appear in the display after it has already started-- so you cannot skip the first 30 seconds of ads), or just broken (havent started the app in a while? guess I will crash trying to sync all those episodes you missed). Really infuriating.

Re: Apple in 2021

#22

Post by jhickok »

gnicholas wrote: post #16
jhickok wrote: post #6

I love the new Apple Silicon Macs, and the transition for me has been pretty easy. I can't imagine anything interesting happening to the watch that doesn't include a big increase to battery life. I don't want any other feature except a battery that can make it a full day. Apple software has seemingly regressed every year recently. Native apps like Music and Podcasts, the only two I would regularly use, have become so…

> I don't want any other feature except a battery that can make it a full day. I thought the Series 7 could make it a full day? My wife has a S6 and makes it about 36 hours with her normal usage (which is admittedly quite light). For me, it's not a watch if it has to be charged every day or two. I need 4+ days of battery life so that I don't have to bring another charger on every overnight/weekend trip.

I have not had that experience with the Series 7, but my S6 would not make it thru a full day ever if I used it for less than an hour of Apple Fitness (paired with an iPad or standalone on a run).

Re: Apple in 2021

#23

Post by quesera »

dont__panic wrote: post #9
deergomoo wrote: post #4

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It didn’t used to be this way. Apple software used to be functional, intuitive, and fun in a lot of cases. Things went downhill rapidly when Jony Ive’s team took over software design. I wasn’t a huge fan of the gaudy extreme skeuomorphism of the late Forstall era, but at least you could tell what was a button. What you could do with a piece of software was much clearer. The current team are insistent that simplicity…

The "new folder" workflow in Finder is one of the most infuriating things I've ever seen in macOS. I swear, they used to just have a "new folder" button in the olden days.

Cmd+Shift+N works, when the UI fails.

Re: Apple in 2021

#24

Post by azinman2 »

jhickok wrote: post #20
bladegash wrote: post #18

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My series 7 easily makes it a full day, closer to two days. It also charges really quickly. I put it on the charger for about 30 mins to an hour in the morning while reading emails and it’s done.

Really? I may make it thru one day if I am using it moderately (mostly apple fitness).

I have a feeling these things are heavily related to both WiFi (congestion/protocol/support for sleep & awake/distance to AP) and cellular (if enabled), in addition to other usage (like Bluetooth, including distance to host phone). This is also (educated) speculation.

Re: Apple in 2021

#25

Post by egypturnash »

deergomoo wrote: post #15
jhickok wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just want their native apps to work, and a lot of times I find they are busted. No excuse for that.

They don’t handle failure well. I’m not sure if this has always been the case, but the fact that most have some sort of network component now have made it very obvious. The general lack of visibility into what is actually happening is incredibly annoying. Anything that involves syncing is in dire need of “stop and start again” button.

ugh yes, also a "sync right now" button

Re: Apple in 2021

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Post by Lammy »

azinman2 wrote: post #24
jhickok wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Really? I may make it thru one day if I am using it moderately (mostly apple fitness).

I have a feeling these things are heavily related to both WiFi (congestion/protocol/support for sleep & awake/distance to AP) and cellular (if enabled), in addition to other usage (like Bluetooth, including distance to host phone). This is also (educated) speculation.

Also device age. My Series 3 originally lasted about a day and a half but is under a full day now with a couple years of cycles on the battery.

Re: Apple in 2021

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Post by [deleted] »

egypturnash wrote: post #25
deergomoo wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They don’t handle failure well. I’m not sure if this has always been the case, but the fact that most have some sort of network component now have made it very obvious. The general lack of visibility into what is actually happening is incredibly annoying. Anything that involves syncing is in dire need of “stop and start again” button.

ugh yes, also a "sync right now" button

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Re: Apple in 2021

#28

Post by dilap »

jhickok wrote: post #6

I love the new Apple Silicon Macs, and the transition for me has been pretty easy. I can't imagine anything interesting happening to the watch that doesn't include a big increase to battery life. I don't want any other feature except a battery that can make it a full day. Apple software has seemingly regressed every year recently. Native apps like Music and Podcasts, the only two I would regularly use, have become so…

I don't think it'll ever happen, but it would be amazing if the opened up 3rd-party watch faces. For a watch, the watch-face is really the analog of the app, and it's a shame we're just limited to the built-in stuff.

Re: Apple in 2021

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Post by pohl »

hellomyguys wrote: post #17
pohl wrote: post #14

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It's a common practice in survey design. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Likert_scale

I think a Likert scale is actually different than how they're surveying respondents in the article linked by the OP. From Wikipedia: "A Likert item is simply a statement that the respondent is asked to evaluate by giving it a quantitative value on any kind of subjective or objective dimension, with level of agreement/disagreement being the dimension most commonly used... The format of a typical five-level Likert item…

How do you know? I couldn't find any example questions in the article.

Re: Apple in 2021

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Post by PrancingPony »

carlycue wrote: post #19

What is Apple doing with the iPad division? The Mac spanked the iPad in 2021 and the recent earnings showed that.

I just don't think too many people buy tablets. It has its niche, but sales aren't as high as I guess they could be?
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