Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Setting the bozo bit on Apple

blog.metaobject.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

11–20 of 185 posts

Re: Setting the bozo bit on Apple

#11

Post by porcheetoh »

temende wrote: post #7

I echo this - I bought an apple watch but ended up returning it because it was so hard to reliably do basic tasks like connecting your AirPods and listening to a podcast. It would work fine ~80% of the time but sometimes it just wouldn't work at all and there's no clear fix other than resetting everything which is super annoying. Apple support was also completely useless. The apple watch hardware is amazing but the s…

Every time something goes wrong with my watch I have to fully unpair and reset it. Every time! It’s very frustrating.

But when everything is working, I find it to be super useful… so what are you going to do?

Re: Setting the bozo bit on Apple

#12

Post by ChrisMarshallNY »

jrochkind1 wrote: post #9

Sync'ing from laptop to devices, via anything but iCloud, has gotten so much worse than it used to be. It used to be pretty good -- for it's time anyway. The ecology just isn't built for actual owned media anymore. And so many people have only a phone now, so no reason to try to sync. I think this is probably true on Android too. I don't know about the Watch, or what the documented ways are to get media files on it.…

> so many people have only a phone now, so no reason to try to sync.

Wait until the AR glasses come out. I pretty much guarantee that media syncing will be a huge deal, and Apple had better get their iCloud act together by then.

iCloud is a shambles; and I say this as an Apple user for more than thirty years, and has pegged his career to Apple.

Re: Setting the bozo bit on Apple

#13

Post by gymbeaux »

ladberg wrote: post #6

I have a ~100 item Notes file of stuff like this that I experience regularly on iOS and macOS. It's optimistically a list of Radars I would file should I ever work at Apple again, but I'm fully aware that 95% of Radars like these go nowhere so it's more realistically just a space to vent. A few of the really bad ones are Radars I filed years ago that went nowhere and still annoy me to this day (top prize probably goe…

What are radars? Is that the internal name Apple uses for bug reports? And more importantly, why would Apple ignore radars like this? It was clear (at least in the 10.8 days) that Apple cared about reliability and stability.

Re: Setting the bozo bit on Apple

#14

Post by doomrobo »

gymbeaux wrote: post #13
ladberg wrote: post #6

I have a ~100 item Notes file of stuff like this that I experience regularly on iOS and macOS. It's optimistically a list of Radars I would file should I ever work at Apple again, but I'm fully aware that 95% of Radars like these go nowhere so it's more realistically just a space to vent. A few of the really bad ones are Radars I filed years ago that went nowhere and still annoy me to this day (top prize probably goe…

What are radars? Is that the internal name Apple uses for bug reports? And more importantly, why would Apple ignore radars like this? It was clear (at least in the 10.8 days) that Apple cared about reliability and stability.

Yes, it's Apple's bug reporting system

https://openradar.appspot.com

Re: Setting the bozo bit on Apple

#15

Post by pflenker »

> iTunes used to be if not the, then certainly a flagship app for Apple.

I have used iTunes off and on for around two decades and it has never been a great or even mediocre experience. It was always bad. The author is fondly remembering a time which might never have existed.

Re: Setting the bozo bit on Apple

#16

Post by 7v3x3n3sem9vv »

jrochkind1 wrote: post #9

Sync'ing from laptop to devices, via anything but iCloud, has gotten so much worse than it used to be. It used to be pretty good -- for it's time anyway. The ecology just isn't built for actual owned media anymore. And so many people have only a phone now, so no reason to try to sync. I think this is probably true on Android too. I don't know about the Watch, or what the documented ways are to get media files on it.…

re: Android, I have syncthing running on a windows, Linux and android phone. I make a change in from my desktop PC and it nearly immediately replicates the changes on my other devices whether I'm on my home network, at work or abroad. works really well.

Re: Setting the bozo bit on Apple

#17

Post by kruuuder »

> How can such basic functionality be this incredibly broken?

That's what I'm thinking almost every day when working with Apple devices. There is so, so much basic stuff broken on both macOS and iOS. I truly miss the days where Apple devices were a reliable tool, even a source of inspiration.

Re: Setting the bozo bit on Apple

#20

Post by zaptheimpaler »

As annoying as some of this stuff is, i've found Android/Windows/Linux to be as broken in this regard. The last time I tried transferring photos/videos from my Android to a PC, it transferred at ~5-10MBps over a USB 3 connection because of limitations with MTP. So these phones can record in 4K@60FPS, have 256/512GB of storage but 5-10MBps transfer speeds.. and there is no easy way to get around this limit..

Any sort of syncing between PCs/mobile devices is universally neglected in favour of the cloud now. Why invest in syncing when they could charge you for cloud storage instead?

Post reply on HN