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Setting the bozo bit on Apple
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#42> 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.
I'm glad to hear others experiences match my own. Sometimes when some bizarre behavior manifests I can never quite tell if I'm the bozo who did something silly and tickled some feature unbeknownst to me or if the device did something truly unexpected and buggy. You'll probably get a kick out of this characterization I made recently in another post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34157476.
Another characterization I've made is that Apple is a primarily a hardware company, they don't have the software chops and are scrambling to try to backfill that skillset. They overly reward the bright and shiny but eventually the inability to tame complexity will be their downfall.
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#43My rant about Apple turning into Microsoft. A bit dated, but still accurate (IMHO) about what Apple is doing wrong.
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#44> 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.
Wait until he tries to search for this file. The main "Search" field use to just filter music based on the string. But since iTunes became Music, it now shows an auto-curated screen of crap you don't want.
...and the old search is moved to Songs -> (upper right) "Show filter field". They even change the shortcut key, which is the worst part imo.
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#45As 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…
> and there is no easy way to get around this limit..
I mean, Apple could just add a better physical connection to the iPhone. Either the USB3-speed Lightning port they used twice on a few iPads, USB3.x over USB-C, or even the brilliant Thunderbolt standard they helped make nearly a decade ago. But... the iPhone's physical transfer speeds are still stuck in 2001. It's genuinely an unbelievably amount of negligence for a company that directly profits off of cloud customers.
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#46Apple Music on MacOS is hands down the worst first-party app I've ever used. It legitimately was hard for me to believe that it could be as bad as it is when I first started using it. I had a moment where I believed, just for a second, that I was on a Windows machine, and the app was a shoe-horned third-party monstrosity like using Microsoft on Mac, or vice versa. It is gobsmackingly bad. Audio quality is great though!
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#47> 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.
For me, iTunes was quite good on Mac. It's the Windows experience that has always been an afterthought, for example: why is there not an option to turn off "black out other monitors when going full-screen on a movie"?
> why is there not an option to turn off "black out other monitors when going full-screen on a movie"?
Here was my train of thought on reading that:
Who voluntarily uses iTunes?
Who voluntarily uses iTunes on Windows?
Can you watch movies in iTunes on Windows?
Why would you ever want to do that?
Blacking out other monitors on full-screen? That's a pretty novel idea, I've never seen that before. Apple would never implement such a cool feature on a competing platform.
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#48> How can such basic functionality be this incredibly broken?
This is not basic functionality. The vast majority of iPhone users never plug their device into a computer.
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#49You also can't uninstall Apple Music, nor can you get it to not respond to media controls from headphones. So a few times a week I accidentally open an app I never want to use because it wants to force itself on me. Lame.
Re: Setting the bozo bit on Apple
#50> 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.
I would say this is no longer basic functionality. Personal music collections were huge in the mp3 era, but today few people care about moving music between devices.
Further if you think of the complexity involved, streaming is a more “basic” task, than navigating file formats, transfer protocols, DRM, disc storage, library metadata, and more.