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Apple is crossing a Steve Jobs red line

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Re: Apple is crossing a Steve Jobs red line

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Post by portaouflop »

layer8 wrote: post #321
portaouflop wrote: post #159

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I haven’t used Apple devices back when they were good so I have always avoided all the built-in Apple bloat/adware. Because I came from Windows this was already my standard assumption - I need to violently throw out all the built-in stuff and replace it with free and good software. It’s funny because that means I never felt the same pain you feel; I just assumed that’s how operating systems are.

That means you also haven’t used Windows back when it was good.

I did use win98 briefly, which was bearable but it also wasn’t good. You are probably referring to an even older version

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Post by asddubs »

mannanj wrote: post #220
metabagel wrote: post #36

I ran a reverse image search on the image of Steve Jobs, and couldn't come up with anything, so it does appear that it might be AI generated, which I don't approve of.

This author is a man who worked closely with Steve Jobs, and the photo was obviously AI generated, so I think this gives him leeway to do such a thing.

???

If someone I knew generated AI images of me I wouldn't think it was okay

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Post by skylurk »

GaryBluto wrote: post #272
asadotzler wrote: post #100

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It's death porn gross AI slop, 100% and immediately obvious to anyone who isn't coming of age in the slop era.

> death porn gross AI slop Once again in English, please.

Gross AI death porn slop?

Re: Apple is crossing a Steve Jobs red line

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Post by kwertyoowiyop »

The “Guides We Love” feature in Apple Maps is my a great example of this. When I first saw it I was appalled by its complete uselessness. It’s hard to understand how an Apple team could have created and actually shipped such a waste of space.

Edit: deleted a couple of company references that weren’t needed to make my point.

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Post by deprave »

solatic wrote: post #329
codingdave wrote: post #325

> This is how Steve laid out his plan to us at the ad agency when he returned to a nearly bankrupt Apple in the late 1990s. The customer experience was all-important. Yes, it is a well-known truth that CX drives product success, and if you want to credit Jobs for that, fine. But referencing back to the 90s because Jobs talked to you directly 25 years ago truly dilutes the message. It is really weird, honestly, to cla…

> Society changes It's rather disingenuous to claim, in context, that society has changed to enjoy advertisements. Indeed, I would make the argument that society will never , ever , get to the place where we enjoy advertising. Advertising is like the value-added tax: horrific for everybody involved, and society would have killed it a long time ago for that reason, if it wasn't for how much money it makes.

To me, there’s a difference between ads that help me learn about brands or products, or make me laugh or have some positive emotion (Super Bowl ads, billboard signs, and movie previews come to mind) and ads that take over search results, interfere with the content I want to consume on an already-small screen, or are just distasteful to me. I can’t say I like ads but I recognize that I specifically dislike some ads more than others.

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Post by blihp »

Cpoll wrote: post #299
waste_monk wrote: post #282

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I appreciate the attempt, but have never seen the point personally. That is, many physical media collectors do it to have nice box sets to display, or in an attempt to have off-line copies of media, but I have never met anyone who goes to the effort of ensuring long-term readability - which is understandable, it is a huge hassle. Unless you are copying the content to new physical media every so often it will eventual…

You're citing a report about recordable CD and DVDs. Movie DVDs should be expected to last much longer than that.

Not necessarily as even the factory produced optical discs have had issues with de-lamination, oxidation etc. Of course a lot of that had to do with companies cheaping out on manufacturing in order to make that last tenth of a cent of profit as they tend to do.

Re: Apple is crossing a Steve Jobs red line

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Post by muragekibicho »

kwertyoowiyop wrote: post #335

The “Guides We Love” feature in Apple Maps is my a great example of this. When I first saw it I was appalled by its complete uselessness. It’s hard to understand how an Apple team could have created and actually shipped such a waste of space. Edit: deleted a couple of company references that weren’t needed to make my point.

I googled Taboola and Outbrain. I bet you used 'Taboola or Outbrain' in the pejorative but I can't tell exactly what's wrong with the two companies lol.

Re: Apple is crossing a Steve Jobs red line

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Post by tern »

DarKraD wrote: post #290
adastra22 wrote: post #254

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Would love to know that block list.

Here are the two I have for iBooks. I’m using NextDNS so it will still get blocked when I’m outside the house. I only read my local epubs so I don’t know if blocking these will affect anything you bought on the store. *.amp-api.books.apple.com *.p2-buy.itunes.apple.com

Thank you for this! I applied using AdGuard Pro and it works great

||amp-api.books.apple.com^ ||p2-buy.itunes.apple.com^

In AdGuard syntax, in case it saves someone time

Re: Apple is crossing a Steve Jobs red line

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Post by ThouYS »

Apple is far gone, macOS has been buggy for a while. At first I thought this was in favor of iOS, but seeing how iOS usability has suffered, and how they are squandering their reasources on pointless redesigns.. I guess they are just another company now.

I guess it's a melancholic reality that only certain outstanding individuals can be relied on to produce greatness. Most of us are just not there.

Another such example is Python. Python is slowly being bloated by the people in charge, since Guido basically gave up, soon to be as shitty as C++ is.

I am afraid Blender and Pytorch will be next, seeing how the original visionaries have left or will leave in the not so distant future.

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