Most of these are fully on Apple, but for the Gmail and Google Contacts bugs, I'd say Google is at least partly to blame for positioning the open standards versions of their APIs (IMAP and CardDAV in this case) as secondary to their own proprietary APIs and not implementing them particularly well.
Bugs Apple loves
21–30 of 550 posts
Re: Bugs Apple loves
#22Please add to the list "Launching Apple Music without you wanting to, at the worst possible moment", which is every moment, really.
Re: Bugs Apple loves
#23This is a Claude-coded website that invents metrics and data based on bald-faced lies, ex. the first example makes up that the search in Mail does not work 100% of the time and then calculates fantastical millions of hours wasted.
I can report it works fine, needed it to pull up 13 year old emails for me a couple months ago.
I absolutely abhor Apple’s software QC since 2010 but I don’t think a vibe-coded, vibes-based, fantasy, written by AI, with the sheen of numbers and reality is the way to do it, or a net-positive outlet for my frustration. At least on HN.
Re: Bugs Apple loves
#24This is obvious AI-generated web design style.
You're not wrong — but actually the prompt I gave it was "invert Apple's design style." I think it did a reasonable job?
Re: Bugs Apple loves
#25Had the pleasure of making an Apple account to join our company's developer team. I filled out the form on the website 7 times: Edge on Windows, Edge on macOS, Safari on macOS, using 2 different phone numbers. No matter what, Apple just refused to send the verification code to me. It only worked after I remember Apple is a dick to the web platform, then I managed to create one from the popup in the App Store.
I had a similar issue when I first brought my iPad. Turns out, Apple doesn't like custom domains for emails. So, I had to make an Apple account with a Gmail account, then remove the Gmail account and add my email address with the custom domain. Why? Who knows. Still remember my first experience after buying an iPad.
Might've had something to do with the state of the various email security measures on the domain. I have an Apple account on a custom domain with Fastmail and it's never been a problem.
Re: Bugs Apple loves
#26This is a Claude-coded website that invents metrics and data based on bald-faced lies, ex. the first example makes up that the search in Mail does not work 100% of the time and then calculates fantastical millions of hours wasted. I can report it works fine, needed it to pull up 13 year old emails for me a couple months ago. I absolutely abhor Apple’s software QC since 2010 but I don’t think a vibe-coded, vibes-based…
I mean, it reports FOUR HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS in losses due to Apple Mail.app search not working. Give them credit for... something.
Re: Bugs Apple loves
#27I have a lot of pet Apple bugs. Top of mind at the moment:
Why can't we adjust the order of photos in a Shared Photos album?
Re: Bugs Apple loves
#28This is obvious AI-generated web design style.
You're not wrong — but actually the prompt I gave it was "invert Apple's design style." I think it did a reasonable job?
It’s just Claude code house style, it’s as identifiable as Bootstrap. It didn’t invert Apple anything.
Speaking of AI-induced delusions, why did you submit this to HN?
It made me cringe to see its AI prose in AI code with completely made up bugs (really, the Mail search bar doesn’t work?), with made up numbers based on made up things as the spine of the content.
Re: Bugs Apple loves
#29Had the pleasure of making an Apple account to join our company's developer team. I filled out the form on the website 7 times: Edge on Windows, Edge on macOS, Safari on macOS, using 2 different phone numbers. No matter what, Apple just refused to send the verification code to me. It only worked after I remember Apple is a dick to the web platform, then I managed to create one from the popup in the App Store.
Apple also makes it a biznatch to make a developer account separate from your personal account. In Apple's ideal world, multiple accounts should in no circumstance ever exist. I, in an ideal world, would agree with this. But we live in this world, where Apple bans accounts for redeeming legitimate gift cards.
Re: Bugs Apple loves
#30I can't seem to reproduce the mail search bug.