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Re: Bugs Apple loves

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Post by direwolf20 »

dzonga wrote: post #450
ActorNightly wrote: post #397

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Wait till you realize with Samsung Android phones, you can pretty much replace your laptop with a lapdock, or any TV + bluetooth mouse and keyboard. Android stuff has been ahead of apple since like 2014. Apple is really good at optimizing the one thing that they use in advertising, while the rest of the stuff falls by the wayside. Was the exact same thing with Apple silicon and battery life. Sure, your laptop battery…

but don't buy a Google Pixel. such shitty phones. battery will explode on you, they overheat - it will try store your photos in 5 different places

What if you install Graphene?

Re: Bugs Apple loves

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Post by jajuuka »

Someone wrote: post #183
VerifiedReports wrote: post #123

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And yet Apple CREATED the multiple-accounts problem for millions of people by implementing their idiotic "Apple ID must be an E-mail address" policy. So of course people thought that when they changed jobs, cable companies, or whatever... they needed to create a new Apple ID with their new E-mail address. This was reinforced when Apple further stupidified their policy by requiring your ID to be a WORKING E-mail addre…

> Apple finally publicly and huffily declared that they weren't going to fix the problem they created by letting people consolidate accounts. They somewhat changed that. It now is possible to move purchases between accounts. See https://support.apple.com/en-us/117294 . Looks quite cumbersome to do, and will not apply to everybody (“If an Apple Account is only used for making purchases, those purchases can be migrated…

It's not super difficult if you have an Apple ID from many years ago that you bought media with and then have a different Apple ID that you use for everything. Which isn't that uncommon for anyone who used iTunes and bought music or media and then forgot their ID and just made a new one when they got a iPhone or Macbook. Was able to transfer all my purchases to my main account pretty easily.

The real downside is if you have two fully active Apple IDs. Then things like calendars, photos, email, etc are still stuck on the other account until you export it. Which can be a pain since you have to sign out of your main account, sign into the old account and export, then sign back into the main account.

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Post by mring33621 »

OMG, "Apple Pay: Card Icon Changes Address" bit me recently!

I selected a different credit card on Apple Pay and my skis were shipped to my ex-wife's house instead of mine, because it quietly changed the address!

Good thing we're in the same town...

Re: Bugs Apple loves

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Post by prmoustache »

jmaker wrote: post #405
prmoustache wrote: post #315

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I mean I used it in the past but the difference is minor in my experience. It is a case of grabbing your card vs grabbing your smartphone and fiddling with it. That card could even be carried in one of those phones cases with a card holder. The only major difference is in case of stolen phone vs stolen card. But every system has its drawback. It could be super annoying if you get your account suspended unexpectedly w…

Why not just get an iPhone then?

Because:

- I prefer running FOSS apps on my smartphone

- I want to be able to install anything I want on it without relying on what is accepted by a "store"

- I don't want an Apple account

- I want to own and be able to have the shit I want running in the background (like syncthing)

- I want to be able to access my file the way I want, including using a shell

- I want to be able to run any linux app

- and more inportantly I want to be the owner of my phone, not merely the user of a license to use it following the term set by a company from an hostile nation

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Post by jiehong »

mft_ wrote: post #434
AceJohnny2 wrote: post #231

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Maybe you have an ISP that captures DNS checks to return ad sites, and Safari interprets that as a real website? But honestly it seems extremely weird that Safari would interpret something with spaces as a URL instead of a search

You’re getting downvoted for some reason, but I’ve never experienced this bug, once, ever, in about 15 years of daily iPhone usage. There surely must be some edge case/condition to discover (which is what you were trying to suggest)?

It’s more for safari on Mac OS

Re: Bugs Apple loves

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Post by dekhn »

Somebody somewhere told Jobs that Apple products had too much "surface area"- a modern desktop computer with huge number of tunable options, too many programmable APIs, too many products, etc. Every one of those areas is a source of customer complaints and engineering cost, and eliminating them- even if there are users- leads to higher profits and higher average satisfaction.

Taken to an extreme, I expect that Apple will evolve to have only one product, with minimal surface area. A button you press that gives money to apple, in response you receive some sort of lovely bauble with no actual functionality. The cost to apple to maintain this would be quite small (they could probably survive with 10 engineers focused mainly on site reliability) and given the historical pattern of Apple customers (I am one), would be highly profitable.

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Post by theintern »

prmoustache wrote: post #241
jmaker wrote: post #215

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With Graphene, something financial won’t work anymore. I believe either banking apps or Google Wallet, a known issue. Graphene didn’t support Pixel 10 yet last time I checked. That said, I’ve been just too occupied with reading on how to fix the Pixel bugs that bit me that I couldn’t get to the point of reading on Graphene and I don’t exactly remember anymore what was wrong with it.

Google wallet doesn't work which is imho a very tiny issue with contactless payment working with cards but most banking apps do. There is a forum thread I believe that you can check if your bank's app work before commiting to migrate.

I rooted my phone for years but the lack of contactless and trying to stay one step ahead of Google trying to stop you using it (frequent messing with shamiko, lsposed and all the rest, delicately doing updates, only for it to eventually fail randomly).

Being able to pay with your phone is just too useful.

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Post by jiehong »

When I connect my iPhone to my dock with an external screen, it mirror the phone screen to the display, which is nice.

But, the keyboard never activates in any field.

If you use that to charge your phone (so the external screen is off), you can’t talk to people since the phone really don’t want you to have a keyboard at all as long as your connected.

Re: Bugs Apple loves

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Post by jaykru »

zahirbmirza wrote: post #457

Seriously its time for a new OS. I mean a non-google, non-apple, non-linux, non-microsoft one.

I'm not sure four examples of failure, each developed under very different conditions, is the best argument for success with a 5th ;)
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