Completely Bulls*&t article. I was going to write a long explanation why, but this made up whining doesn't deserve it.
Made up? Dude, I don't have any other computers at home except made by Apple, and I am web-developer, not an office manager. I know my stuff.
I must have missed the part where you tried another browser... (EDIT: I did genuinely miss it! Still, there are at least 2 other browsers that, as a web developer, you should have installed.)
I must ask, why are you still using the platform if it's so bad? Use something else, problem solved! No, it is that simple.
Something ignored in this article (maybe it's covered elsewhere on the blog): iTunes Match is by far the biggest Apple crud that I've used. It simply does not work.
Yes, featured from that era feel really rushed out, see iCloud.
Invariably it seems the majority of people who have these problems have done something to their computer. Either downloading an app they shouldn't have, or playing with settings they shouldn't have, or there's a hardware issues (power/memory problems will cause all manner of weird behavior) Something along those lines. The problems mentioned here are simply not shared by most users. Show of hands, how many Apple user…
I am experiencing the wifi sync issues quite heavily. My iPhone 5 might sync 1 out of 5 times, probably less. I wouldn't say that iTunes is as bad as he says, since it's not crashing very often for me when using it normally. But every single time I plug in and iOS device it hangs, for up to 30 seconds, and at the end it either crashes completely or recovers. Note that this only started happening on iTunes 11. I've ha…
So you are saying that crashing not very often and delays that don't exceed 30 seconds are the signs of quality? I have around 40000 songs, this is why we have a different experience I guess. Each time I force-quit iTunes, I have to wait around 7 minutes for it to check the library when starting again.
Sure. Because it is so common to have unstable linux-software but the so highly popular Windows is so stable. I once had to start Windows in Rescue Mode and do some weird stuff there just to get Steam back running. It failed to start suddenly and seemingly without cause. For a while (some years ago) I couldn't boot Windows at all until I unplugged a dvd-drive (linux was running fine) - I still use that dvd-drive, win…
I use Ubuntu (and Debian before that) in production servers and can't complain. Now I am thinking about trying Ubuntu as a desktop, but didn't get a box for it to live in.
To be fair to batterseapower: Ubuntu on the desktop could be an example of not-that-mainstream software which doesn't always work well. Unity at the beginning deserved its reputation, that it was a change from a stable Gnome 2 to an unstable experiment.
Guess it is not so bad anymore, but if you liked Ubuntu in production servers, going the route of a small window manager could be more your style (don't know if I'm stating stuff obvious to you, just in case).
I can totally feel the OP's pain. Safari fails to render 1 out of 10 Pages correctly. Thats an issue with the retina MacBook Pro, but it's there since the thing is on sale. Sometimes, out of nowhere, my TimeCapsule Backups take forever, although they are always around the same size. With some Access Points (non Apple), my MBP takes forever to log into their Wifi after wake from sleep. My MacMini Server fails to serve…
Oh right, so I am not imagining things. Or maybe you have "installed something you shouldn't have"? I had to buy a couple of new routers back then for my first-gen Macbook Air simply because it couldn't connect to a non-Apple Wi-Fi. There are more examples in this post: http://dear-apple.com/dear-apple-put-yourself-together-82158
If the greeness of the pasture is defined by how well 'things just work' then there are no other greener pastures. You would be trading one set of bugaboos for another.
My Android devices 'just work'. I also advice novice users to buy Windows for their laptops, even though I, personally, prefer Linux. Windows gets a lot of crap from more advanced users, but it's amazing how everything 'just works' on that platform considering the huge amount of software and hardware that is supported. My mom bought herself an iPhone earlier this year and has been very happy with its usability, but I…
What kind of novice user buys a laptop and questions changing the OS, or even knows what an OS is, or that there is even an alternative? I think you claims are ... dubious. Novice users, like my grandmother, never ask me if they should install Windows. They just ask me to fix it after it breaks. And it breaks often. On the contrary, when I put something like an iPad in their hands I go a lot longer between support calls. That's my experience having dealt with more than a few 'novice users'.
Thats a healthy dose of reality distortion. He lists specific flaws in specific applications.
I use Chrome every day on Linux, OSX, and Windows, and know for a fact that it doesn't get error 324 on every other page. I've had iTunes running for weeks without gobbling all of my memory. At some point he needs to face the facts that if he's the only person experiencing all these problems then the problem isn't the software, it's him.
I have ~40000 songs in iTunes, what about you? And Chrome was working fine until I moved to a new house. Regarding me being the only person with this – maybe you can tip the other guys in the right direction too? http://google.com/search?q=chrome+error+324
Related and on-topic: Scott Hanselman wrote something similar a while back.... http://www.hanselman.com/blog/EverythingsBrokenAndNobodysUps... Makes for hilarious and introspective reading at the same time (if that can be done somehow!) P.S: Here's the old HN thread on this one: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4531549
Exactly, I have linked to that post a while back as well.
Honestly, this is ridiculous. I have experienced none of these issues. I use Preview and Color Picker all the time. Both Chrome and Safari works always for me. My iPhone 4 did not have a home-button issue, so it is definitely not 100% bad. I don't need to restart iTunes all he time. I use Mail with 15 accounts and 50000 messages across multiple servers. No problems! None... Zero... It really just works for me. Xcode…
I am a web-developer and I guess it is different with Xcode, but I would like to have my colors in HEX, like I had them before Lion came out. Amazed with your iPhone 4 experience, but where I live almost everybody I see has a "accessibility controls" on the screen because home button doesn't work. Regarding iTunes, my library might be too big, but each morning I see it used 5Gb of ram and after force-quitting it I ha…
BTW. Why didn't you exchange your iPhone 4 if you home-button was faulty???
I had mine for 2 years (before I switched to iPhone 5), I didn't have any problems with it.