I have to believe that HomeKit has fallen so far to the wayside due to their work on Matter. And we can expect something big in the near future. Right? Please?
Apple in 2021
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It didn’t used to be this way. Apple software used to be functional, intuitive, and fun in a lot of cases. Things went downhill rapidly when Jony Ive’s team took over software design. I wasn’t a huge fan of the gaudy extreme skeuomorphism of the late Forstall era, but at least you could tell what was a button. What you could do with a piece of software was much clearer. The current team are insistent that simplicity…
The "new folder" workflow in Finder is one of the most infuriating things I've ever seen in macOS. I swear, they used to just have a "new folder" button in the olden days.
They still have a new folder button. I still see it
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#14This seems a bit bizarre to me. Rate products on a scale of 1-5? What is that actually measuring? Perception?
It's a common practice in survey design.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
It didn’t used to be this way. Apple software used to be functional, intuitive, and fun in a lot of cases. Things went downhill rapidly when Jony Ive’s team took over software design. I wasn’t a huge fan of the gaudy extreme skeuomorphism of the late Forstall era, but at least you could tell what was a button. What you could do with a piece of software was much clearer. The current team are insistent that simplicity…
I just want their native apps to work, and a lot of times I find they are busted. No excuse for that.
They don’t handle failure well. I’m not sure if this has always been the case, but the fact that most have some sort of network component now have made it very obvious.
The general lack of visibility into what is actually happening is incredibly annoying. Anything that involves syncing is in dire need of “stop and start again” button.
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#16I love the new Apple Silicon Macs, and the transition for me has been pretty easy. I can't imagine anything interesting happening to the watch that doesn't include a big increase to battery life. I don't want any other feature except a battery that can make it a full day. Apple software has seemingly regressed every year recently. Native apps like Music and Podcasts, the only two I would regularly use, have become so…
> I don't want any other feature except a battery that can make it a full day.
I thought the Series 7 could make it a full day? My wife has a S6 and makes it about 36 hours with her normal usage (which is admittedly quite light).
For me, it's not a watch if it has to be charged every day or two. I need 4+ days of battery life so that I don't have to bring another charger on every overnight/weekend trip.
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#17This seems a bit bizarre to me. Rate products on a scale of 1-5? What is that actually measuring? Perception?
It's a common practice in survey design. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Likert_scale
I think a Likert scale is actually different than how they're surveying respondents in the article linked by the OP.
From Wikipedia: "A Likert item is simply a statement that the respondent is asked to evaluate by giving it a quantitative value on any kind of subjective or objective dimension, with level of agreement/disagreement being the dimension most commonly used...
The format of a typical five-level Likert item, for example, could be:
Strongly disagree Disagree Neither agree nor disagree Agree Strongly agree"
This is much different than "Give a number 1-5 to iPhone."
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#18I love the new Apple Silicon Macs, and the transition for me has been pretty easy. I can't imagine anything interesting happening to the watch that doesn't include a big increase to battery life. I don't want any other feature except a battery that can make it a full day. Apple software has seemingly regressed every year recently. Native apps like Music and Podcasts, the only two I would regularly use, have become so…
> I don't want any other feature except a battery that can make it a full day. I thought the Series 7 could make it a full day? My wife has a S6 and makes it about 36 hours with her normal usage (which is admittedly quite light). For me, it's not a watch if it has to be charged every day or two. I need 4+ days of battery life so that I don't have to bring another charger on every overnight/weekend trip.
My series 7 easily makes it a full day, closer to two days. It also charges really quickly. I put it on the charger for about 30 mins to an hour in the morning while reading emails and it’s done.
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#19What is Apple doing with the iPad division? The Mac spanked the iPad in 2021 and the recent earnings showed that.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I don't want any other feature except a battery that can make it a full day. I thought the Series 7 could make it a full day? My wife has a S6 and makes it about 36 hours with her normal usage (which is admittedly quite light). For me, it's not a watch if it has to be charged every day or two. I need 4+ days of battery life so that I don't have to bring another charger on every overnight/weekend trip.
My series 7 easily makes it a full day, closer to two days. It also charges really quickly. I put it on the charger for about 30 mins to an hour in the morning while reading emails and it’s done.
Really? I may make it thru one day if I am using it moderately (mostly apple fitness).