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Re: Apple, What Have You Done?

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Post by OhMeadhbh »

petesergeant wrote: post #81
retired wrote: post #39

Apple needs a new CEO. Someone more visionary than Cook. The software needs more focus on making it "just work" and having significantly less bugs. The line-up needs to be cleaned up as well. Right now you have the MacBook Air 13" and 15" in 3 variants and 4 colours, that makes for a total of 24 models. M4 processors only. The MacBook Pro 14" can be purchased with the M5, M4 Pro, M4 Max in 2 colours for a total of 12…

Apple's hardware lineup has never been stronger. They need a new software guy, and it looks like they've recently gotten one.

Yes and no. They've made some great hardware, but the OS is old and slow, they fired most of the people on the #a11y team that knew what they were doing and the only reason they make Macs is so devs have a machine to write iPhone apps on.

Re: Apple, What Have You Done?

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Post by OhMeadhbh »

altern8 wrote: post #10

Steve Jobs was an extremely unusual CEO. He was hands on, talked to designers, developers, and users, and actually cared about making good products. Tim Cook is more of a regular CEO that wants to make money for the shareholders. He started doing stock buybacks and in general prioritizing making money. macOS is still the best OS I'd want to use IMO--if you can manage to avoid upgrading to Tahoe--but Apple seems to de…

I believe you never worked with Steve Jobs. This is not my memory of working with him.

Re: Apple, What Have You Done?

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Post by bko »

mingus88 wrote: post #97
retired wrote: post #39

Apple needs a new CEO. Someone more visionary than Cook. The software needs more focus on making it "just work" and having significantly less bugs. The line-up needs to be cleaned up as well. Right now you have the MacBook Air 13" and 15" in 3 variants and 4 colours, that makes for a total of 24 models. M4 processors only. The MacBook Pro 14" can be purchased with the M5, M4 Pro, M4 Max in 2 colours for a total of 12…

Why do you consider a color to be an entirely different model? Storage size would be a better differentiator, but even then it’s just an option. Do you feel the same way about cars? Have you been this fired up looking at a dealership all these years? So many paint options and wheel choices! Idk, my phone gets hours of use each day, in my hands. Very personal device. I appreciate the options. I agree with you about th…

I don't think it's about colors per-se. Sure if everything was 100% customizable and nothing else was different, whatever. But they're obviously focusing on these features and pretending they're innovating when they're just slapping some new paint on it and a slight camera bump spec and expecting you to fork over $1,500 every two years.

Re: Apple, What Have You Done?

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Post by jl6 »

I've been successfully holding off on updating from iOS 18 by declining the prompt each time. Any tips for pinning the version more robustly? Because I feel the random upgrade prompts are going to catch me out eventually.

Re: Apple, What Have You Done?

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Post by concinds »

What blows my mind isn't the pervasive bugs throughout the system, which you could attribute to a poorly-run division or dysfunctional company.

It's that the basic shit is now so broken. Safari is unusable with too many tabs because it won't suspend them. The Tahoe app launcher will randomly remove apps from the list, and you need to open Finder to get it. Apple Books is unusable; the book keeps blanking out, it displays random error messages, search is slow and cumbersome because you need to scroll the search results list each time.

There's a collapse in basic functionality where it's obvious they don't use their own products.

Re: Apple, What Have You Done?

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Post by OhMeadhbh »

ljm wrote: post #72
orthoxerox wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> macOS is still the best OS I'd want to use IMO Linux has low-key become a very valid choice for a desktop OS. You can thank a lot of people for that. Apple and Microsoft for sandbagging. NixOS for pioneering the immutable Linux concept. Valve for heavily investing into making games run well. GitHub for inventing Electron, the eater of RAM and the great equalizer of UX. Lots and lots of Linux and distro maintainers…

If I had a compact Linux laptop for work rather than a MacBook I'd be raw dogging NixOS already rather than using nix-darwin. There isn't really much about MacOS that sets itself apart these days. The only other thing keeping me hooked in is that I use an iPhone and have an iPad and need a bit more time for that to feel like a sunk cost before I pull the plug on it all. Same with Windows on my gaming PC but I haven't…

Yeah. My last corp engagement forced Win10 on me. At least I can install WSL2 and have a sane dev environment. You can run Leenucks on a MBP in a VM, but why? If I want a machine that randomly can't recognize it's boot drive, I'll get an HP.

Re: Apple, What Have You Done?

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Post by PedroBatista »

willtemperley wrote: post #94

They're making some historically terrible decisions. Now we're all going to have to pay for Gemini model storage, probably 2 to 4 GB. That means we're probably paying $10 per-device for the storage required to have Google's model on "our" devices. Which we never asked for. They could just make it an optional part of the install. Does anyone really care about the on-board "intelligence"? Gemini FFS.

Ironically, Google is the safer bet and this might have been a correct decision from Tim Apple.

AI is changing at a rapid pace ( still ) and OpenAI is no longer the only game in town at the top, plus their finances are.. something we’ll hear about the next year and Sam Altman is an incredible unscrupulous person with past actions and decisions catching up to him. Not exactly the situation you want to partner with.

At this point you don’t need your AI on Apple devices to be revolutionary, it needs to work and be better than the current situation which is not difficult.

Gemini 3 is quite good for the general public, Google has the money to keep playing the AÍ games and also played ball with Apple, OpenAI only has 1 or 2 of those going for them.

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