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Re: Apple, What Have You Done?

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Post by moepstar »

fmajid wrote: post #122
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…

They need to fire Craig Federighi first, but of course that is Tim Cook's job, and he showed poor judgment in firing spiky but effective Scott Forstall to keep that hack Jony Ive. Ive is the one who appointed Alan Dye, an advertising designer with no clue about UX and too arrogant to listen to those who did, leading to iOS 7 and now Liquid Ass. There is no point in complaining, or worse, enduring Stockholm Syndrome,…

My journey is quite similar, although I haven’t migrated (back) to Linux and not away from iPhone yet.

Do you have a writeup of that, somewhere? How do you manage without device interoperability (i.e. copy and paste between Mac and iPhone)?

Re: Apple, What Have You Done?

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Post by samfromnz »

jl6 wrote: post #105

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.

My iPhone has so little free space (thanks to the ever increasing “system data”) that it can’t update to iOS 26. Point updates for iOS 18 are usually much smaller and can still be installed.

I can’t believe I’m suggesting this, but… you could install a bunch of apps to get your phone storage to <10GB free, which should block it being able to update to iOS 26.

Re: Apple, What Have You Done?

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Post by trueno »

jl6 wrote: post #105

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.

i switched to the ios 18 public beta channel, which currently has no beta available to dl and that stopped the damn update annoyances

Re: Apple, What Have You Done?

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Post by neomantra »

An elderly friend had some identity theft and we went to handle it at the three credit bureaus…

She has an old MacBook and old iPhone (circa 2017?). Apple no longer updates these OS’ even the bundled Safari.

One of the bureaus, Experian I think, has a TLS cert that is not compatible with the old OSs so all the “don’t trust this site” warnings come up.

How many people have incomplete credit freezes because of this? Apple is of a size that this hurts society.

Re: Apple, What Have You Done?

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Post by Hard_Space »

chrisjj wrote: post #48
Hard_Space wrote: post #3

I am glad at least that Apple has not forced me to update my iPhone 13 and 2023 Macbook, as Windows would have by now. I am hoping to ride this out, and that a later bundled update will remedy the worst complaints. The most alarming thought in TFA, though, was that the iPhone update might have at least a secondary mission of nudging the user to buy a new phone - certainly not an unknown tactic in tech.

Windows would have forced you to update a 2023 machine? Really?

I don't think many would believe, based on what I wrote, that the machine had received no updates since 2023. Perhaps you forgot the closing /s

Re: Apple, What Have You Done?

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Post by AnonC »

fmajid wrote: post #122
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…

They need to fire Craig Federighi first, but of course that is Tim Cook's job, and he showed poor judgment in firing spiky but effective Scott Forstall to keep that hack Jony Ive. Ive is the one who appointed Alan Dye, an advertising designer with no clue about UX and too arrogant to listen to those who did, leading to iOS 7 and now Liquid Ass. There is no point in complaining, or worse, enduring Stockholm Syndrome,…

> They need to fire Craig Federighi first, but of course that is Tim Cook's job, and he showed poor judgment in firing spiky but effective Scott Forstall to keep that hack Jony Ive. Ive is the one who appointed Alan Dye, an advertising designer with no clue about UX and too arrogant to listen to those who did, leading to iOS 7 and now Liquid Ass.

These have been exactly my thoughts for years. Craig Federighi does not have any taste or interest in software quality. And Jony Ive (after Steve Jobs) has been a disaster for UI/UX and industrial hardware design. Tim Cook has been an extraordinary bean counter and hasn’t been hiring useful people (from users’ perspective) under him.

Craig Federighi needs to go when Tim Cook also moves out of his current role this year. Maybe, maybe, there are some old school folks at Apple who can take over and do things better.

Re: Apple, What Have You Done?

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Post by AnonC »

q_p wrote: post #13

I hit 355 GB of system data on iOS 26 last week on my 15 pro max. Factory reset and restore from backup and it accumulates 5GB a day. Will be there again soon. There is something seriously wrong with system data in iOS 26.

I feel like this is leaking into macOS Sequoia updates as well. Disk space just keeps getting eaten up quickly and I’m scrambling to clear up some space on a MacBook Pro with a large disk and lots of RAM. I know I should reduce user data (like the documents, photos and videos I’ve stored), but something doesn’t seem right in how more and more disk space keeps getting used.

Re: Apple, What Have You Done?

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Post by AnonC »

dewey wrote: post #7

I have 70GB of "Messages" on my Mac because iMessage "in the cloud" still stores all your attachments locally on every device. Yes, I can set the setting to delete attachments...but I want to keep them, just not on every device locally. Just deduct them from my iCloud store if you have to.

The worst part is it can’t even show the attachments sorted by size so that one can browse and delete some large ones. Same with the Photos app on iOS. Can’t sort photos and videos by size from within the app.

What’s the point of using application databases if the application cannot even query items by size and other attributes?!

Re: Apple, What Have You Done?

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Post by willtemperley »

PedroBatista wrote: post #110
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…

> Ironically, Google is the safer bet

Possibly. Until online features are added, marking a slow decline into the everything-as-a-subscription-service world (E-ASS). Look at Apple vs Google stock price for the carrot.

Even if I turn it off, how to I remove it and reclaim the space I paid for?

Re: Apple, What Have You Done?

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Post by altern8 »

graemep wrote: post #47
altern8 wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, I agree. So, I guess our only hope is to get Woz back..?

Maybe! Another thought. You said "macOS is still the best OS I'd want to use IMO". That is all they need. As long as you (and other users) feel that they do not switch it does not affect their sales or profits. It helps that Windows is getting worse.

Well, I'm not upgrading to Tahoe though, so I'm not buying anything new they come out with...
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