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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…
I agree, Apple needs a focus on quality. Plenty of Apple fans have been asking, for years, for a bug-fix release of all the OS's.
I don't know where the buck stops. I would point to Craig Federighi, but no doubt if Tim Cook told him he had to pivot to quality over features, Craig would do as Tim asked.
(I went to one Federighi feature meeting where engineers from the various teams show up with a demo ready to show and Craig goes round robin within the conference room watching each demo, asking questions, and then generally giving a thumbs up or not. It is done very rapid fire though—we were expected to show up "ultra-prepared". I watched him go from team to team before getting to us and my impression of his capabilities and understanding of the OS as a whole was in no way diminished by the experience. Craig is a capable guy. I want him and Apple to succeed.)
I downloaded all my photos from iCloud about a month ago. That was the last task on the monumental "leave the Apple walled garden" task list. Life on the outside is really nice. You can just... do things.
How did you do this? I once tried and it seemed impossible.
for the rest of the migration I had to take it piece by piece, luckily my iPhone had enough storage, I got iCloud to download everything to my iPhone, then syncthing-ed everything to another machine. I then backed up everything that I just downloaded from iCloud to a Hetzner Storage Box via restic.
At this point I’m going to hold out on updating MacOS for a year. If things don’t improve or the direction doesn’t change significantly I’m going to seriously consider paying the switching costs.
I run NixOS, it's incredibly easy to do anything I want by just pointing Claude at my dotfiles and telling it "I want this", applying, and then reverting if I don't like the results.
The switch came more from a realisation that Apple devices are becoming media/slop consumption devices, rather than devices that run my workflows for me.
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Guess I’m not in a position in telling Apple how to structure their product offering and choice isn’t a bad thing IMHO. But I’d highly encourage you to have a look into which Apple pencil is compatible to which iPad. Choice, yes, a mess - no.
And try getting Apple Care for them without buying an iPad at the same time.
Using a Pencil without an iPad and wanting Apple Care on it is a bit of a niche use case. And do you really need Apple Care on a $79/$99/$129 product?
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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
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This reminds me of when Steve Balmer became the CEO of Microsoft. He sold Windows in so many versions that even a developer like me had no idea of what the difference was between them. I could not figure out from the packaging which version I needed.
Had to use an LLM to generate this list: Windows Vista was available in Starter (32-bit only, Retail and OEM), Home Basic (32-bit and 64-bit, Retail, OEM, and Volume License, plus Home Basic N 32/64-bit, Retail/OEM/Volume, in multiple languages), Home Premium (32/64-bit, Retail/OEM/Volume, Home Premium N 32/64-bit, Retail/OEM/Volume, in multiple languages), Business (32/64-bit, Retail/OEM/Volume, Business N 32/64-bit…
And the situation was pretty much the same thing for Windows 7
> "My iPhone 14 Pro has 35Gb of "system data" which has basically filled up the entire storage I had left" I occasionally use a macbook pro at £WORK for a few apple specific processes, and it currently has 188.67gb of "system data" that I have no idea how to clean up or remove. It's marked separately from the 11.01gb of macOS in the storage settings, and it constantly complains about the disk almost being full. Updat…
Yes! You can go to the folder ~/Library and then delete what you want. To open the folder from a terminal: cd ~/Library open . In the Finder, you can enable "Calculate all sizes" from "View options," which will calculate folder sizes to understand what to clean first. This folder contains data from all apps; sometimes it is cache, sometimes persistent data. You will find all your previous apps taking gigabytes...
~/Library - definitely not
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Maybe. And then what’s battery life like - half, one 3rd?
It's better than Windows, but obviously worse than Mac (both hardware and software reasons). My laptops don't kill themselves waking up in my bags so I could argue it's at least 5x better than windows. Things moved on nicely in 20 years, you should try it for yourself.
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It's better than Windows, but obviously worse than Mac (both hardware and software reasons). My laptops don't kill themselves waking up in my bags so I could argue it's at least 5x better than windows. Things moved on nicely in 20 years, you should try it for yourself.
Where did I say I haven’t?