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Apple, What Have You Done?
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#172Earlier quoted context omitted.
what are you people talking about? Cook is the best thing that happened to apple. Look at their sales. They are killing the laptop market - likely a complete dominance in the next years. same with the iphone - first year to be the biggest phone seller in a long time. the switch to ARM and their M silicon was one of the best moves in computing in years.
The M silicon is real, but Nokia, a company that specialized in rubber products , was doing low-power ARM 30 years ago, and the stage was set by His Jobsness with Mach binaries and Rosetta. Tim Cook was excitedly waving his hands in the last event video about some kind of evaporative cooling mechanism in the latest low-end iPhone. He has completely missed the plot.
At least 15 years ago (I haven't bothered to look since), you could actually still buy Nokia toilet paper.
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#173I'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.
This was a trick to block Windows updates at one point, but then they started force reserving 7GB or something with a later update. It meant that some devices with small disks that supported Windows 10 no longer met the system requirements.
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#174Steve 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 agree, Tim Cook is a businessman, Steve was someone who constantly put himself in the customers shoes. Apple needs a visionary like that, a dictator to demand a specific user engagement, and a design team able to carry it out. IMHO Tim Cook has never filled this role, and needs to step aside.
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#175> "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…
Backing up the device and restoring should clean it. Also there is some "folk remedy" of setting the system clock in the future then force restarting the device.
Apple... '"It just works" used to be our motto'.
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#176I have a feeling things are only going to get worse with the more AI integration they are pushing next...
They really need to do a year release that just focuses on fixing all the broken things and cleaning things up.
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#177Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I still need to understand what kind of innovation the current MacBook Pro needs. It’s arguably the best laptop on the market and I wouldn’t change a thing (except maybe improved camera and added FaceID, but that would increase cost).
They dominate the market from low cost Air to top of the line MBP 16.
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#178Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes. Maybe they saw Windows 11 and decided that now it's the right time to release Liquid Glass and fix it later. Anyway I've been on Linux since 2009 and it's getting better at each release (Ubuntus up to 20.04 and then Debian, Gnome.)
I've been on linux 1999-2013 but then I got tired of it "getting better" UI wise so I bought Macs. I should check out how KDE is doing, Gnome and whatever Ubuntu delivers these days don't look like fun. Command lines... I have them open on mac, linux and windows all the time.
That's pretty common: a lot of developers left Windows for a Mac in the 2000s because it was a more comfortable and realiable Unix than Linux. However I never liked the UI of Macs, so I never bought one. It was OK on the 9" screen of the original Mac in 1984, but weird on larger screens.
Luckily I've been able to make my GNOME desktop look like exactly what I want since at least 2020, when the ecosystem of GNOME shell extensions got mature enough. My current desktop is close to mix of old Windows and GNOME 2, with virtual desktops and other stuff that did not exist back then. I like stuff to stay put on screen, so no animations and all those UI gimmicks. Maybe I should have started from KDE but I got burned by KDE in 2014 and I hesitate to invest time to look at it again.
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#179Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am pretty sure its this /System/Volumes/Data/Users/ /Library/Containers/com.apple.Safari/Data/Library/Caches/CloudKit/ I need to `rm` it at least once a month, I ran `du -sh` and it takes 153gb on my machine
So, it’s interesting. You know how with RAM, it’s a good idea for it to be “fully utilized”, in a sense that anything apps aren’t using should be used for file system cache? And then when apps do need it, the least-recently-used cache can be freed to make room? It’s actually similar for the file system itself! If macOS is using 153GB for iCloud cache, that’s only a bad thing if it’s not giving it back up automaticall…
This would be acceptable if solid state storage weren’t so susceptible to write wear, in a laptop where nothing is user serviceable.
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#180What 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 disp…
Curiously, since the last update I have the problem where Safari tabs go completely white after a while. Refreshing doesn‘t help. I have to copy the URL and paste it into a fresh tab.
I’ve had this one for at least a year. Suspended tabs won’t come back 1/4 of the time, and the URL is gone too; the tab is effectively gone. I’m keeping important tabs in Brave.