Setting the bozo bit on Apple • Hacker News Board

Re: Setting the bozo bit on Apple

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Post by vor_ » Sat, Jan 14, 2023, 5:41 AM UTC

kruuuder wrote: post #17

> How can such basic functionality be this incredibly broken? That's what I'm thinking almost every day when working with Apple devices. There is so, so much basic stuff broken on both macOS and iOS. I truly miss the days where Apple devices were a reliable tool, even a source of inspiration.

> That's what I'm thinking almost every day when working with Apple devices. There is so, so much basic stuff broken on both macOS and iOS. I truly miss the days where Apple devices were a reliable tool, even a source of inspiration.

With all due respect, whenever these days were, I suspect people were saying the same thing then because people have a tendency to romanticize the past no matter what year it is.

Re: Setting the bozo bit on Apple

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Post by matwood » Sat, Jan 14, 2023, 12:39 PM UTC

astrange wrote: post #158

matwood wrote: post #139

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's funny is that when they announced iTunes was going away, people cheered because they hated the kitchen sink approach that iTunes had become. I think a lot of the Music.app issues stem from it being what looks like a SwiftUI/Catalyst app more than anything else.

Does it? Music.app not only looks like iTunes but is iTunes. Though I guess it depends on which tab you're in.

When it was announced: https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/3/18647182/apple-itunes-podc...

Re: Setting the bozo bit on Apple

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Post by yencabulator » Sat, Jan 14, 2023, 4:36 PM UTC

jchw wrote: post #93

I like this concept of a "bozo bit" and have to agree, the arbitrary difficulty of making Apple software do things slightly outside the happy path can border on insanity, like that "Malcom in the Middle" Fixing the Lightbulb clip/GIF that goes around from time to time. I would like to extend this concept. I do not, in fact, have the bozo bit set for my Linux desktop setup. I do, however, have the "fields of broken gl…

The cherry on top is that you get to blame Apple also for CUPS ;-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUPS

Re: Setting the bozo bit on Apple

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Post by tomaskafka » Mon, Jan 16, 2023, 10:17 AM UTC

formerly_proven wrote: post #92

leipert wrote: post #80

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Most annoying for me: the need to be connected to the internet for a lot of views. I leave the apartment, enter the elevator, put headphones in my ears and literally cannot do anything in the Music App, because it thinks it is still connected to my WiFi. Why can’t the default views be offline first.

I kinda like random/automatic autoplay but because Apple Music only seems to buffer the next 0.002 seconds of music any interruption of network service tends to just ... stop playback. And when you manually start it again, it switches to a "random autoplay, but from downloaded songs only" mode and you have to futz around to get back to the "random autoplay from all music" mode by clearing the queue with that one-song…

Yes! I have Beats Flex with Apple's H1 chip, and I really really miss Steve Jobs calling in all bluetooth & mac HW and SW teams, showing them the unreliable 5s+ long switch (that 1/3 time ends up with my mac's speakers selected back, and music playing in the office), and threatening to fire them if this is not fixed in a week.

Re: Setting the bozo bit on Apple

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Post by temende » Mon, Jan 16, 2023, 7:30 PM UTC

porcheetoh wrote: post #11

temende wrote: post #7

I echo this - I bought an apple watch but ended up returning it because it was so hard to reliably do basic tasks like connecting your AirPods and listening to a podcast. It would work fine ~80% of the time but sometimes it just wouldn't work at all and there's no clear fix other than resetting everything which is super annoying. Apple support was also completely useless. The apple watch hardware is amazing but the s…

Every time something goes wrong with my watch I have to fully unpair and reset it. Every time! It’s very frustrating. But when everything is working, I find it to be super useful… so what are you going to do?

Yeah it was definitely cool when it was working, but having it not work 1 out of every 10 times was getting frustrating. I ended up returning it. The Apple Watch for me was always a nice-to-have, not a must-have, so returning it was an easy decision.