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Re: Apple, What Have You Done?

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Post by fmajid »

moepstar wrote: post #131
fmajid wrote: post #122

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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)?

It's still work-in-progress: https://blog.majid.info/quit-apple/

You can copy-paste using LocalSend. Not as seamless, but it does work, including with Apple devices.

Re: Apple, What Have You Done?

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Post by SanjayMehta »

retired wrote: post #145
SanjayMehta wrote: post #117

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And try getting Apple Care for them without buying an iPad at the same time.

The Pencil is covered through the Apple Care of your iPad, even when purchased separately. 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?

I wanted to add a Pencil to an existing iPad.

Company policy required me to get AppleCare for the new device, there was no way to add it to just the Pencil. At least on the India site.

Re: Apple, What Have You Done?

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Post by OhMeadhbh »

ethbr1 wrote: post #185
OhMeadhbh wrote: post #98

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Yes and no. I agree with the general sentiment, but the market may be changing in a way that Cook, et al. aren't suited to understand. So... maybe. Even probably. But eventually there'll come a point where not having a product person high up on the org chart is going to come back and bite them in the rear end. But I have no idea of when that time will be.

> But eventually there'll come a point where not having a product person high up on the org chart is going to come back and bite them in the rear end. Are there any great examples where having a non-product-focused CEO has left the company in a good competitive position after 10-15 years?

IBM, DEC, HP

Re: Apple, What Have You Done?

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Post by OhMeadhbh »

mckn1ght wrote: post #168
OhMeadhbh wrote: post #87

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Steve Jobs famously did not make friends with his engineers. I do not know where you get this info. Or rather... he was the type of friend who probably made you prefer your enemies. a. He dicked Woz on the Breakout design, telling him he would split the proceeds 50/50 - turns out it was more 25/75. b. He dicked Dan Kottke (very early Apple employee and friend from Reid College with whom he backpacked in India) by can…

It sounds strange that someone could go from lofty Apple engineer to homeless (though it certainly wouldn’t be the first fall from grace in human history). I read the brief wikipedia page about Smith, which states he has bipolar disorder and has at least one incident that was publicized in the early 90s. Was your encounter with him before or after that? Sadly, with some people it doesn’t matter how much money they ha…

I knew Burrell back in the early 80s, but we didn't keep in touch. Next time I saw him was in the late 90s.

Re: Apple, What Have You Done?

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Post by port11 »

ninkendo wrote: post #182
port11 wrote: post #179

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This would be acceptable if solid state storage weren’t so susceptible to write wear, in a laptop where nothing is user serviceable.

What would the alternative be? Simply don't cache anything you get from icloud? Because even if you delete it more eagerly, that's a write cycle. In fact, avoiding deleting it in case the user gets it again, is going to put fewer write cycles on the SSD, assuming you're going to write it to the SSD at all. The only alternative I can think of is keeping everything from iCloud in RAM, but that is a pretty insane idea.…

Of course, but then iCloud might want to cache a reasonable amount of data, say, the 10% the user uses the most. Seeing iCloud caches in the 100+GB arena makes no sense to me, especially if the system isn’t rapidly releasing that storage when needed.

Re: Apple, What Have You Done?

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Post by seec »

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,…

Tim Cook is gay and thus works like a woman. He wants "consensus" and focus on appearances to pretend everyone is getting along. The traditional masculine way of competing to show who can do better is frowned upon. It is very unsurprising it has all turned to shit.

And yes, Ive couldn't do jack shit without Jobs' leadership, and everyone with half a brain cell knew it.

Re: Apple, What Have You Done?

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Post by seec »

fmajid wrote: post #191
moepstar wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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)?

It's still work-in-progress: https://blog.majid.info/quit-apple/ You can copy-paste using LocalSend. Not as seamless, but it does work, including with Apple devices.

Honestly, it is so infrequently needed that just having a synced note app is good enough for the few times you need it.

Apple has been focusing way too much on gimmicks like that and they don't have that much value.

Re: Apple, What Have You Done?

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Post by ethbr1 »

OhMeadhbh wrote: post #193
ethbr1 wrote: post #185

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> But eventually there'll come a point where not having a product person high up on the org chart is going to come back and bite them in the rear end. Are there any great examples where having a non-product-focused CEO has left the company in a good competitive position after 10-15 years?

IBM, DEC, HP

I think you'd have to drill down into certain periods in their corporate history to make that argument.

IBM is now notorious for having over invested in services in the 90s/00s and thus ceded their previous technical/product expertise.

Similarly, HP bifurcated itself into product and not-product divisions.

DEC is a weird case. Both Olsen and Palmer were arguably product people, but also missed major shift in the market (personal computing and x86 ISA consolidation, respectively).

Re: Apple, What Have You Done?

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Post by [deleted] »

port11 wrote: post #196
ninkendo wrote: post #182

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What would the alternative be? Simply don't cache anything you get from icloud? Because even if you delete it more eagerly, that's a write cycle. In fact, avoiding deleting it in case the user gets it again, is going to put fewer write cycles on the SSD, assuming you're going to write it to the SSD at all. The only alternative I can think of is keeping everything from iCloud in RAM, but that is a pretty insane idea.…

Of course, but then iCloud might want to cache a reasonable amount of data, say, the 10% the user uses the most. Seeing iCloud caches in the 100+GB arena makes no sense to me, especially if the system isn’t rapidly releasing that storage when needed.

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