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Re: Tim Cook Is Leaving. Good

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Post by hyperhello »

FireBeyond wrote: post #158
FeloniousHam wrote: post #147

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Crappy? I use MacOS everyday, and it's a goddamn delight compared to the (perfectly reasonable) experience of Windows 11 + WSL. Anything that doesn't "just work" was replaced by very thoughtfully written third party software a long time ago. Yeah, like you I lived in Linux for years and delighted in the freedom to recompile my video driver with every upgrade, but then I had kids, and a life to live, and found that ac…

Photos. Take a photo on your iPhone and wait for it to sync on your Mac. You might get lucky and it syncs nearly immediately (which is still typically a minute or so, even if your phone and Mac are on the same network and have gigabit internet). But you won't know when. And it might not be immediate. Both sides will tell you they're up to date. You can't force a sync. They'll be synced when Photos is ready, not you.…

This is a very good example of a disruptive bug that destroys the ability to work. I’m making a document on my laptop and using the phone as a camera to take pictures, I am working on, now. Same WiFi, same person, same cloud, inches apart. No work.

Re: Tim Cook Is Leaving. Good

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Post by bdangubic »

hyperhello wrote: post #201
FireBeyond wrote: post #158

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Photos. Take a photo on your iPhone and wait for it to sync on your Mac. You might get lucky and it syncs nearly immediately (which is still typically a minute or so, even if your phone and Mac are on the same network and have gigabit internet). But you won't know when. And it might not be immediate. Both sides will tell you they're up to date. You can't force a sync. They'll be synced when Photos is ready, not you.…

This is a very good example of a disruptive bug that destroys the ability to work. I’m making a document on my laptop and using the phone as a camera to take pictures, I am working on, now. Same WiFi, same person, same cloud, inches apart. No work.

airdrop that :) (I do the same all the time and always airdrop from phone to my laptop after taking a pic)

Re: Tim Cook Is Leaving. Good

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Post by hyperhello »

bdangubic wrote: post #202
hyperhello wrote: post #201

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is a very good example of a disruptive bug that destroys the ability to work. I’m making a document on my laptop and using the phone as a camera to take pictures, I am working on, now. Same WiFi, same person, same cloud, inches apart. No work.

airdrop that :) (I do the same all the time and always airdrop from phone to my laptop after taking a pic)

No. Fix the problem.

Re: Tim Cook Is Leaving. Good

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Post by somebehemoth »

FeloniousHam wrote: post #194
MoonWalk wrote: post #157

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Saying that it sucks less than the execrable mess that is Windows doesn't prove anything. Apple appears to be chasing Microsoft down the toilet. Its exhumation of the circa-2002 "transparent" UI fad is one example, coupled with other baffling UI regressions. Mac OS examples: Apple removed the "get new mail" button from the Mail toolbar. So all those millions of people who log into their bank accounts and are told to…

> Apple appears to be chasing Microsoft down the toilet. Its exhumation of the circa-2002 "transparent" UI fad is one example, coupled with other baffling UI regressions. Windows 11 is perfectly cromulent. I don't prefer it, but with WSL, it's like a slow almost-MacOS. The anger over the transparency is I guess personal, I genuinely don't notice it. I certainly haven't stumbled over it. (I might have changed a settin…

I am a long time mac user and I agree with all of their points. I guess you disagree, but I am not sure why you are being dismissive. Each point is a legitimate criticism from many peoples' points of view.

Re: Tim Cook Is Leaving. Good

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Post by grishka »

trimethylpurine wrote: post #67
pjmlp wrote: post #39

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When we pay premium, we expect premium.

Sadly, too many of us continue to go back for more after our expectations aren't met. This makes it an obvious decision to reduce quality below premium.

There's nowhere to run, unfortunately. Windows and Linux are orders of magnitude worse than even macOS 26. To say that the whole software industry is a dumpster fire would be an understatement.

Re: Tim Cook Is Leaving. Good

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Post by neya »

Schiendelman wrote: post #95
neya wrote: post #26

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Bingo. I have a bunch of Sony WF-Xm4s and Xm3s and an Airpod pro. If I have to take a call, it's always the Airpod for me because it's so reliable. I just snap it into my ears and it literally just works. The Sony - while having a flatter frequency response and a snugger fit, goes for my daily workouts which Airpods sucks for as it keeps falling off. I have never had any connection issues with the Airpods till date.…

I was excited about Beats because they have the same hardware/software stack as iPods and they fit really well on runs! Give them a try if yoi haven't!

Wow, didn't know that. Thanks for sharing.

Re: Tim Cook Is Leaving. Good

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Post by burnt-resistor »

s/salesperson/CFO/ This was such a poor, inapplicable word choice that weakened their argument. Regardless of former or current roles, actions and attitudes matter.

The core problem is TC snatched failure from the jaws of victory by optimizing for the wrong priorities: extreme profiteering over cool (as cool as the past), durable, reliable, desirable products with "souls" and leading innovation into new or under-developed categories. TC was never able to confidently lead into new territory like SJ. That's what Apple is desperately missing.

Re: Tim Cook Is Leaving. Good

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Post by burnt-resistor »

sgt wrote: post #2

> Your AirPods just connected to the wrong device. Again. > iMessage is taking twenty minutes to sync a message between your laptop and your phone sitting six inches apart. HomeKit forgot the kitchen lightbulb exists, and will remember it again in three hours like nothing happened. I've literally seen nothing of this happen (or to my family all on Apple devices). While I don't doubt they do happen to some unfortunate…

AirPod Pro v1 seems to always work, but they favor connecting to Apple branded devices and move seamlessly between them. What doesn't work so well is that iPad Pro M4 doesn't play nice with Bose QC35 multi-point connections because it appears to "play silence" to the headphones even when there is no audio, preventing the other connected device from switching over to play audio.

When I turn my iPhone on and open iMessage, it will sit at a black screen and won't open for several minutes and usually crashes. I want sync to happen on a background thread and be able to access existing content immediately. Sometimes it happens with the phone app too. There really ought to be a universal gesture or trick (that's not pull to refresh) to force iCloud sync in any app that has iCloud sync functionality.

Also, Universal Clipboard works half of the time.

Learn Spelling was removed from most/all non-Pages apps, which is extremely inconvenient because the Apple US English dictionary has tons of missing adverb forms.

iOS/iPadOS selection of text in a web browser (Brave or Mobile Safari) doesn't work as reliably as it did in earlier OS versions. Often, text is selected but refuses to show the text selection popup.

And I refuse to use iOS and macOS 26 because liquid glass is slow and unusable.

Re: Tim Cook Is Leaving. Good

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Post by sgt »

hyperhello wrote: post #200
sgt wrote: post #192

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Check out the new video. I did a full screen screenshot now. https://imgur.com/a/bVznT02 It seems to be adding it to TextEdit but it disappears when exporting to PDF. Is this a TextEdit.app bug?

The flip side of “it just works” is when it doesn’t.

Fair enough, but this is not a big bug. I don't think many people use TextEdit in 2026.

Re: Tim Cook Is Leaving. Good

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Post by burnt-resistor »

zeratax wrote: post #8
sgt wrote: post #2

> Your AirPods just connected to the wrong device. Again. > iMessage is taking twenty minutes to sync a message between your laptop and your phone sitting six inches apart. HomeKit forgot the kitchen lightbulb exists, and will remember it again in three hours like nothing happened. I've literally seen nothing of this happen (or to my family all on Apple devices). While I don't doubt they do happen to some unfortunate…

Every time I do report these kinds of bugs it's clear to me they clearly do not look at them lol. The Feedback site still thinks windows 10 is the latest windows version and doesn't even display the latest ios version.

It's unknowable if they look or not consistently across all groups and departments because of their habit of zero feedback/response. I assume they don't look anymore because of assumed overwhelming backlog and lower standards than the past.

Perhaps on their side, AI might be able to consolidate, triage, and perhaps even propose fixes far more scalably than even a huge department of customer support-oriented coders.

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