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I feel Apple has lost its alignment with me and other long-time customers

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Re: I feel Apple has lost its alignment with me and other long-time customers

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Post by mschuster91 »

> As for the AirPods, and true wireless earbuds in general, I find this product category to be the most wasteful. Unless someone comes up with a type of earbuds that have easily replaceable batteries, I’m not interested in buying something that’s bound to become e‑waste in a relatively short period of time.

My AirPods Pro that I bought five years ago are still going strong, the only issue I have is that the right AirPod got some water ingress and now every time I insert it, I'm greeted with about 5 seconds worth of white noise.

Re: I feel Apple has lost its alignment with me and other long-time customers

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Post by theshrike79 »

8fingerlouie wrote: post #251
flohofwoe wrote: post #211

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The Finder made all the same mistakes as Windows did. Tbf, the Finder is still crap (if only it would be nearly as good as Windows Explorer was in its heyday I would probably use it more), and the UNIX terminal is pretty much needed to make a Mac usable in the first place - which is fine though, because the UNIX-ness was exactly why I switched to Mac ;)

> Tbf, the Finder is still crap (if only it would be nearly as good as Windows Explorer was in its heyday I would probably use it more) I have the exact opposite opinion. I loathe Windows Explorer, and relatively simply stuff like presenting a tree view is apparently some weird magic trick that only Apple has figured out how to do. Browsing SMB shares (or any other networked storage) is one shortcut away (cmd+k), and…

...but the SMB implementation on macOS is shit.

Try to browse any network directory with a non-trivial amount of files and see the whole Finder window just beach-ball or freeze.

I can browse my NAS faster via a browser and copyparty[0] than with Finder and SMB or NFS...

[0] https://github.com/9001/copyparty

Re: I feel Apple has lost its alignment with me and other long-time customers

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Post by kesor »

fredsted wrote: post #326

This blog post evokes feelings of deja vu. It's the same blog post every year by some guy with a pixel-perfect blog that's used macOS since the nineties. The author, like lots of people in this thread are really triggered by the headline "awe dropping", and sure, whatever, but what did you expect? If they launched a foldable phone, the blog post would be all about how foldable phones don't make sense or that another…

AirPods being a "huge part of Apple's profits" because people keep losing them, and they keep breaking, so you always need to buy a new pair every several months. Hardly a product worth praising.

Re: I feel Apple has lost its alignment with me and other long-time customers

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Post by rkomorn »

philipwhiuk wrote: post #328
argsnd wrote: post #290

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They made the mini phones and it turns out nobody bought them because the people who cry out for them are very loud but very few.

The actual problem is that the sort of people who buy them aren't the sort of people who upgrade every year.

Most people don't upgrade their non-Mini iPhones every year either. The average seems to be between 2 and 3 years.

Re: I feel Apple has lost its alignment with me and other long-time customers

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Post by gigatexal »

they're just a mature company doing mature company things ... still there's a lot of really strong inertia:

the MacBook line of hardware is the best it's ever been

the phones continue to improve year over year incrementally sure but they're solid -- I'm very keen to see what the rumored folding iphone gets us

AirPods I can't live without

idk -- macOS26's spotlight just stole a lot of good things from things like Alfred and other launchers -- it continues to become a more useful OS

nothing I need to do for my day to day as a data engineer is hindered by being on a Mac -- linux and containers are useful and solved now (hello Colima)

maybe I am just a lost fanboy but im very happy currently

Re: I feel Apple has lost its alignment with me and other long-time customers

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Post by silvestrov »

inferiorhuman wrote: post #127
snowwrestler wrote: post #89

> it’s a company that I feel has lost its alignment with me and other long-time Apple users and customers. When OS X debuted there was a daytime radio talk show in my area called “The Computer Guys.” They capably covered all sorts of computing topics, but were clearly long-time Apple dudes. And they spent weeks complaining about what a disaster OS X was. The Dock was useless and violated Apple’s HIG. The Finder made…

what a disaster OS X was OSX before the final iterations of 10.4 was a half-baked shitshow.

but "a half-baked shitshow" that got better with each version.

Currently OSX/iOS gets worse with each version.

Re: I feel Apple has lost its alignment with me and other long-time customers

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Post by tpm »

flohofwoe wrote: post #211
snowwrestler wrote: post #89

> it’s a company that I feel has lost its alignment with me and other long-time Apple users and customers. When OS X debuted there was a daytime radio talk show in my area called “The Computer Guys.” They capably covered all sorts of computing topics, but were clearly long-time Apple dudes. And they spent weeks complaining about what a disaster OS X was. The Dock was useless and violated Apple’s HIG. The Finder made…

> The Finder made all the same mistakes as Windows did. Tbf, the Finder is still crap (if only it would be nearly as good as Windows Explorer was in its heyday I would probably use it more), and the UNIX terminal is pretty much needed to make a Mac usable in the first place - which is fine though, because the UNIX-ness was exactly why I switched to Mac ;)

Windows Explorer was never good. The only file manager app type (on Windows/Linux, never used a Mac) that makes sense to me is one of the "Commander" ones. Like Total Commander, but rather than a specific app the point here is the two-pane style that greatly expands what is easily possible to do with a few clicks.

Re: I feel Apple has lost its alignment with me and other long-time customers

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Post by sippeangelo »

olalonde wrote: post #272
flohofwoe wrote: post #211

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The Finder made all the same mistakes as Windows did. Tbf, the Finder is still crap (if only it would be nearly as good as Windows Explorer was in its heyday I would probably use it more), and the UNIX terminal is pretty much needed to make a Mac usable in the first place - which is fine though, because the UNIX-ness was exactly why I switched to Mac ;)

What's crap about Finder?

Every time I need to browse to a specific path I have to google it, because there is no path input anywhere.

(It's Shift+Cmd+G of course)

Re: I feel Apple has lost its alignment with me and other long-time customers

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Post by sillyfluke »

vintagedave wrote: post #266
2muchcoffeeman wrote: post #206

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m a long time Apple user. But I never do anything that locks me into Apple in a way that makes me dependent on Apple. I could move to Linux tomorrow and everything I depend on would be fine. There’s no Apple service I actually need. I think Google and Android is worse in this way. The backup Android I had years ago forced me to login with my Gmail or I couldn’t use it. My old iPhone happily runs without being logge…

That may be true for you but it's not true for many people, like me. I have twenty years of iPhone data, eg messages, apps, etc. I can't easily move to some other phone. A desktop, maybe, but I'd still have to repurchase or find alternates to a bunch of software. It is far, far better if the existing system _stays useful_.

>It is far, far better if the existing system _stays useful_

I doubt anyone is arguing the opposite. The point of the parent is that the system staying useful and not turning hostile on your usecase is not under your control or something you can personally prevent, and until that magically changes it's best to structure your use case to be least affected by things not in your control.

Re: I feel Apple has lost its alignment with me and other long-time customers

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Post by fredsted »

kesor wrote: post #333
fredsted wrote: post #326

This blog post evokes feelings of deja vu. It's the same blog post every year by some guy with a pixel-perfect blog that's used macOS since the nineties. The author, like lots of people in this thread are really triggered by the headline "awe dropping", and sure, whatever, but what did you expect? If they launched a foldable phone, the blog post would be all about how foldable phones don't make sense or that another…

AirPods being a "huge part of Apple's profits" because people keep losing them, and they keep breaking, so you always need to buy a new pair every several months. Hardly a product worth praising.

> Hardly a product worth praising.

I get that some people don't like using them for whatever reason, but this is just a completely insane thing to say. AirPods are a technology marvel, there's a reason why they're so popular.

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