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Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by pickledoyster »

tonymet wrote: post #325
Andaith wrote: post #63

They need a Snow-IOS too. - Ever since I've updated to the latest iOS 18, my watch complications(weather doodad) stop working randomly because they just lose the location services permission. Then in settings, the location services permission list acts like the weather app isn't installed. - The new Mail app now automatically classifies your email, but still gives you the "All Mail" option. But the unread count badge…

Permissions needs a complete rewrite. Layers and layers of permissions screens. To get anything done takes 4-5 forward and reverse UI stack traversals

Absolutely. And turning off Siri's "Learn from this app" should not require the user to navigate to every single app's menu, when Siri has a top level page in Settings.

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by DidYaWipe »

ToucanLoucan wrote: post #92
thewebguyd wrote: post #38

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> Most of the other examples in the article also apply, but to be honest I've been using GNOME in parallel for years now and I consider it to be my "forever desktop" if PC hardware can ever match Apple Silicon (or, most likely, if I want something that is _just a computer_). I'm there as well. I've been really enjoying desktop Linux lately, but I can't go back to a non-Apple laptop at this point. There's just nothing…

Also while Apples software quality has definitely diminished over the years, Windows in the same period has utterly CRATERED. Like I get along fine with 11 for my gaming PC but with every single update one feature or another becomes notably broken.

Windows is indeed an execrable shitshow. Every aspect of it assaults the user with incompetence or outright hostility.

First is the endless badgering to log in, LOG IN, LOGGGG INNNNN with an asinine Microsoft account. If you can tolerate that and actually get the OS running, you're wading through a wonderland of UI regressions and defects.

The default hiding and disabling of options is infuriating. Try showing content from your Windows computer on a TV, for example. You plug your HDMI cable in, and you can select the TV as an external monitor in a reasonably logical manner. Great.

But wait... the sound is still coming from the laptop speakers. So you go to Sound in the system settings. Click on the drop-down for available devices. NOPE; the only device is the laptop speakers.

So you start hunting through "advanced settings" or some such BS. And buried in there you find the TV, detected all along, but DISABLED BY DEFAULT. WHY??? Not auto-selecting it for output is one thing, but why is it DISABLED and HIDDEN?

This is the kind of shit I have to talk my parents through over the phone so they can watch their PBS subscription on their TV. The sheer stupidity of today's Windows UI isn't just annoying, but it's demoralizing to everyday people who blame THEMSELVES for not being "computer-savvy" or slow learners. NO; it's Microsoft's monumental design incompetence and user-hostile behavior.

Microsoft doesn't get the relentless excoriation it deserves for its miserable user experience. There's no excuse for it.

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by rcarmo »

bloppe wrote: post #287
thewebguyd wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Most of the other examples in the article also apply, but to be honest I've been using GNOME in parallel for years now and I consider it to be my "forever desktop" if PC hardware can ever match Apple Silicon (or, most likely, if I want something that is _just a computer_). I'm there as well. I've been really enjoying desktop Linux lately, but I can't go back to a non-Apple laptop at this point. There's just nothing…

The newer XPS 13 comes with snapdragon x elite now (Qualcomm's answer to Apple silicon). Curious if anybody here runs Linux on one of those

That is highly unlikely to happen in the near future (say 2 years).

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by hamstergene »

I keep being tempted to write same post but named "Does all software work like shit now?", because I swear, this is not just Apple. Software in general feels more bugged as a new norm.

Most websites have an element that won't load on the first try, or a button that sometimes needs to be clicked twice because the first click did nothing.

Amazon shopping app needs two clicks every now and then, because the first one didn't do what it was supposed to do. Since 3+ years ago at least.

Spotify randomly stops syncing play status with its TV app. Been true for at least a year.

HBO app has subtitles for one of my shows out of sync and it has been for more than a year.

Games including AAA titles need few months post-release fixing before they stabilize and stop having things jerk themselves into the sky or something.

My robot vacuum app just hangs up forever once in a while and needs to be killed to work again, takes 10+ seconds after start to begin responding to taps, and it has been like that for over 2 years of owning the device.

Safari has had a bug when opening a new tab and typing "search term" too quickly, it opens URL http://search%20term instead of doing a Google search. 8 years ago I've opened a bug for that which was closed as a duplicate, and just recently experienced this bug again.

It really seems that criteria for "ready for production" is way lower now. If my first job 13+ years ago any QA noticed any of that above, the next version wouldn't be out until it is fixed. Today, if "Refresh" button or restarting the app fixes it, approved, green light, release it.

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by capitol_ »

jpk wrote: post #351
noisy_boy wrote: post #333

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The biggest issue Framework have right now is shipping. I can order a ThinkPad practically anywhere. No so with Framework - they are literally leaving money on the table from what I would assume their core segment: affluent tech savvy users trying to get off the planned obsolescence cycle.

I'm not sure I follow. Your complaint is that Framework only sells direct and not through retailers?

No, there is a lot of us who live in countries that framework doesn't ship to.

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by sandreas »

musicale wrote: post #344
sandreas wrote: post #297

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I personally think that it is reasonable to "want" an Apple notebook. They have great hardware, great battery life and an ecosystem where every device integrates. Only on macOS you can nicely develop software for iOS. Furthermore most vendors release software for macOS, while they don't for Linux (not only Adobe). BTW the apps I miss most on Linux is the Preview App and Apple Mail. However I'm done with Apple. I thin…

Apple delivered on Steve Jobs' vision of an "appliance computer". You might not want one though.

Yeah... probably. I forgot to mention that Apple computers are a pretty good deal if you are looking for an AI / LLM experimentation machine due to unified RAM which nearly translates 1:1 into VRAM.

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by HexPhantom »

rcarmo wrote: post #10

There are some factual "gaps" there about how good Snow Leopard was, but I understand the sentiment. As someone who's been a Mac user since System 6 and has been consistently using Macs alongside PCs _daily_ for over 20 years I can say that Apple's software quality (either in terms of polish or just plain QA) has steadily decreased. It's just that me and other old-time switchers have stopped complaining about it and…

It's wild how much of the original "it just works" ethos has eroded

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by johnisgood »

hamstergene wrote: post #375

I keep being tempted to write same post but named "Does all software work like shit now?", because I swear, this is not just Apple. Software in general feels more bugged as a new norm. Most websites have an element that won't load on the first try, or a button that sometimes needs to be clicked twice because the first click did nothing. Amazon shopping app needs two clicks every now and then, because the first one di…

I mean, just to consider TV alone (thankfully I do not use one), it takes a while for it to start up, and we are talking about a modern, new TV. Old TVs started immediately. I told my grandma to press the button and wait a bit, before trying to press the button again.

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by chii »

hamstergene wrote: post #375

I keep being tempted to write same post but named "Does all software work like shit now?", because I swear, this is not just Apple. Software in general feels more bugged as a new norm. Most websites have an element that won't load on the first try, or a button that sometimes needs to be clicked twice because the first click did nothing. Amazon shopping app needs two clicks every now and then, because the first one di…

> first job 13+ years ago any QA...

such QA jobs no longer exists. Ever since the software dev world has moved to doing one's own QA during development, software has been consistently worse in quality. May be there's a correlation there!

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